Freedom Is Just Another Word….

With all the rebelliousness going on and the back-handed attitude of some state governors, it appears that we need to hark back to what brought the Crown Colonies to rebel against the tyranny and excesses of the British throne.

Thanks to the Jefferson Encyclopedia, what we see going on now with ridiculously overbearing and dictatorial excesses by some state governors (not all of them!), is what Tom Jefferson penned in a letter to James Madison, and here it is. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/little-rebellionquotation

Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has its evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.” – Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, January 30, 1787

Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem: I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

So there you have it: it is going on now. It may be small now; such things usually are. But they also grow with enough impetus behind them. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. There is nothing wrong with demanding your rights, and this episode of theatrics from the Democrat governors who have shown themselves to be nothing but petty dictators harks back to the excesses of George III’s reign, the Regency Period, and how heinously the colonists were treated until they said “No more!”

What we do NOT need is another episode like the 1770 Boston Massacre on King Street, nor do we need a revival of something as ridiculously offensive as the Stamp Act and quartering British troops in the homes of citizens without paying them, and without their permission. What we DO need is to make it clear to the control freaks and petty dictators that they work for us. We do NOT work for them. If it weren’t for us, none of them would have jobs.

This modern day episode of a bout with a Chinese disease has brought out the worst in the Democrats. They have shown their true colors. Let them dig their own holes to fall into.  Maybe help them a little.

Just my point of view. I also cook.

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