News highlights and references for Independence Day
Important points about the celebration that some would like you to forget:
Important points about the celebration that some would like you to forget:
Celebrating July Fourth Rings Hollow Without Fidelity To America’s Founding Ideals
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As we think about July Fourth, we should remember that America was first in human history to establish a free and independent constitutional republic based on two political and moral principles. First, the government was required to protect its citizens’ inalienable God-given freedom and rights, which would later be formalized in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Second, it was the first country to establish that the legitimacy of government resides exclusively in the people, who elect their leaders.
Modern Americans need to remember that prior nations around the world for thousands of years were undemocratic and hierarchical, with rulers and their inner circles at the top having the power and privileges while people at the bottom had few rights. Before America was established, freedom and rights as we understand and experience them simply did not exist. We must never forget the courage, determination, and godly principles that were necessary to establish the United States.
[Emphasis added - for a reason that will become apparent later on]
Please read through the whole article,
What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant
It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/04/what-the-declaration-of-independence-said-and-meant-5/
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The Declaration is like the indictment of a criminal that states the basis of his criminality. But the ultimate judge of the rightness of their cause will be God, which is why the revolutionaries spoke of an "appeal to heaven"—an expression commonly found on revolutionary banners and flags. As British political theorist John Locke wrote: "The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven." The reference to a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" might be viewed as a kind of an international public opinion test. Or perhaps the emphasis is on the word "respect," recognizing the obligation to provide the rest of the world with an explanation they can evaluate for themselves.
"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. "
The most famous line of the Declaration. On the one hand, this will become a great embarrassment to a people who permitted slavery. On the other hand, making public claims like this has consequences—that's why people make them publicly. To be held to account. This promise will provide the heart of the abolitionist case in the nineteenth century, which is why late defenders of slavery eventually came to reject the Declaration. And it forms the basis for Martin Luther King's metaphor of the civil rights movement as a promissory note that a later generation has come to collect.
Notice that the rights of "life," "liberty" and "the pursuit of happiness" are individual, not collective or group rights. They belong to "We the People"—each and every one. This is not to say that government may not create collective, positive rights; but only that the rights that the next sentence tells us are to be secured by government belong to us as individuals.
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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.… "
Another overlooked line, which is of greatest relevance to our discussion of the first underlying assumption of the Constitution: the assumption of natural rights. Here, even more clearly than in Mason's draft, the Declaration stipulates that the ultimate end or purpose of republican governments is "to secure these" preexisting natural rights that the previous sentence affirmed were the measure against which all government—whether of Great Britain or the United States—will be judged. This language identifies what is perhaps the central underlying "republican" assumption of the Constitution: that governments are instituted to secure the preexisting natural rights that are retained by the people. In short, that first come rights and then comes government.
"…deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Today, there is a tendency to focus entirely on the second half of this sentence, referencing "the consent of the governed," to the exclusion of the first part, which refers to securing our natural rights. Then, by reading "the consent of the governed" as equivalent to "the will of the people," the second part of the sentence seems to support majoritarian rule by the people's "representatives." In this way, "consent of the governed" is read to mean "consent to majoritarian rule." Put another way, the people can consent to anything, including rule by a majority in the legislature who will then decide the scope of their rights as individuals.
But read carefully, one sees that in this passage the Declaration speaks of "just powers," suggesting that only some powers are "justly" held by government, while others are beyond its proper authority. And notice also that "the consent of the governed" assumes that the people do not themselves rule or govern, but are "governed" by those individual persons who make up the "governments" that "are instituted among men."
[Emphasis added - for reasons that will be explained later on]
Who would have guessed the National Socialist media wouldn’t inform it’s viewers on the malfeasance of the nation’s Socialist left party?
Election Interference! MRC Poll Finds Most CNN & MSNBC Viewers Don’t Know About Biden Scandals and Bad News
A comprehensive new poll from the Media Research Center finds voters who rely on CNN and MSNBC are significantly less informed about a host of important issues: from the lack of security on the border and the impact of Joe Biden’s economic policies; to the financial scandals swirling around the President and his family, including suggestions his administration interceded to get his son “preferential treatment” during the tax fraud investigation of Hunter Biden.
On every issue we examined, a majority of those who reported mainly watching Fox News or Newsmax said they recalled hearing about the various news stories we polled, while never more than 50 percent of those who watched CNN and MSNBC had the same information. Depending on the issue, the gap between the two groups averaged 23.5 percent, a huge deficit in the factual information of viewers of liberal cable news.
MRC President L. Brent Bozell III reacted: “This poll is just more evidence of the leftist media’s corrupt election interference. It’s no surprise that voters who rely on these leftist cable networks for their news are vastly less aware of Joe Biden’s multiple scandals and policy disasters. CNN and MSNBC know exactly what they’re doing, which is to bury the truth of Biden’s failures in order to save Joe Biden from himself.”
Isn’t it interesting how authoritarians compete with each other in trying to control the people:
Just Stop Oil protesters halt Pride parade: Police arrest seven as demonstrators block road after taking organisers to task over sponsors they say are 'polluting the planet'
Seven eco-zealots were arrested after nine blocked the capital's Pride March
The London Pride festival of 2023 marks 51 years since its first LGBTQ+ parade
Just Stop Oil have stormed London's historic Pride parade, after issuing threats to the LGBTQ+ event earlier this week.
Seven eco-zealots have been arrested after nine blocked the capital's Pride March today amidst calls for the event to condemn new oil, gas and coal.
At around 1:25pm, the group sat down in front of the festival's Coca-Cola float, branding it 'the world's worst plastic polluter, accused of numerous human rights abuses'.
This Glenn Beck Museum Tour Will RED-PILL Your Leftist Friends | Ep 285
Premiered Jun 29, 2023 #leftist #theblaze #redpill
The far Left would love nothing more than for America to forget its own history. But it's not just the good that needs preserving. We also must remember our darkest mistakes so we NEVER repeat them. Over the past few years, we've seen the rise of an "expert class" of elites who insist THEY know best and the rest of us should shut up and OBEY. But we've seen this before. On this episode of "Glenn TV," Glenn exposes that dark history with the artifacts that prove it. It's all part of the most disturbing section of his traveling museum, "Blueprints of Liberty — The American Journey Experience with Glenn Beck." Called the "Red Pill Room," it documents real dangers of progressivism and eugenics. Glenn tells the true stories behind disturbing artifacts — documents signed by Adolf Hitler and Nazi "doctor" Josef Mengele that authorized "mercy" killings, a briefcase of papers from the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which allowed abortion to thrive, postcards referring to lynchings as "barbecues," and one of the most twisted movies ever made, "The Black Stork." These evil ideas, Glenn warns, haven't gone away. They're just called by a new name. But even in all this darkness, there is still hope, as long as we remember what REAL truth is.
Something wicked this way comes:
China's Saboteurs Are Coming to America
Netherlands doctors are euthanizing people with autism, intellectual disabilities: study
https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/netherlands-doctors-are-euthanizing-people-with-autism/
Happy Independence Day everyone!
We have the traditional Parker burgers and corn on the menu.
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