Independence Day

As we celebrate our indendence, let us consider the men who won it for us, and how the did it.

For almost a 1000 years, every rebellion against an English king had failed.
The Rebels were hunted down.
They were brought to London.

They were hanged, drawn and quarted, and beheaded. Some were burned at the stake. Their families were dispossesed and often exiled to the far corners of the empire.

Not some of them. All of them.

The men who signed our Declaration of Independence were not malcontents. They were wealthy, successful men. They were Planters, and Brewers, publishers, and merchants. They were men who knew what happens to Traitors to the British Crown.

And they signed anyway. They signed their own death warrants.

They were more than just a bunch of rich white guys pissed at the king.

They were men longing to be free. In declaring their independence, our founding fathers were doing more than declaring one state free from another state. It was Man thowing off shackels and freeing himself from royal subjecation. Free men throwing off the royal boot of the English Crown. American sovorignity resides in the individual.

In 1775, with English troops all around, and arrest a very real possibility, Patrick Henry stood up in a church in Virginia and loudly said "Give me liberty, or give me Death."

As our slithering, smothering Obamacracy slowly wraps it's coils around us, who has the balls to say that now?