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Writer's pictureSteve Lukens

Rise For Freedom



At what point is enough, enough? There has to be a limit to how much a people can be expected to endure.

 

The United States of America was established by those who had enough of the tyranny and hindrances that plagued them. From the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, they could no longer stand the weight that was upon them, and yet the weight now is much greater and more costly. They were taxed what would be considered now to be small amounts and yet most individuals now don’t even bat an eye at the extreme duress they are placed under by the government.

 

At what point do the people of Massachusetts, or any other state, realize that the tyranny that they are currently living under is far greater than the tyranny that the English were imposing under General Gage? Were we not the people to produce so many of our great American Founding Fathers? Isn’t the largest signature on the Declaration that of John Hancock? Are we not the people that stood firm in our resolve at Lexington and Concord? Are we not those who dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the harbor to spite and disrupt the English rule? We are a people born of freedom, breathing freedom, and dying for freedom.

 

To pretend that same vigor has gone extinct is to not understand the heart of a people. Hard working farmers that have seen their crops restricted, their livelihoods threatened, and their land taxed beyond compare. Nurses and doctors forced to take poison to please the musings of a deranged lunatic who claims for herself an imaginary crown and throne. Construction workers and builders that see the cost of goods increase beyond explanation so that they are no longer able to afford supplies and labor. Successful business owners that are forced to choose between staying in the state they love or providing for their families due to the idiotic amount that the aforementioned deranged lunatic has chosen to steal from their pockets. These men and women may be pushed down for a time, but that time cannot last. For we are the people previously mentioned. We have blood flowing in our veins that cannot be tamed. We are rebels, instigators, legislators, generals, pastors, and pioneers. We are a people birthed through struggle and strife.

 

Is the time for throwing off tyranny now? Will people realize before it is too late the horrific predicament that they are in? Or, will they succumb to the ever-tightening grip of tyranny that seeks to remove from the Declaration of Independence and their everyday lives the fact “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”?

 

If these God-given rights are violated, then what are the people of these United States to do? Bow the knee to the empire standing on their neck? Wasn’t a war fought over this very issue, twice?

 

The current trajectory cannot be sustained. There is no hope for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when tyranny is pushed by the government, the media, and the elite as being normal. There is no hope for a people that believe it is good that they are ruled rather than governed.

 

Currently there are few that govern, but many that rule. There are no votes by the people that are upheld, no desires maintained, and no freedom secured. There is merely chaos, clothed as peace and prosperity. Our forefathers sacrificed all to secure a country for their descendants that they hoped would stand as a beacon of hope. How ashamed of their descendants they would be now. There is no pride in doing what is right, only selfish ambition for power. There is no reliance upon God and His created order to inform decisions, only a hate for God and His church.

 

Our Declaration and Constitution scream at us to realize what is happening. If nothing is done, the left (democrats, the world elite, WEF, WHO, and any other who oppose the sovereignty of the U.S.A) will destroy once and for all the freedom of the people. All one has to do is to examine history, when nations become tyrannical, they fall in extremely astounding and swift ways. If we do not stand for our country, it will no longer exist.

 

That is the fact, and it is simple.

 

If the below declaration doesn’t resound with you regarding the condition of our state and country, then you are already lost. You have been caught in the waves that pound at the door labeled freedom and thrown into the sea of servitude. But if your heart rises within you, if you yearn for freedom, if you desire to live a life of freedom that is endowed by your Creator and not man, rise. Rise to throw off the shackles of tyranny. Rise to stand for justice for your fellow man. Rise for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

 

Rise for freedom.

 

 

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 shown, 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 operations 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 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

 

He has endeavored 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 harass 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 neighboring 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 complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and 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 endeavored 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 British 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 the 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 honour.

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