"What Was That 4th of July Freedom
Again?"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
As Patrick Henry’s cry of freedom, "Give
Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death" echoes across the
passages of time, has it not become meaningless in the 241 years since it was
uttered at the Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, which ushered Virginia
into the American Revolution? Future presidents George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson were at that convention but the freedom they fought for in 1776 and
described in the Declaration of Independence and the new, fresh-off-the-press,
U. S. Constitution, is not the freedom that exists in contemporary America
today. It is so far from it as to be earth and fire.
There was no compromising or capitulating in
1776. There was only open defiance, dedicated resistance and the courage to risk
it all and fight with cannons, guns, swords, knives, spies and lives, the rising
tyranny of King George III. If you think that government in America, at every
level, has not become tyrannical, you have been watching too much reality
TV.
Once again, we celebrate the 4th of July but why
do we celebrate it, if what we are celebrating no longer exists? We say our
soldiers are fighting for our freedom, but what is the definition of the freedom
for which they fight? Do they know? Does the general population know? Hell
no!
Free you say? Freedom? My Aunt Fanny’s,
fanny!
If July 4th is Independence Day, it is not the
Independence that is defined in our American dictionary. It is not the freedom
and independence that was crafted so carefully in our Declaration of
Independence by men of vision, in a time of conflict, confusion and turmoil,
over two centuries ago.
Freedom and independence means freedom of
choice, freedom of movement, freedom of what to buy, freedom of what to
wear, freedom of what to say, freedom of where to live, freedom to arm yourself,
freedom to defend you and your family by violence if necessary, freedom of where
to work, freedom to live on and use your land without undue
government interference and freedom to roam freely throughout America without
having to go through check points and body searches.
We are constantly subjected to the authority and
jurisdiction of government. We are continuously being influenced by the
dictates of government. We can't move sideways without butting heads with an
out-of-control, arrogant bureaucrat to get some permit or license. Way too many
of us are dependent on government for our very existence. We are forever
relying on government for aid and support. We, as a culture and as a nation,
are no longer competent, self-sufficient, self-reliant and responsible. Some of
us are, but nowhere near a majority. We have been bought, sold, conquered and
enslaved with out a shot being fired, for a few pieces of silver. God, Americans
are cheap to sell their freedom for so little.
If we were to tell you how un-free you are, it
would take a book, not an article. There have been so many laws written that
every American is a lawbreaker every day of their lives, but they don’t know it,
that is until they get caught. And when they plead to the court that they didn’t
know there was a law they had violated, the judge will say, "ignorance of
the law is not an excuse. Guilty!" That’s
enslavement.
Americans have become so conditioned to
ever-increasing laws they shrug them off as "that’s just the way it
is." There are no constitutional challenges to the
old laws or the new ones, just capitulation. There is no repeal of out-of-date,
or conflicting laws. Every American should shudder in abject fear and terror
when a state or federal legislature is in session, or when bureaucrats meet to
propose new rules, or when a city or county council hold public hearings, or
executive sessions behind closed doors.
Government taxes the Hell out of us to pay for
social programs so that they can buy votes and stay in power. Government wastes
our money like a drunken sailor on shore leave. Government lies to us so that we
won’t know what they are doing behind our backs. Government tries to trick us by
playing with our subconscious minds. Corruption is not
the antithesis of government. Corruption is the very essence of
government.
So just how can you be free when your government
taxes you, what you buy and everything you own to death, taxes you after death,
forces you to get a license or a permit for everything, or passes laws to stop
you from doing anything. Do you believe that Obama Care has increased your
freedom? Do you believe that allowing millions of illegal aliens to enter
America illegally, without penalty and then rewarding them with "free" stuff
paid for by you, is freedom? Do you think that you will be more free when the
Democrats are finally successful in taking your guns away, as the liberals have
already done in England and Australia? Of course it’s coming!
Did you see the Democrats stage a sit-in on the
House floor and cry like babies because they didn’t get their way on more gun
control legislation? It’s Democrats, liberals and unions that protest violently
when they don’t get their way. Disgusting!
Are you free when your government allows a
foreign enemy to grow and propagate worldwide and allowed to attack and kill
American civilians at will, without a swift and overpowering response to those
attacks? Are we so fearful of conflict that we will let the bullies win? Did we
not learn anything from World War II?
Are you free when one anti-freedom ideology can
be embedded in all of our institutions, as has Progressivism? Are you free when
radical environmental law makes a human being a virus on the earth and restricts
almost every human activity? Is it freedom when Google, Facebook and Twitter,
Democrats all, can silence conservative speech with just a simple algorithm? Are
you free when the IRS can drive you into poverty or put you in jail because of
mistakes they make, target you because you might resist government, or God
forbid, ask for tax-exempt status? Is freedom defined when the president can
make a law simply by signing an Executive Order, in direct violation of his oath
of office and Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution?
What we have described here is not freedom
ladies and gentlemen, it is the very definition of tyranny. American government tyranny has surpassed King George’s tyranny by
several orders of magnitude and the allegedly "free" people in America have let
out not so much as a noticeable peep in opposition. In fact, the American people
have been complicit in this tyranny.
Americans have been conditioned not to resist,
at home, at work, in our public schools and our colleges. Compliancy with
government and authority has become a virtue. The patriot’s cry of freedom, or
believing in the Christian God, or defending your 2nd Amendment rights has
become extreme, or dangerous. To call radical Islam, "radical Islam" is not
politically correct, even though radical Islam’s plan is to kill us all.
It is OK to discriminate if you are a protected
class. White men are not a protected class, but blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians,
bi-sexuals, transgenders, women and the elderly are protected classes and are
granted special privileges, in direct violation of the "equal protection" clause
of the 14th Amendment. Affirmative Action, which is racial discrimination
on its face, has just been upheld again by the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The U. S. Supreme Court itself has become a
wholly political body, not an impartial group of nine learned men and women to
adjudicate the constitutionality of laws and legislation. The split decision
over Obama’s Executive Order to stop illegal alien deportation is a glaring
example. Four very liberal Supreme Court Justices thought Obama’s usurpation of
executive power was perfectly OK. How can that be in a "free"
America?
Judges in our federal and state courts have
become unsanctioned affiliates of the legislative branch and legislate from the
bench.
Freedom? Poppy cock! Alleged American freedom
and the 4th of July, which celebrates that freedom, is an illusion, a mirage, a
construct by the Progressives in our midst. The only people who are free are
politicians, judges, attorneys and bureaucrats who have the power to tax us,
regulate us, or throw us in jail.
Go ahead! Compromise! Capitulate! Be compliant
to authority! Roll over! Go along to get along! Don’t rock the boat! You can,
but like Hell we will. That’s how America got into this mess; Republicans
forsaking their principles of liberty and unalienable rights and compromising
with Democrats, as Democrats moved America ever so faster towards
socialism.
Life is a constant struggle over competing
interests. Either protect your interests, or the other guy’s interests prevail.
Freedom and property rights are our interest and we intend to protect those
interests with committed defiance.
Everyone wants world peace or national
tranquility, but world peace or national tranquility won’t happen until all
competing human interests have been neutralized. That won’t happen until the
next big asteroid or comet strikes earth and causes a mass extinction of the
human species.
All humans have a natural, animal, God-given
right to protect themselves and their offspring from all forms of tyranny,
foreign or domestic. To do otherwise is cowardice. Human bodies and minds were
purposely designed for survival and to resist all forces jeopardizing that
survival and freedom. If you want the 4th of July to mean something again you
are going to have to fight for it, now more than ever. On June 23, 2016 the
English declared their Independence from the ruling class, unelected EU
bureaucrats and the central banks. It’s way past time for Americans to do the
same. Maybe Trump can lead the way.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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