“Independence Day” 2022

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

– E.A. Bucchianeri

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

John Adams wrote that in A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765).

“…that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

Suppose you knew their character and couldn’t do anything about it?

Suppose their conduct was anti-democratic and nobody cared enough to stop them?

Does it make much sense to celebrate Independence Day when so many are newly shackled?

When ‘freedom’ is the ability to bully others.

And ‘independence’ means rules are for the other folks.

Such is the American tradition.

This is an historic truth.

This national birthday celebrates the end of one fight for freedom and the beginning of another.

In 2022, we find our days as a free society disappearing before our eyes.

Time to rise up anew against minority rule and taxation without representation.

The first thing we do when we regain our liberties – after restoring women’s rights – is ban fireworks.

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