The 237th of July: or the first fourth, revisited.

Two hundred thirty seven years from the first fourth; where would you say we are today? If we look at the Declaration of Independence, we can see victories and defeats, places where we have held firm and places where we have fallen short from the documents that saved us from tyranny.

From the Preamble: “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed”

At the time those words were written our colonies were suffering from many grievances. However, times change and so do the grievances, but this time it’s different, this time it’s not a Crown we’re suffering from, but from our own freely elected officials. We have free elections, we have representation, we have a lot of the devices that our founding fathers didn’t have, but now we are faced with the same problems they faced, a separation from those who make the laws and the people that have to live under these laws.

 It is apparent that the circumstances today aren’t the same as in 1776 and times before, but ‘government creep’ is, in my opinion, much worse.  So how do we handle this similar situation in today’s political climate, before draconian measures are necessary? Obviously we cannot, should not stage a military coup, as just happened in Egypt, but actions need to be taken before it’s too late, but what kind of actions?

Part of what happened on the first Fourth of July, by the blood of men and women who loved liberty, was to give us, We the People, the right to choose our own destiny. Voting is just one way to choose our path and whatever your political leanings, not voting is a slap in the face to the men and woman that gave their lives, not only back then, but every time we have waged war. So just remember, when you are sitting around enjoying the day off, that the ‘reason’ behind that day, this day, was to empower us, We the People, to be in control of our own destiny.

So my question is; are you doing all that you can do to ensure that in the next two hundred thirty seven years we will have the same liberties as we have now, or the same liberties that we earned two hundred thirty seven years ago?