HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
Hello there. Today I celebrate Independence Day unlike I ever have before as it means more than it ever has before.
Beyond that I think about Amercia, our society, and the government. We tend to focus on the negative and not the positive. But as much as any one of those three individually or together get it wrong, they equally get it right. That today of all days of course made me think of the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.
Reading it makes me proud to be an American as corny as that sounds, but it makes me even prouder to be a human being. They had it right in 1776 (thank you Mr. Jefferson) and those words are as relevant now as they were then. Change since then and now might go painstakingly slow and in a manner where we dont't see or recognize it at all. But we have the power and the right to change, for change, and except that change. I think we are so blinded by what we feel are the bad, injust, and outright wrongs perpertrated on us individually and collectively we often lose sight of the power and responsibility we do have.
Happy Independence Day to all of you. I hope you find the time to understand what today truly means and then take the time to enjoy yourself in whatever manner you are celebrating...grill dogs, beer, fireworks, with the ones you love. Be safe and have fun!!
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 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.--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.
PEACE
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