The New Sons of Liberty

There came a time where early political leaders actually wrote their own speeches, it had all their motives, their doubts and their thoughts complied to make their character whole.  John Adams was the 2nd president of the United States.  As a young lawyer, he had the complete opportunity to represent the 8 British soldiers accused of starting the Boston Massacre circa 1770.  Standing alone in that courtroom, he believed those men to be innocent and was willing to find the truth.  Thought he spoke out against the Sons of Liberty considering law to be a better way to find truth in things, after the trial, the soldiers were sent back to England to receive a “fair” British trial and all his hard work was for nothing.  He was appointed to the 1st Continental Congress and was one of the orchestrator behind Independence from England.  He was also appointed on the committee based on creation of Americas most important Document, the Declaration of Independent.  Ambassadors to both England and France, he played an important role in allying foundations of American Law.  Passed over for presidency by General Washington, he became vice president but due to his honesty and fairness he was not excepted in the presidents cabinet or social circle.  After Washington’s resignation he was given the role of president, which was a short lived term. but during his presidency he tried to keep the same Civic Virtues as Washington did but given Jefferson’s hunger for the presidency (in which he was won over by slandering making Jefferson the first “modern Politician”. Adams lived out his days in peace with his wife until their death.  The funny is Adams and Jefferson remained long standing best friends for years writing letters back and forth.  For me, the greatest moment in American history was July 4th 1826, Adams was on his death bed and with his last dying breath he says “Thomas Jefferson Survives” but little did he know his longtime best friend had died hours earlier that same day…thus marking the death of the last surviving signer of the declaration of independence and one of the last Patriots of the American Revolution.  Down below I would love for you to read his Inaugural Address dated 1797.  It explains how he perceived liberty, how he was kept out of the loop from so many things after seeing the Constitution.  He also stressed the fact that we should learn from France and England on forms on democracy.  He was an honest man and 100% fought for what he believed is right.

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WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests and dissensions which would certainly arise concerning the forms of government to be instituted over the whole and over the parts of this extensive country. Relying, however, on the purity of their intentions, the justice of their cause, and the integrity and intelligence of the people, under an overruling Providence which had so signally protected this country from the first, the representatives of this nation, then consisting of little more than half its present number, not only broke to pieces the chains which were forging and the rod of iron that was lifted up, but frankly cut asunder the ties which had bound them, and launched into an ocean of uncertainty.
The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolutionary war, supplying the place of government, commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society. The Confederation which was early felt to be necessary was prepared from the models of the Batavian and Helvetic confederacies, the only examples which remain with any detail and precision in history, and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever considered. But reflecting on the striking difference in so many particulars between this country and those where a courier may go from the seat of government to the frontier in a single day, it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in Congress at the formation of it that it could not be durable.
Negligence of its regulations, inattention to its recommendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequences—universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and private faith, loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations, and at length in discontents, animosities, combinations, partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity.
In this dangerous crisis the people of America were not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or integrity. Measures were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty. The public disquisitions, discussions, and deliberations issued in the present happy Constitution of Government.
Employed in the service of my country abroad during the whole course of these transactions, I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country. Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested. In its general principles and great outlines it was conformable to such a system of government as I had ever most esteemed, and in some States, my own native State in particular, had contributed to establish. Claiming a right of suffrage, in common with my fellow-citizens, in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and my posterity, as well as them and theirs, I did not hesitate to express my approbation of it on all occasions, in public and in private. It was not then, nor has been since, any objection to it in my mind that the Executive and Senate were not more permanent. Nor have I ever entertained a thought of promoting any alteration in it but such as the people themselves, in the course of their experience, should see and feel to be necessary or expedient, and by their representatives in Congress and the State legislatures, according to the Constitution itself, adopt and ordain.
Returning to the bosom of my country after a painful separation from it for ten years, I had the honor to be elected to a station under the new order of things, and I have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the Constitution. The operation of it has equaled the most sanguine expectations of its friends, and from an habitual attention to it, satisfaction in its administration, and delight in its effects upon the peace, order, prosperity, and happiness of the nation I have acquired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it.
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
There may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations of men into cities and nations are the most pleasing objects in the sight of superior intelligences, but this is very certain, that to a benevolent human mind there can be no spectacle presented by any nation more pleasing, more noble, majestic, or august, than an assembly like that which has so often been seen in this and the other Chamber of Congress, of a Government in which the Executive authority, as well as that of all the branches of the Legislature, are exercised by citizens selected at regular periods by their neighbors to make and execute laws for the general good. Can anything essential, anything more than mere ornament and decoration, be added to this by robes and diamonds? Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people? For it is the people only that are represented. It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear. The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people. And what object or consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind? If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance.
Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to independence and peace, to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity, has merited the gratitude of his fellow-citizens, commanded the highest praises of foreign nations, and secured immortal glory with posterity.
In that retirement which is his voluntary choice may he long live to enjoy the delicious recollection of his services, the gratitude of mankind, the happy fruits of them to himself and the world, which are daily increasing, and that splendid prospect of the future fortunes of this country which is opening from year to year. His name may be still a rampart, and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark, against all open or secret enemies of his country’s peace. This example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors by both Houses of Congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout the nation.
On this subject it might become me better to be silent or to speak with diffidence; but as something may be expected, the occasion, I hope, will be admitted as an apology if I venture to say that if a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth; if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it until it shall be altered by the judgments and wishes of the people, expressed in the mode prescribed in it; if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual States and a constant caution and delicacy toward the State governments; if an equal and impartial regard to the rights, interest, honor, and happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attachments; if a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations; if a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments; if a love of equal laws, of justice, and humanity in the interior administration; if an inclination to improve agriculture, commerce, and manufacturers for necessity, convenience, and defense; if a spirit of equity and humanity toward the aboriginal nations of America, and a disposition to meliorate their condition by inclining them to be more friendly to us, and our citizens to be more friendly to them; if an inflexible determination to maintain peace and inviolable faith with all nations, and that system of neutrality and impartiality among the belligerent powers of Europe which has been adopted by this Government and so solemnly sanctioned by both Houses of Congress and applauded by the legislatures of the States and the public opinion, until it shall be otherwise ordained by Congress; if a personal esteem for the French nation, formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them, and a sincere desire to preserve the friendship which has been so much for the honor and interest of both nations; if, while the conscious honor and integrity of the people of America and the internal sentiment of their own power and energies must be preserved, an earnest endeavor to investigate every just cause and remove every colorable pretense of complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation for the injuries that have been committed on the commerce of our fellow-citizens by whatever nation, and if success can not be obtained, to lay the facts before the Legislature, that they may consider what further measures the honor and interest of the Government and its constituents demand; if a resolution to do justice as far as may depend upon me, at all times and to all nations, and maintain peace, friendship, and benevolence with all the world; if an unshaken confidence in the honor, spirit, and resources of the American people, on which I have so often hazarded my all and never been deceived; if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties toward it, founded on a knowledge of the moral principles and intellectual improvements of the people deeply engraven on my mind in early life, and not obscured but exalted by experience and age; and, with humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for the public service, can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes, it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious injunction of the two Houses shall not be without effect.
With this great example before me, with the sense and spirit, the faith and honor, the duty and interest, of the same American people pledged to support the Constitution of the United States, I entertain no doubt of its continuance in all its energy, and my mind is prepared without hesitation to lay myself under the most solemn obligations to support it to the utmost of my power.
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence ~John Adams Inaugural Address March 4, 1797

Here is a quote each by two of the best and most underrated men to fill the office of the President of the United States on what I feel is yet another stupid “federal holiday”. One was a Democrat, one was a Republican, but both were strong conservatives with strong belief in free market and small government. One came between the dwindling days of Reconstruction and the genesis of the Progressive Era; the other was a meek, but humble, leader who demonstrated how economic prosperity is coupled perfectly with a laissez-faire state of mind in the Roaring Twenties. Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge were two men who don’t get much ink in the history books, but would do much good if kept in the minds of today’s leaders. 

“The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned  and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.”- President Cleveland’s second inaugural address, March 4, 1893

“There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means.”- President Coolidge

I’ve come to two insurmountable conclusions as to why I believe liberalism is wrong:

• I’m don’t give a damn if I’m politically correct and neither should you. The PC culture scolds me for my views and regulates my language. Insults are a two-way road: I say something you perceive to be insensitive; you, feeling lesser because of your own self-degradation take “offense”. I. DON’T. CARE. A nation formed by the men who fought the British at Concord and protected by those storming the beaches of Normandy need not gasp at the mention of an “insult.”
• You can’t, shouldn’t, and will not regulate the free will. It is not government’s job to interfere in MY business, take MY guns, or tell ME what foods I shouldn’t eat and how much I shouldn’t have of it. What liberals don’t see to comprehend is that no law is stronger than the human will bestowed upon us by God (or Allah, or whatever you atheists). Conservatives recognize that freedom may not always be the most efficient way, but it is most certainly the right way. And heck it’s probably the most efficient way too. Just ask Soviet Russia. Capitalism vs. their government grooming Communism and we still kicked their ass in all facets of life.

I could expand more, but I’m tired and this nothing more than a quick, and fleeting, thought. Good night and God Bless Us through four more years of horse crap.

  The founding fathers had a thought; in the early years before the revolution the thought that freedom would exist was so small that even but a whisper would destroy its foundation, they needed protection.   The continental Army was formed with the ideals of everyone in the struggle.  They needed heroes; brave men and women from all over the colonies answered that call.  The brave patriots were sending a message; they were fighting for their freedom, not just for themselves, but for their new nation.  Patriots like George Washington, Nathaniel Greene and John Paul Jones are just some of the 10,000 heroes who dedicated their lives to ensure their newly formed military laid a foundation of hope for years to come.  They believed their Army (also our militia) and Navy would help not only defeat the British on the land and sea but would ensure our survival and protection.

Now what is the responsibility of the military?  Well, depending on where you go in our great country this term will be different.  I have already explained how the patriots saw it, but almost 237 years later, it has changed drastically.  Most will tell you the military is fighting for freedom not only for us, but for the freedom around the world.   But I believe there is a skewed persona of what the military is and what it represents.  It represents jobs, 1% of the United States population which are composed of members of the military, and every member is trained with a unique skill set to not only help them fight, but outside in the civilian world as well.  They are long arm of the ideals that united states, reaching out across the world helping countries in need.

 Here at home, we really only use the military mainly for defensive purposes, and as a training ground for overseas missions.  Our military is run by the government; in turn it will represent the ideals of the government.   But if you have read anything else I have written before, I have stated that congress is corrupt, its interests tainted.  Our congress today (senate and representatives) only seek power and they use the military to gain that power.  Take the Middle Eastern countries for example; they have been fighting over everything for as long as anyone can remember.  But to our government, they are just another colony.  Sure, we will step in and help that country and defend it, we will reestablish its government in the image of OUR US CONSTITUTION…but with any free favor, something is always owed.  They want the world in their pocket…they want it so they can use their oil for our country, they want their resources. 

I get it, you are all probably thinking “Well that’s not true, we fight for those countries so they can be free like we are”, but are WE really free?  I think the idea of being free is a little more different from what people think.  Ask yourself, what makes us free? Most of the world has what we have; they can do what we do every day.  I feel like your answer will be “our forefathers fought for us so we can be free”, well that’s ignorant.  Think of it this way, 237 years ago the ideal of being free, was what you see in the Bill of Rights.  They can have a gun, they had freedom to say what they wanted, and use their opinions; they weren’t going to be persecuted from practicing religions of their choosing.  The Bill of Rights gave them their privacy in their own homes, and it also gave them the right to have fair trials.

When Congress starting creating more amendments, was the ideal these original 10 were to be held true? NOT AT ALL.  Look at the later amendments (after 10), where congress starts being granted more power, especially the 27^th amendment…CONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISES?!  They started out helping the country, but started to veer off in a different direction.  Do we really need some of these amendments? Women should have had rights since BIRTH!  If we were so free, why were women looked down on? What about the slaves? They should have been free all along, but now in order to prove a point, an amendment was made?  Let’s state the obvious by making amendments that contradict what is said in our declaration of Independence, “ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL”…you’ve got to be kidding me.

Do you now see what I am getting at?  They want to look like saviors; they want to tell you what you want to hear.  We live free; we want every country to live like us, especially countries that have nothing.  But Congress isn’t listening to you, they are doing what they want, and we are just lining up like little ducklings huddling behind mamma duck as she muddles thru the water…c’mon America, take back your country!

The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

“Plan B” (is B for Bonehead?) failed. Speaker Boehner’s backup plan predictably could not make it past the House GOP. With the fiscal cliff twelve short days away, our government has gone backwards. You were not voted in to raise tax rates on ANYONE, whether they eat off a silver platter or a trash can lid. Rich and poor alike, conservatives want a flat tax rate, not a disapproval of success.

If someone making one million, one billion, one TRILLION dollars annually is paying the same rate (conservative code word for “percentage”) as someone making minimum wage cleaning the bathrooms at Burger King, they are still paying MUCH more in taxes. By raising taxes on the very rich you are demeaning the standard of being very successful. By aiming to pull down the wealthy you lay on the same level as the socialist scum of liberalism. Yeah, I said it…scum. Make sure you share it with your liberal friends…that they’re scum and to go live in France and burn overturned cars in that socialist hellhole.

Here’s to President Obama and his “fair share” Democratic zombies who have claimed that hiking tax rates on high income earners is what the people want. At this point the people should be more concerned about themselves and their own money since they were brainwashed and/or stupid enough to vote you in. If the lower class doesn’t want its taxes raised, DON’T RAISE THEM. If the middle class doesn’t want its taxes raised, DON’T RAISE THEM. If the upper class doesn’t want its taxes raised, DON’T RAISE THEM.

And anyway, I don’t think, once I start paying taxes, I want my money being dumped into an increasingly crappier public school system…or unionized construction jobs…or your stupid stimulus and its stupid pork! I think I’d rather it be spent on DEFENSE (read above Constitution excerpt please and note that the Constitution does indeed still apply to you today). DEFENSE against crazed rocket-launching goons in North Korea and the Iraqi nuclear stockpile and China and Russia and every other damn country. And money spent on DEBT, as in the mass amount added on by Barry O in four short years. I don’t want my children and their children and their children paying off anything with his name on it.

And GENERAL WELFARE…let’s just say, higher taxes don’t make happy people and unhappy people does not equal GENERAL WELFARE. Oh and entitlement reform, yeah I understand the many single mothers abandoned by the father of their children who truly need help to feed their babies. I really do, but government needs to HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES. Weed out the takers. And shut up Dick Durbin.

Oh and Obamacare, yeah, run that through a paper shredder a few times. I speak for small business owners on that one.

At this point, America has given up on you. We are preparing for a fiscal cliff as you skirt around the issues. Don’t punish us with higher taxes. Extend the tax cuts for all. Start by fixing your own faults: YOUR spending, YOUR debt, YOUR incompetency (in no particular order just make it quick.)

If you’re wondering, I’m available to run for public office in three years, but I’ll first celebrate being 18 by getting your sorry asses out of Washington. Thank you for your time.

Merry Christmas, God Bless. Oh and Mr. Obama, do have fun in Hawaii. I mean it is on us, the American taxpayers.

Sincerely, Ben Cornaglia

PS: I know I used some harsh language and I offer my condolences to Mr. Boehner in advance. I know he’s prone to crying.