Thanks for posting Sam Adams writings there...
I never cease to be amazed at such wisdom, and courage for that matter from this guy...
His phylosophy is almost identical to mine, and the only difference is that I feel I am no where near the intelligence level, or as wise as he ever was in his day...
Going back and looking at the original writings and seeing how they morphed into some of the content in our founding documents is just plain amazing, and should be plastered upon our reflections to this very day...
Something seriously lacking in our current crop of elected officials...
Every situation we encounter today is taken care of by the procedures and templates outlined in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and that through careful deliberation can be resolved by those ancient principles and procedures...
Trying to say that the original documents and procedures are not applicable to today’s issues is ASSININE and irresponsible!!!
Citizens today have lost their ability to apply courage and most important virtue to todays issues, and it has been replaced by lazyness, and “What’s in it for me?” mentalities...
How can we realistically expect to get that kind of virtue and courage from todays representatives at all levels of our political system???
Defending our Natural Rights is becoming passe’ and not socialble with some in this country, and a fight is coming real soon...And those we expect to fight for us are as much of the problem, and the problems we face...
When the people “really” and “truely” understand how much they have lost by allowing the government to infringe upon our basic, fundamental, unalienable rights to a “free state” of existance in this country, maybe then we’ll have the blessings from God we deserve...
At this point, we are truely doomed to repeating history, and becoming a big footnote to it...
BTTT
Thanks for sharing Yosemitest...
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave.”
— Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists