Lcrockett’s Blog

Today is April 19.

Do you recall its significance? Right, the “shot heard round the world” was fired at sunrise in Lexington in 1775. Who shot first no one knows. No one will ever know. British Regular or American militiaman, someone fired because the twitch was in the fingers, hearts were beating fast, the sparks were in the air and no one was giving ground. The least little movement, a word misspoken or something seen across the way was all that was needed for that mysterious someone to fire their weapon and let loose the dogs of revolutionary war.

Before things came to a head, there’s a back story. And that back story is of great significance to us in America today. For before the Tea Party in 1773 or the Boston Massacre of 1770, there were the smaller events that set off the greater ones. Both the “massacre” and the “tea party” were the forerunners that peaceful negotiations were coming to an end. Even then, it took another two years, after the Tea Party, for the serious confrontation at Lexington to light the fuse the blew up in the face of the British.

The “taxation without representation” issue was only a part of the overall picture. As I mull over the present day argument with our elected representatives, I understand that yes, we are represented by individuals we, the voters, have put into power. So we cannot claim we have no representation. What we can claim are two other issues. The first being that the people we elected could have lied to us. We the people have known of more than one individual running for office who said anything we wanted to hear in order to get elected. Once in office, the truth came out. The second issue is that once elected, the person representing us needs to take all of us into consideration when making law. For the most grievous sin is to ignore a constituent. The British government, after the first protests by the colonies, began to ignore their pleas for redress. Instead, they stepped up their program of repressions and presto, the colonists began to smolder.

Right now, the members of the tea party movement, and members of the Republican Party are planning to “vote the bums out” of office come November. This may or may not fix the problem that constitutionalists deem most important of all, and that is the direct attack on our way of life by the bypassing of the Constitution when making law. For our Constitution is a unique one, stating what the government cannot do. It’s purpose is to keep government in line. We know how well that has worked out as tyranny has gotten a good foothold in our beloved nation that has held as its highest value the liberty of the individual. If the bums are not voted out then we have a real problem on our hands. Much like our ancestors did. For in fact, the populace of that era was divided. Not all were for the breakup with Britain.

It has been estimated that the population of that time was divided into thirds; a third for the breakup, a third against it and a third that didn’t really care one way or the other or they were “leaners” that is folks that were undecided but leaned towards one way or the other. It was not cut and dried at all and the revolutionaries did contend with the loyalists. Meaning there was a civil war that paralleled the revolutionary war, that was fought both on and off American soil.

Our November elections are crucial. They will be a turning point as well as a time of learning. We will all learn just how strong our American will is in terms of individuals who believe in our system. How many constitutionalists are there? How many collectivists are there? We have, in some pockets, out and out Marxist representatives in firm control of their district. Which means only one thing. The majority of their voters are loyalists. Some of these loyalists, like the ones that surround Nancy Pelosi, are very supportive of her and will fight tooth and nail to keep her in power. It will take strong stuff to defeat her.

Do we have the right stuff? Ponder this question.

Do you recall why the British went to Lexington and Concord? They were going to confiscate weapons. And they were hopeful that they would find and arrest that radical Samuel Adams, cousin to John.

History, when it repeats itself is never exact in its likeness of events. But the reasons are always the same. The greatest of these reasons is that tyranny fears free men and women and will do whatever it can to disarm them, physically and mentally. They are after our souls -it’s the only way they can get our bodies to do the tyrants bidding. Therefore expect the tyrants to ignore the tea party activists, Expect them to belittle the efforts of these citizens when they can no longer ignore them. Expect the tyrants to use violence first and blame it on the Americans protesting the actions of the tyrants. Indeed, haven’t they already used violence of language against the tea party participants in falsely accusing them of racism?

As we remember the past it’s an excellent time to consider our future as we strive to take back our nation. What will it take to accomplish a complete restoration of the living vision as laid out by our Founders?

Happy anniversary.