Posted on 07/03/2020 8:19:59 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Edited on 07/03/2020 11:24:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
When we celebrate Independence Day, we rejoice over the freedom won from the English crown. But there’s a new master gaining power in America. We need to shrug it off before it takes over.
Because we’re marking the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress, it would be instructive to see where we are today by comparing a few passages from our founding document with current events.
1776: King George III has “sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
2020: The cancel culture has cost people jobs, income, and social status.
1776: The king “has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”
2020: Rioters, looters, statue-topplers, and the criminals holed up in “autonomous zones” have killed and injured, stolen, burned, and destroyed.
1776: The crown imposed “taxes on us without our consent.”
2020: Black Lives Matter is at its core a marxist organization, while its “partner organization,” the Movement for Black Lives, “calls for a ‘progressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.’”...
I reported myself for the header screw up. Sorry.
It’s coming...
“we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Have you seen the British and their colonies recently?
We are MUCH better off.
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