INCREDIBLE: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho banned crosses for the 4th of July parade, and look what happened

INCREDIBLE: Coeur d'Alene Idaho banned crosses for the 4th of July parade and look what happened 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1nsgrYN4JZ

— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) July 4, 2024

POLISH MAN HUMILIATES AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN POLAND. WHOA

🚨 Viral video shows man confronting American soldiers stationed in Poland

"What is America's number one export? Is it George Floyd culture or sodomy?"

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— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) July 3, 2024

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.

Thank you to Tom Luongo.

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— unlikenine (@unlikenine) July 4, 2024

“Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, and another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.

Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’” ~Michael W. Smith

Martyr for Liberty: Algernon Sidney

 

Thank you to Jim Ostrowski.  

Talking about a guy I should talk about more Algernon Sydney in general when we think about the founders and old revolutionaries names like Jefferson, Otis, Adams, and others, but the name they heard from were names like Locke, Montesquieu, and Sydney.  I'll talk about some of the primary ways that Algernon Sydney influenced the American revolutionaries and their views and their thoughts and actions, things like natural rights, government by consent, and the right to Revolution.

The American Revolution was something that happened before the War for Independence, before the shot heard around the world, before the British gun control program came in that really kind of escalated things that led to the Declaration of the causes and the necessity of taking up arms in July of 1775.  It was a change of the principles and the viewpoints of the people going back to as John Adams wrote, 1761 and James Otis Jr.'s point that "an act against the Constitution is void.  Government is not the one that holds authority over itself that determines the extent of its own power.  "If power flows from the people," as George Mason and so many others told us.  When government violates the rules, "it isn't up to the government to tell us whether or not it violated those rules."

Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the 10 Commandments, Libertarians, and lasting peace

"The biblical commandments go above and beyond what many libertarians regard as sufficient for the establishment of a peaceful social order"
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— Hans-Hermann Hoppe (@HoppeQuotes) July 3, 2024