Thomas Jefferson May Have Been a Flawed Man, but his Descendant, Lucian K. Truscott IV, Never Learned the Value of the Teachable Moment

Editor in Chief, DL Mullan
Thomas Jefferson / History / Memorial
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Thomas Jefferson like many people from our past were caught up in a whirlwind of circumstances they did not know how to get out of and no matter what they did, could not control. Instead of realizing the pressure people were under during their eras, modern views are to dissect, destroy, and delete the past based on value judgements of today.

The past is to learn from. It is our history and our disagreements with the people, places, or ideals of that history should make us better people. The past is the present's teachable moment. 

Thomas Jefferson was a man, an imperfect man, whose ideals were overshadowed by the gravity of his time. Instead of holding him to that higher standard, it was he who tasked us in the present to fulfill his idealism. He knew that he was trapped by the time he lived in. 

What possible understanding do you, Lucian K. Truscott IV, have about living in such a time as he? None.

Have you ever considered that if Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves without financial support, an education, or political will at their backs that his slaves would have been worse off, even murdered? Of course not, because we have never had to make those types of decisions. 

To tear down statutes in anger or ignorance is nothing more than juvenile tantrums of an ill-informed lynch mob mentality. What is the difference in owning slaves when you are in the modern era a slave to the rage mob? Thomas Jefferson was just as much a slave to his generation as he was a slave owner. The lynch mobs in our streets are mental slaves to organizations telling them that they are the modern slave owners trying to whip the populace into conformity.

I am against any form of modern ineptness denigrating our historical figures because most of the outcry is hype. 

Thomas Jefferson did write: “all men are created equal,” but we forget to comprehend that it is our responsibility to pursue it. That ideal was not his to give. He said it was endowed to us by our creator and we are our creator. We created our past. We create our present. We create our future. 

He provided the outline. America has spent the last 244 years crawling our way up to behold that sentiment in mind and spirit. If we have not fully achieved his realization for America, then how can we be in the position to judge him by it? 

What ignorance you wrote that really caught my attention was: "A tour of Monticello these days will tell you that it was designed by Jefferson and built by the people he enslaved..."

Not everyone in your family's employ was a slave who worked at Monticello, my family did as well: 

Richard Sorrels
(5th Great Grandfather)
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Richard Sorrells was a general laborer at Monticello. He worked for Thomas Jefferson from 1769 until his death in 1773.

I have noted on my 1776 Patriot Project page. 

If you also read down the list, I have a Confederate in my past too, but unlike you I don't make the past about personal feelings of guilt or shame. I am not an ungrateful person. I view history in the context it was meant to be encapsulated: frozen, studied, and understood. 

The points in the past are the growth spurts and sputterings of a grand experiment in self-governance. Your op-ed proves America still has miles to go to fulfill our own Declaration of Independence because you judge the past with a Post Modernist flare of deconstruction. 

I view our Declaration of Independence as a challenge to be meet every moment of every day. 

That is the difference between you and I. You are caught up in the embarrassment of what you cannot change. I am using challenging times as a teachable moment. 

The Thomas Jefferson and the other historical monuments must stay. Otherwise we too are as guilty as those who preceded us. I shall not live in such regretful recompense for something I am not responsible for, but evermore hope to teach that every day we can be the betterment of ourselves and others.

Be your better self and end this foolishness. 

Source: NY Times,

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Editor in Chief, DL Mullan 
Declaration of Independence / July 4th
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

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.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. 

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton


Source: Our Documents

History: Declaration of Independence

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Fourth of July / Independence Day
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History of American Revolution Documentary || Declaration of Independence

Source: Manuel Simmons

And, History Repeats Itself

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

History / Declaration of Independence
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Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. The United States is in the midst of a historical political rebellion. Here is some history written in the years leading up to the Declaration of Independence. 

Does any of this sound familiar to today's struggles against the corrupt and useless Globalist machine of imperialism?

The American Revolution was precipitated, in part, by a series of laws passed between 1763 and 1775 that regulating trade and taxes. This legislation caused tensions between colonists and imperial officials, who made it clear that the British Parliament would not address American complaints that the new laws were onerous. British unwillingness to respond to American demands for change allowed colonists to argue that they were part of an increasingly corrupt and autocratic empire in which their traditional liberties were threatened. This position eventually served as the basis for the colonial Declaration of Independence.

The Boston Tea Party

In 1763, the British government emerged from the Seven Years’ War burdened by heavy debts. This led British Prime Minister George Grenville to reduce duties on sugar and molasses but also to enforce the law more strictly. Since enforcement of these duties had previously been lax, this ultimately increased revenue for the British Government and served to increase the taxes paid by the colonists. The colonial governments of New York and Massachusetts sent formal letters of protest to Parliament.

The end of the war had also brought about a postwar recession, and British merchants began to request payment for debts that colonists had incurred buying British imports. Moreover, they wanted payment in British pounds sterling rather than colonial currency of more questionable value. The result was that the British Parliament passed the 1764 Currency Act which forbade the colonies from issuing paper currency. This made it even more difficult for colonists to pay their debts and taxes.

Soon after Parliament passed the Currency Act, Prime Minister Grenville proposed a Stamp Tax. This law would require colonists to purchase a government-issued stamp for legal documents and other paper goods. Grenville submitted the bill to Parliament for questioning, and only one member raised objections to Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.

After news of the successful passage of the Stamp Act reached the colonies, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed resolutions denying the British Parliament’s authority to tax the colonies. In Boston, colonists rioted and destroyed the house of the stamp distributor. News of these protests inspired similar activities and protests in other colonies, and thus the Stamp Act served as a common cause to unite the 13 colonies in opposition to the British Parliament. In October of 1765, delegates from 9 colonies met to issue petitions to the British Government denying Parliament’s authority to tax the colonies. An American boycott of British goods, coupled with recession, also led British merchants to lobby for the act’s repeal on pragmatic economic grounds. Under pressure from American colonists and British merchants, the British Government decided it was easier to repeal the Stamp Act than to enforce it.

The repeal of the Stamp Act temporarily quieted colonial protest, but there was renewed resistance to new taxes instituted in 1767 under the Townshend Acts. However, in 1773, the colonists staged more vocal widespread protests against the British Parliament’s decision to grant the East India Company a monopoly on the tax-free transport of tea. Although Parliament did lower taxes levied on other tea importers, the tax-free status of the British East India Company meant that colonial tea traders could not compete. Enraged colonists responded by encouraging a general boycott of British goods. On December 16, 1773, American colonists disguised as Indians boarded East India Company ships in Boston Harbor and threw crates of tea overboard. This famous protest came to be known as the Boston Tea Party.

When news of the Tea Party reached England, British officials moved to enforce discipline and order in the colonies. The British Government ordered the closure of the port of Boston until the East India Company was compensated for the destroyed tea. Parliament also passed several pieces of legislation in 1774 which attempted to place Massachusetts under direct British control. In the American colonies, these laws were referred to as the Intolerable Acts. British control was further solidified by the appointment of General Thomas Gage as military governor of Massachusetts.

By 1774, opinion among the colonists was mixed. Some Bostonians felt that the time had come to ease tensions and sent to London a written offer to pay for the destroyed tea. Others put out a colony-wide call for a boycott. However, many colonial merchants were reluctant to participate in a difficult-to-enforce boycott. Despite this disagreement, most colonists agreed that a meeting to discuss an appropriate collective response to British actions was a good idea. Colonial legislatures sent representatives to Philadelphia, and the First Continental Congress convened in September of 1774. The Continental Congress agreed to the Articles of Association on October 20. These Articles listed colonial grievances and called for a locally-enforced boycott in all the colonies to take effect on December 1. The delegates also drafted a petition to King George III laying out their grievances, although by then they doubted that the crisis would be resolved peacefully.

Realizing that further coercive steps would only enrage the colonists and might lead to war, British military governor Gage wrote to London recommending suspension of the Intolerable Acts. Gage hoped to appease many of the colonists and thereby split colonial moderates from radicals. If London was not amenable to his recommendations, Gage stated that he would need significant reinforcements to crush the growing rebellion.

British ministers responded to Gage’s suggestions by removing him from his post. They felt that further punitive measures were necessary and pushed Parliament to pass additional trade restrictions on New England. London declared the colonies to be in rebellion, but also offered to stop taxing those colonies that supported the British Government.

By this time, the most astute leaders from both sides viewed armed conflict as inevitable. Gage’s attempts to secure his position in Boston only brought him into conflict with local militias and a hostile populace, and it was only a matter of time until open war began in 1775. The opportunity for peaceful negotiation came to an end, and the war for American Independence began on April 19, 1775 when British troops and American colonists clashed at Lexington and Concord.

Americans, isn't it time for a new declaration? 

Source: Office of the Historian

Burning Down the House, Law Enforcement Mob Mentality Unleashed

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Police Brutality / Riots

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"... 911, what's your emergency?"

The Ferguson Police...

In the article by Glenn Greenwald, The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson, he uncovers the startling truth behind the increased aggression against the American people. 

As is true for most issues of excessive and abusive policing, police militarization is overwhelmingly and disproportionately directed at minorities and poor communities, ensuring that the problem largely festers in the dark. Americans are now so accustomed to seeing police officers decked in camouflage and Robocop-style costumes, riding in armored vehicles and carrying automatic weapons first introduced during the U.S. occupation of Baghdad, that it has become normalized. But those who bear the brunt of this transformation are those who lack loud megaphones; their complaints of the inevitable and severe abuse that results have largely been met with indifference.

If anything positive can come from the Ferguson travesties, it is that the completely out-of-control orgy of domestic police militarization receives long-overdue attention and reining in.

Amen.

Looters, law breakers, anyone can agree those individuals inciting violence need to be arrested for their day in court, but so do officers who commit crimes against the community they are supposed to serve. 

You do remember: To Serve and Protect, don't you? 

It's not: Shoot First and Ask Questions Later, if only there is an internal investigation, otherwise there seems to be a law enforcement free for all. This is America. This is not Iraq.

Americans walking down the street and protesting are protected by the First Amendment. That pesky Bill of Rights that tells the government what it can and cannot do along with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The latter is what officers are sworn to uphold.

Well an oath of office is just elective. Who cares about treason or Posse Comatatus anyway these days? The police are immune to simple legalities, right?

The best and most comprehensive account of the dangers of police militarization is the 2013 book by the libertarian Washington Post journalist Radley Balko, entitled “Rise of the Warrior Cops: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.” Balko, who has devoted his career to documenting and battling the worst abuses of the U.S. criminal justice system, traces the history and underlying mentality that has given rise to all of this: the “law-and-order” obsessions that grew out of the social instability of the 1960s, the War on Drugs that has made law enforcement agencies view Americans as an enemy population, the Reagan-era “War on Poverty” (which was more aptly described as a war on America’s poor), the aggressive Clinton-era expansions of domestic policing, all topped off by the massively funded, rights-destroying, post-9/11 security state of the Bush and Obama years. All of this, he documents, has infused America’s police forces with “a creeping battlefield mentality.”

I read Balko’s book prior to publication in order to blurb it, and after I was done, immediately wrote what struck me most about it: “There is no vital trend in American society more overlooked than the militarization of our domestic police forces.” The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim, in the outlet’s official statement about Reilly’s arrest, made the same point: “Police militarization has been among the most consequential and unnoticed developments of our time.”

In June, the ACLU published a crucial 96-page report on this problem, entitled “War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing.” Its central point: “the United States today has become excessively militarized, mainly through federal programs that create incentives for state and local police to use unnecessarily aggressive weapons and tactics designed for the battlefield.”

But isn't that what happens when the tiger catches its tail? The militarization of the police force is not solving American unrest, it's fueling it. The power and might of the military in civil forces' hands has created a far more volatile state of affairs.

Isn't that more dangerous than a teenager throwing rocks or a looter?

We have riots. After a few days, the rioters go home. Looters can be found with the RFID chips in the merchandise they stole. Easy fix: follow, document, search warrant, and arrest. How difficult can that possibly be?

Ultimately, police militarization is part of a broader and truly dangerous trend: the importation of War on Terror tactics from foreign war zones onto American soil. American surveillance drones went from Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia into American cities, and it’s impossible to imagine that they won’t be followed by weaponized ones. The inhumane and oppressive conditions that prevailed at Guantanamo are matched, or exceeded, by the super-max hellholes and “Communications Management Units” now in the American prison system. And the “collect-it-all” mentality that drives NSA domestic surveillance was pioneered by Gen. Keith Alexander in Baghdad and by other generals in Afghanistan, aimed at enemy war populations. 

Oh, yeah, we're at WAR! 

With men in caves who don't exist and other militants created by the CIA and do we really need to go on? The American government has become the domestic terrorist that it tells us to fear in each other. But the fun doesn't stop there. 

One government newsletter - from “the Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO), a little known federal agency that equips police departments with surplus military gear” – boasted that “Fiscal Year 2011 was a record year in property transfers from the US military’s stockpiles to police departments around the nation.” The ACLU report notes: “the Department of Defense operates the 1033 Program through the Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO), whose motto is ‘from warfighter to crimefighter.’” The Justice Department has an entire program devoted to “supporting military veterans and the law enforcement agencies that hire them as our veterans seek to transition into careers as law enforcement officers.”

As part of America’s posture of Endless War, Americans have been trained to believe that everything is justified on the “battlefield” (now defined to mean “the whole world”): imprisonment without charges, kidnapping, torture, even assassination of U.S. citizens without trials. It is not hard to predict the results of importing this battlefield mentality onto American soil, aimed at American citizens: “From Warfighter to Crimefighter.” The results have been clear for those who have looked – or those who have been subject to this – for years. The events in Ferguson are, finally, forcing all Americans to watch the outcome of this process.

Because if it's on television, Americans might wake up to the fact that their own government sees them as terrorists as outlined in the Patriot Act and NDAA. 

Okay, maybe not.

Source: The Intercept  

Movie Night: The Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman
Declaration of Independence / 4th of July
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The Declaration of Independence: 

A Powerful Performance

The Declaration of Independence

Today, We Celebrate Our Independence Day

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

4th of July / Freedom

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Freedom is not an American concept. It's a human idea.: one full of passion and integrity. Freedom is a basic human right.

Some have come to politics, government positions, military rank, and financial wealth in order to tell people that freedom is of a bygone era. People of this great nation and of the world are fed on a daily basis lies on how their voices are of no consequence. Yet, it is our voices that have made the United States unlike any other.

Unfortunately through the decades of the last and present centuries, the People have fallen into the chasm of indifference. Lack of a good education, productive politics, and intelligent discourse has led our nation from first to middle of the road. A first world country that was catapulted by invention, genius, and independence into legend, now the United States struggles to meet the challenges of third world mediocrity.

No matter how the ruling elite create wars for profit and public tension to divide and conquer the masses for political gain, the dream survives. When people see the future for themselves and their progeny, they do not envision checkpoints, pat downs, biometrics, or drones; the People see freedom.

The Declaration of Independence states:

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.

The People are beginning to understand some ideas like Freedom are self-evident. An idea cannot be arrested, imprisoned, or killed. An idea like Freedom creates its own reality.

People flock from all over the world to come to America: the Land of the Free. I argue that you are free; you have not decided to fight for freedom but to run from it. Freedom means taking a stand where injustice reeks havoc and sometimes you stand alone. 

On this Independence Day, do not think of it as an American holiday, but a human one. Free yourselves from destructive governments, laws, and cultural norms and mores and seize the gift that is every person’s right: Freedom.

The United States is a symbol but it is not the rule. Everyone can have a free and secure Republic right in their own countries. It is up to you to fight for it.

Freedom is not won and supported by military might. That is a falsehood. If that were true then our own military would stop executing illegal orders and arrest the traitors in the three branches of our federal government.

If you want freedom, then the People have to draw the line in the sand. Voting is not the answer. The People need to use their Voices once again.

Or we will only wake up from this nightmare at the close of a Third World War. All wars are bankers wars. Wars are not of the People, by the People, or for the People. Wars are for profiteers, murderers, and the feeble-minded.

If you want a rallying cry, here Bill Pullman said it best in Independence Day:

Independence Day Speech

So on this 4th of July while you are barbequing, having parties, and saluting the Veterans, remember that Freedom is an idea that's time has come. 

Isn't time that Freedom rang again?

Source: US History, 

The Day WE Fight Back

Take part

The SOPA and PIPA protests were successful because we all took part, as a community. As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero of their own story." We can set a date, but we need all of you, the users of the Internet, to make it a movement.

What we can do

Congress is considering two major bills.

• The USA Freedom Act curtails NSA surveillance abuses.
• The FISA Improvements Act attempts to legalize bulk data collection of phone records.

We need to tell Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act and amend it to make it even stronger.

CNN, Shill-Journalism, and the Security State

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

News / Propaganda

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CNN has outdid itself this time. In a panel, discussing NSA breaches of protocol, decency, and the law, Jake Tapper makes a stunning assessment: "I think the American people, honestly, want security over freedom."

If you are on crack, maybe. In this video, we can see that not only did Jake Tapper of CNN make this statement but the other commentators agree: "Security over Freedom." 

Wow. Some people live in a black hole of their own design. Only uninformed talking heads would agree with this egregious statement. Talk about government propaganda coming out of the mouths of so-called journalists. 

This report isn't news. It is not even responsible. How can these people possibly be still employed? 

Within a few minutes of researching this topic, one can find the Founding Father's commentary about security versus freedom:

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." Patrick Henry 

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

If you read further on the Spirit of America Liberty Quotes page you will also discover the meaning of the Second Amendment and the plight of our Revolutionary War heroes. 

What you see on television is what you deserve unless the People stand up against it:

If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)

So let good Americans resist CNN, Jake Tapper, and his cronies. It is time to rebel against this type of shill-journalism, take back our airways, and fire those individuals on the air who do not understand the basics of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights.

It's time to stop the madness.

Source: Spirit of America Liberty Quotes, Security over Freedom

The United Nations: Changing Your Attitude for a More Sustainable Future

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Government / Education

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The new standards in the educational curriculum, which began decades ago and manifested in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Common Core, are changing history, facts, and the next generation's attitude about government, rights, and citizenship.

And as a parent, you are not going to like it.

Do you want to know the reason for the attacks on our freedoms, rights, and Constitution? Then look no further than the United Nations' (UNESCO) sustainability religious dogma. It's not just to destroy your city, state with unattainable redistribution standards with lies of social justice and climate change (i.e., global warming scam); it's to decimate the next generation's ability to see right from wrong. 

The educational standards are brainwashing children into believing some horrendous ideas. To the United Nations, education is not about facts but persuading children to believe that facts are irrelevant to the collective. Global citizens need to be supple and pliant to the requirements of global interests, international law, and government control.

Say what?

The United States has become the battle ground against encroaching collectivist indoctrination. This cult believes that: government is in charge of you, your children, and your property. The United Nations model strips away any idea of individual thought or determination. The state controls where you will be in life in this post modern, post capitalist societal framework of do as we say and do as you are told.

Freedom of thought is now a thing of the past. Real critical thinking is an abomination. If you question the collective, then there must be something wrong with your attitude. Re-education, anyone? Because our educational system is full of propaganda from the United Nations at the blessing and drive of our government. 

Why wouldn't a government push for the servitude of its people? This nation was built on the servitude of its government, but the United Nations seeks to reverse that trend by making the willful individualist equated with terrorism. Have you notice how many "lone wolves" it takes to undermine the Second Amendment? How EVERYONE must give up their guns because of one person's evil deed? It makes you think.

Just for starters, some will believe that people who question the hive mentality are conspiracy theorists instead of free thinkers. The attitude adjustment has been going on for years. So let the history lesson begin: 

Michael Chapman: Censored Heritage

Go on, watch the video...

If you would like more information about how the educational system in the United States is being subverted, please read the free e-book: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which Charolette Thomas Iserbyt is referenced in the above presentation.

Even I was astonished at the misinformation and disinformation, I received in my K-12 education. See how well your education and that of your children's stacks up against United States of America's Founding Fathers' philosophy.

For more information about the curriculum, watch this video reviewing educational books for elementary school children and the tenets of Common Core: Education or Indoctrination?

Source: TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION: The New Mission of Schools,
Arizonans Against Common Core

Constitution? What Constitution?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Government / Education

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Let’s Give Up on the Constitution, an article in the New York Times Op-ed section, by Louis Michael Seidman, who is a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University and he stated: 

As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions. 

 Read the sign:

If you do not like how the country is run you need to either go live in North Korea and let us know how that turns out or start holding politicians accountable. 

No more laws for us and laws for them. No more insider trading or becoming a multimillionaire in office on an approximately $200K salary. No more spending money on campaigns for a political position that can never pay it all back. No more taking money from corporations. No more stealing money from Americans through the illegal use of the Internal Revenue Service. Just NO MORE.

If you do not adhere to the Constitution, then you get recalled or voted out of office. No more putting up with globalism or international laws that supersede our national sovereignty.

Also, if you had not noticed: our failed policies, politics, and laws are not about our Constitution or system of government. It is about the Hegelian dialectic. Problem-reaction-solution.

Someone toils in the night. Problems arise. The public is angry: Fix it! The government responds: We have the solution! But the government never tells the people that they caused the problem in the first place. The problem was created in order to affect social change. Change that would not have happened in the natural ebb and flow of the human experience.

This scenario is played day in and day out especially on the national news. Our immigration system is broken! People demonstrate in the streets. The government wants to reform the immigration laws of the nation... Problem is there was no problem to begin with. Only a certain amount of people want to change the laws to their favor for breaking the laws that now subject them to deportation.

It is not difficult to deduce. Someone wants to change society to fit their agenda and not within the confines of law. So a fictitious problem is created and anyone who sees through the scheme is vilified.

Which is where higher education institutions come into play. University instructors should be debating these issues but instead of teaching our heritage as positive solutions to current and made up problems, professors are screaming: The government is broken! The Constitution is evil! We must change our system! 

Change it to what? A rule under technocratic elitists who run corporations and the United Nations so then we no longer have guaranteed rights but now must live under the system of a one world government in which people have "privileges" instead? 

Obviously someone must be friends with a crack pipe and he is not alone. A professor at Texas' A&M believes the Constitution is not for anyone either as noted in an article on PrisonPlanet: 

Mary Margaret Penrose also admitted that she teaches students in her Constitutional law courses that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are obsolete. “Why do we keep such an allegiance to a Constitution that was driven by 18th Century concerns?” she asked.

This feigned argument begins here and there. From the disputed GW Bush rant that the "Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper" to politicians who act like the Constitution is not there to direct their activities and now constitutional law professors hating on our national document for problems not derived from the living testimony on how we as Americans should conduct ourselves and our government, these behaviors are a national embarrassment. 

It is a ruse to get Americans to doubt the veracity, hope, and fortitude of the founding documents of the United States. So that Americans will believe there is a problem where there is none. The manipulation is to make the American people leave the confines of their freedoms and rights for a more structured, surveillance state known as a one world government. For that, charges of sedition should be levied as well as tenures pulled for these professors, and perhaps charges for politicians as well.

If someone does not like the Constitution, there is the door. No one is keeping you here. These professors are way out of line and their respective institutions need to reign them in. These so-called professors should be fired from their positions, forthwith!

It appears that these university teachers do not know or understand how societies change over a long period of time, not just in 237 years, but longer. Educators need to comprehend the complex economic, political, and social engineering crises caused by a few despots who wish to accelerate human society and use some brainwashed mass lecturer who will decide to vomit libel sedition from his or her pulpit for the task. Hence the conclusion that educated people do not always mean smart.

The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence are not documents headed for the shredder. People who will not abide by their oaths of office are the problem. These government servants will not control corporations, banks, Wall Street, or industries that fill their political coffers. 

That is not the Constitution's fault. It is the fault of men. Men who believe greed is above the law. It is the fault of Americans who allow this behavior to continue. 

In essence, professors, the problems of the United States are your fault for not standing up against a government who walks on the very words you are supposed to hold so dear.

Source: The Western Center for Journalism, Amerikan Expose, About, Encyclopedia Brittanica