July Fourth Is Independence Day!

Enclosed is the whole text of the Declaration of Independence. Read it, (7 minutes, out loud, nine to ten), and celebrate it while you still can.

Courtesy British Battles.com General George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth on 28th June 1778 in the American Revolutionary War: picture by Emanuel Leutze

A few years ago, on our way to the Independence Day fireworks, a Canadian woman asked us where they were occurring, and we showed her. She thanked us and wished us happy Independence Day. That has stuck with me ever since because that was never said to me by an American. It IS our Independence from England and birth of our nation, not just a day to cook out! Peaceful resolutions were attempted. The writing and presenting of the Declaration of Independance to King George (a document unique in human history), was an obvious conclusion to a series of increasingly oppressive taxes, abuse by troops including forcibly staying in your home and finally the attempted disarmament of the whole population.

By signing the document, they literally put their necks in a noose. Some had their homes burned and they and their families were imprisoned or killed. This was the beginning of the list of sacrifices, (including death), paid by men and women who loved this country and freedom that many take for granted.

Many of you know bits and pieces of the Declaration. The Fourth of July is a cookout with fireworks because this guy, Thomas Jefferson, (a rotten, filthy slave owner), wrote the Declaration of Independence, blah, blah… It is said that the reason the Jewish people have survived annihilation for thousands of years is they repeat their history to their children. If you are familiar with Passover, God, through Moses, delivered the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. It has been celebrated every year for several thousand years and takes a whole week. What a great tradition it would be to take nine to ten minutes on Independence Day to read the Declaration of Independence out loud. Here it is in its entirety:

A transcript of the Declaration of Independence

From The National Archives:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. 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. 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.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Courtesy Harvard: The signers of the Declaration

Courtesy Library of Congress: The bottom showing the printer, Mary Katherine Goddard, the first printer to publish the Declaration of Independence in its entirety. By including her name, she was committing treason like the rest of the signers. I mentioned her in my essay: Honoring America's Brave Founding WOMEN Who Helped Create Our Country

Where do we stand today regarding our Declaration of Independence?

While reading the Declaration, did some of the grievances outlined sound eerily familiar to current events? Our Constitutional rights are being violated daily with impunity. Through our purposely inadequate education about our country and how unique it is in all of history, people and groups with nefarious purposes, brazenly out in the open are attempting to turn us into a socialist and/or communist society, with no fear of any push back! The mask of "Democrat-Socialist" has been dropped for Socialist! For example, far-left Denver City Council member, Candi CdeBaca, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, has stated openly and publicly she is "excited to usher" in communism "by any means necessary." (And she's still in office?)

Alleged asylum seekers from all over the world are crossing our Southern border with 2,378,944 apprehensions and 606,000 “gotaways” in 2022 alone. They have no intention of following our laws or respecting our culture entering our country illegally and trashing it once they get here! The media is starting to ignore migrants causing the fiery riots in France which include violent deaths of French citizens. To say Rome fell in a similar way falls on deaf and uneducated ears.

What will future generations think of a "civilized" society that thought our Founders were horrible because slavery was a part of society that they willingly would have abolished, if the Southern slave states would have agreed, but disregarded, "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"? By practicing infanticide to the tune of over 63 million of their own children and called it "health care"?

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. - Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. - Ronald Reagan

Have we really become so lazy and/or stupid that we're ready to give up freedom without a whimper? To those who want socialism, Venezuela waits for you, fighting rats in garbage dumps for food! Communism, go to South Africa, where white farmers were driven off their land and murdered by the government! (Where was the United Nations?) The rest of you, celebrate your independence while remembering your freedom was bought at a great price. You need to decide how badly you want to keep it!

A different rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” featuring our military before it went woke. Happy Independence Day and enjoy: