Your freedoms are under attack and you can thank your city councilmen, state representatives, state senators and your local government officials for it.
Think July 4’s Independence Day celebration is all about barbeques and fireworks?
Please take this quote from Boston Tea Party revolutionary Samuel Adams to heart:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." It’s hard to be eternally vigilant when our local, state and federal governments - both appointed and elected - force us on the hamster wheel of life.
Where are the real patriots standing up day in and day out for our liberties?
They surely aren’t in the city halls along southern Dallas and northern Ellis County, where a 12-lane toll road is about to wipe out whole subdivisions and populations.
Or what about the freedom to park a vehicle such as an RV in your yard?
Those in Midlothian think that freedom is just too much, which is why the city council adopted an ordinance allowing the majority to dictate to the minority what they can or cannot park in their own driveway.
While all of the attention of late is on the dangers of the Obama Administration (don’t get us wrong, there ARE dangers with this new era), we must continually harken back to home, here in our own backyards, where city councilmen, county commissioners and appointed judges reign free.
There’s nothing to celebrate on July 4, because we are truly not free.
The examples above are proof of that.
This Independence Day should be a sign of mourning, not celebration.
