From Woody:
I just did one of those “Escape Rooms” with my son and six other signees.
This one was called “The British Are Coming.”
They give you an hour to “find” the Declaration of Independence before you can be captured by the British Army.
You go through several rooms with a succession of clues and keys that unlock more clues which lead you to a labyrinth of old trunks, hollowed out books with hidden magnets which open old roll top desks with clever codes and maps. It requires real brain power.
My son was great at it and made his dad proud.
All the while, speakers are broadcasting the sounds of artillery and cannons getting ever nearer. It’s a race against time, enlightening and enjoyable with a bit of anxiety thrown in.
At one point, I kind of cheated and Googled the Declaration on my phone to see the document.
As I was reading it, it astounded me how far we have gotten away from the patriotism in this country’s beginnings and led me to appreciate once again the fortitude and knowledgeable efforts of Thomas Jefferson and our founding.
There was no whining back then, no snowflakes offended by every little thing, no imagined utopia, just the strength, confidence and power in these words.
I encourage everyone to place themselves back into that time and read it to see just how far we have fallen.
I felt pride, amazement and sadness all at once.
You’ll see what I mean.
Read HERE
Had the same feeling when I first read it – 1969!
One of my favorite parts;
“-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.”
Obedience, subservience, and fidelity cannot be compelled at the end of a gun, consent is willing granted and can be willingly removed.
Back in the early 1860’s we saw a small coalition of states band together and decide that the present government was not meeting its needs. If one of these crazy socialist dem candidates even gets a whiff of presidential power, with their total disregard for borders, their wealth envy, their hatred for religious liberty and their proclivities for theft and redistribution, a similar scenario is very likely.
An excellent read and worthy of remembrance.
I have a framed replica hanging in my foyer. It’s one of the first things you see when you enter our home. It was a Father’s day gift from my children.
Listen, warped leftist grifters have been trying to scam our system for 100 years. Who gave us the idea to hire the Crying Boehners to protect our country and our education systems?
Duh… We did.
Let’s take them back, and NEVER make the same mccain/romney/Boehner mistake again. EVER.
On a related note:
I just finished rereading “Oliver Wiswell” by Kenneth Roberts.
A historical novel of the American Revolution as seen by a young Loyalist.
Pretty hard on the “Rebels”, Washington, Franklin, and British Generals as well.
A long and sometimes infuriating read, relieved by the antics of the character Buell.
Antidote (or counterbalance): “The First American” by HW Brands.
@Rich Taylor –
Yes, that second paragraph is da bomb. So to speak.
I’d fail THAT escape room. I’d just lock & load & sit tight… ’til I saw the whites of their eyes…
What a precious snowflake.
Those words did nothing. The regime’s change after those words was nil. Had they scratched “FOAD” on a tea label, the result would be the same. (With far less tween girl drama, of course. So, snowflake loss. I know.)
The terrorists bled the regime. Until the choice of “F thee, merry well!” (and, no, not “Fare”) was made, by the regime. The same choice, after the same circumstances, as would be made with a missive of “FOAD”.
— Always tighten your bowtie, before riding that wild couch
^^^^ probably the worst commenter on the site, bar none.
No bullshit, BFH. I’ve read it four times and can’t make much sense of it.
What sense I can make of it is mildly insulting.
“just the strength, confidence and power in these words”
Some reach for words for confidents, others reach for a gun. I’m really good with a gun. Try me word smith.
‘Washington and His Generals’
“Published posthumously on the occasion of America’s centennial celebration, George Lippard’s Washington and His Generals, “1776” compiles into a single volume his five popular books of Revolutionary-era historical fiction”
https://archive.org/details/legendamerrevo00lipprich/page/n5
Atybbrtwc’s message seems to be that our Revolutionaries were no better than King George. So, he’s either a bitter Brit or a cankerous Canadian?
I suppose that’s the point, Lunatic Fringe. They reached for their words, and then for their guns.
Buy the way, “confidence”, and “confidants” (if that’s what you meant — the small spelling error notwithstanding) don’t mean the same thing.
Anonymous Erik
I won’t shoot you because you appear to be a decent guy/person. I’ll blame it on my inability to spell and spell check. So what I’m sayen is choose your side, us terrible spellers, or word smiths. What say you snow flake?
I say we need wordsmiths AND guns — as long as we are on the same side.
Anonymous Erik
You will be killed by ANTIFA while spell checking my last post, Good luck. You will need it.
I thank you for the good luck, Lunatic Fringe.
But I think most Americans, as in U.S. Citizens, understand that the DoI is a Masterpiece. As civilized beings we appreciate the framework. The groundwork. The birth of The United States, in words.
“As civilized beings ”
This is why you will die early. You don’t get it. How’s my spelling?
Your spelling is fine. But we have become far afield of the point. The DoI is the birth, in words, of the United States. Much akin to Churchill with his words that were so necessary in his time.
And…
What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmorland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
I used to be a constitutionalist. Until i learned a little more.
Most people are not aware that the Articles of the Confederacy preceeded the Constitution. It was an agreement between the states. IF you google for reasons why they needed to scrap it and turn to what we now call the constitution, you’ll find that it was because the articles of the confederacy did not give the federal gov’t enough power. So, in other words, the framers wanted more power for themselves.
There was a problem that got in the way. The articles of the confederacy said that it could only be changed by a UNANIMOUS vote of all state legislatures. This was determined to be a major sticking point. But the next thing you know they just said that hurdle was gotten over and they proceeded to ratify the constitution with ONLY NINE states ratifying it.
So the bottom line is they wanted power so badly that they just ignored the law that made it hard to get. Of course they would put it differently. They would make up some horseshit mixed with bullshit on top of bison shit to claim that they wouldn’t have to get a unanimous vote. And i don’t even know what it was. Because the articles i’ve read simply say ‘once they got by that’ referring to the clause that said a unanimous vote was needed. LOL. I’ll tell you how they got by it. Carrot and stick to anyone standing up for the articles of the confederacy, that’s how.
But the point of all this is that the elite wanted more power and they weren’t going to let anything like a law get in their way. And they have been doing it ever since.
It has been going on like this since Day One in this country.
And the great experiment is just about over. The elite have come so far that now they just openly and brazenly do this things right in our faces.
Steal money by the hundreds of billions from one group of people to prop up the federal reserves cronies and buddies.
They totaly corrupt the doj and fbi and intel community to usurp power over the country.
There are riots going on all over the world and yet people don’t realize that they are coming to the US, too. All because these mf elites can’t stop themselves from being mf’s.
My goodness!
Touchy touchy …
I never mispelt nuthin cuz it be spelt the way ah spelt it!
An whadda fuq Shakespeare gotz ta do wid Jefferson (the last white guy with that name, by the way)?
and anywayz – he who smelt it; spelt it!
Yo, Lunatic Fridge,
Red Ryder be looking for ya!