Citizen

Francis Porretto is always a good - if lengthy - read.

Eternity Road

A republic is a polity in which the rei publicae are addressed by a government composed and maintained in accordance with a Supreme Law -- in these United States, our Constitution -- that owes nothing to its current masters' whims. If the Supreme Law says that elections are to be conducted in a certain way, at specified intervals, and that the results are to be determined by a defined process, then that's the way it must be. A true citizen would fight to the death to defend that process and its trustworthiness, regardless of whether its outcome was to his tastes. A pretender would attack the process as "unfair" or "corrupt" on the basis of the results, rather than according to objective evidence of perversion.

Mark Crispin Miller is a pretender. He seeks to rally other pretenders to his sulk. It doesn't matter whether he succeeds or not; the aggregate liver of such a band would be no less lilyish than his own. Had such persons not been born within our borders, they could never take the naturalization oath with a clear conscience. They would have to lie.

So much for such "citizens."