July 4, 2009: An Independence Day Reflection

I'm sure that many bloggers across the nation are going to proffer a few photographs of fireworks this year, or display pull-quotes out of the Declaration of Independence.

Instead, I'd like to fast forward to now. I'd care to reminisce and ruminate on this country in general. Because too many people blow this holiday off and equate it only to cheap and dangerous fireworks, drinks, shouting and unruly children and sunburns.

This country is more; so much more. But no one seems to notice and no one seems to much care.

Uncle Sam is sad and growing sadder. He is watching not only the emasculation of his once-great country but the denigration of those documents which allowed the Unites States of America to be created from, essentially, swamps and flies and dirt.

Further, our true Founding Fathers are consistently being minimized, excoriated, their thoughts and motivations re-written, emphasized to blasphemous and false terms, reduced to controlling Privileged, Slave-Owning White Males. It is as if their contributions, thoughts, deeds, desires for freedom, grand words, acts and philosophies are completely inconsequential. I refuse, out of hand, to even remotely accept this.

We may shortly have to take back our country. The actual adults left the table on January 20th of this year. Is it time for a Second Revolution?

On the other hand, I pause and reflect on what my grandfather wrote to my father but upon his enlistment to defend our country. Wonderful words indeed.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said: "If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."

Where is my country actually going, I ask? Do we desire Socialism or do we desire a Republic?

Is it time to call all the Clans together?

There are actually those to whom patriotism, on any level, in any form, is considered jingoistic, overbearing, oppressive. To those I would say, off the cuff: go straight to flaming Hell. Find another country. See if your bullshit will play in any other NON-Western country. My guess: not so much.

This John Trumbull painting was objected-to by John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States. Mr Adams said, essentially, that the declaration was signed but only upon its signators appearing on various days and never at one time. They were never all in one room at one time.

One very little recognized point of history:

Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day -- July 4th, 1826 -- precisely 50 years after the founding of this great nation.

And a bit of editorializing: I am glad that my grandparents died when they did. I also find a small portion of comfort knowing that my father died when he did as well -- his deserved Tricare having been cut by Mr Obama. In the few months since his death, he wouldn't recognize his nation now -- the nation he enlisted and fought for.

He would ask, if he were alive and lucid: how can an individual president think he can spend his way out of a recession? Spending money not possessed got this nation where it is now. How can Mr Obama think that he even has billions of dollars to spend when -- in truth -- he possesses naught but air-dollars?

Our government now seems to be disavowing most every point of common sense and point of law embraced in our past. It is a growing government the likes of which has never been seen, at any level, on the planet, in its entire history.

What would our Founding Fathers think?

That is, if the Demorats and Leftists and Socialists now in charge believed there were even any Founding Fathers.

They are rewriting history as we sit at our government troughs of FREE CHEESE.

In the meantime the waves crash, the sun rises and sets. And our nation attempts to purposely diminish its place in history and global importance. All because it is guided by eminently the wrong person at the wrong time. Mr Obama is callow, ignorant, naive, arrogant, megalomaniacal. He is the epitome of the Chicago Machine but yet imported into our nation's capitol by wrongheaded and ignorant, shallow individuals. It is what it is. The elections were what they were.

Ladies and gentlemen, I write this post in anticipation of jubilation on our country's 233rd anniversary.

I actually fear for the continuation of my most beloved country. Think of this for a moment, please, if you will:

In and considering the Grand Scheme of Life, how is it that YOU somehow managed to be born and possess the skin you do -- in this country -- right here -- right now -- when you very EASILY could have been possessed of a soul at most ANY time in ANY country? Is there a reason you're here? Could helping to save this country play a part in your existence now?

I fear for my country. I believe that storm clouds occlude her horizon. And I, again, believe in this quote from Thomas Jefferson himself: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

If Mr Obama isn't like an Anti-Christ as some foretell, well, then, he's frighteningly-close enough for me.

BZ

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