Can’t say it any better than THIS.

On this July 4th, let us rejoice that our forefathers had the fortitude to rebel. Let us thank the gods that we had those who could create the foundations of our country, the framework that has led to the greatest and most prosperous country ever. Today is the day we celebrate the birth of our nation

But let us not forget that these people, these future citizens and statesmen, rebelled against the tyrannical government of King George. “no taxation without representation”, and other cries, each protesting some form of regulation or taxation of free, hard working, unsubjugated citizens. Today, this July 4th, we celebrate the actions of the few, the minority that essentially created this country.

The rebellion was about taxes, but more about control of their destiny, rather than having their destiny controlled by some third class flunky back in merry old England.

Today, we are taxed, regulated, and policed to a far greater degree than that experienced by those who founded our country and who rebelled against the policies and control of King George III. We have a higher level of regulation and a higher level of tax, not to mention control and meddling in our very lives, than our forefathers had in 1775!

WHY?
Why do we allow this…. Why do we not stand up, and be counted? Is it because we have our own country and countrymen to regulate and tax our lives, instead of a disconnected monarch in England? Today, my friends, we have a set of disconnected rulers in Washington!

Then, they rebelled, Today, we sit quietly. Oh, I know, we are all going to Tea Party Protest meetings, where we will all stand there, and be counted (and no doubt photographed as potential terrorists) and some of us will wave signs, and we might chant and cheer…. but what will we have accomplished with our attendance? Will we have changed one single legislators mind? Will we have made any local government official say “no” to more spending, or “yes” to a cut in government? Will it make our government more efficient? Make it (them) spend less of our money? Will it change one thing?

I begin to doubt.

Which leads us to the question…What should we be doing instead? What actions should we take to cause change in our government? To make our legislators sit up and take notice, and change their ways?

Thomas Jefferson said “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance”

We seem to have fallen asleep on our watch., and let other forces take over our country. Today, we have less freedom, not more, than the not yet citizens of the soon to be created nation in 1775! Higher taxes and more government control than those brave rebellious souls did in 1776, before they signed the famous Declaration of Independence

We are the heirs of our rebellious ancestors, those who pledged “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor”

Has the rebel spirit been lost? Perhaps.

Would they be proud of our actions today? I think not.

So what DO we do?

Via INSTY comes THIS

It’ll be worth a set just to send the message.

“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

Margaret Thatcher

Stand, and be counted. The last Tea Parties WERE a success. We were noticed. (otherwise, the liberals in the MSM wouldn’t have worked so hard to discredit the movement)

Where will you be on the 4th?
I will be attending another tea party. If you care to join me at a tea party, you can find them HERE…I think that the 4th is an excellent time for a tea party protest.

Be safe.

This is the sort of thing we get along with our “Hope and Change” ™ ….

Mr. Obama is, after all, a product of Chicago cronyism and political meddling, A La Mayor Daley and his pet alderpersons….

When will we say “enough!” and demand that we get, if not open, honest, transparent government, at least have the cronyism and theft return to the “old” levels, where we might not have liked it, but we could at least stomach it?

When will the people demand that the IG’s and the other watchdogs not be muzzled? When will we cry “stop!” and demand an accounting? How much willwe accept until it turns our stomachs?

I know I am sounding a bit repetetive, but still, with so much cronyism and blatantmanipulation going on…..

Let’s not talk about the millions going to ACORN (or whatever they are calling themselves now) as payback for helping to win an election (by hook or by crook).

Jesus H. Christ, Why do we let the administration get away with this stuff?

“If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

Patrick Henry

Just someting to think about. When is the day? When is enough enough? How many more freedoms and liberties protected by our constitution shall we allow the powers-that-be to erode until they are merely thin shells of what they once were and what made this country great and the destination of freedom loving people from the entire world? How many more restrictions on our freedoms shall we allow? How much more power over our lives shall we give up to the “government”? How many more times shall we disregard the restrictions that the constitution places on “government”?

I know that I am becoming less and less enchanted with our governing officials…..Where is your limit? Mine is approaching.

Re-Read Patrick Henry’s words. Ask yourself how you think he would answer you today???

Now ask yourself what do we do about it?

How do we remove these non-representing represetatives in our government?…Legally, if possible, if not……?

“The way you stop racial discrimination is to stop discriminating by race” – Chief Justice Roberts

Having the moral high ground is good.

Having the moral high ground and a large gun is better.

Anyone who has a Representative who voted for the “carbon cap and trade” boondoggle, please remember their name and actively campaign against their reelection. Once again, we see Partisan politics at work, and we see our reps voting for a bill that they HAVE NOT REVIEWED IN ITS ENTIRETY. How can they vote in YOUR interests if they are unaware as to what a bill contains?

IMNSHO this should be illegal, and those who go along with this sort of thing are violating the contract that they made with their constituents. It is, IMNSHO, treachery that in other times and other days with other values would have resulted in the perpetrator being shot for their actions…… Good thing for them that that is illegal in today’s world.

But in some places in the south, I am led to understand, lynchings are still legal with proper cause…..