Our Independence
Eric Peters

Today is the 4th of July, the day Americans traditionally celebrate the independence of the American colonies that became states (plural) from Great Britain, which was not accomplished by asking for it.

The American colonists – some of them, a determined minority of them – took their independence.

And now the time has come to take it back.

Americans live in a consolidated state controlled by a central government so controlling it is challenging to come up with anything at all that it considers to be beyond its control. No one can be independent when subject to such control.

Americans are obliged to submit to such control at practically every turn. The only control they are permitted is to cast a single vote out of tens of millions for one of two controllers. We will not elect our way out of this. There is only one way out of this. It is the same way the American colonists got away from the control of king and parliament.

They got away from it.

Certainly, they had to fight for it. But what came before it came to fighting? The determination by a committed minority of Americans that they would no longer abide being controlled by king and parliament – and, implicitly, by anyone else. That was the spirit that animated the fighting, without which the fight would have been lost. The Americans who fought were out-manned and out-gunned in every battle that was fought, just about – especially the early ones. But it was what they were fighting for that made each man worth more than just a man (of which the British had plenty). Put another way, when a man fights for himself – and for his family and his friends – he has a lot more incentive to fight than a man who fights for a paycheck.

Give me liberty or give me death.

It is hard to fight men animated by such a sentiment. It is also hard to conquer them. John Adams, the second president of what became the United States (still plural when Adams was president) said that the fight for independence was won before the fight started when a minority of committed Americans decided the time had come to fight. Put another way, when those Americans came manfully face-to-face with the hard reality that independence would not be achieved by asking for it.

Perhaps a sufficient minority of committed Americans understands this now. Are you one of them?

Are you willing to take your independence back? For your own sake? For the sake of your children – and theirs, yet to be born?

The fight need not be physical – although that may end up being necessary, just the same as it is sometimes necessary to fight back against a schoolyard bully or any other kind of bully, who will not be persuaded by appeals to reason or human compassion. Who understands – and is deterred by – one thing only. That being the one thing bullies understand perfectly.

But perhaps it need not come to that. Perhaps a committed minority of Americans will be able to show a majority of Americans that it is possible to recover that which has been taken from them by the simple expedient of taking it back.

An example of this was shown during the height of the taking-away of what small degree of independence Americans still had before the “pandemic,” when a committed minority of Americans refused to be “locked down” in their homes and ordered to wear degrading (because useless and so absurd) “masks” in order to be allowed out of their homes. The few showed the many that independence was there for the taking. All they had to do was take it.

The same spirt of independence was shown later on, when a relative handful of committed Americans asserted their independence by refusing to be pushed into taking drugs. Their refusal unmasked the lies being told about the drugs that were pushed on Americans.

Just two of many such examples.

It is not easy to take one’s independence back from those who have taken it away, for they will not give it back. Frederick Douglass understood this. He said a man gets exactly the amount of tyranny he is willing to abide.

If you have tired of abiding it, then stop abiding it. If a committed-enough minority of Americans decides to do just that, perhaps in the not-so-distant future Americans will be able to celebrate their independence again.

As opposed to what has become the Farce of July.

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Eric started out writing about cars for mainstream media outlets such as The Washington Times, Detroit News and Free Press, Investors Business Daily, The American Spectator, National Review, The Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal.

 

 

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