Independence Day 2013

Tomorrow is July 4th, Independence Day.  So many just refer to it as "July 4th."  So many are oblivious to this day being officially Independence Day.  Men and women, who were tired of being taxed without representation, decided they had enough of the superpower of that day, Great Britain.  Imagine an American territory, of today, deciding they were going to declare their independence by force, if necessary.  People would think they were crazy.  I'm sure many colonialists thought that very thing of the likes of Ben Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, et al.  I'm curious what those same forefathers would think of this nation today.  An all-powerful federal government forcing health care down the throats of a supposedly free and independent people is not something of which they would be proud.  An all-powerful federal government that spies on its citizens in clear violation of the 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights is something many of our forefathers would shed tears over.  How did we come to this place of where we have had our rights abridged by the federal government seemingly over night? 

We have people, in this country today, who are willing to cede rights in exchange for security from the federal government.  We have people, in this country today, who are willing to be sheep in exchange for a nanny state, whereby the federal government cares for you from cradle to grave.  What these same people don't understand, once you give up those rights, the government will not give them back to you.  That is, unless we take them back by force as was the case during the American Revolution.  Americans are lackluster about their current state of affairs.  As long as they have their morning latte, their daily routine uninterrupted, their weekend at the beach, then Americans don't seem to care what the federal government is doing.  Someday, they may see themselves facing what citizens in Boston faced when police, without warrants, without any probable cause, invaded houses and ordered people out of their homes at gunpoint.  That was a chilling moment that almost shadowed the Boston Bombing itself.  Like sheep, these Boston residents filed out of their own homes with their hands in the air.  I'm curious how that would have worked in a state like Texas which almost requires its citizens to be armed. 

So, while you are grilling out tomorrow, or at the beach, think about the perilous times in which we live.  We have a maniacal president who is dead-set on destroying basic liberties that are guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.  Our rights are slowly eroding as he and members of both the Democratic Party and Republican Party work to make us subjects to the federal monarch.  Enjoy your liberties this Independence Day.