Posted on 12/07/2013 8:21:53 AM PST by Dysart
Few things renew American patriotism better than a trip to New England.
My wife and I had the opportunity to do that recently when we visited our daughter, who is working on a film project there for a couple of months.
Although we had been to Boston before, we were reminded of the city’s realities even before reaching the bag claim area at the airport.
This is the place where the notion took flight that simple colonists could recover their birthright of freedom by tearing themselves away from the oppressive rule of the British king and launching an experiment in self-government.
Inspired by the audacity of the men who dumped tea into Boston Harbor, Patrick Henry summed up defiance to tyranny with his legendary speech to the Virginia Legislature that concluded, “…give me liberty or give me death.”
The Samuel Adams statue in front of Faneuil Hall (aka the Cradle of Liberty) commemorates the first public meeting there, where Henry seized upon the opportunity following the Boston Massacre to mobilize the city’s citizenry against the omnipresent British troops.
His efforts were greatly aided by the work of engraver Paul Revere, whose over-dramatized depiction of the massacre served to stimulate anti-British public opinion.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/12/07/5398377/a-place-to-renew-patriotism.html#storylink=cpy
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I don’t think he will find a lot of that in today’s Boston.
It may have been the birthplace of freedom, but few people in that part of the country understand what we were fighting for or respect the constitution these days.
Actually, I find it disheartening that so many of these iconic bastions of liberty are located in rabid liberal locals infested by both city, state and federal workers representing the pure tyranny of today’s Democrat government. Under the petty control of bureaucrats that use them like pawns on a chess board, the latest of which was closing of some of them during the so-called ‘shutdown’ along with the Federal Parks.
A pox on them all, and as far as I’m concerned they have been overrun by the enemy.
01.20.17
Plenty of patriotism to be discovered in Texas. Try the Alamo. Stay home & save your money.
“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
A joyous day for sure. However, that still won’t change Philadelphia’s or Boston’s turncoat ways.
Today’s Massachusetts would best serve patriotism by becoming a target range for the Air Force.
The MA State House has a trigger lock on a musket on display, I am not optomistic. IMHO all conservative of any salt have left and the remaining young folks are propagating with like minded apparatchiks. I escaped years ago, and have trouble going back from a epistemological standpoint, love to see the relatives, but it feels like I have entered a foreign country....
Boston might well be the capital of East Libtardistan - one of the two countries we will form as a home for anybody who voted for Obama in 2012 - together with their families, of course. I was thinking that Hartford, CT might be a good candidate for capital of East Libtardistand, given their amazing celebration of diversity, but hey, whatever they want. It’s the libtards’ call. All I know is that all libtards are moving there, and soon. The economy is going to go “pop” very soon, and then we’ll begin Operation Boxcar.
I think the author’s point was to evoke the birth-spirit of New England. We know political and cultural systems morph and perhaps we should just be grateful they allow our museums of freedom to exist amid the libertarian entropy. And there’s still a chance they will gather back the will to be free when they’ve had enough of the statism ideology. If not, as afar as I can determine, we’ll still be able to visit freedom’s artifacts as tourists.
Where is that demonstration?
I’ve been to the Alamo many times—and I still get shivers standing inside that hallowed place.
I’ve taken all my kids, and now all my grandkids except the 3 youngest who live in Canada at the present at have visited the Alamo
I’m sure when they are transferred back home, my daughter and her husband will take them.
Liz Warren proves patriotism is dead in NE.
Warning: Explicit Lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUMV1N7eGM
These days here in MA any mention of a tea party brings charges of racism, xenophobia, and knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazis who want to starve children, kill the poor and elderly...
That’s really atrocious!
The patriots up there should do something about it.
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