Below is a column written by Gary Mienert in the Lakeland Times paper from the north woods. Thanks Gary. Rebellion…..it’s happening In just a few days we will be celebrating the 4th of July holiday. To those who might not recall, especially the youth, it’s also known as “Independence Day” which commemorates our independence from England in 1776 after a long and bloody war. A war by all odds the colonists should have lost. This usually festive holiday seems to have a pall hovering over it as concern for our republic continues to escalate. Our country, once the greatest in the world, is staggering under terribly defective and divisive Federal bureaucracies. Regularly there are increasing incidents which run contrary to our basic rights. Fifty middle school students from N. Carolina visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York. As a choir they began to sing our National Anthem to the delight of other visitors. Immediately a security guard stopped their beautiful performance. It was considered a public demonstration and therefore forbidden! In Murfreesboro, Tennessee ten students between the ages of 6 & 10 were taken from the school in handcuffs because a video had shown them watching an off-campus scuffle…
Tag: The Declaration of Independence
Listed below is The Declaration of Independence. I encourage you to read it this July 4th and consider the list of abuses by the King at the time of the drafting. How many of these same abuses do we see by our government today? What are you going to do about it? Two other articles to read this Independence Day: A Tribute To America’s Patriot Pastors And Stalwart Statesmen , “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor” The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen 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…
