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From The Patriotist: [url]http://www.patriotist.com/lgarch/20010702.htm[/url]
Empire Day
Lewis J. Goldberg - Editor July 2, 2001
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams
Independence Day has become a mere cartoon of itself, and it is increasingly obvious that were Sam Adams to make the above utterance - with force - in the US Senate chamber, he would be alone quickly. His words would almost vacate the House, as well as the Legislative and Executive Branches. Adams' challenge for true countrymen, were it heard in all the Statehouses, the Governors' Mansions, the County Chambers, and the City Councils would render government vacant. The men Mr. Adams would hope to find have been consigned to kook status - men to 'watch out for,' because 'you never know with these people.'
As one of the ones to 'watch out for' [...and those of you who know me personally know how violent and unpredictable I am,] the establishment is correct in perceiving a threat from us. While politicians, the press, and governmental institutions [such as schools] have the weight of conformity behind their words, we have truth behind ours. We all know what wins in the end.
Were it not for the sound of fireworks in the neighborhood, the 4th would go unnoticed in this household. Without the television blaring propaganda into my living room, we are scarcely even aware of the usual holiday sales events. With the children being schooled at home, we are in control over which version of the events they learn regarding our nation's heritage - a Godly heritage for a nation founded by Godly men, not a secular empire founded by evil white slaveholders who wrote the constitution so that it could be changed to 'suit the times.'
We have simply done what millions of Americans have done, and more are doing every day - we are seceding from the empire, and making our own independence day. For some, that day is when their child is suspended from school for wearing a shirt depicting Stonewall Jackson, a great Christian man and soldier. For some it is when their child comes home from school having learnt how to sodomise their fellow students. For some it is when they realise that what they would not have been allowed to watch at 16 years of age, they allow their own 6 year old to view. For some it is when they realise that men they admire greatly are cast as villains in the public eye.
President Jefferson Davis once said, "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." That "other time" is now, and the "other form" is legion. Mini-dramas of freedom are playing themselves out all across this divided nation. It is but a matter of time before these separate incidences congeal into a singular power, thus waking the masses to the fact that, like the unclothed Emperor of the famous story, we have no freedom, and mindlessly celebrate every summer because the calendar tells us it is time.
It is 'Empire Day.'
On this day, we celebrate 'freedom' and 'liberty,' but dont ask for those words to be defined.
We celebrate our Declaration of Independence, but dont expect to hear it read anywhere.
We celebrate our victory over tyranny, but dont expect more descriptive terms, as a quick study of King George's brand of tyranny reveals a pedestrian overbearance compared to what our own people do to us.
We'll hear about the Boston Tea Party without the obvious connection to our present state of taxation made.
Mostly we'll see a lot of diversionary pyrotechnics, which serve to fix the impression that a nation that can blow up 'purdy fire in the sky' must be really neat.
Whilst the masses gorge themselves on liquor and Doritosââ¢, some of us will be making plans toward real independence. I hope you join us this year.