This is America, where most of us take our freedom of speech seriously. Yeah I know a bunch of other countries have it… but how many abuse it like us Americans do? We’ve redefined the meaning of protest. I mean, just look at the sixties. That was America at its finest, where people actually would actively fight for what they believed in. Now America is a watered down piece of junk whose only claim to fame is the largest military in the world. Our economy is in shambles. Our Congress is ninety-nine percent lying snakes (no offense to snakes, I like them), and half of the people still think patriotism means that they should blindly follow their country wherever it takes them. I went to watch American Idiot today on YouTube, kind of a national-holiday-tradition for me… and one of the commenters really pissed me off. It first insulted me as a teenager and then said something about watching a song that “criticizes America” on the “most patriotic of holidays.” Now did I read the First Amendment wrong… or is that kind of what this country was made to be? Aren’t we not only allowed but encouraged to criticize our government? Especially when it has turned into a complete cesspool like the kind it is today?
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness”
“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."
Those are my favorite quotes from the Declaration of Independence, and I’m sorry if they’re a little too heavy for you to understand. Simply, they say that if the government isn’t working for the people, then the people have the right and the duty to form a government that does work for them as they are the ones whose shoulders the government stands on. For some reason people don’t seem to realize this in their blind quest to be perfect patriots. Patriotism is not blindly following your country. Patriotism is taking what your country gives you and trying to make it better, trying to make it a country you can be proud of. Now here’s another favorite, this time from a different document.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Well I think that pretty much covers it all. Happy Independence Day to all the real Americans out there, the ones who believe that they can say what they want to say, that they can protest and point out the flaws in their country’s armor. Those are the real patriots. And a final thank you to the soldiers fighting overseas and on the home front, you’re the real heroes among all of this. God bless you all, and this is a tribute to you.
SONG OF THE DAY: GOD BLESS THE USA
God bless the USA. And God bless all of the true Americans living and defending it. Happy 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks.
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