This week Roger Simon at PJ Media asks the question: “Is America in a Pre-Revolutionary State this July 4th?”
To which I respond, if it isn’t – it sure in the hell should be!
 
 
Here’s Simon’s perspective – with which I totally concur ~

We are two-thirds of the way into the most incompetent presidency in our history. People everywhere are fed up. Even many of the so-called liberals who propelled Barack Obama into office have stopped defending him in the face of an unprecedented number of scandals coming at us one after the other like hideous monsters in some non-stop computer game. […]
 
…everywhere we look on this July Fourth sees a great civilization in decline. And much of that decline can be laid at the foot of the incumbent. Especially his own people, African Americans, have suffered. Their unemployment numbers are catastrophic, their real needs ignored while hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson, and, sadly, even the president fan the flames of non-existent racism.

 
To illustrate the extent of our lost liberty and America’s subsequent decline, I’m re-publishing a post of mine from Independence Day, July 2011. Included is a list of some of the grievances the colonists held against King George. As more time passes, it’s uncanny how similar these 18th century injustices were to the soft tyranny we’re witnessing today.
 
It’s almost as if Obama is deliberately using Great Britain’s actions against the original colonies as a present day blueprint.
 

Liberty or Tyranny? (Here we go again?)

Originally posted: July 2, 2011
 

 
Listed in between the introduction and the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence are the numerous grievances the colonies held against the King of England. Many of them sound vaguely, even disturbingly, similar to the actions/attitudes of our current King (– oops!) President.
I’m just saying…

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 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 harass our people, and eat out their substance.
 
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 cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
 
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
 
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
 
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.
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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.

 
So 235 years later, what are We the People living under today? Liberty or Tyranny?
 

 
Back to 2013… Simon concludes his article with the following ~

We all know the famous Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times!
 
We certainly are, and I am of two minds about it. Like so many Americans, I have lived a comfortable, privileged life, vastly so compared to most of human history.
 
But I am filled with foreboding about what’s to come, indeed about what is already here. When I look at the masses swarming in Tahrir Square, I am at once repelled and attracted, repelled because, to be honest, I find their culture more than a bit crazy, but attracted because I know something is seriously wrong, not just in Egypt but in the USA.

 
Contrary to the mischaracterization by leftists and the mainstream media, the Tea Party has never advocated a physical war to take back our country, our Constitution, and our liberty.
 
The Tea Party has simply been reminding our elected representatives who’s supposed to be in charge. And helping the rest of the country recall our amazing American heritage – and re-claiming our Constitutional Republic before it’s too late.