And if I am denied the ability to live my life normally due to your “cancel” suppositions, I at that point will have decided that I no longer have anything to lose.
Then I go shopping for groceries with lead, brass and copper, and I will not be going to prison.
Multiply me by millions and suddenly the situation isn’t so clear cut to all Americans.
God bless you and us here on this forum.
Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.