Posted on 07/04/2024 4:08:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Ah, 1776 — a time when the ruling aristocracy taxed Americans without their say, destroyed printing presses of those publishers demanding liberty, and jailed outspoken critics for treason. How things have changed — not! If there were one indispensable truth to be learned from America’s glorious Independence, it is this: governments do not give freedom; they take freedom away.
Any smooth-talking politician who pretends that government should be praised for the “gifts” it bestows upon the people is a smiling agent of the Crown fashioning new chains for citizens to wear. Laws, taxes, and regulations do not liberate human beings; they are the bricks and mortar trapping us inside ever-smaller cells.
Government is the destroyer of liberty. Bureaucracies do not light the flame of freedom; they snuff freedom’s light out. People alone (separate from the organizing strictures of the State) secure their liberty by pushing back against and restraining the otherwise ever-growing oppression of power-hungry governments. Citizens hold the keys to their own prison cells. They must only find the courage to open up their doors and walk outside. This was true in 1776; it is no less true today.
What is remarkable about the period leading up to the American Revolution is how quickly public sentiment shifted. By and large, colonists saw themselves as loyal servants of the English Crown until, suddenly, they were not. They celebrated King George III’s birthday each year. They formed militias to aid their king in wars against his European foes. As late as 1775, few Americans desired anything so radical as political Independence. The idea seemed far-fetched.
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Our problem is the communists.
On a side note, I was astonished, while my wife and I were visiting Marblehead, MA, it had its Town Hall open for people to walk through. We went into the large Selectman’s Room, and there was...”The Spirit of ‘76” painting!
Not a copy-of which there are millions, but the honest to goodness original. I couldn’t believe how big it was...it is eight feet tall, and 12 feet wide!
I was astonished, because I did not know that the original was in the Marblehead Town Hall, and doubly so at how big it was!
Wow! *tears* (Yes, sometimes paintings will make me cry....)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeGTPE1Z_qs Stars and Stripes Forever>
It’s hard to dethrone the well-paid, mini kings and queens in BIG GOV.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated...
bttt
The original Bedford Flag is on display in a museum in MA. Kinda shocked that it hasn’t been quietly removed, along with any other flags and/or symbols of the American Revolution.
The Spirit of 1776
Never underestimate ordinary people determined to advance a cause.
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1776 =
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good
ויּאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי־אור׃ ויּרא אלהים את־האור כּי־ טוב
1776 =
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
ויּרא אלהים את־האור כּי־ טוב ויּבדּל אלהים בּין האור וּבין החשׁך׃
Cool!
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