It is now America's Independence Day. I had a customer today from Italy asking if tomorrow is a holiday. Yes it is. I bought a newspaper today because I was bored. It had good articles on our founding fathers and soldiers in Iraq. One opinion columnist made a good point asking what our founding fathers would think of war protesters and liberal media criticizing our proud American government. Many forget the fact that our heroic and patriotic founding fathers committed treason declaring independence from Great Britain. Our founding fathers would say now what they said July 4, 1776: It is our job as citizens to criticize the government and abolish rules that no longer are working.
I am reminded of after we won our independence and wrote the Articles of Confederation. The new government was not working as our founding fathers had hoped. People surrounding George Washington encouraged him to seize control of the country in a coup d'etat and declare himself King of America. At a meeting to discuss the potential coup, George Washington was invited to speak. Eager listeners watched him take out his glasses and declare himself an old man needing spectacles to read his speech. He shunned his followers for considering a coup d'etat. His soldiers did not fight so hard to rid themselves of a tyrant king to replace him with another. Humbled at George Washington's words, there was never again a suggestion of a coup, but the rewriting of the new American government. Now that is what I call power. Do you think anyone in this world today could destroy a coup with one speech? Perhaps we need to reexamine who we call unpatriotic.
It was just as well. A monarchy with King George would have been a short monarchy. He did not have any children and his stepchildren from his widowed wife wanted nothing to do with politics. Happy 4th of July. Post later. Bye!
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