<i>If rebellion or change is what you really want to affect</i><p>No, not in the least.  Leave me and mine alone, and you&#x27;ll be perfectly safe from us.  Sure, I&#x27;d like for my brethren in California, Hawaii and the northeast (well, if you count Maryland and D.C. as part of that) to be less oppressed, but they can vote with their feet.  As I did when I left Massachusetts.<p>Gandhi won against an exhausted, civilized empire.  Change the antagonist and he&#x27;s a forgotten anonymous corpse.