Over this weekend, Americans will be celebrating the Independence of the United States of America; however, there are a significant number who give little thought to Independence and how it fundamentally relates to them on a daily basis. Ironically, what may give Americans a clue that they should not take our freedoms for granted is the current overt attacks upon the very principles embedded in the founding documents. However, this is not overly obvious until it manifests in woke business models that essentially authorize a very predatorial-type assault on the nation’s children. Or, it does not get much attention unless one is confronted with the glowing disparity between the MSM coverage of rioters burning cities and then being released compared with lack of attention to peaceful protestors who trespassed into the U.S. Capitol who are still sitting in jail. Such silence speaks loudly.
This challenge to all freedom loving patriots does not have to be paralyzing
Generally, American citizens live from day to day with little focus upon the bad or ugly events unfolding around them, as many have become mere spectators in the history of our nation. It is much easier to # about the problems pouring from one’s television or computer screen than to actually manifest the desire, let alone the ambition to lift one finger to do anything to create a positive alternative or to plow a pathway for meaningful changes to help fix the problems. However, though few today may link such a time as this to the time when the United States of America came into existence upon the basis of the Declaration of Independence.
Yet, the United States came into existence upon the foundation of the Judeo-Christian heritage, with the fundamental acceptance of God-given rights as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. It is imperative that citizens who love the Republic again ponder the future and consider risking their lives for a better world because that is what the Declaration of Independence called the citizens who loved freedom to do at that time. Today, as over 200 years ago, It is “We the People” having to contend with a political criminal cabal that has control over peoples’ lives and that cabal is primarily feeding off of the people, much like the British government preyed upon the colonies in from the time of the development of their authority in North America.
This challenge to all freedom loving patriots does not have to be paralyzing. The political criminal cabal has power, yet in the same way as in the days of our founding, patriots are now heeding the call to stand for Freedom itself. In light of widespread concerns over the apparent corruption and manipulation of recent elections, and in the maladministration of our justice system, as well as the indoctrination and sexualization of our children, and the open door to more criminals on our southern border, in addition to the deliberate economic destruction from within the current administration, Americans might finally see the proverbial “handwriting on the wall.” Divided “We the People” fall.
Americans who love Freedom must reconnect to the fundamental heritage within the Declaration of Independence
Most Americans over this coming Independence Day weekend would not seek to make a distinct connection between the time of the Founding and the present predicament in which we find ourselves. However, in such a time as this, it is time to seriously consider what the Founders faced and why they did what they did. Consider this: What if some key figures or some factions within the political arena decide that politics is merely war disguised as a type of civil political activity?
Who then, would be the loser if that were the case in the United States, the “Land of the Free.” If the people relinquish their role as sovereigns in the “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” what remains? Only the manifested government that pretends to portray concern for the well-being of the people will remain. We have come full circle. It is beyond the time when true Americans who love Freedom must reconnect to the fundamental heritage within the Declaration of Independence – especially those who consider themselves public servants of “We the People.” Sadly, many Americans (including those supposed political leaders) are not familiar with most of the Declaration of Independence. Here is part of it to ponder:
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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… (author’s note: what follows is Jefferson’s description of the points of breakdown)
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 British 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.
Most Americans over this Independence Day should take some of their precious time to consider the deeper connection between the conditions at the time of the Founding and the conditions in our present time. Consider all the precious freedoms that are being attacked in such a time. Consider the repeated abuse of the fundamental principles expressed in the basic foundation for the “Land of the Free.” And then remember: United “We the People” stand! Divided we fall.
Dennis Jamison reinvented his life after working for a multi-billion dollar division of Johnson & Johnson for several years. Currently retired from West Valley College in California, where he taught for nearly 10 years, he now writes articles on history and American freedom for various online publications.
Formerly a contributor to the Communities at the Washington Times and Fairfax Free Citizen, his more current articles appear in Canada Free Press and Communities Digital News. During the 2016 presidential primaries, he was the leader of a network of writers, bloggers, and editors who promoted the candidacy of Dr. Ben Carson. Jamison founded “We the People” - Patriots, Pilgrims, Prophets Writers’ Network and the Citizen Sentinels Network. Both are volunteer groups for grassroots citizen-journalists and activists intent on promoting and preserving the inviolable God-given freedoms rooted in the founding documents.
Jamison also co-founded RedAmericaConsulting to identify, counsel, and support citizen-candidates, who may not have much campaign money, but whose beliefs and deeds reflect the role of public servants rather than power-hungry politicians.
