"As we celebrate the 4th of July let us consider why the colonist felt they needed to separate from their mother land and risk waging war and shedding blood.
To answer that question I went to the cherished document itself and reviewed some of the original grievances that conceived this great separation. It was remarkable how similar some of the grievances were to that which we are experiencing today! In response to the tyranny and oppression, the colonists were experiencing, they offered these words:
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. 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.
It is fortunate for us, that in their wisdom, our founding fathers conceived an idea by which We the People could again reclaim our power but without declaring a bloody independence. This idea was spelled out in our constitution, a sacred document that protects us from tyranny and secures our individual freedoms for ever more.
However, our constitution was predicated on the notion that We the People would be active participants in our destiny. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. Apathy and complacency are enemies of justice and freedom.
Americans have been apathetic for far too long and now we find ourselves once again suffering under the weight of tyrannical pressures.
The good news is that we can reclaim our power and freedom! We can once again declare independence and demand freedom and this time we need not take up arms. We need to engage in the system. We need to vote new leadership in. Leadership that will represent out interest. We need to say no to status quo!
I ran for office in 2014. That year only 34% of registered voters in my district actually voted. That is abysmal. I compare that to 86% in South Africa, as I was told.
If we are exhausted from the weight of taxation, regulation, injustice, bloated government and government intrusion in our lives, than it is time for us to accept responsibility and do our part to change this, at every level of government. We must not continue to mock the blood of patriots by placing a hand over our heart and mouthing words that have become empty and hollow. We must not continue to send our troops to foreign lands to fight for freedoms and protections we will not defend here at home. We must once again have the courage and consideration for future generations and boldly declare independence once again, this time through the most powerful weapon known to man: our vote.
We are the patriots of a new age and it is incumbent upon us to restore the power and sanctity of our original “Declaration of Independence”, for this is not just the “4th of July” it is Independence day, and that should mean something.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!"
- Michelle Darnell
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