Fourth of July: What it Isn’t, and What it is

As I do every patriotic holiday, I attempt to remind the un initiated (low information voters; those who’s grey matter remains in its infantile state; uninitiated for use on this planet) why the holiday in question exists.

The Thirteen Original Colonies

In 1776, the colonies on the North American continent known at that time as The American Colonies, formally claimed their independence from the monarchy of Britain because King George III was making their life just like the ones they had left behind on the British Isles; slavery to a crown who cared nothing for God-given freedom and national Liberty.

This claim of independence rather angered King George III, so he sent soldiers to America to collect taxes and take away guns by force. Many of the historic events that used to be taught in public schools were events that were precipitory from Americans defending themselves against these British soldiers who were actually the colonist’s de facto government coming to take away their guns and money; a form of slavery, and  the main reason for the creation of the Second Amendment; so that never again could the citizens of America be attacked by force by their own government, without citizens having the ability to preserve their freedom by force if necessary.

People died. Whole families were wiped out, some only lost fathers, some mothers, and many children; all for the price of American Liberty.

That’s right. The people that died for your freedom to live as we do today, was the price of this liberty we so enjoy, and the rest of the world followed suit to some degree or another. Germany, France, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Portugal,  Ireland, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium and many others from the African continent to China and old Russia, all enjoy varying degrees of Liberty because the colonists of eighteenth century America decided to pay the ultimate price for freedom from tyranny. Once Freedom had been tasted by an entire country, and heard about by others, Freedom would never again be unheard of as an element of national pride.

What is never taught anymore by our Statist, Socialist schools is that National Freedom was unheard of on Planet Earth until the Americans “invented” it back in 1776 by sending King George III this Declaration of Independence document signed by John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the others who made up the fifty-six signers from Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland; the thirteen colonies.

It was, “Give me Liberty, or give me death.”

It wasn’t, “Give me diversity, or give me death.”

No, it was all about Liberty.

She is the Statue of Liberty, not the statue of diversity. She sets upon Liberty Island, not diversity island.

… not for brats and beer. No, not even for potato salad.

Liberty.

Fourth of July is the date on which we Americans can celebrate the freedoms we enjoy, and to remember what it cost.

EDITOR