At what point do we admit that we live in a police state? When kids get slammed by cops at the feet of Thomas Jefferson… for dancing… silently. You know, I could understand if this happened in some monument dedicated to a tyrant, the Lincoln Memorial for example, but this happened at the feet of the man that stands as history’s greatest champion of Liberty. What would Tommy J have to say about this?
- But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, IT IS THEIR DUTY, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
- I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
Great Blog! I do not know if you have seen footage from the 2010 Pittsburgh G20 protest that ended up being taken over by extreme police brutality… but, it is footage that is both terrifying and enlightening. I have to remind myself that it is from an American protest and not in Egypt or Iran.
I have seen it, over and over again.
Brian Aitken, have you seen this?
No, but I will now!
I do not know if language is an issue with you or not, but, if you have not already you should watch the film “Into the Fire” it is the G20 in Canada last year and it does a really good job of explaining the Canadian “Liberty” movement( or whatever you choose to cal it) and how they are actually dealing with the same issues. It is free on You Tube… I never thought I would find anything Canadian interesting , but I have a huge respect for our neighbors to the North now.
Saw it yesterday…