On April 19, 1775, 237 years ago, our Revolutionary War began just outside of Lexington, Massachusetts. Patriot’s Day, 19 April [officially observed on Monday, April 16, 2012], is usually forgotten, seldom recognized, and no longer considered to be a historically important topic of education in our taxpayer-funded schools.
Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the Battle of Lexington and Concord,
Concord Hymn
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurl’d,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard ’round the world.
Our Founding Fathers and the colonists who supported the concept of Liberty and freedom from Great Britain had the courage to stand up to the greatest military power of the time. It was a long and dangerous road to our Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, the surrender of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and the ratification of our Constitution on September 17, 1787.
We were given, as Benjamin Franklin eloquently stated, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Even then, our Founding Fathers realized the dangers and challenges our nation would face from enemies both foreign and domestic. They realized that future tyrants and traitors would challenge our Liberty both from within and without and that no man could ever be fully trusted.
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" Samuel Adams
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." John Adams (letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808)
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine
"Patriotism itself is a necessary link in the golden chains of our affections and virtue." Stephen Decatur
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." John F. Kennedy
“More than 200 years after the patriots fired that first shot heard 'round the world, one revolutionary idea still burns in the hearts of men and women everywhere: A society where man is not beholden to government; government is beholden to man. Ronald Reagan
Our limited government under the control of “We the People” is rapidly being taken away. It is up to us to hold firm and to retake and restore our Constitution. As John Adams admonished us,
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
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Add commentOur Constitution
The greatest and most brilliant document ever struck by the minds of men came from the Constitutional Convention. Our Constitution was written based on principles that our Founding Fathers took from the Bible. Our Constitution was based on liberty and equality. It directs that governance be by law and not by the Elite.
James Madison and others realized that there is an inherent depravity in human beings that makes them not trustworthy. The power they attain quickly corrupts them. The desire to retain that power will push men to Evil without limits. Our Founding Fathers recognized the existence of Evil and the sinful nature of man.
Our Constitution prohibits the trust of one man or of a few men. The powers are separated into three branches of government, each with checks and balances over the others.
The constitutions of other nations, such as France and Russia, make the assumption that men are good. This is the moral relativism that leads to Socialism and Communism and has been invading our Nation for more than a century. Those who support moral relativism are the people who try to throw The Ten Commandments, God, and prayer out of our public lives. They are the ones who push to rewrite our Constitution.
Many in this country hate our Constitution. They and their accomplices have distorted and corrupted it. They have tried to strip the Judeo-Christian foundations from our Constitution. They have used the courts to change our Constitution without the consent of We the People. When they have succeeded, We the People have lost.
The Source of Our Liberty
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
2 Corinthians 3: 17
Liberty or Tyranny
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
Benjamin Franklin
Wow!
May, you left out a more recent quote.
"If you want more of those kinds of evil anti-American people in the Supreme Court, then don't get involved and let Obama take office again," Nugent said Saturday. "Because I'll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." Ted Nugent.
Oh, and his advice to Obama foes is that "we need to ride into the battlefield and chop their heads off in November."
Nugent in his succinct remarks did a better job than your multi-paragraph rhetoric today, quoting our Founding Fathers.
Just like you, Nugent is expressing his First Amendment Rights.
This is simply not the time in the history of our nation to continue to promote the division of our people, as you do on a daily basis. November will show you the error of your ways.
It is the Left who promote division
It is the Left who promote division. It is not at all complicated.
Bush2 wrote the book
on how to divide a United States. Actually, he merely was the pawn of Rove, Cheney, the uber rich, and the extreme Right. But he will go down in history as the most divisive U.S. President Ever. Funny how the Right seems to keep forgetting their most recent President.
rmac
That Bush was more divisive then Barack Hussein Obama has to be the biggest lie I've heard in a while.
Obama makes speech after speech all around class warfare. Bush was the opposite. You are simply a useful idiot to repeat such lies.
@BillyWayne
You call Liberals and moderate Conservatives "idiots" and "stupid". I think it's time you did some self reflection. You are one messed up man in your thinking with messed up values.
the truth about US oil reserves
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/19/republicans-say-new-study-belies-obama-claim-us-has-2-percent-world-oil/?test=latestnews
Here's one who would rival May on the "NUT METER"!!!!!
At a campaign fundraiser last week, Tea Party Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) warned attendees that President Obama would commit treason if reelected in November.
Fitzpatrick was listing the reasons why voters should not support the President, and for reason number three, he told the audience that President Obama would have no qualms auctioning off state secrets to foreign countries.
@May
"Our Constitution prohibits the trust of one man or of a few men. The powers are separated into three branches of government, each with checks and balances over the others."
There is the prime importance of checks and balances which you applaud in our Constitution. I find it ironic that you and other ex-cons cry foul and call it government intrusion when regulations and regulators are put in place to keep people and institutions honest.
I do agree with you when you say that because of original sin we need laws that focus on the wayward side of humankind and not its angelic one.
If checks and balances are an inherent part of our Constitution, they should be good enough to apply to people and other institutions. After all, they are a trademark of our way of life.
Another rival for May
Richard Hudson, Republican candidate in Carolina’s 8th congressional district:
"There’s no question President Obama’s hiding something on his citizenship. If you elect me to Congress to represent you, I’ll introduce legislation that requires any candidate for president or vice president to be certified by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as being a citizen. Whether that’s a birth certificate or whatever it means, I’m going to make real simple from now on if you want to run for president, you’re need to know you’re going to have to prove you’re a citizen." (sic)
@Rettch
This Tea Party Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) should be disciplined and censored by Congress. He is a disgrace to the Republican party, and even more so to his constituents. This degree of disrespect for the President of the United States demands this man's call to account.
rettch "wrote"
Rettch "wrote": "At a campaign fundraiser last week, Tea Party Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) warned attendees that President Obama would commit treason if reelected in November."
"Fitzpatrick was listing the reasons why voters should not support the President, and for reason number three, he told the audience that President Obama would have no qualms auctioning off state secrets to foreign countries."
Of course, Rettch stole this word for word from a website ThinkProgress.
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/19/468002/mike-fitzpatrick-obama-treason/?mobile=nc
This was what Dorotik was doing when I first started posting here. I hope you guys will at least attribute "your" writings to those who deserve credit. If not a link, at least cite where it came from.
Plagiarism is not allowed, rettch.
@BillyWayne
The bigger picture here is that Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) has slandered the President of the United States with his "crystal ball" predictions. He needs to face the music for such outrageous (in my opinion) felonious misrepresentation of the truth. It is a travesty of such proportions when politicking that Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick needs to answer for it in the severest of terms. His First Amendment rights do not allow him to defame others.
who is the blog cop?
is it BW?
So OTS
OTS, do you think it is okay to plagiarize?
@BillyWayne
So, do you think it is okay to slander?
Liberty or Tyranny or AT&T
"Quotes posted on the internet are difficult to authenticate."
Abraham Lincoln
@Chicken Fingers
Great going, chicken fingers. Great going! LOL
BW, I never claimed the information presented was
presented to me from the heavens........of course it came from a source...thank you for documenting it for me....I now anoint you as my research assistant. I plan future such posts which you will be required, as my research assistant, to locate read and report that information....who knows by reading such factual information you may no longer be in competition with May, Mike, Fitz, and Richard Hudson for top spot on the "NUT METER"
BW I can't pay you anything as my research assistant, but the mind expanding information you will receive will, I'm sure you will agree, make up for the lack of funds.
Again, thanks for you effort, I appreciate it, although I don't think this blog is akin to a formal paper wherein all sources must be reported, but from now on that shall be your task.
While your at it why don't you address the issue I presented in my flagrant plagiarism....
rettech
As your newly appointed research assistant I have documented your above statements.
No, you wanted everyone to think you are smart while you merely STOLE someone else's work.
rettech: "I plan future such posts which you will be required..."
Translation: "I plan on future acts of plagiarism without guilt, so why wouldn't lying, cheating and stealing also be part of my repertoire."
You are a class act, rettech. A class act...
@BillyWayne
"Translation: 'I plan on future acts of plagiarism without guilt, so why wouldn't lying, cheating and stealing also be part of my repertoire.'"
So, BillyWayne, I see you have bought your own "crystal ball." Or did you borrow it from Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick?
Well, for someone that holds a 9 year-olds actions
Against them, it doesn't surprise me, BillyWayne, that you would bring up a post of mine from several months ago in which I explained why I did not include the link; if you remember at the time, which you probably won't as you're the master of selective memory, nearly every single post we made would not go through if the link were included as a citation for the article.
Oh, and you're still in the gutter.
@Dorotik
It's very possible BW had to repeat the first, second, and third grades in public school. LOL
Welcome to the weekend Dr.
Welcome to the weekend Dr. May. You "fan" club is alive and well.
“Cuban leaders are wrong to think that simply by implementing socialism, all the island's economic problems would be solved.” - Fidel Castro
the seventh grade was the toughest three years
of BW's life..........so far.....the next three may be!! ha!
BW as rettchs' newly appointed research assistant
you have been assigned the task of documenting all his posts.
Rettch will no longer be accused of plagiarism, you will see to that....
You now have two jobs.......I have made you blog cop and rettch has "anointed" you research assistant......actually, it's the same job with two titles, however, it's going to be tough reading factual information and still maintain your standing as one the top tier occupants on the "NUT METER".....
Dorotik
Dorotik: "if you remember at the time, which you probably won't as you're the master of selective memory, nearly every single post we made would not go through if the link were included as a citation for the article."
Your post was not from several months ago. It was from February. I only started posting comments on a regular basis in February. Talk about selective memory. Where else has my 'master' selective memory happened? As usual, you exaggerate to the extreme.
Btw, I was NOT posting comments when you guys were having trouble, so there is no selective memory. However, unlike Rettch, you seem to care somewhat about ethics.
Btw, there were links in comments immediately above your comment that had no link. Nor did you attribute it to anyone. They wouldn't let you do that?
Here is your response from February, not several months ago:
"First of all, it's plagiarism. If you're not sure, they have online dictionaries for you to look this up.
Second, unless you've been living under a rock while visiting this blog, you'd know that many of the posts we made in the past, libs and conservs alike, were blocked or moderated due to external links. After the umpteenth time of doing so, I gave up on including links."
At least I know how to spell plagiarism thanks to you li[filtered word]!
rettch is still in the seventh grade!
rettch: "the seventh grade was the toughest three years new By rettch | 04/20/12 - 09:27 am of BW's life..........so far.....the next three may be!! ha!"
rettch is still in the seventh grade! At least you sound like it.