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INDEPENDENCE OR INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE?
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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
– Ayn Rand

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It’s that time of year in America, when we set aside our daily concerns to honor those exceptional individuals whom we call our Founding Fathers.

It’s the time of year, when we cut the crap and get back to basics, by immersing ourselves in an event which changed the course of human history.

It’s the time of year, when we stand in awe of the courage it took to tell the most powerful nation on Earth "bite me".

It’s the time of year, when we honor the ragtag group of American patriots who, despite being woefully out-gunned, picked a fight with the biggest, baddest, kid on the block, and WON!

It’s the time of year, when we stand up and salute the Founding Fathers, for daring to tell the prevailing world order "There’s a better way to run a nation, and we’re giving it a shot, no matter how much you hate it."

It’s the time of year, when too many of us dust off our copy of the Declaration of Independence and read its inspirational words, something we need to do more than one day a year. Understandably, we take great pride in these immortal words:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

Independence Day is, quite properly, an especially inspirational day of the year. Independence Day also has its dark underbelly. For example, Independence Day is also the time of year, when those professional hypocrites - our Elected Tormentors - festoon themselves with faux patriotism and pretend to endorse the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that they spend 364 days of the year subverting.

For those rational adults who refuse to wear the egregiously popular ‘rose-colored glasses’, Independence Day is a time of year when we confront the status of our ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’. For your FSOP hosts, Independence Day is a perfect opportunity to hammer the table with both fists and demand: How the hell did we let our inalienable individual liberty get so terminally f**ked up?

The FSOP insists that we all face the facts, before it’s too late. It’s time to face the fact that America in 2009 is NOT the nation the Founding Fathers envisioned when they declared independence from England in 1776. America in 2009 is NOT the nation the Founding Fathers had in mind, when they signed the United States Constitution in 1787. America in 2009 is NOT the bastion of liberty the Founding Fathers had in mind when the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

In 1791, the First Amendment boldly put our right to free speech outside the reach of the Nanny State. In 2009, you still have the right to free speech, as long as you say what others want to hear. In 2009, you have the right to free speech, unless you want to exercise it in the final weeks of an election cycle. In 2009, you have the right to free speech, if you don’t mind being labeled ‘a right-wing extremist’. In 2009, you have the right to free speech, unless you try to exercise it on a college campus, or on the ‘public’ airwaves. In 2009, you have the right to free speech in cyberspace, until the Red Shed Marxist has the Internet shut down, due to an ‘emergency’.

In 1790, the census was a simple head count whose primary purpose was to allot each state its Constitutionally-mandated number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives. In 2009, the forthcoming 2010 census is a politically motivated fishing expedition whose primary purpose involves building a comprehensive database on each individual in the United States. In short order, this data will be used for more than reapportioning the U.S. House of Representatives. It will be used to identify known, or potential, enemies of the Obamunist State, so they can be rounded up when the time comes.

As you can see, in the 233 years since the Founding Fathers risked it all, by signing the Declaration of Independence, we the people have taken our eyes off the ultimate prize. While we were busy taking care of our daily lives, the Elected Tormentors who are supposed to be our employees, our servants, have been chipping away at our liberty and measuring we the people for slaves of the Nanny State shackles. After stripping away our liberty, a bit at a time, for decades, our would-be masters got ready for the end game, when brain-dead Americans elected an unrepentant Marxist as President of the United States.

Unlike other Elected Tormentors, the Red Shed Marxist, threw the chisel aside, and picked up a sledge hammer. Chipping away our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is for chumps, and not POTUS Punk’s style, because he’s determined to hammer it into dust. In six short months, the Marxist Messiah has torched the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and its soaring prose. He has replaced ‘life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness’ with death, tyranny and government-mandated misery.

Life? You might be allowed to live, for a while, as long as you’re a suitably subservient slave of the State. You’ll be tolerated, as long as you’ll slog along, carrying your assigned load of Obamunist parasites. Eventually, when you crack under the strain, you’ll be snuffed out by the Nanny State’s Death Care plan, because you’re no longer a useful slave to them. That’s right, PIGsters, under the Obamunist Death Care plan, you need prior approval from a Nanny State bureaucrat, before you can be treated for what ails you. If you’re deemed unworthy - politically, or due to the cost of curing you - kiss your ass goodbye.

Liberty? You won’t be getting much of that in an America which dictates, in mind-numbing specificity, every aspect of your life. For example, under Crap & Charade, you can’t sell your house, until it meets prevailing, greeniac-dictated standards. As fun as that is, it gets better, because the greeniac standards are a perpetually moving target which can change, at any time, without notice. Under Death Care, every detail of your life will be dictated, because, as long as you’re a useful slave, anything that the Nanny State deems ‘health related’ is a ‘public policy issue’. They insist ‘it’s our Death Care dime, so it’s our call’. In record time, some bureaucrat will be banning your lardburger and condemning you to a diet of crab grass.

Pursuit of happiness? If, like most of us, you translate this venerable phrase as the freedom to seek the American dream so you can ‘preserve the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity’...if think it means giving your offspring a head$tart on life, get over it. If you try to start your own business, you’ll be taxed and regulated into oblivion. If, by some parting of the Red Sea class miracle, you manage to bank some buck$, despite what’s going to be a 99.9% tax rate, your wealth will all be stolen by the Nanny State, when you die.

The FSOP isn’t trying to bring you down. We’re trying to use this day, which is dedicated to our liberty, as a badly needed wake-up call. It’s time to kick dependency to the curb and reassert that hard-earned independence which those heroes of 1776 won for us, at such a high price, against impossible odds.

How do you start? You start by harkening back to the very document which was signed on July 4, 1776. It’s time to move past, the oft repeated part about ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ and pay special attention to this key passage:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them 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.

It’s time to do more than give lip service to our liberty. It’s time to make July 4, 2009 an INDEPENDENCE Day in the fullest, original, sense of the word. How? We begin by demanding that our Elected Tormentors knock it off. It means putting an end to Death Care, Crap & Charade, and social engineering via the tax code. It means ending the forthcoming snoop-a-thon and restoring the simple census headcount that the framers of our Constitution intended. It means removing the Nanny State muzzles and FULLY exercising our right to free speech. It means rolling back all the Nanny State’s infringements of our liberty.

On this Independence Day, we need to draw the proverbial line in the sand. On this Independence Day, we tell our would-be masters to shape up, or we’ll evoke our inner Thomas Jefferson. If they don’t cut the crap, we will ‘alter or abolish’ the Nanny State which has become ‘destructive’ regarding our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Let’s make July 4, 2009, the kind of Independence Day which future generations will want to honor two and a half centuries from now.

Cheesed Off In Wisconsin

[PIGster Ronbo is, to say the least, Cheesed Off over the money grubbing antics of the state’s Elected Tormentors. After you read his first-hand report, you won’t be thrilled spitless with them either.]

Early this year, the state increased cigarette taxes by one dollar per pack. In May, they passed a smoking ban in all taverns and restaurants effective (I'm not making this up) July 5th, 2010. Yesterday, before they ended their session to celebrate the birth of our nation conceived in liberty, they added another 85 cent per pack tax on cigarettes.

The state also added a 75 cent per month tax on all telephone lines, an income tax increase on higher incomes (the article didn't specify what that level is) and a 50% reduction on capital gains deductions.

The PDF document for this years budget is 692 pages long and is designed to be impossible to comprehend (no index), so I haven't had time to see what other assaults on our liberties have taken place.

Any need to guess which party has a large enough majority to pass any legislation they want?

[The FSOP is bummed that this ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ thing makes rounding the rat bastards up and shooting them a non-starter. It sucks, but we get it. On the other hand, we wouldn’t be sobbing in our brewskies if some of Wisconsin’s besieged rational adults broke out the tar and feathers so they could give their Elected Tormentors a badly needed ‘not on our dime’ makeover.]

Oversight?

[The PIG staff is shocked, shocked, I tell you, that I omitted this once in a millennium event from the July Is rant on Hambo’s Hammer. They insist that I’m lucky to have them to enlighten me. ‘Lucky’? That’s not the label I’d pin on it.]

At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 a.m., on the 8th of July, this year, the time and date will be:

04:05:06 07-08-09

This will not happen again until the year 3009!

[If you’re shocked and dismayed that I skipped over this one, it’s time to increase the voltage on your shock treatments.]

Peachy News

[Everyone’s favorite insane, Elected Tormentor, Ethnocrat is up to her old tricks again.

Hot Air lifted this report from a blogger:]

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other activists.

McKinney, a longtime supporter of Palestinians, said her Greek-flagged boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys to Gaza when it was boarded by the Israeli navy.

“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us,” said McKinney. “Our boat was not in Israeli waters and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”

[Despite her protests, this Georgia Peach, isn’t the ‘innocent victim’ she pretends to be. In fact, for the second time in 6 months, she defied Israeli authorities, and ignored their warnings, by trying to run their naval blockade of Gaza. Once again, our heroine seemed to demand, ‘hit me with your best shot’. Unhappily, they didn’t take her up on the offer, but detained her, instead.

The Good: They bagged her, fair & square.

The Bad: The Israelis are eager to get rid of her, so don’t get your hopes up that they’ll send her to their version of Club Gitmo.

The Ugly: Insert your own gratuitous 'She's a Dog' insult here.

Hot Air shared this bit of 'please take her back' prose:]

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel was planning to free the crew and passengers.

“Nobody wants to keep them here,” he said. “They will be released as soon as they are checked.”

Parting shot: She'll be back. Life is so sucky that way.
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• MEDIA: CELEBRITY MARKETING

• Recent Notable Deaths
To most we say farewell. To others, we say good riddance!
• Farrah Fawcett, thespian, angel
• Billy Mays, pitchman
• Ed McMahon, sidekick
• David "Kung Fu" Carradine, actor
• Dom DeLuise, entertainer/chef
• Jack Kemp, athlete, politician

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