July 4th

Remember that the 4th of July holiday is not about celebrating the fourth day of the seventh month… it is to commemorate the day in 1776 when the country’s founding fathers stood up to tyranny and oppression.

The document they wrote, specifically one line became the central theme of a series of secessions from colonial rule. That line?

“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--”

The document is a great clarion call to freedom. On this July 4th… our Independence Day… I encourage all to read the entire document. Remind yourselves of the values on which our country was founded.

I also challenge you to see if we have been good stewards of this mantle of freedom, or if we have allowed ourselves to come once again under the yoke of oppression, albeit a voluntary oppression enforced with velvet fist.

Granted, we have sacrificed much over the previous two centuries fighting oppression elsewhere in the world, shedding America blood and American tears so that others may enjoy the freedom and libeerty we consider to be essential and inalienable. But over those two centuries we have been slowly giving our liberty up to the government… exchanging our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, among other inalienable rights, for collections of government endowed permissions and privileges.

In the spirit of liberty and freedom from tyranny I invite everyone to, after reading the Declaration of Independence and perhaps even the Constitution, to see if there is a TEA Party scheduled for a location near you this July 4th and lend your presence to this movement to remind government they serve at our pleasure, not vice versa.

I will be at the Morristown TEA party between 11am and 1 pm, I hope to see you there.

NOTE: the TEA Parties are not about Democrat vs. Republican, Conservatives Vs. Liberals or anything as petty as partisan politics... they are about being Americans.