Posted on 07/16/2009 9:17:48 AM PDT by Marty62
Perhaps it’s past time... Unfortunately, to give in any real impetus, I’m afraid we’ll have to see another Lexington/Concord first...
Yeah, man. This is why we’re free. Yay USA! We live in a free country. I can watch whatever I want on TV or drive a For OR A Chevy or go to work or not. This really is a free country.
Obviously the people didn't want a chicken as a national symbol bird, thus we have the eagle.
Thanks for posting. Any time is a good time to re-read it.
You can buy a poster-sized copy from the national archive website - to hang on the wall where you work and irritate your un-American coworkers. (Funny thing is they don’t use the U.S. Postal Service to ship it!)
I wonder if the masses here even know why the Founding Fathers felt it necessary to take this action. My guess is that we've been so dumbed down, most of us don't even know what freedom and liberty even mean, nor do we even care to understand that the freedom and liberty sought by the founding fathers was from the kind of tyranny the current government is busy establishing for us right now.
picture of the Declaration of Independence
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/images/declarationscan.jpg
Your kidding?
and agreed.
our founding fathers gave us many ways to keep us free...if the Constitution is treated as a trash as it is currently being treated as...we fall back on the Declaration....
Deja vu all over again!
It’s been about ten years since I read it and because of our country’s current path to serfdom it’s words mean more to me now than ever.
Dude, the tyranny the founders sought to escape was orders of magnitude milder than what the imperial federal government has already in place right now.
But, hey, fly the flag and say you’re free and don’t forget to pay your taxes and do as you’re told by Mommy Government so you can be a good person
No joke. I bought 3 (they’re only $8-something apiece, btw) and the only shipping option was UPS.
well there ya go....free enterprise at work.
That’s why I posted it. People take this for granted. If you think about it, the colonist were fight the British Military.
I have a document, that one of my greats was an Officer in the British Army under Cornwallis. He specifically ask to be sent back to England, that he would not kill his own brethern. Now that took guts. I don’t think you see that kind of bravery anymore, in terms of standing up for your moral convictions. (Major,et al not included) Strictly meant for members of Legislative branch.
I know I thought what? I had heard the story of the Hen and eagle. But, it is funny to see it again.
That was my point. People don’t realize what they are allowing to be stolen from them by tyrants.
I guess they have to be slapped in the face. Well when that tax bill hits, that should get their attention. But, will it be to late?
Paraphrasing, of course.
What was that about secession?
The most important line for FREEPERS:
“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.”
It is OUR responsibility to provide new Guards for OUR security!
And people think Texans are crazy!!!!
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