When. in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one nation to say nasty things about its former king, in the nicest possible way, that nation should tell its former king why he’s going to get his royal crown spanked when his soldiers are kicked off of a continent. That is not entirely how the real quote would go and I had no intention of making it accurate. Most current citizens of the nation that broke away from the crown those centuries ago would be unable to tell you why the colonists were so upset all those years ago. Revolution was not even all that popular in its own day. Just look at how many politicians will amass votes by promising to protect us from everything but the very government tyranny that this nation was founded as a rebellion against.
What these United States used to be had never existed anywhere else on the planet and, in all likelihood, no longer exists anywhere where the citizens are descended from Adam and Eve. We really were a nation with ‘no king but Christ.’ This nation once was the Christian Israel; a place where Christians fled not because they were unpopular or even oppressed, but because they wanted a home where they belonged. In their resistence to tyranny, it took our forefathers two tries to create the Constitution of these United States of America. States were, in both cases, supreme to the federal government in every way possible because power has to be concentrated to do the king of evil that our founding fathers had rebelled against. We’ve seen a return of those evils as we complacently centralize authority again.
The idea of a nation under God has never been popular with tyrants. A king who must serve God has laws that even he cannot break. Laws serve their maker and not the other way around. Over the millennia, tyrants have labored long to put themselves in dominion over the body of believers. These men work hard to put themselves, in the eyes of their subjects, outside of God’s domain so that they have no law over them that they cannot break at will. When they succeed, their subjects pay a heavy price.
But this is not what I am writing about. All of this only leads me to my point. Why is it that we assume that our forefathers will always be so pleased with where we have come to in history? How many school children have given reports about how our ancestors might not be entirely happy with what we’ve become? Did we achieve all of our ancestors’ dreams? If we did, they why don’t we have dreams of our own?
History has not come to an end. Some day, school children will be looking back onto this era as we look back in time. We should not be resting on our laurels, lazily talking about how happy our ancestors will be now that we’ve achieved things that would have horrified them. Today we make tomorrow’s history. Will it be a history that you will be happy with or are you, with your inaction, building a future that you will look down on with shame in your heart?
Some change is living and some change is dying, but all stasis is death. The moment that we stop growing, we start dying. Is this no less true of the institutions of men than of the men themselves? Perfection has never been a mortal attribute. There will always be work to do.
So, on the Internet, this fourth day of July, 2006, let us pledge ourselves to bring forth a new tomorrow. We’re going to do it even if we deny it. Tomorrow will come for us. However, we get a say in whether it is a better tomorrow or a worse tomorrow. Would it not be better for us to have failed than not to have tried?

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