This Fourth of July 2010

July 3, 2010 | Founders, History, Sovereignty

Two Hundred Thirty Four years ago, some incredibly brave people placed their lives, their fortunes, and their destiny on the line by signing the Declaration of Independence.

Today people such as Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, and Eric Holder would label them terrorists. Members of congress, and the media would cringe at the notion that men such as Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry were not yet hunted down and prosecuted for daring to speak out against the abuses of government.

It is our right and our duty to speak freely against the tyrant, but we have set in office those who believe otherwise. We have done so through our own negligence, ignorance, and in some part, our greed.

Instead of studying, and teaching the marvelous words written into the Declaration of Independence, our school administrators are much more content instituting criminal actions against boys who do what boys do, get into scuffles.

Instead of adhering to the rule of law as set out in our Constitution, congress and the courts would much rather conspire to diminish and destroy the Republic by creating and confirming acts that have no basis in enumerated powers.

Instead of protecting our rights the state would much rather take bribes from the federal government, institute petty laws, and harass its citizens at every level by regulating not only our lives, but also our property.

Instead of screaming freedom as we arrest judges, prosecutors, and legislators for violations of the oath of office, we are far more likely to put out our hands and ask for benefits while we give away our rights, and liberty.

Instead of reason, fortitude, and pride we have degenerated in to the most contemptible, lazy, and self-indulgent people the world has known. The kind of citizenry that always signals the end of an era.

The Fourth of July is the day that this nation declared that when “it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them” they ought to explain what brought them to this most grievous determination.

A consideration of all the evils that the king, and parliament had placed upon the colonies was therefore debated, and in grand and rhythmic script laid upon a broadside, and signed by fifty-six, and make no mistake, brave, and resolute men.

Today as a tribute to their strength, we drink beer, barbeque, set-off fireworks, elect men such as Barak Obama who has so little respect for this country and its laws that he gives us people such as Sonya Sotomayor, Eric Holder, and now Elena Kagan. This is a group of thugs that have no respect for the rule of law, and believe that they can change what was written long before they came to this plane of existence in order to achieve their own doctrine of how this country should exist.

Kagan, the most recent buffoon to be nominated for the supreme court, believes that our government, that which is subject to our will, can change the law of the land to deny free speech if it offends government officials, and to remove our mark of last resort, the right to keep and bears arms, should we the sovereign citizens believe that we have no recourse but to physically dismantle the tyrants as was done by our Founding Fathers.

What have we done to be part of the destruction of this nation? Why is it that so many of our fellow citizens sit idly by while our country disintegrates into a ‘banana republic’?

Have we become a country so devoid of the spirit of liberty that we care not what happens to ourselves, or more importantly our children?

“Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

But this Fourth of July, as the many that I have lived through passes into history; my fellow citizens are content for the most part. While our young men are cast into a meat grinder half-way around the world, our economy sinks, and our freedom slips away, those of us who can still enjoy the trappings of a descent life will barbecue, drink our beer, and ruminate over the tragedy of why our team slipped out of first place, or how it was that he cheated on her, or how it was that stock market rose or fell on the most curious of government figures.

We are at a crossroad, and we must recognize the situation as dire. We must prepare ourselves if no one else will listen. We must do what we can, as did Samuel Adams when he evaded the British. We must learn from our history for it is the truth that “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”

This Fourth of July I will pray that our men come home safe, that we might awaken to the fact that all is not well, and that we must act, or be cast into a conflagration that will tear the very fiber of humanity apart.

This Fourth of July I will prepare because I have little hope that the decadence that has cast itself upon this nation will relent, and we will regain the fighting spirit that once shone upon this nation.

‘Nick’