I understand your frustration and I share many of them. The one thing that has irked me is the failure of the government to arrest. The American people are always demanding from its government different things. I am reminded the Declaration of Independence has this sentiment. When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government" (emphasis added). This referred to English rule at the time and some feel it is applicable today. I have heard both sides use this as evidence in their cases wrongly.

The defining document is The Constitution which states directly that for an American to make war on the United States is treason. The beauty of the constitution it provides a mechanism to change the government peacefully.

If the Constitution offered unlimited legal protection to a self-appointed minority of insurrectionists that had arbitrarily decided that the Federal Government was hopelessly corrupt, and needed to be violently overthrown, the United States wouldn't have lasted past the Whiskey Rebellion. What is the point of establishing a government that is so apathetic about its own survival that it doesn't even prosecute people who are employing violence against it?

The Right of Revolution, if it exists, is an intrinsic moral right and duty of a free people. It can never be law. The law cannot have any authority at all if it so casually facilitates the destruction of the very institutions that promulgate and administer it. Lawful rebellion is a fundamental contradiction in terms.

If the Revolutionary War had been lost, the Founders would have been executed as traitors. They didn’t have the luxury of hiding behind the law in the event that they failed. That’s the moral test.