The final post from the Fort’s Fourth of July Tea Party
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
This post concludes the series of posts that began here.
On July 4, 2009 the ArchAngel Institute hosted a “tea party” celebrating the birth of our constitutional republic.
This final installment was our program after the pledge of allegiance. Guest readers continued to illuminate our path with great quotes from great patriots.
After we all pledged allegiance to the Republic, we then entered into the final minutes of our July 4th celebration. That final scene had us pledging the highlighted lines from the Declaration of Independence in unison.
The ceremony culminated with symbolic tea being poured in the streets.
After the pledge of allegiance and after a time of social networking we dove into the following:
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine
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We currently live in the most difficult of times for guarding against an expanding central government with a steady erosion of our freedoms.
Without a better understanding and a greater determination to reign in the state, the rights of Americans that resulted from the revolutionary break from the British and the writing of the Constitution, will disappear.
United States Congressman Ron Paul (Click here for Paul’s inspiring speech before Congress with audio)
Declaration of Independence
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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.
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The train of abuses set forth
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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 the 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.

Time is short but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience, to bring about the necessary changes.
But let it not be said that we did nothing.
(Local activist Guy Hinson pictured.)
Thus ends our ceremony but not the ongoing struggle.
Let us stand up for the constitutional republic that our forefathers and foremothers sacrificed everything to found.
DO SOMETHING!!!
Or later regret having done nothing. Perhaps with very bitter regrets.
Click here for something that you can do Friday afternoon. Huntington Patriots have asked the Fort Wayne patriots to protest unconstitutional actions outside of the office of Senator Evan Bayh on Friday. Come between 3:30 and 5:00 if you can.
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Continuing on with the listing of the quotes from the July 4 Tea Party at the Institute, we next come to the most controversial section. It would have been the least controversial 100 years ago — then the controversy would have been too much of the free speech about government agents. Nowadays we can talk all we want, write all we want, pretty much. Just do not do all that much, and do not have a firearm. Hollywood does not like us armed, you see.













