Canada Free Press – Time to Reboot America
We’re forbidden – to mention the “R” word. Here is a reminder of citizens responsibility when Gov’t runs amok: [enlarged font my emphasis]
FROM CANADA FREE PRESS
Time to Reboot America
- Jim O’Neill Sunday, July 17, 2011
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
—George Orwell, author of “1984″ (1903-1950)
I originally titled this article as a query, “Time To Reboot America?,” but after a little thought realized that there is no question—it is past time to reboot America. By “reboot” I mean that it is time for “we the people” to avail ourselves of the instructions left to us by the Founders:
“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.” Link
There we have it; there it is; those are our marching orders. It is not only our right; it is our duty to fight a tyrannical, despotic government that holds sway over us, no matter under what label it hides—even when that government is wearing the garb of the United States of America. That we are indeed suffering under “a long train of abuses and usurpations” is no longer in doubt; no longer to be denied; no longer to be endured. So the question becomes “What to do?” How best to effect the overthrow of a blatantly anti-American elitist political/social cabal—as large, powerful, and entrenched as it is?
Much more at: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38521
FRC’s Tony Perkin’s Washington Update
Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land…
…to all the Inhabitants Thereof.” (Leviticus 25:10) That ringing declaration is inscribed on the rim of the Liberty Bell. It is a fundamental part of that ordered liberty that our great revolution was intended to bring about. We celebrate the Glorious Fourth every year. This is the two hundred thirty-fifth anniversary of American Independence.
I am especially grateful for the good and godly men who were willing to pledge their “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to the cause of Liberty. Benjamin Franklin is said to have responded to the appeal to the Delegates to that Second Continental Congress to “hang together” in putting their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. Yes, old Dr. Franklin said: “If we don’t all hang together, we shall surely hang separately.” As historian Pauline Maier rightly notes, signing that Declaration “was nothing less than a public confession of treason [against the British Crown]. Conviction for treason meant death and confiscation of estate.” Talk about a death tax!
We might never have had the chance to celebrate this great day without the labors of Samuel Adams. He is my favorite Founding Father. It was Sam Adams and John Hancock, along with our colonial militia’s weapons and ammunition, that the redcoats were pursuing that night in April 1775 when Paul Revere rode out from Boston “to carry the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm.”
In Philadelphia, Sam Adams soon became the engine of Independence. He maneuvered inside and outside the hall of Congress. He enlisted speakers to speak when his own voice–hampered by a speech impediment–would not move listeners. “I always considered him as more than any other member the fountain of our important measures,” wrote Thomas Jefferson of Sam Adams years later.
Sam’s cousin, John, acknowledged that the elder Adams was “no Demosthenes” as a speaker, but “he had the art of commanding the learning, the oratory, the talents, the diamonds of the first order that his country afforded, without anybody’s knowing or suspecting he had it.”
Today, many of us who exercise our rights as Christian citizens, speaking in the public square, are accused of trying to impose our religion on others. Such a claim is ridiculous. What we are doing is upholding those self-evident truths that the Declaration proclaims. We defend the right to life–the inalienable right to life as endowed us by our Creator. We stand for marriage. It is Scriptural, to be sure. But marriage also is an integral part of those “laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” to which those brave Signers appealed more than two centuries ago. We proclaim Liberty throughout the land. No small part of that liberty is the right of believers to speak out on matters of faith, family, and freedom.
Sam Adams was acknowledged by his fellow Founders as a Christian, as a leader and a patriot. He shared his faith and his zeal with most of his fellow New Englanders. “I pray God that [New England] may ever maintain those Principles which…are essentially necessary to perpetuate & support her Liberty.”
With that firm foundation for our liberty, today we can say with honest John Adams: Independence Forever!
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