Fourth of July

Thoughts about this day

Two hundred, thirty-one years have passed since our Forefathers wrote the declaration of independence. Today we stand again at a crossroads in our journey as a people. We stand as a nation divided, although we don’t stand tall. We are broken, our society is crushed, we fight our brothers, we kill our families, and we defile our God, as we make idols of worldly things. Today we are one people un-united, absent from God. Our nation was founded upon natural freedoms granted by God, man’s true creator. We must fight for our nation founded upon Christ’s teachings, the words of the Word. Too long have we lain broken in despair, waiting for someone else to right the wrongs perpetrated against us.
            For who was it who committed these acts? It was you, it was I, aye it was us all who wronged ourselves. Decadence and debauchery are the symptoms of the cancer eating away at the future. We cannot continue to live this way; oppressed by the system we created. We are slaves, not to man, not to a government but to material things. This system, though, is sustained by our government, media, and military complex. We are slaves to corporations, we are materialistic we are idolaters to the highest order, making ourselves gods subject only to the things we own. We do not care for the concerns of others, but give as a means of self-promotion. Our greed outweighs any good we have done.
            It is our duty to over through the system, bring it, and in so doing, ourselves to our knees. Must we continue to live blinded to the growing distain of our citizenry? Or will we find strength to rise above, and move against this darkness invading our country, darkness more powerful then any we have ever known. 

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

We currently spend $700,000,000,000 dollars a year on our military that is 2/5th the worlds total military spending . Forty-one percent of our taxes go to the military, hardly the well-regulated militia outlined in amendment II to our constitution. Our military is that most powerful and well-funded section of our government, a trend which is alarming, and dangerous. This trend will undoubtedly lead to oppression. Our president recently signed John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122), which eases the ability for a president, or unitary decider, to declare martial law. This is completely against the aim of the 2nd amendment, which calls for a militia to protect the security of our nation from foreign forces. This act allows for the implementation of the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that’s limits the presidents abilities to deploy troops within the United States .
            This strikes me as one of the single most threatening acts ever ratified by a president. Insurrection against an oppressive government is a right, one that without our own government would never have existed. This unjustified over empowerment of a single man is against everything our country’s founders stood for. No matter what the political situation, one man should never have as much power as our president does. It is time to change this. I hope we will be able to stem this tide, in which power is moving from the many to the few. All men are created equal… but it seems our politicians are the only equals who matter. We are truly a society taxed without representation, when sixty percent of our country cries for a secure boarder, or immigration reform, or a plethora of other issues that our representatives refuse to act upon. We much either decide to be subject to an aristocratic government that cares not for our desires, or sacrifice and stand against the oppression of the few.
It is our tax money that makes these individuals, and our votes that give them power. We are the hand that feeds, who are they to bite back and tell us to shush when we cry out in pain? We have raped justice, we have deserted mercy, we have sold liberty into slavery, and thus ourselves as well. People stand together, I know many of you are scared, I know many of you are lost and I know it is a scary proposition. What is at risk is everything. What is to be sacrificed is only our comfort. Give up your idols, cast down your television, turn off your radio, throw out your designer shoes and dance barefoot in the streets to real music, music that flows from the heart. Throw bricks through the windows, light the night with bonfires of material objects. Peace is always the first response, but humans can only suffer so much. If peace fails our only response option is a violent reconstruction of the union.
Enjoy your forth of July. Be safe and remember, there is more to life then things. A world is out there that can only be reached when we shed our shackles to the material world, and stand up to the oppressors we elected.

 

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events 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, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But 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, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.