Thank you for posting this.
I can think of no stronger emetic.
No flag will be unfurled today. No fireworks will be watched. The US that I grew up in no longer exists.
It should actually be renamed to “Dependence Day”.
I would just say that we should change the name to “BBQ at the Lake Day” but, the goverment:
Wants us to stop using grills.
Wants us to stop eating meat.
Wants the common folk to stay out of the national and state parks.
Wants to ban power boating.
Yup.
Exactly where the dummycrats want every American to be, [dependent] on the government for every thing!!!
Come one come all, its free! Except the government has to first steal the money from the hard working Americans and then give it to the foreign Nationals who break into our Country and then demand we respect them! Props up socialist countries like Greece through the IMF, while ridiculing the United States of America for its capitalist economy!
At every turn, the socialist attack the American people and their proud history,, all the while using Americans to prop up their failed socialist cities, countries, and foreign Nationals with hard working American tax dollars!
I for one won't be celebrating the 4th, since we are no longer “independent” of this out of control government!
The FDA regulates the ‘serving size’ of breath mints?!
Geez, I was depressed BEFORE I read this. Now I’m suicidal.
Jefferson’s comment on the necessity for repeated revolutions was prescient, not?
We will not treat progressives well when the tipping point occurs.
great read mentions Charles Murray’s boos as well as others
In our post-Constitutional era (yes, post: see Charles Murray’s new By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission), our “laws” spring not from an elected Congress but from unelected bureau personnel and the president’s “pen and phone.”
Sorry Folks, Independence Day Is Canceled
To be replaced by DEPENDENCE DAY immediately.
I wish Forbes would have also touched on the role of the Crony Capitalist corporations who are enthusiastically joined with the radical leftists. I used to associate Forbes with old fashioned, blue blood conservative industrialists. Now, they seem to be either vanished, or joined in with the enemy. Personally, I feel the defection of the Republicans is slightly less offensive (they are politicians after all) than the defection of U.S. Corporations, whom I used to believe would fight for our American way of life.
I don’t want to give up my country. I want a revolution! I want to teach these bastards are thing or two!!!
How far have we fallen in the freedom index over the past 10 years?
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country” Ben Franklin.
Independence Day should be more about freedom and less about a place.
From the Declaration of Independence, how many apply to our current President?
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained;
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the
Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned
to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time
exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose
obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to
encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new
Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws
for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to
harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of
our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which
they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases,
of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province,
establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as
to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering
fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and
waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat
the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of
Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear
Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and
Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known
rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Bttt
There is no American without a constitution. The constitution established the United States and the globalist and the foreign invading hoards have dismantled it. We are not celebrating independence day at my house. America is gone except to those who like to pretend we are just an election away from re-establishing the constitutional Republic we surrendered to people even worse than the red coats.