What Does "Independence" Really Mean? Is There Anything Left To Celebrate?
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 9 months ago to Philosophy
Excerpt:
"Jefferson wrote, poetically, about the truths he declared to be self-evident. That all men were created equal – by which he meant that all men have the same equal right to independence. To be let alone, in other words. Neither owned nor beholden. Free – to pursue happiness, as each individual saw it. How can such happiness be pursued when one is not independent from this thing styled “government”?
When one cannot even celebrate independence from the government of Great Britain by lighting off fireworks that fly or explode in most of the rump states of these United States, singular?
When one must present a government ID – an internal passport – to travel within these United States, by air?
When the government presumes the authority to dictate – without even the pretense of any American being “represented” – that every American will roll up their sleeves and submit to being experimented upon as the price of the “freedom” to be allowed to work?
Americans aren’t even independent in their homes, which are liened in perpetuity to the government, no matter how long ago they became independent of their mortgages. The government having asserted its ownership of what they deludedly permit themselves to imagine, almost as children, to be “their” property.
Americans aren’t even free to decide for themselves whether to wear a seatbelt. Their children have become veal calves owned by the government, which “schools” (and “masks” and injects) them according to its preferences. Parents in America having been reduced to little more than breeding stock.
This will only abate when American decide in favor of independence. Their own independence, psychologically first. Fiercely asserted in their minds, first. And – if need be – defended even more fiercely. But the first step toward independence is recognition of the fact that it cannot exist alongside subordination to the government that is its mortal enemy."
"Jefferson wrote, poetically, about the truths he declared to be self-evident. That all men were created equal – by which he meant that all men have the same equal right to independence. To be let alone, in other words. Neither owned nor beholden. Free – to pursue happiness, as each individual saw it. How can such happiness be pursued when one is not independent from this thing styled “government”?
When one cannot even celebrate independence from the government of Great Britain by lighting off fireworks that fly or explode in most of the rump states of these United States, singular?
When one must present a government ID – an internal passport – to travel within these United States, by air?
When the government presumes the authority to dictate – without even the pretense of any American being “represented” – that every American will roll up their sleeves and submit to being experimented upon as the price of the “freedom” to be allowed to work?
Americans aren’t even independent in their homes, which are liened in perpetuity to the government, no matter how long ago they became independent of their mortgages. The government having asserted its ownership of what they deludedly permit themselves to imagine, almost as children, to be “their” property.
Americans aren’t even free to decide for themselves whether to wear a seatbelt. Their children have become veal calves owned by the government, which “schools” (and “masks” and injects) them according to its preferences. Parents in America having been reduced to little more than breeding stock.
This will only abate when American decide in favor of independence. Their own independence, psychologically first. Fiercely asserted in their minds, first. And – if need be – defended even more fiercely. But the first step toward independence is recognition of the fact that it cannot exist alongside subordination to the government that is its mortal enemy."
1) Secession from the US Immediately In Effect.
2) Men transgenders must move to Commiefornia.
Further and to the point:
"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."
We have been here before. And when all is said a done, we will be here again.
There are very sick people running our country. They must be cast away. It is our duty to do so.
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Jun 13, 2020 4:32:49 PM EDT
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https://www.ushistory.org/declaration...
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes DESTRUCTIVE of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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.
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Ayn Rand always told people to check their premises.
Reference Trudeau being able to essentially “flip a switch” and steal protestors wealth/means of support. And THIS is lauded as a GOOD THING by the so-called “Democracy” crowd. King George didn’t have that option available.
That’s why it’s so important to get out of the system. At the very least construct parallel systems that will provide at least some support in the event that the “Official” one is taken from you. Or, be a supplicant slave to the system.
We are easily headed for a Benevolent Neo-Feudalism being masqueraded as “Socialism” to appeal to the “most educated electorate”. And the adjective will only apply if you “please The Crown”.
Want proof? How can Rules for Thee but not for Me Pelosi advocate for redistribution of wealth? She herself is sitting on millions. While people she allegedly represents are homeless pissing and shitting in the streets. Even AntiFa gets it. Remember when they smeared pigs blood and left a pig head in her driveway? She and her ilk have no intention of implementing “From each according to his ability......blah blah blah”. At least not for them. We saw their true colors during the Scamdemic restrictions. All we need to see to connect the dots is out there.
The trouble with Trump is.....he’s like a flare to a heat seeking missle. He burns so brightly in their minds he obscures the true target. They can’t see it because anyone who says “OrangeManBad” has now inoculated themselves from criticism for their actions.
That’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.
So great is their hate. It blinds them to reality.
Many of the 'educated' have been set up to be blindsided by:
(a) their leftist college professors, and
(b) statist politicians,
neither who have ever produced anything in a free market competition.
How many will be able to adapt to reality?
As for the vax, were I to be forced to get it, my thoughts would more be along the line of hanging one of the high-level bureaucrats responsible. Under cover of darkness, strip them naked, hang them, then leaved the body outside their place of employment -- ideally with the rope anchored to a fence / gate around the state building. No note or manifesto -- unnecessary.
I think the reason that folks are not yet shooting is because we (and I include me in that we) are quite distracted in our comforts. We're able to tolerate a lot of 'abuse' because in the bigger picture, we still have our homes, gardens, children, careers, spectacles and all the goings on of our respective lives. Life was just much more difficult and course 200+ years ago. As I've observed with friends and family -- things will need to get a whole lot worse before 'the guns come out.'
I have yet to finish it. PDF opened... reengaged.
But the ideal still remains. And we still have to fight for it.
The Deep State is at least as tyrannical as the traitor and war criminal Lincoln was.
Since 1860 it has not been a voluntary union. It is a forced enslavement of all.