June 28th, 2012 will now be remembered as – to paraphrase Mark Levin – the date that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt by the House of Representatives and… the date that the Supreme Court held the American people in contempt.
For a little perspective, let’s recall a few other events that occurred on this same date in in America’s past shall we?
| 1776 | Charleston, SC – Patriot troops manning a fort of sand and palmetto logs repulsed a British sea attack |
| 1778 | Battle of Monmouth, NJ – George Washington’s Continental Army battled the British to a draw |
| 1787 | Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were meeting at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to establish a new government for their fledgling country. Debate at times became extremely contentious. Before it had barely begun, the United States had reached a critical juncture. Amid flaring tempers, Benjamin Franklin, the oldest delegate, rose and offered a simple but profound suggestion: prayer. |
| 2012 | U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Affordable Healthcare Act otherwise known as Obamacare (in the form of a $1.76 trillion tax increase) – is constitutional.
Welcome to Post-Constitutional America! |
Benjamin Franklin’s words on June 28th may be more relevant today than they were in 1787. Reminding the other delegates that they had asked for divine aid at the start of the Revolutionary War, Franklin said this:
Our prayers sir were heard, and they were graciously answered. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
Some 230 years since our founders were fighting British tyranny, we are called upon to oppose a new tyranny: an out-of-control federal autocracy that ignores the Constitution, and seeks to prevent We the People from having any voice at all in our own government.
If we hope to re-gain the freedoms purchased as such great cost by the original patriots, and defended by so many more since then, we must begin the fight on our knees. In a sincere appeal to the Divine Source of our inalienable rights ~
Related:
America was birthed in prayer ~ The truth so many have forgotten, or never even learned.
[Source for historical facts ~ The American Patriot’s Almanac, Bennett & Cribb]
