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.
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 before that. It IS our Independence from England and birth of our nation, not just a day have a cookout! 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. One example. 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 now and takes a whole week. As Amerericans, we absolutely should take nine to ten minutes on Independence Day to read the Declaration of Independence out loud with your family and friends and remember how America came to be and all the blood, sweat and tears it cost.
And America was born
Here is the whole story about the the Declaration of Independence:
The Story Around The Writing Of The Declaration Of Independence
This is the brief:
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, introduced a formal resolution in Congress for the complete separation from England. The vote was postponed till July 1, 1776. In the mean time, a committee of five that included Thomas Jefferson was commissioned to write a Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote the draft. The committee reviewed and slightly edited it. Then submitted it to Congress. After Congress revised and deleted about 1/5 of the document, the Declaration was finally approved on Friday afternoon, July 4, 1776. Once John Hancock, the President of the Congress, signed it and Secretary Charles Thompson attested to it, America was born. The news quickly spread throughout Philadelphia. Apparently, from several accounts, the first reading of the Declaration was shortly after it was approved on July 4, right outside on the Pennsylvania State House steps to whomever happened to be on the street at the time. Then the crowd followed the speaker, who is said to have been either Secretary Charles Thompson or his senior clerk, Timothy Matlack, to the courthouse where it was read again. The first printed copies of the Declaration of Independence came from the shop of John Dunlap, official printer to the Congress. The morning of July 5, copies were distributed by members of Congress to “various assemblies, conventions, and committees of safety as well as to the commanders of Continental troops.” Also on July 5, a copy of the printed version of the approved Declaration was inserted into the "rough journal" of the Continental Congress for July 4. On the following Monday, July 8, at noon, all of Philadelphia's church bells rang, and crowds of people gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House, now Independence Hall. Then Colonel John Nixon stepped up on a small stage and began the first formal recitation 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.
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. In the United States of America, questioning the government can now actually get you arrested! People simply practicing their faith, in example, Traditional Catholics, are on the SPLC hate group list being infiltrated and spied on by the FBI. Parents questioning the bizarre and even pornographic education their children are getting in public and even private schools are also on a terrorist watch list. 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 Supreme Court recently in Murthy v. Missouri sided with the Biden administration in its violation of 1st Amendment rights of Americans through its proxy use of social media platforms by bizarrely claiming the plaintiffs had “no standing.”
Over 16.8 million, between apprehensions and “got aways”, supposed asylum seekers from all over the world have entered America since 2021, when Biden began occupying the White House, demonstrating that “replacement theory” is an actual Democrat plan. They have no intention of following our laws or respecting our culture entering our country illegally and trashing it once they get here. Biden plans to bankrupt Social Security and Medicare by putting them on it and fast-tracking citizenship to make them all voters. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, are military age men from countries that are our enemies. As evident by past and recent news, more than a few are pedophiles, rapists and murderers allowed into our country, then into a joke revolving door legal system in cities with George Soros elected DAs.
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. Yet 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 on 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 gangs and then rats in garbage dumps for food! Communism, go to South Africa, where white farmers were and still are driven off their land and murdered by the government! (Where is 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!
Ending with two outstanding versions of the Star-Spangled Banner by the late, great Meat Loaf and Metallica
Happy Independence Day!💥
The Golden Words, imo:
"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."
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM, Comrades
The Declaration in your column was a great thing.