Oft-Ignored Reminder

A friend mentioned that he actually sat down and read the Declaration of Independence yesterday. I realized I could not even remember that last time I read it in its entirety. So I read it too. 

What an eye-opener! I bolded the parts that struck me in the edition pasted below. When I heard that our esteemed bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security study, recommends keeping a watchful eye on Americans who are  “reverent of individual liberty” and others adamant about protecting their personal freedoms and categorizes them as extreme right-wing terrorists, I recognized that 2012 is not so different from 1776.

 

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to   >>>>>   Read Entire Post