I haven’t ‘celebrated’ Independence Day in well over a decade. Yeah, sure, it’s a “national holiday” and the time of year we supposedly remember and honor the day that the founding fathers of America put their very lives on the line by signing a Declaration of Independence from the tyrannical rule of England’s King George III. But, it’s much more than that and a history that has been completely forgotten by today’s entitled generations.
The colonies had already been at war with the British Empire for well over a year by this time due to the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts that imposed restrictions on trade, taxation on goods, expansion of British Territory, and the withdrawal of Massachusetts’ charter for self rule which brought it fully under control of the British Parliament and Monarchy. This even more heavily restricted the freedoms and self-government that the colony had enjoyed since 1691.
Outraged by the imposition of these new Acts, the people of Massachusetts began to organize and formed the First Continental Congress in September of 1774 to protest these newly imposed restrictions. To set the stage, however, we should go back just over a decade to 1763 and the end of the Seven Years’ War, otherwise known as The French and Indian War. This war had put the British government so deeply into debt that they imposed a series of taxes on the colonies to force them into paying their “fair share” in maintaining the British Empire. But, the colonists wanted nothing to do with that and protests ultimately led to the repeal of both the Stamp and Townshend Acts. Despite this, the British Parliament still stood by their assertion as written into the Declaratory Act of 1766 that they indeed, “had the right to legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.” This attitude of superiority caused a rift between the old and new countries.
The decade leading up to the American Revolution had many colonists questioning the jurisdiction of the British Parliament at all over the sovereignty of the newly formed colonies. At the time, the colonies were still operating under British Parliamentary rule, however they didn’t have any representation in Parliament, and thus argued that they could not be held liable for “taxation without representation.” Eventually, this indignation led to a patriot group known as the Sons of Liberty destroying 342 chests of tea in Boston that had been owned by The British East India Company in December of 1773. In retaliation, the British Parliament enacted the Coercive acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and brings us full circle to the atmosphere surrounding the spark of the American Revolution.
Having been under the oppression these new Acts imposed upon them, the colonists were getting restless and had been formulating plans for revolution and the formation of a new Colonial government. In an attempt to put down the resistance they were getting from the Patriot movement, British forces made an attempt to take and destroy American militia supplies to thwart the effort. Having been warned of this impending confiscation of their arsenal, the Patriots moved the supplies to various different locations, but British forces of approximately 700 soldiers descended upon Lexington at sunrise on the morning of April 19, 1775 to search for the munitions. Eight American militia men were killed in the initial assault and this would become known as “the shot heard ‘round the world,” a term coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Concord Hymn.” This officially started the war for American independence.
However, it would take another 15 months before the new nation would declare its sovereignty from the British crown. It wasn’t until July 2, 1776 that an official resolution of independence was passed by the new Continental Congress and the final text of America’s Declaration of Independence was approved and signed on July 4th, 1776. The war would rage on officially for another 5 years, finally ending on October 19, 1781, exactly 6 ½ years to the day after the first battle at Lexington and Concord. The final resolution of the conflict would be confirmed nearly 2 years later when the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially signifying America’s complete separation from British rule.
This is what we supposedly celebrate in America every July 4th. However, you barely even hear it called Independence Day anymore. Every single advertisement I’ve seen or statement I’ve heard about this day now refers to it as simply, “The Fourth of July.” No mention of Independence at all. Perhaps it’s because we are no longer independent and they just want to keep the illusion of freedom going?
And ask almost anyone today if they know anything about this history and if they appreciate the men who fought so hard to create this nation and probably less than 1% of the population could come close to summarizing the story. Everything now is taken for granted and we are ALL “privileged” to be living in this nation, no matter what our skin color, ethnicity, or beliefs. Almost NO ONE knows or understands history OR the objective concept of freedom. They only think they do.
But, are we REALLY free? Is the independence from a tyrannical government or any imposition of force against our free will still a reality today? Look around. I would tend to disagree, wholeheartedly. Again, our ‘freedom’ is merely a finely crafted, false reality to make us believe we have freedom of choice, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement. We don’t. And what was fought against over 240 years ago pales in comparison to the restrictions, taxation, control, and suppression of human and individual rights under which we live today. So, where are the Patriots of today? Where is the outrage? Where is the resistance? Have we been completely conquered? Again, look around.
We have 6000 years of recorded history to learn from now. We can see the disastrous effects of allowing opportunistic people to take hold of the reins of power over an entire nation, or states, counties, cities, and even your home owners’ association; a new and special breed of control freak. Something needs to change. We live in completely different times now. Communication is instantaneous. We are connected globally in a way we’ve never been before. Ideas can spread virtually overnight and people can unite in ways never before imagined. Natural Law is understood as superior to man’s or “legal” law. Yet, it is ignored in every court in America as we are operating under a system that acknowledges admiralty or maritime law over Natural Law and our Natural Rights.
Why are we still living under ideas created over 2 centuries ago when travel and communication took days or weeks and life was simpler, but more demanding, physically? Society has evolved, but the form of government has stagnated and devolved. We are back to a form of command and control that simply can no longer exist if humanity is to ever have the level of freedom to which we are entitled as a birth right! We are living in a new Dark Age of feudalism and religious rule. The new priests are the Medical Mafia Cartel and it is heresy to speak out against their dictates. They control all the nations of the entire world right now under a perverted form of science called scientism. Nothing is as it seems and the truth is kept tightly obscured and occulted while their agenda for complete control moves ever forward out of the public eye.
We are born sovereign, yet the moment our parents sign the birth certificate, our sovereignty is usurped and we become property of government. Oh, you didn’t realize that? It’s because you were never taught and you never sought the TRUTH. We are ALL slaves to the system running the world into the ground and creating a nightmarish dystopian future highlighted by the elimination of free will. It’s time to wake up to reality.
Noah Webster, one of the preeminent intellectuals of the early American Republic and founder of Webster’s Dictionary, had argued that a nation’s constitution and laws should only be viable for a generation or less. In a December 1787 article published in American Magazine concerning the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution, he wrote,
“The very attempt to make perpetual constitutions, is the assumption of a right to control the opinions of future generations; and to legislate for those over whom we have as little authority as we have over a nation in Asia.”
Yet, here we are, 233 years after the ratification of our Constitution and we are still living under a perpetual CONstitution. Who is asking these questions? Lysander Spooner famously wrote his magum opus, “The Constitution of No Authority” based on similar ideas. Our only obedience is to Natural Law. Everything else that refutes that is an attempt to enslave and control.
Where are the intellectuals of our day? Oh, yes, that’s right. Their voices are censored, ridiculed and drown out by the controlled 24/7 media cycle that has brainwashed an entire society that an invisible contagion (which has never even been scientifically proven to exist using Koch’s Postulates) can and will make them VERY ill (or someone else) if they don’t keep their distance and wear a mask. Can we see the problem here? Is it the corporate controlled media? Is it our corporate controlled government? Or is it our inability to see through the smoke and mirrors. Where is Toto when you really need him?! What happened to critical thinking?
We don’t have a government that represents the people’s will. We have a government that only represents the will of their masters; the ones who fund their campaigns so that they can hold on to the reins of power and continue the overt theft of our wealth. The system is broken. The system is archaic. The system needs to be abolished. Period. There is no fixing it. As it is, we are already living under all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto! How much more worse do things need to get?!
We have better ideas and better people that can run things. Compared to the control, taxation, regulation, and thought manipulation we live under in 2020, the impositions upon Colonial America are quantitatively insignificant compared to today. So why celebrate “independence” from a tyrannical government when what we have allowed to grow like a cancer around us is many factors WORSE than what the Founding Fathers fought against? Throw another burger on the grill and crack open another Bud Light. Blow off some more fireworks to annoy your neighbors. Yay! Freedom!
If anyone really understood history, they would realize that we have once again been conquered and are now living under a form of control much, much more egregious and draconian than what the founding fathers had to endure that caused them to rise up in resistance to the ruling class. But, instead of resisting all I see is submission, acquiescence, and tolerance of ever more restrictions on our freedoms and lives as the years pass. And the masses just roll over, completely oblivious to it all.
There is much more that needs to be said, written and communicated. There is much more that needs to be learned and understood by the masses. There is much more that needs to be done to achieve the critical mass humanity needs to reach the tipping point where we can abolish the old paradigm and usher in a new era of abundance, prosperity and a level of freedom never experienced by anyone alive today.
The time has come. It’s time for the second American Revolution. It’s time for the first GLOBAL rEVOLution! It’s time for The Great Awakening to manifest. It’s time for humanity to finally grow up, evolve to higher levels of consciousness and cast off the chains of mental slavery, the illusion of freedom, and to really taste the fruits of what we could and should have become by now. Government must be abolished and a new entity put in its place that respects Natural Law, Natural Rights and the sovereignty of the Individual. Nothing short of that will suffice.
I leave you today with one more message. This is from the document passed by the brave founders of America 244 years ago this very day:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness…
…But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Yes, “it is the RIGHT of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government” and “it is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” The founding fathers fought for THEIR freedom. It is our responsibility to fight for OURS .
THIS is the document and ideology we celebrate today.
Need I say more?
