On this July 4, 2007 I believe it is necessary for all Americans to recall why the colonists decided to revolt against King George III and pen their Declaration of Independence. We must remember that "We the People" have fought to defend the rights spelled out in the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Anyone who takes actions that would weaken the Constitution or believes it is ever necessary to relinquish our civil liberties, is not a true patriot and does not understand what it means to be an American.
On this day as our current King George wraps himself in the American Flag, we must wrap ourselves in the Constitution in order to protect our nation from the use of fear and corruption that will only bring it harm. We must understand what those patriots in our armed forces that have fallen in the past and continue to die in our name today knew only too well as they took their oath:
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"
Happy Independence Day!
May we never forget the tyranny we fought to free ourselves from.