The Fourth has always been a special day for me. Anybody that knows me
knows I’m not big on holidays. Christmas and Thanksgiving are a pain as
far as preparations go and having to deal with family that doesn’t want
anything to do with me the rest of the year, Easter – I’m surprised they
still celebrate Easter seeing as it’s offensive to muslims and
liberals, Veteran’s and Memorial day always rubbed me wrong because
those are days for memories that should be thought of everyday, Labor
Day is just an excuse for a barbecue, but the Fourth to me was always
special because of the anniversary it represents.
Not anymore. The Fourth is nothing but a reminder of what a mess our
Nation has become. Our Founding Fathers and the Citizens of that period
sacrificed everything to ensure Freedom for their descendants and
immigrants coming here to seek a better life for themselves and their
families. There were provisions in the Constitution to prevent the new
government from becoming what they were trying to get out from under.
The Bill of Rights came later naming our basic human rights so that
future generations wouldn’t pervert the Yellowed Paper in order to grant
them powers that weren’t theirs to begin with.
Now I get up in the morning and read what the government wants me to
read. If the press isn’t in lockstep with the president then they aren’t
allowed in his press corp. If you file for something under the Freedom
of Information Act, you see only what the government wants you to see,
everything else is blacked out.
My weapons of self defense are government approved but they say if I
don’t have a permit for them then they must stay at home, but at the
same time the government says the police have no obligation or duty to
protect me or mine.
My food has to be approved by the government. I can no longer drink raw
milk or eat cheese that hasn’t been homogenized or pasteurized because
evidently I don’t know what’s good for me. Even homeopathic medicines
have to be government approved if I want to buy them instead of growing
and harvesting them myself.
Our children are wards of the State. If they attend a public school,
they learn what the government wants them to learn. The government has
changed history to suit their views, not what really happened. You are
not allowed to discipline your children with your own hand under threat
of law. The government determines if your children are eating healthy
lunches or not – not lunches from school but what Mom has packed for
them.
We’re under constant surveillance. Every time I walk out of my house I
have to assume I’m on somebody’s camera. Traffic cams, security cams,
dash cams, you name it. My emails are being monitored by the government.
My website is being monitored by the government. Every piece of mail –
every piece – passing through the post office is photographed and
recorded. Every phone call we make, every text we send is monitored by
the NSA. Boxes on the side of the roads log in bluetooth information
from passing cars to determine who’s in what car traveling down the
road, where you got on the road and where you left it. Radar is
monitoring our speed.
Our public lands are no longer public. The Bureau of Land Management and
Forest Service determine what we can and cannot do on our own public
lands and reserve the right to charge us fees for their use. If you
resist you will be arrested, fined and possibly imprisoned.
Everything has to be registered. Our vehicles are registered, our
animals are registered, our firearms are registered, our watercraft is
registered. By the way, you can read that as taxed.
Our police have gone from being peace officers to law enforcement
officers. They have the right by decree of government to search you
simply by stating they believe you may have committed a crime. In some
cities they can search you just because they want to. They burst into
our homes, kill our dogs and search our personal belongings with only
the simplest of causes. SWAT teams – a concept that was designed for
hostage situations – conduct an average of 124 raids every day. Now they
raid barber shops for unlicensed (read that untaxed) barbers, they’re
raiding dairies suspected of selling raw milk and they’re raiding mom
and pop marijuana growers.
With the NDAA and “Patriot” Act, we no longer have a right to an
attorney or a Right to a speedy trial in front of a jury of our peers,
in fact we no longer have a Right to a trial at all. Indefinite
detention is the Plan of the Day at the pleasure of the government.
The tax man takes between 30 and 50% of our paychecks, most of it
outright theft. We support, out of our paychecks and from the sweat of
our brow, cash and food for those that won’t work, medical and child
care for those same deadbeats, organizations through federal and state
grants that we don’t morally support or agree with, wars that we may not
agree with, and anything else that the government feels is necessary.
Any mention of God has been removed from our schools and government
buildings even though this once-great Nation was founded on Christian
principles. We can no longer pray before meetings nor can our children
while at school. Our churches are regulated as far as mentioning
politics. The entire “Separation of Church and State” has been twisted
from not allowing the State to force a religion on us to not wanting to
offend anybody by asserting our personal beliefs.
Our Nation is presently being overrun with illegal immigrants and our
government who swore an oath to obey the Constitution and the Law of the
Land is ignoring the law by not defending our borders. In fact, they’re
encouraging these illegals to come by rewarding them with promises of a
better life and citizenship. If you think this bothers you, think about
the immigrants that came here legally and got pushed to the back of the
line because of promises that our politicians have made.
Our politicians truly believe they are above us, forgetting that they
serve us and not the other way around. We have politicians that carry
firearms and surround themselves with bodyguards, yet they deny us the
very basic human Right to defend ourselves by outlawing us commoners to
own and carry firearms and other weapons. They break laws with impunity,
yet imprison us for doing the same. They refuse to listen to the
People’s desires and instead enact laws they want. We have a president
that says we must conserve energy and cut down on pollutants, yet he and
his family fly on Air Force One for their many vacations every year.
Our fuel prices have been above $3 a gallon for a record breaking 1200
days because our president refuses to cut our dependency on foreign oil
and use our own natural resources which would also provide much needed
jobs for us. Our president bows to foreign Heads of State, showing them
that he believes we are subservient to them. Our government has done everything it can to make sure that we, as a Nation, serves it instead of the other way around.
This is not the Nation our Founding Fathers wanted for us. I know that
if they could see what we’ve turned into, they would be appalled. I know
I am, and that’s the reason the Fourth holds no special place in my
heart anymore.
-Kenny Lane (Wirecutter)
www.knuckledraggin.com Ceres, CA.
