Declarations of Independence
The re-animation of a Mad King...
A personal preface…
I grew up in a house with only one parent--my mother.
She was a sad, lost soul who, most of the time, had no idea what she was doing or saying--but the net effect of her endless rage and narcissism was to eliminate the possibility of her children becoming separate, sane, functioning people...
It’s taken several decades for me to climb out of this poisoned well, and it enrages me, that now, late in my life--I have to contend with yet another crazed narcissist telling me that I have no right to criticize what’s going on, or even to express myself at all...
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Soon it will be the 250th anniversary of this country’s war for independence; in fact, it’s already 250 years since the battles at Lexington and Concord.
If you read the original statement of purpose of the Massachusetts assembly, and, also, when you look at the founding documents of the other colonies--all of which culminated in The Declaration of Independence--you will always see the same words; the same stated purpose behind the inevitable war... The fight was always for the right to Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness; to not have a King tell us how to live our lives--what to say or not say. (The “Pursuit of Happiness” is, to me, the inevitable outcome of securing the first two rights; if you don’t have basic freedom, if you don’t have the liberty to speak your mind without fear of retribution, then there can never be any happiness...)
Our current President has no conception of the origins of The United States of America—why it was necessary to create it and what it cost... I’m sure he’s never read any history, or for the matter, even glanced at The Declaration of Independence. |He is, by nature and upbringing, much more like the distant King we once overthrew than any citizen who fought and died in the American revolution. It’s no mistake that he sent out a picture of himself dressed in a royal robe and wearing a crown.
I believe that, on the 250th Anniversary of the terrible war for our freedom, the whole country should be reminded that the whole point of the American Revolution was to separate us from a mad king who had no thought for the health and welfare of anyone but himself. The words of our Constitution are not—and never should be—“I, the king,” but, “We the People…”