'Maybe we can restore some of our freedoms', p. 5
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'Maybe we can restore some of our freedoms', p. 5
Description
"July Fourth - Independence Day- was just celebrated.
But maybe we should call it off in the future.
The celebration of the 4th of July today is a monumental act of hypocrisy and gross disrespect for our Founding Fathers who had the greatest respect the world has ever known for the rights of the individual.
All resources used for the Fourth of July should properly be moved to May Day, the day of celebration of Socialists and Communists around the world.
Much of the sentiment expressed by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights was that of individual liberty.
They, in founding America, thought a man should not have to ask the king or the guilds for permission to pursue a trade. They believed a man’s most precious possession was the right to work in whatever occupation he pleased without interference by the state.
What if a man today wants to own a taxi? In New York he must, as a result of law, buy a $85,000 license- Chicago $45,000- Philadelphia $35,000.
What if he wants to own a truck for interstate transportation? He must get permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is a process costing thousands of dollars in legal fees and small chance of getting permission.
These examples are just two of the several thousand laws restricting the right to work. Our Founding Fathers sought to escape the guilds and mercantile associations of Europe. We have resurrected them.
The Founding Fathers would be shocked and offended by what has happened to the freedoms supposedly guaranteed us in the Constitution.
But more than that, they might go into deep, possibly unrecoverable, shock if they found out that it was the United States Supreme Court that had led and sanctioned the gross subversion of the Bill of Rights. After all, their whole purpose in establishing the Supreme Court was to control the excesses of the executive and legislative branches of government.
I’m sure the Founding Fathers would be disappointed by the complacency and cowardice of Americans if they found out how much government is taking from us in taxes.
Keep in mind that our forebears went to war over a tea tax. We work from January to May 30 to pay our federal, state, and local taxes. What’s an even more tragic thought is that serfs in the Middle Ages had to give only a quarter of their earnings to the feudal lords.
The Founding Fathers were deeply religious men. But can you imagine what they might have said to a government bureaucrat who told them where to send their children for schooling? Or what their children were to read? Can you imagine what they might have said to a bureaucrat telling them to register their guns? Can you imagine what the settlers migrating West would have told an Environmental Protection Agency worker to do with his demand for an environmental impact form?
I’m glad today’s bureaucrats were not around at the founding of this great nation. I’m sure that had they been present, the U.S. Constitution, written by these proud men, would have been one of the most restrictive documents in the World.
I, for one, did not go to the Fourth of July celebration this year. I am an American proud of my heritage. As such, I did not participate in what has become an annual day of hypocrisy and fraud.
But if you hear tell of people collecting to sack IRS, HEW, ICC, NLRB, DOE, FTC, FRB, DUL or DOT, let me know.
In case you’re not sure about the morality of my position, read the Declaration of Independence, particularly: “... 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.”
Maybe we can restore some of our freedoms peacefully. If you think we can, urge your state representatives to call for the reconvening of the Constitution Convention."
But maybe we should call it off in the future.
The celebration of the 4th of July today is a monumental act of hypocrisy and gross disrespect for our Founding Fathers who had the greatest respect the world has ever known for the rights of the individual.
All resources used for the Fourth of July should properly be moved to May Day, the day of celebration of Socialists and Communists around the world.
Much of the sentiment expressed by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights was that of individual liberty.
They, in founding America, thought a man should not have to ask the king or the guilds for permission to pursue a trade. They believed a man’s most precious possession was the right to work in whatever occupation he pleased without interference by the state.
What if a man today wants to own a taxi? In New York he must, as a result of law, buy a $85,000 license- Chicago $45,000- Philadelphia $35,000.
What if he wants to own a truck for interstate transportation? He must get permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is a process costing thousands of dollars in legal fees and small chance of getting permission.
These examples are just two of the several thousand laws restricting the right to work. Our Founding Fathers sought to escape the guilds and mercantile associations of Europe. We have resurrected them.
The Founding Fathers would be shocked and offended by what has happened to the freedoms supposedly guaranteed us in the Constitution.
But more than that, they might go into deep, possibly unrecoverable, shock if they found out that it was the United States Supreme Court that had led and sanctioned the gross subversion of the Bill of Rights. After all, their whole purpose in establishing the Supreme Court was to control the excesses of the executive and legislative branches of government.
I’m sure the Founding Fathers would be disappointed by the complacency and cowardice of Americans if they found out how much government is taking from us in taxes.
Keep in mind that our forebears went to war over a tea tax. We work from January to May 30 to pay our federal, state, and local taxes. What’s an even more tragic thought is that serfs in the Middle Ages had to give only a quarter of their earnings to the feudal lords.
The Founding Fathers were deeply religious men. But can you imagine what they might have said to a government bureaucrat who told them where to send their children for schooling? Or what their children were to read? Can you imagine what they might have said to a bureaucrat telling them to register their guns? Can you imagine what the settlers migrating West would have told an Environmental Protection Agency worker to do with his demand for an environmental impact form?
I’m glad today’s bureaucrats were not around at the founding of this great nation. I’m sure that had they been present, the U.S. Constitution, written by these proud men, would have been one of the most restrictive documents in the World.
I, for one, did not go to the Fourth of July celebration this year. I am an American proud of my heritage. As such, I did not participate in what has become an annual day of hypocrisy and fraud.
But if you hear tell of people collecting to sack IRS, HEW, ICC, NLRB, DOE, FTC, FRB, DUL or DOT, let me know.
In case you’re not sure about the morality of my position, read the Declaration of Independence, particularly: “... 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.”
Maybe we can restore some of our freedoms peacefully. If you think we can, urge your state representatives to call for the reconvening of the Constitution Convention."
Creator
Walter E. Williams
Publisher
Baltimore Afro-American
Date
1981-7-18
Collection
Citation
Walter E. Williams , “'Maybe we can restore some of our freedoms', p. 5,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/136.