Matt Davis, a Lansing attorney and former spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, simply wasn't happy with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday.
He decided that the ruling (authored by Chief Justice John Roberts) upholding the health care reform law commonly known as Obamacare is so egregious that revolution against the United States government may be his only recourse.
But now Davis is sorry. "Mea culpa," he said.
Yesterday, he asked: "If the Supreme Court's decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?"
According to the Mackinac Center's Michigan Capitol Confidential, Davis answered his own question thusly:
Matthew Davis, an attorney in Lansing, sent the email moments after the Supreme Court ruling to numerous new media outlets and limited government activists with the headline: “Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?”
Davis added his own personal note saying, “… here’s my response. And yes, I mean it.”
“There are times government has to do things to get what it wants and holds a gun to your head," Davis said. "I’m saying at some point, we have to ask the question when do we turn that gun around and say no and resist.
