Have we rested on our laurels for too long?

Have we rested on our laurels for too long?

by Andrew Griffin

As we commence our Independence Day and the fireworks have burnt out and the last hamburger eaten, I wonder, have we gotten soft? Have we rested on our laurels for too long? Are we to be content with how things are or are you ready for a revolution? I look back to our forefathers and I can't help but wonder, if reincarnation were real, would they come back and kick our butts? Slap us back into reality? Tell us that this country is worth fighting for? I think so! Our forefathers escaped tyranny and stood up for what was right.
How many can say that they have done that? Very few by my count. Ron Paul in the national news and small groups like us throughout the country. We have the courage to stand up, but is it too late?

We are a sparse bunch, but we have the determination to turn this country back into a republic; rescuing it from the socialist state that we live in. What are we to do? I believe in the old adage that those whodo not learn from history, are destined to repeat it. The Declaration of Independence, the document which is the cornerstone for our independence and Independence Day states: "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."

To quote Abigal Chase, in National Treasure, "no one talks like that anymore." She is right, no one does talk like that anymore, but we need to! Not only talk like that, we need to think like that! Since the great depression, we have been reliant on a "socialist" government.. From FDR's "chicken in every pot..." to the establishment of the federal reserve, we(our kin, remember, we are redneck), have given up our liberties for security, And now, both are gone. Shouldn't we as a people, if not for us, but for our future generations, take up the fight? Isn't it time to
exercise our right, our duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security? I believe that if our forefathers believed in it and fought for it, shouldn't we? I don't want to get on a rant, but....