In defense of my contoversial comment about Colonel Wilkerson's speech a week ago: I say that Wilkerson himself is one of the professional soldiers who seems here to be considering the prospect of armed revolution. He is a professional diplomat, of high order. So he speaks in metaphors, the lingua franca of the diploma. He even points to this very skill when he speaks of using the Declaration of Independence in study classes with his tutored students. And in the very next sentence after he speaks about metaphors, he refers to the Declaration as calling the people "to throw off tyranny, to throw off ineptitude." The inept and tyrannical Bush administration? ("Cabal" is a word historically associated with treason).
He clearly implies that the time is getting close for a return to the principles of the Declaration, and that the circumstances Americans faced then may parallel what we face now. And the Declaration is nothing less than a call to join an armed revolution to overthrow tyranny. There is thus at least one soldier who seems to be considering it, and I think the reference to his former military officer/students at the start of the speech hints at his saying what they may not say. In my view, he hints at the possible overthrow of King George.