Posted on 11/13/2024 8:31:45 AM PST by Rummyfan
The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Our First President risked it all.
In making a list of the most courageous political leaders our country has ever had, I would begin with those who risked everything: their reputations, theirs and their families’ fortunes, and their very lives. This country was birthed by such men. Fifty-six of them signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington would have been the 57th, but at the time he was defending New York City as the Commander of the nascent Continental Army.
These 56 Signers were men of property. They, like Washington had a lot to lose and were risking it all. Their Declaration of Independence was nothing short of an act of treason against George III and the British Monarchy. Such treason was punishable by death, including drawing and quartering. To acknowledge this possibility, they concluded their Declaration by pledging "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" to their cause. Although the King could not take away their honor, they were fully aware that their lives and fortunes would be forfeited if they were defeated.
The risk was enormous. Great Britian was the strongest country in the world. Its well-trained army was disciplined to endure shot and shell while marching over open ground to within 50 yards of massed enemy troops, before firing their single-shot muskets and then driving the charge home with their bayonets. The colonies had only the nascent Continental Army and, at the time, had no navy to speak of.
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Scarcely anyone today is not a craven, tax-paying, tyrant-enabling loyalist.
These 56 Signers were men of property. They, like Washington had a lot to lose and were risking it all.
I think in their mind it was lost already. and many did lose their wealth and property.
The liberals have already destroyed our wealth if we looked closely.
Place your bets. money to FR, money to other good causes. It is all on the line.
If you ask people why we broke away from England they tend to say it was about taxes. The slightly more educated will tell you it was about being taxed without representation.
Oh my friends, it was about that in part but mostly it was about lawfare.
Not allowing local necessary laws to be enacted, forcing unnecessary laws and regulations on people and reacting with unnecessary force and harshness to people violating those laws. Allowing the government forces to get away with everything up to and including murder by saying they had immunity.
If any of this sounds familiar, it should.
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