Deo Vindice

A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED...	"At once both saint and sinner" -- Luther

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Posted by: RDGStout Original: 7/3/2009 8:26 AM Views: 13 Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

Friday, July 03, 2009

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Happy Independence Day, everyone! Celebrate it as the Founders intended: grow hemp, chuck tea, smuggle booze, join the Masons, and wage insurgent warfare against centralized government. It's the American way.

In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin, later adopted as Thomas Jefferson's own motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God!" Amen, brothers.

So here’s to the Revolution! when a small number of highly educated gentleman farmers practiced their God-given rights to secession and self-determination in order to break away from an industrialized empire that used hypocritical rhetoric of "preserving the union" and "liberating the slaves" as a cover to justify the tyrannical economic domination -- and brutal military occupation -- of a weaker but more prosperous rural people.

Two generations later, half of those newly independent States would annihilate the other half for doing the exact same thing. "Constitution? What Constitution?" Good times, good times.

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