When you think of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the risk that the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence took that fateful July 4th day in 1776, you probably think of an image like this:
Those men risked everything for the future of their nation. Some were tortured, others died penniless, and more still had their homes ransacked and burned or their families scattered and imprisoned.
They gave it all to give their sons and daughters liberty.
But what have we done with that liberty?
Philadelphia is an image of the "progress" evil men have sold us:
It's hard to watch, my friends. We have more vice and tyranny in our country than our Founders ever saw.
Now I'm going to share something with you that will probably get me put on an FBI list: The words of the Declaration itself.
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
