Greetings all
I have to say this Holiday means a lot to me. It was on July fourth, roughly 3 years ago I wrote my first piece. It was my Declaration of Independence and of course, I chose to kick of the holiday using my wit doing a lil race baiting, and telling the powers that be to go screw themselves.
I even got into trouble for it. To say that it was exhilarating would be an understatement. The times have changed immensely from that day when an angry bitter young man decided to write about what he felt was wrong with his country and his plight.
These days there are more important things to worry about like terrorism, weapons of mass destruction,the French, the Dixie chicks. and my ability to make fun of a park bench.
I was considering blowing this day and this piece off.
And then I thought to myself W.W.J.D
No not the Jewish guy in the middle east that preached of love. I cant even ponder that.
I am talking about my fellow American buddy with a chip on his shoulder. Good old Thomas Jefferson. You know what if Tom and his boys were here today they would be straight up pissed. Jefferson would get together with a couple of his buddies sit back in a room with a couple of SAM Adams, and put into perspective what King George was trying to lay down. so in the spirit of Ben Franklin, Tom Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and the rest of the cast of the Liberty Kids (gotta love P.B.S) I am going to get Colonial on your ass!!!!
As with most stories about the world this one starts with me!!!!
Back in the Jerry Nixon infant years he was kicking screaming and spitting up in Boston Massachusetts. The Birth place of this country as we know it!!!! (I don't care what Chris Columbus and the Spaniards in Hispaniola say.) My Mother just like Thomas Hooker had enough of the place and moved to Connecticut. Birthplace of Huck Finn,Tom Sawyer and that black guy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Book (I wouldn't suggest calling the brother Uncle Tom though.)
My parents used to take me to Plymouth Ma, forced me to walk around on the Mayflower docked at Boston Harbor. I was almost instantaneously upset so I dumped my moms iced tea into the Harbor. I wanted out!! I yelled Give me Liberty or give me death!!!!My Mother was in shocked I yelled at this woman "Don't Tread on me." and my sister decided to tell me during my disgust "Daddy is Coming, Daddy is coming. " and right then and there there was A Boston Massacre. It was on that day,I knew I was home I was an American.
Point is I love this country and what it stands for. And oh my god do I love our history. Independence day is the bomb!!!!! but lets not get ahead of ourselves.
In my mid teens I was able to look up the most beautiful French woman's skirt. Later I even got inside this woman and stayed for hours. just like millions of people from all over the world. This woman stood proud with a torch blazing calling to the world that she will take all comers. The worlds Tired its poor its huddled masses. This Lady of Liberty was a Gift from France. to show their appreciation for the gift of thought and the strength to let the powers that be know they were not going to sit idly by while the powers that be took advantage of them. ( we have the nerve to not show our appreciation to these people.)
As an adopted Son of the Revolution I continued my trek to the home of the Liberty Bell. It was there I saw a Ben Franklin look alike spitting out information of this wonderful country and doing the Mac-arena for the Kiddies. It was there that I sat down and read the Declaration of Independence. Ben,Tom George Alex,and several others discussed the treatment they recieved from the powers that be and put down in no less than 1324 words listing the disgust of Georgie. and When the time comes what they were going to do so some dumb crap like that never happened again. It was there where someone said there should be a revolution every three to four years and those words still hold true today. That document is the bomb!!!! lets not forget the other one that followed that protects my disgruntled ass today.
In the words of Yatkov Smirinov "AMERICA WHAT A COUNTRY"
Finally I would like to believe my American Trek is complete in Florida I sit tapping out my wit and just days away from the celebration of Freedom, Independence,and Liberty.
I get chastised for taking advantage of what Ben, Tom George Alex and so many others fought killed and died for.
I look at the newspaper and see the powers that be hinting at taking away our freedoms. and all things George Orwell. Lets forget the Camera's in Ybor for a second. Lets forget all the time money and energy my government is using to stop same sex marriages,nudist colonies,people following their stupid religions,
Lets forget what happened at Kent state, Lets forget the burning down of North Philly, Lets forget all the shameless acts that have happened on this soil. The land of the free home of the birthplace of these documents.
Lets forget about the abuse of power. Lets forget the Blind Nationalism that wreaks of Joe Stalin. Lets forget that one of my for fathers said and I quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."- Benjamin Franklin
Lets forget what this country stands for for just one second. Lets focus on the fact that we are in a middle of a war and well Hot Dogs are on sale at Publix.
Lets simulate explosions in the name of.... what is it in the name of anyway.
I dig Francis Scott Key and his creativity, but for some reason I don't think eating chili dogs, and mumbling about bombs bursting in air in between mouth fulls of potato chips, is what Jefferson Had in mind.
Celebrate your day of Independence any way you want, but before you do here is a little reading material.
The Declaration Of Independance!!!
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 which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, 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 to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that 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. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.
HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.
HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.
HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of the Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and the Convulsions within.
HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.
HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us;
FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rules into these Colonies:
FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
John Hancock.
GEORGIA, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
NORTH-CAROLINA, Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
SOUTH-CAROLINA, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward, junr., Thomas Lynch, junr., Arthur Middleton.
MARYLAND, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
VIRGINIA, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Ths. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, Thos. Nelson, jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
PENNSYLVANIA, Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
DELAWARE, Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read.
NEW-YORK, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frank Lewis, Lewis Morris.
NEW-JERSEY, Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE, C. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT, Roger Sherman, Saml. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott.
IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 18, 1777.
um this piece is dedicated to the people on Guantanamo
it was once said People who dont remember their history are destined to repeat it
here is a lil reminder
Jerry