AMERICANS HAVE A LONG HISTORY ALSO OF TAKING THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS DUSTY

It is an unsettling history...

After all, they took it, the law, into their own hands from Britain after 1776.

The Philadelphia Convention then took it from the Continental Congress. 

Lincoln deprived the Confederacy of things they had always had: their right to secede, and their property.

Reconstruction, more of the same.

Disenfranchisement, once again, Americans taking the law into their own hands.

And so on.

The principles of civil disobedience, and even revolution, are written into our founding documents. 

You might want to ask yourself: "What really is 'the rule of law' in such a political system?"

Dusty would have it no other way.