The October calendar over the little desk here in the cabin at Angel Fire, New Mexico depicts a Western horseman viewing a couple of maverick Herefords across a deep gorge from where he sits atop his white-stockinged sorrel. The saddle horse also appears to be locked onto the feisty calves, probably sensing some hard riding is going to be required in order to round-up the rascals.
The gorge separating the cowboy and his horse from the innocent-looking bovines leads into a seemingly bottomless canyon, all of these located in a lush high country. The main herd can be seen in the distance on the far side of the deeper chasm.
As a boy, I’d have loved to be that lone rider, with the hat and the chaps, and the rope, boots, spurs, kerchief around the neck, and I don’t know what all. Yep, might have worked out too…if I’d ever learned how to ride anything except a stick-horse.
But, enough of that, partner. What had really gotten my attention was the calendar designation for October 19. It said, "Revolutionary War Ended, 1781."
Revolutionary War? What Revolutionary War?
Would someone please explain to me what’s wrong with the people writing history books, doing historical markers, Media’s Talking Heads, expounding professors and teachers, even calendar designators? Why do they not (seemingly) know the difference between a peaceful people, taking care of their own business, asking nothing of government much more than to simply be left alone, but willing to stand up for those things? How can such be designated revolutionaries?
Oh, I’m sure King George, Parliament, and most of their appointed colonial potentates jumped at the chance to refer to patriotic and freedom-loving colonists as revolutionaries, along with any number of other choice-negatorious expletives.
The source of charges, however, should always be taken into consideration.
We used to retort, as kids, ‘it takes one to know one,’ when defending ourselves against verbal assaults.
Actually, even though a testy little Tea Party would take place up at Boston and a few men of vision and valor probably would take the time to clean up a rusty cannon or two, along with concocting a little black powder…just in case, a turning upside-down of their way of life (revolution) was the last thing on the 1770’s colonists’ minds.
The British, on the other hand, had pushed and pushed and over-taxed (without representation) and over-regulated, thinking it their prerogative, until a people grown accustomed to freedom and liberty in a faraway land finally pushed back, upon which the King and Parliament sent their Red-coated invading forces.
So, defending forces were hastily put together up and down the colonies…and the WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE was underway.
If simply defending oneself comes to the point of being referred to as "revolution," the one doing the defending has probably already taken too much guff for too long. And the one doing the calling is a dufus.
If, in your defending, you somehow manage to overcome a powerful aggressor, why do so many historians refer to your successful defense as a "revolution"?
I’d say it has something to do with a faulty world view, possibly even a hidden agenda of some kind, or just plain ignorance on the part of the historians.
A viewing of current events, with freedom and independence-loving people on the one hand, up against would-be tyrants and leftist Liberals, bent ultimately on One-World Government, on the other hand, would the real revolutionaries please stand up.
It ain’t the Tea Party people, as is being claimed by the myriads on the Left. Quite the contrary. The real revolutionaries are those calling for "change" (you know who I mean).
The kind of change really being called for, though being obscured to its greatest possible degree, IS REVOLUTION! And, a lot of people are being deceived.
If the Tea Party Movement is somehow able to help re-establish "We the People’s" right and proper role in America, against powerful opponents, and if the Movement somehow begins to reboot government back into its proper role, as spelled out in our Founding Documents and elsewhere, will history (and calendars) refer to the Tea Party patriots as revolutionaries?
I wonder…
May God bless.
