This is something we’ve posted before, but some messages are worth the repeating from time to time.

In reaction to the Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington issued the following orders.

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves, whether they are to have property they can call their own, whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance or the most abject submission. This is all we can expect. We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die.

Our country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail we shall become infamous to the whole world.

Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

The eye’s of all our countrymen are upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises if, happily, we are the instrument of saving them from the tyranny mediated against them.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other and show the whole world that a freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

General George Washington, 1776

November 2nd is, as George Washington put it, near at hand.

In understand fully that the context of this message was of a newly birthed nation which was in a physical conflict with an oppressor and that we are not now in such a physical conflict with those who wish to oppress us.

I however, also understand that we are in a very real conflict and that what is before us is in fact no less a struggle for freedom and liberty than was that which loomed before those who founded this nation.

Are you to be a freeman or a slave?

Are your children to be freemen or slaves?

The fate of this nation does indeed depend upon your courage, your willingness to sacrifice time and resources, your willingness to do the right thing as well as your personal conduct and our collective conduct.

I assure you, that you have something to offer and that you are needed in this task that is before us.

If you are unwilling to give of yourself then the fight is lost, it is going to take all of us.

Not only are your fellow Americans watching us, the whole of the world is watching us.

Other nations have predicted the demise of this nation and the death watch has begun, we can and should prove them wrong. We can demonstrate to them that we will neither hand over our freedom nor allow it to be stolen from us.

In all the years previous we have indeed made a difference, a negative difference, by electing men and women void of character.

By electing men and women who had no care or concern for your freedoms as an individual but their own power instead.

By allowing those men and women, once exposed, to remain indefinitely in elected office. By accepting the liberty stealing and slavish laws they implement.

The fault is ours, but this is the year when we can begin to redeem ourselves and take back the future of our children and preserve what our founders and so many since them had sacrificed so greatly for.

There are many good Tea Party and 9.12 Project groups in Colorado and around the nation.

Find one here and join with them or even begin your own.

You have something to offer, you are absolutely needed and, if you have not been, it is time you became involved.

Find your candidate, support them with your time, talent and money.

Can you feel the shackles tightening around your ankles, wrists, and neck? I sure can. Each day I wake to the loss of more liberty stolen by our Government. Unaccountable officials (at all levels) have broken faith with their solemn oath to preserve and protect the Constitution ordained and established to guarantee individual

freedom to the people of the United States of America. The dictator-in-chief is well on his way to complete his promised, “Fundamental,” transformation of the USA. The evil seed planted in the fall of 2008, just has not manifested its poisoned fruit – but a bitter harvest is coming.

Today, our captured country resembles the former USSR, Socialist Venezuela, Communist Cuba, or the tyrant’s favorite, Communist China. One lesson we see repeated from history – friendly captors never remain friendly to their captives (Hitler murdered approximately 13 million Jews, Christians and political dissenters; Stalin murdered an estimated 30-50 million Jews, Christians and political dissenters; and Mao Tse-tung murdered about 70 million Christians and political dissenters – notice a trend). Will the despot want to out-perform these dictators to secure his place in history? Unless God intervenes, the Earth will soon lose its last best hope for freedom.

The anti-American, unconstitutional, unaccountable, “Administration,” now controls 75% of our nation’s economy. They will not stop until they control it all. Do you remember when you were a child and you had to request permission to use the restroom? Do not be surprised if this, “Green,” regime forces you to pay a flush fee (not a tax) to use the bathroom.

I am convinced we have one last chance to re-establish the Constitutional Republic God gave us through the founders. It may be too late. Americans vote to remove all Constitution-despising, non-representing representatives from all levels of government. They have breached their contract and have used their position to benefit themselves (the few) at the expense of the American citizens (the many). They have broken faith with the oath of office. They serve themselves, not their constituents. They violated just principles for governing a free people. We liberty-loving Americans no longer grant our consent to allow these corrupt destroyers of our Constitution to govern us. These self-serving elitists act as if they think they know what is best for our country. They are wrong.

Let us, the American people, stop them from giving our Constitution to the flame. It is our duty to throw off these tyrants and establish new guards for our freedom, safety, and happiness. We must send the frauds home and if the new guards of liberty are no better, we must term limit them before they do irrevocable harm. Americans, stand up for your Constitution before the transformation to Soviet Ameri-Slavic-Stan is 100% complete.

This article was written by Hear Us Now Vice Chairman, Charles J. Patricoff.

Visit his bio to learn more about Charles.

The city of Los Angeles, they care a lot. In fact, they care enough to protect the citizens of Los Angeles from the ‘potentially hazardous’.

Reason.tv

Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles, there exists another world, an underground world of illicit trade in—not drugs or sex—but bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Street vendors may sell you an illegal bacon dog, but hardly anyone will talk about it, for fear of being hassled, shut down or worse. Our camera caught it on tape. One minute bacon dogs are sold in plain view, the next minute cops have confiscated carts, and ordered the dogs dumped into the trash.

I lived in and around Los Angeles for years, trust me… hot dogs wrapped in bacon is the least potentially hazardous thing you will run into on an average day.

We are in the business of preventing people from getting sick, and we will do that.

Terrence Powell LA County Health Department.

Selling that bacon dog in LA could get you 45 days in jail and a hefty fine.

Independence Day should be a serious holiday. There is, of course, nothing wrong with enjoying the day with friends and family. But too few of us take even a moment during Independence Day to give even a moment of serious thought and

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consideration as to who we are as a nation, where we’ve been, where we are, where we were intended by our founders to be, how we got from there to here, and how we might return to where we were meant to be.

Take a moment this Independence day to read the Declaration of Independence.

A moment to appreciate the Freedoms which remain and a moment to re-commit yourself to reclaiming those freedoms which we have personally handed directly to the government and those we allowed to be stolen from us.

Charles Patricoff, Hear Us Now Vice-Chair, has an Independence Day practice in which he prints, then sits and reads the Declaration of Independence.

He then signs for himself, his name upon the printed copy of the Declaration of Independence.

A practice I, myself, intend to take up this very Independence Day.

This From Vice President Joe Biden via Eyeblast.tv and The Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation – The Foundry

This is not a case of Joe being Joe. This was a deliberative statement read from a Teleprompter that abdicated American exceptionalism, and replaced it with a misguided view of European dominance. A speech of this magnitude is not drafted on the plane ride over, and this line was carefully considered. This ladies and gentlemen, was the Obama White House in living color.