(NaturalNews) Happy Independence Day, friends and readers! This holiday, of course, is really called "Independence Day," not the "Fourth of July" as many people mistakenly believe. It brings up the obvious question: Independence from what?
As the historical record shows, Independence Day is a celebration of independence from:
• Tyranny under a government that respects no right to due process.
• Taxation without representation.
• Living as a "subject" under a government that believes it owns you.
• Being subjected to secret arrests and imprisonment, held without being charged.
• Oppression of the right to exercise free speech and public protest.
• Illegal searches and seizures, without warrants.
• Having your livelihood confiscated from you by an increasingly bloated government and its overzealous tax collectors.
Given that Independence Day is a celebration of freedom from the tyranny and oppression described above,
you might wonder why America even bothers to celebrate the holiday these days. After all, virtually everything America once fought for in the Revolutionary War has now come back to haunt us all through the arrogant, bloated bureaucracy of our own government. The TSA, for example, routinely violates Americans in much the same way British soldiers did in 1782. Except the British soldiers actually had something resembling a code of honor, whereas the TSA deliberately hires sociopaths, pedophiles and criminals to molest air travelers (
http://www.naturalnews.com/036346_TSA_pedophiles_whistleblower.html).
As Lew Rockwell explains,
all governments are inherently evil because they incessantly seek to grow their power at the expense of
liberty. There is no such thing as a government that seeks to "serve" the People. Instead, government simply
pretends to serve the interests of the People in order to convince voters to give it more power -- power that it often uses
against the People.
You'll notice, by the way, that even with the upcoming presidential election in the USA, there is no choice to vote for "smaller
government." The only two choices are Big Government (Mitt Romney) and Ridiculously Big Government (Obama). The true small government choice, Ron Paul, was unfairly marginalized by the media from the get-go.
So as you celebrate
Independence Day this July 4th, I urge you to
remember what independence and liberty really means. Because I have little doubt another revolution will soon be upon us, and that a new historical "Day of Freedom" may join the history books before the decade is out. I only pray that the coming revolution is peaceful and based in expanded consciousness rather than violent and bloody.
Enjoy Independence Day, friends, and be ready to take peaceful action to help restore
freedom and liberty for our Republic as the opportunity presents itself.
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org
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