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America: A Lifeboat with Limited Capacity

AT: As another Independence Day is celebrated, I can’t help wondering how we arrived at a time in our history when the international beacon of freedom has been relegated to a position of scorn and hatred in many parts of the world.

The Founding Fathers put together an ingenuous system of government designed to guarantee freedom in this new world, an ocean away from the tyranny of a monarchical regime.  July 4, 2016 represents 240 years since they took a stand against King George III and fought a bloody war to end the servitude they had been born into.  None of us can truly imagine the suffering they endured to carve out a sanctuary for themselves and their families and defend it against the British Empire, the dominant military force of its time.

For them, it was do or die, inasmuch as such treasonable action was punishable by death.  Yet, having experienced the misery of life without freedom, they were willing to make that sacrifice.

With the Virginia House of Burgess undecided on whether to organize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Patrick Henry argued in favor of mobilization and ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: “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!”  more

5 Comments on America: A Lifeboat with Limited Capacity

  1. Another great Patriotic post MJA. The next group of Patriots that step up certainly will not be portrayed as heros by our media. If we are going to do this we need to all do it at the same time. Just my random thoughts.

  2. There are NO lifeboats.
    When America sinks, that is the END of Freedom and Liberty on Earth.
    Look around.
    Smell that smell? That is the smell of despotism – all around the World.
    England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Greece (et.al.) have all dived headlong into the abyss of slavery and misery – following the rest of the humanity.
    America, alone, has been THE beacon of Liberty.
    The Last, Best hope of mankind.

    And we squandered it for a bowl of (free) rice.

    izlamo delenda est …

  3. WHO will lead us out of this? Who has the fire and morals of our forefathers? I agree and have been saying for sometime that it will take a major natural calamity or World War to save this country. First though the lying skunks in the media will have to be dealt with because obviously propaganda works on simple minds.

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