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Friday, July 3, 2009
OUR FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!
As we prepare to celebrate the 4th of reverting to the very oppression of the greatest and most unique na-
Foreword by Jim Bice
of July holiday, more properly called our forefathers fought against. tion in the history of mankind.
Independence Day, the following ar- We now have a media that is As Americans, our freedoms set
ticle should serve as a reminder that more interested in sensationalism us apart from the rest of the world.
our sovereignty as a nation and our and agendas than in reporting the Some foreign countries, and even
individual freedoms were purchased truth. We have an education system some people here at home, despise
with a price. It should also serve as that no longer teaches civics or his- us for the great nation we’ve cre-
a warning that if we, as a people, tory. We have elected representa- ated. In the case of foreigners, in
forget the lessons of the past and al- tives who have taken the mantle of most cases it’s envy. As for those
low our own selfishness and apathy royalty, ignoring the best interests of here who deplore America, one can
to guide our actions and particularly the people and the country in favor only assume that they must hate
our voting habits, the precious gift of advancing their own agendas and themselves. Please don’t forget the
of freedom that was bought with the ignoring the tenets of our founding purpose of Independence Day and
blood of patriots can and will be lost. fathers. And we the people, in our the many people who have given
Our nation has a great and enviable ignorance and apathy, are more inter- their lives and fortunes that we may
history of protecting the weak and ested in obtaining whatever freebies be free. Celebrate our freedom.
oppressed world-wide. Yet here at we can convince the government to Celebrate our virtues. Celebrate our
home, we seem bent upon a course provide rather than the preservation history. Celebrate America!
cauldron brimming with discon- a tree in our yard, now we need
WILL THEY NEVER QUIT? By Tom Hanson tent, our nation was born. And
because of the vision known only
a permit. If we want to put in a
little cement sidewalk, we need a
This country was christened they had nothing to lose and ev- end the only chance for their chil- to a free people, this nation rose permit. We used to own property,
with the blood of patriots - men erything to gain. To lose would dren and grandchildren to ever be and grew to become the greatest now we pay for it and then rent it
who knew first hand the firm mean death or imprisonment. To free from oppression and to smell and most powerful on earth. by paying taxes. Have we slept
grip of servitude and bondage, emerge victorious would mean the sweet clean air that is only Yet with over two hundred while the Lilliputians tied us up?
men who had firsthand knowl- freedom - freedom to own the known to a free people. thirty years of history and heroes, Are the Torries dressed in liberal
edge of everything being chat- land over which they toiled each Men who had fortunes and battles fought and won, peoples clothing?
tel, belonging to a Baron, Lord, day from first light until dark. power pledged everything to the freed from oppressive rulers, The Founding Fathers wrote
or the Crown. These were men Freedom would mean enough to battle and joined the fray. They led American lives lost and blood let wonderful documents based on
who were proud, men who saw eat for their families and them- this army of farmers, store clerks on foreign shores, we, the Ameri- the Bible. Now the Ten Com-
there was only a slim chance of selves. Freedom means no sol- and merchants. They fought be- can people are still fighting for our mandments have been removed
victory, men who took up arms ders would accompany an agent cause even with all their wealth freedom. Are we moving back- from public viewing in public
against the tyranny of an oppres- of the King to take the Crown's and power they were not free. wards in time? Have we moved places all across the country. We
sive Government. This tyranni- share of the harvest. And so This rag tag army suffered frost- past the glorious days of Nation have over two hundred years of
cal government believed the land, they fought. They fought like no bite, starvation, festering wounds building, beyond the taming of laws and ordinances that restrict
water, their children, wives and one had ever seen before. They and more. But armed with little these lands? Are we becoming our daily lives. Will it end when
themselves were subjects. fought for freedom. They fought more than guts and determination, what our forefathers fought so Government has total control?
Most people would think these and they died. Survivors fought they fought. And in the end, the hard and died to save us from? NO it will never end! If we lose
men had everything to lose. They on knowing that there was no re- British Army was defeated and As a Nation are we destined to di- our freedoms to an oppressive
knew in their hearts and minds treat, knowing that to quit was to put to rout. Thus from a boiling gress back three hundred or four Government, somewhere down
hundred years to a world where the road when the leaders are
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