Break Free from the Chains of Fear and Think for Yourself this Independence Day
America remains a nation of dependents and tribalism, break free from it
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”—2 Corinthians 3:17
“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:
Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;
Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;
Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;
Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;
Increased demand to live off the state.”--Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (written 1776-1788)
It’s hard to see what there is to celebrate on Independence Day in 2023. That’s not to say that independence is not something to value and seek, it’s to say that independence is absolutely not cherished in America today.
Just look at those five symptoms of Rome’s decline above. Is that not America in 2023?
Read the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4, 1776, the centerpiece of Independence Day. Read the grievances against Britain that led to our founders’ revolt. Don’t we have so many more grievances against our leviathan central government in Washington, D.C. today? Yet, the people largely remain compliant, stuck in their chains as slaves of the state.
Before I go any further, I want to state that I’m not trying to be a wet rag here. I’m not telling you to not have some fun today. By all means, have a cookout, enjoy some fireworks, enjoy time with friends and family.
But understand that America and Americans in 2023 reject all the principles of independence that Independence Day is about. This has been made abundantly clear since 2020 and covid scam. I wrote about in 2021 how to celebrate Independence Day in an age of dependency, which I will post below.
I believe one of the key drivers of keeping Americans in their chains is fear. That, of course, was the driver that led Americans to obey their government masters who called them “nonessential.” That should leave us with eternal shame for allowing that scam to take hold.
Although this is ironic considering it is from the country our founders declared independence from, but it’s the message that’s important. In preparation for World War II, the British government was telling its citizens to “keep calm and carry on.”
That is the message that should have been shouted from the roof tops during covid. Instead, from Democrat to Republican, “left” to “right,” the message from the political class, bureaucratic class and media was panic and fear over a cold virus. And again, to our shame, Americans bought the garbage.
But fear has been a tool used on us for a very long time. Democrats are told to fear Republicans. Republicans are told to fear Democrats. “Conservatives” are afraid of “leftist” agencies. “Liberals” are afraid of “rightwing” agencies.
I’ve written a lot about different things from arrogant controllers to globalist freaks to our unaccountable police state to America supporting Ukrainian Nazis to central bank digital currencies to the covid gene therapy bioweapon shots.
One thing I never want to do is leaving people afraid of these plans. I want to expose the plans and encourage you that you have the power to resist them. As a Christian, I fear God and not man.
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”—Matthew 10:28
However, Americans are increasingly retreating to their tribes. Both sides argue for building up the state and putting in their people. Meanwhile, liberty and independence are destroyed for us all.
The answers to our authoritarian government is for us to declare independence from it. Democrats aren’t going to save you. Republicans aren’t going to save you. Only we can save ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson said that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” That means we have to approach government and politicians with skepticism whoever they are. We need to think for ourselves and escape the tribes.
“The government, in general, cannot be trusted. The media cannot be trusted. Those agencies that make all the onerous rules ‘to keep us safe’ cannot be trusted.
Real liberty is up to you. Use it or lose it.”
What America needs is to rediscover a love for liberty, which is where freedom and personal responsibility exist.
“Patriotism has absolutely nothing to do with the government, the country as a collective, or the military murderers for the state. It has only to do with protecting the natural rights of man, and never allowing for any rule, regardless of the structure of such rule, to infringe on any natural right of any individual. In fact, since the government and the military are the most dangerous enemy of freedom, they should be scorned and fought against at every turn, not respected or obeyed….
If the people honestly choose liberty and freedom over totalitarianism, their only course of action should be to immediately secede from this horrendous government and its controllers, and eliminate the current system entirely. Nothing short of this will accomplish a free society, for so long as a ruling political class exists, freedom will never be evident.”—Gary Barnett
Independence Day in an Age of Dependence
By Seth Hancock| Published July 4, 2021 at The Liberty Loft
“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.”
Those are the beginning words of the Declaration of Independence which was adopted by the Continental Congress and signed by our nation’s founders on the 4th day of July in 1776. That is the document we celebrate on Independence Day.
However, we now live in an age where our government has claimed authority to define our fellow Americans as either “essential” or “nonessential,” has claimed authority to tell us what we wear in public, operates a massive welfare and entitlement state, claims to be the policeman of the world and controls nearly every aspect of our lives from healthcare to how the next generation will be educated. How, in an age of dependence, do we celebrate Independence Day?
The best way is to learn our history and why our founders “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” the final words of that declaration. In doing so, hopefully we can rediscover that love of liberty, that place where freedom and personal responsibility intersect, that has been lost.
If you remember one thing about our founding fathers remember this, that they were almost all extremely wealthy under British rule and they gave it all up for independence. They didn’t care about their fortunes. They didn’t complain about government not creating jobs for them. They simply desired freedom, the ability to make it on their own and to keep the fruits of their labor.
Patrick Henry is credited with convincing the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 to deliver Virginia’s troops to the cause of liberty in the Revolutionary War with an impassioned speech ending with these powerful words: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Richard Maybury, for the Mises Institute, makes the important point that the Revolution didn’t start with the founding fathers. It started hundreds of years earlier with the European colonists who also sought freedom, both religious and economic, from tyrants.
“America was a vast, uncharted wilderness beyond the reach of the politicians and tax collectors,” Maybury wrote. “It was nominally under the control of the European governments, but everyone knew it was too big and too far away for laws to be enforced there.”
Maybury notes that those colonists, and later the founding fathers, were “rebellious, individualistic smugglers and tax evaders,” and from that spirit “America quickly became the most prosperous place on earth.”
“Unfortunately …. America did not remain beyond the reach of government. As the colonists’ wealth increased, politicians began making more and more efforts to steal — ‘tax’ — this wealth. More and more bureaucrats and troops were sent to the colonies to enforce laws and shut down the underground economy,” Maybury writes.
We find ourselves in a similar time, or a cycle where tyranny has returned to our land. As the early colonists broke free from their chains, they created great wealth and the tyranny returned. Our founders fought that tyranny and died broke, but they took the chains off again allowing future generations to create immense wealth.
But in the process, we the people have actually demanded more and more from government, unlike our founders. Paul Harvey, in his 1965 broadcast “Freedom to Chains,” he states that we have handed over more and more authority to the government “until the government is all powerful and the individual is hardly anything at all. The government is all powerful and the people are cattle.”
Once upon a time, Americans demanded to be free from chains. They took responsibility for their own lives.
“Well sir, when that early pioneer turned his eyes toward the west, he didn’t demand that somebody else look after him,” Harvey said. “He didn’t demand a free education. He didn’t demand a guaranteed rocking chair at eventide. He didn’t demand that somebody else take care of him if he got ill or got old. There was an old-fashioned philosophy in those days that a man was supposed to provide for his own and for his own future. He didn’t demand a maximum amount of money for a minimum amount of work. Nor did he expect pay for no work at all. Come to think of it, he didn’t demand anything. That hardhanded pioneer just looked out there at the rolling plains stretching away to the tall green mountains and then lifted his eyes to the blue skies and said: ‘Thank you God. Now I can take it from here.’”
John Adams said in 1818: “The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.”
As Maybury notes, Adams was inspired by the sermon from Reverend Jonathan Mayhew. Maybury writes: “In that sermon Mayhew argued that there is a Higher Law than any government’s law. The people, he said, are required to obey their government’s law only when it is in agreement with Higher Law. Indeed, he argued, if the government violates Higher Law, ‘we are bound to throw off our allegiance’ and ‘to resist.’”
So, celebrate and enjoy this Independence Day, but do it in the spirit of defiance against King Biden or any of the underling governors, politicians or bureaucrats. Defy their unjust orders and obey God’s law.
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”—The moto on the Great Seal of the United States, suggested by Benjamin Franklin.