We recorded the excellent series, HBO's "John Adams" to watch again over the July 4th weekend. We saw the original broadcast of it, and it is a very well written, casted, and acted program, most definitely recommended.
Part Two saw Mr. Adams pivot successfully from defending British soldiers charged with murder, through the increasing British tyranny over the colonies (particularly Massachusetts) to eventually being chosen as a delegate to the congress. Once joined, he was dismayed at the meaningless speeches and pompous posturing of the members while they accomplished nothing. The congress decided to write the King, to try and negotiate a non-violent solution after British armies marched on Concorde, Bunker Hill and other sites with great loss of life.
The delegate from Pennsylvania, Mr. Dickinson, could not abide a move toward independence or anything that smacked of war or conflict (in keeping with his strict Quaker faith). He saw no case where it was justified -- not even the slaughter of men and boys as they fought for freedom from British rule, taxation without representation and tyranny.
John Adams, not without significant help and counsel from his wife Abigail, end this episode with an impassioned appeal to the other 12 states' delegates for a motion to secede from British rule and ratify what they already were: 13 free, yet united, states. Like George Washington said, "An attack on Massachusetts is an attack on all of us." After the King's reply included the promise of death by hanging on those seeking colonial independence, Adams stated that "The only sure way to defeat is to try and ride the middle ground."
He, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson comprised a committee to write a Declaration of Independence, "to read to the people in case the vote goes to independence". After a 2-week recess called by South Carolina, the vote was unanimous (with New York voting present by "abstaining"), the Declaration of Independence was read to the people, and the episode ended.
Like the colonists seeking to live out God's given freedom, we are faced now with a tyrant - not in a far off island but in the people's house, the White House. He and his minions are carrying out the radical wishes of the extreme liberal agenda - all right into the face of those he considers his "subjects", and all without representation.
This administration has bypassed the treasured rule of law that stems from the God-inspired Constitution and accompanying Bill of Rights, and is forcing the dismantling of freedoms across the board: government health care, private business takeover, open borders, billions of dollars to terrorist groups who have sworn and actively seek to kill us, economic policies that strangle the capitalist system, trillions of dollars we don't have, given to government programs and public unions, and class warfare that seeks to rob the "rich" to reward those who pay no taxes at all. Add to this the detestable practices this president champions: abortion (including partial-birth abortion - infancticide), homosexuality, etc. and the attack on everything Bible-believing Christians stand for (while falsely claiming to be one himself) and we can get a sense of the attacks those colonists endured 235 years ago this month.
While we don't have (as yet) any options open to us except those within free speech and at the voting booths, I deeply fear and suspect that the recent youth racial attacks and the violent attacks against Republicans at every turn, and the attacks against police will only increase. We are simply seeing the blatant attempt by this administration, enthusiastically encouraged by a rampantly liberal media, to dismantle blood-won freedoms one by one. A prime example is Project GunWalker / Fast and Furious - obviously intended to break down the right to bear arms guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.
This is resulting in a public that is very dissatisfied with the administration's performance on many levels, one that is increasingly wary of the future, and one that is properly arming up. We hope it never comes down to it, but our families need protection on many fronts, and wise men and women will assure that protection themselves while it is still legal to do so.
There is no room in this critical environment for "middle ground", for "independents" or "libertarians" who all wish and hope for "civil discourse and discussion" to sway opinions. Americans are under attack by a clear and present danger. If you do not choose either Liberty or Tyranny, you are choosing Tyranny. If you do not gather with those who will work to call out these attacks on and preserve freedoms and liberties as guaranteed in the Constitution, you are scattering alongside those who wish Tyranny on this free people of the United States. Their leader is in the White House, their mouths are in the media, their funding comes from truly wicked people across the world, and their souls are driven by Satan himself.
I close with the slogan on the flag of the times: "JOIN OR DIE".
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