| The true meaning behind the Fourth of July hit me | | | | singing and saluting until, I guarantee, we will suffer, |
| harder than ever this year. I believe strongly in our | | | | ultimately, the final blow to the head, as does the |
| country, and on the principles in which it was | | | | unsuspecting steer brought to slaughter. I will tell you, |
| conceived. Therefore, I was moved to write the | | | | with certainty, that the poor cattle thinks, just a |
| following article. | | | | moment before the killing club smashes into its skull, |
| LIGHTS OUT | | | | "Oops, I didn't think this was going to happen to me." |
| I re-read the Declaration of Independence today, and | | | | Wake up America. Please sit down and write in |
| I do believe it is relevant to the situation within our | | | | eloquent prose your own Declaration of |
| own time, to our current state of government, and | | | | Independence. E-mail it to your Congressman, your |
| our out-of-control-taxation. As it seems to have been | | | | Senator, and to the President of our United States |
| then, it is blatantly obvious now that our leaders have | | | | of America, who has recently been known to |
| become irrational and incapable of stemming the tied | | | | pre-arrange town-hall meetings by censoring the |
| of their own corruption. It is no longer about the | | | | questions beforehand. Transparency? Write it now. |
| intended good work of our government to preserve | | | | Write down how you feel about the current state of |
| the well-being of its free people, but instead about | | | | affairs, and describe the fear you put aside every |
| the majority of our elected officials preferring to | | | | day; a fear that nags at your insides as you worry |
| work as their own entity, without compassion for all | | | | about how close we sit to the edge of anarchy. |
| of the people they are mandated to protect, thus | | | | Write about the two trillion dollar,(one year), deficit, |
| disguising insane initiatives feigned for the good of | | | | and think about how hard it is to pay your own bills, |
| the nation. And to dare to insult us by coining political | | | | much less the bills of a government fighting two |
| terms the likes of 'transparency' with such an obvious | | | | wars, soon to be three, owning bankrupted |
| arrogant disregard for our intelligence. If only a few | | | | companies and corrupt banks that are starving small |
| of us, who have gone deaf and blind by our own | | | | businesses of capital while raising interest rates on |
| internal banter, such as," it can't happen in America," | | | | their best customers after receiving billions in bail-out |
| would awaken, we would surely draft another, very | | | | money from our empty government coffers. Write |
| similar, Declaration of Independence, and then do | | | | about an unemployment rate that will soon usurp 10 |
| exactly as our forefathers did. | | | | percent of the population. |
| Here is part of what that great document says for | | | | Yet, sadly it seems no manner of hardships will stop |
| those who have not read it in a while. | | | | the insanity of the corrupt science community from |
| "That whenever any Form of Government becomes | | | | self-perpetuating the fears of global warming, or the |
| destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the | | | | misguided environmentalists from using the |
| People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new | | | | Endangered Species Act to starve the California |
| Government, laying its foundation on such principles | | | | orange groves of needed water for the sake of a |
| and organizing its powers in such form, as to them | | | | one-inch minnow. Nothing will stop our President from |
| shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and | | | | submitting to unfounded fears of rising ocean levels |
| Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that | | | | to institute an economically proven disastrous piece |
| Governments long established should not be changed | | | | of legislation known as the Cap and Trade Act. Write |
| for light and transient causes; and accordingly all | | | | about your anger over a State Governor who leaves |
| experience hath shown that mankind are more | | | | his station for an entire week, without a word to his |
| disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to | | | | constituents, to go to Argentina to cheat on his wife, |
| right themselves by abolishing the forms to which | | | | or write a few well structured sentences that tell of |
| they are accustomed. But when a long train of | | | | the outrage you feel toward a Speaker of the House |
| abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same | | | | who promises to issue spending reports on all |
| Object evinces a design to reduce them under | | | | members of the House of Representatives, but then |
| absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to | | | | gives them the opportunity to scramble to rewrite |
| throw off such Government, and to provide new | | | | them. |
| Guards for their future security.." | | | | Speak out against the daily cost to operate a nuclear |
| Are there not a few studiers of history among us? | | | | submarine and then drive, eyes wide, over our |
| Was it not the Declaration of Independence that was | | | | crumbling roads and bridges, and look down at our |
| written to the King of England to warn him of his | | | | rusted railroads and please, oh please, read about our |
| unfortunate decisions and false conclusions that by | | | | under-funded school systems. Write it all out in a few |
| misinforming and manipulating the ignorant horde he | | | | good paragraphs and send it today. The fourth of |
| could subjugate them and render them incapable of | | | | July. What better day to speak your mind. |
| governing themselves? I believe the Declaration of | | | | And if by chance you read this article subsequent to |
| Independence put a revelation into the King's hand if | | | | the fourth of July, send your letter just the same. |
| not a huge knot in his stomach. My fellow Americans, | | | | We must hold tight to the financial freedom to |
| our Government has gone too far in squandering our | | | | better ourselves through private investment, |
| money, and wasting our resources, but worse it has | | | | innovation, and self determination. Those defining |
| made a great and good-hearted America into a | | | | American characteristics will allow us to continue to |
| laughing stock, if not the target of the world's | | | | be generous toward our fellow man, no matter his |
| aggressions. Yet we sit in our living rooms absorbing | | | | color or creed. |
| bytes from our television sets that would have us | | | | |