I realize that I am supposed to be taking a break from the blogs to defrag and enjoy my family but today is traditionally a family day. Today I am experiencing, for the first time in my life, the loss of a holiday.
Today I “’celebrate’” what was once my favorite and most anticipated annual holiday…A day that recognized our “’Independence’” from a controlling government and our “’Freedom’” as a people and our “’Sovereignty’” as a nation.
Did you notice all of the quotations in the first paragraph? I call those Sarcastiquotes. Imagine that each time one of those words is spoken, it is accompanied with a full set of sarcastically gestured air-quotes that emphasize my displeasure with the unwilling change that has been forced upon those words.
Let’s take a quick look at a few of these words and focus a moment upon the changes that have taken place in just a few short months.
Air-quotes “’Celebrate’”. Today I “celebrate”…
Today, I celebrate NOTHING. What only a year ago, still fostered immense pride and thankfulness as a citizen, is now going to be Dronefest. If anyone goes out and pretends that we are living in a sovereign, independent, free country….YOU ARE A DRONE…A SHEEP. Wake up!
• A federal excuse to take the day off and go to the lake? Yes.
• A reason to Bar-B-Q with family and / or friends? Yes.
• A memorial of Independence, freedom and sovereignty past? Perhaps.
But a celebration of actual, existing “independence”….No.
No…not with the subversive, power-hungry, corrupt, anti-American government that “‘we the people’” have brought upon ourselves.
Not while the Constitution is being quite intentionally and systematically ripped, page after page, and thrown into the fire.
Air-quotes “’Independence’”. …”Independence” from a controlling government…
Are you freakin kidding me? This IS the most controlling government in the history of the United States of America. At least Brittan was open and honest about their abusive control and their taxes. Now we have actual dictators that think we need to slow down or we will end up to the left of them. There is no longer anything “independent” about this country other than maybe the government itself…It is functioning completely independently of the Constitution as well as the will of the people which it is supposed to represent.
Air-quotes “’Freedom’”….our “freedom” as a people…
How can ANYONE, who is not in a coma, believe that we are still a free people? Where have you been? Do you not have a TV, a radio, eyes, ears….a brain?
EVERY….SINGLE….DAY, the “’media’” tells us about a new “’plan’” that was put in place…or a new “’czar’”…or a new “’investment’” in the future….or a new bill that was passed in the dark of the night by politicians that not only did not read the bill, but have no idea what is in the bill. BUT, of course, it’s absolutely imperative that it’s passed immediately to avoid the next impending “’crisis’”. It’s all “’for our own good’”. Wow….even more Sacarcastiquotes? What is real any more?
Air-quotes “’Sovereignty’”. ….our ”Sovereignty” as a nation.
Sovereignty? Webster defines sovereignty as: Freedom from external control.
OH YEAH…WE’RE “’SOVEREIGN’”. Just ask NATO
I am sad. I am scared and don’t feel particularly festive.
To many of us, at the very least….to ME, July 4th is now Re-dependence Day and will be the day that commemorates the loss of my “independence”, “freedom” and “sovereignty”.
I want my holiday back…and everything that it once represented.
