Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

On March 23rd, 1775, Patrick Henry spoke the prophetic words "Give me liberty, or give me death." His statement has transcended the centuries - in only six words, Henry gave life to a nation grasping for a breath - a breath that has lasted until now.

In 1775 America was up against an enemy nobody would have dared challenge. Their leader, King George III, had said, "Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit," followed by, "Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel." Yet Patrick Henry looked the beast in the face and said I will not surrender my dignity.

Shortly later in 1776 America repelled the threat of British tyranny and truly discovered the idea of freedom for the first time in mankinds history. As English ships departed the Eastern seaboard, an experiment was slowly gaining momentum in a newly birthed nation - an experiment which believed in "the freedom of the individual" as Ronald Regan would later put it.

And so as individuals we came together to build and fortify the fabric of what would become the United States. Individuals gathered and built communities, they endured hardship, and worked tirelessly towards formulating the main ingredient of this new experiment - the American Dream.

You see during this time period, Americans were not in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, but rather in pursuit of greatness. In pursuit of conquering the unknown, forging new ideas, paving new paths. We were in pursuit of pioneering a new age, filled with innovation that would inspire generations. We pursued new frontiers, explored vast oceans, and even dared to venture to go to the moon - and we succeeded.

Such a mindset elevated Americas place in the world - making the ordinary man a global super power. Just as Prometheus taught man about fire, the everyday common American lit the torch of freedom for all the world to see. In due time monsters would crawl out of the depths of hell to challenge the idea that the everyday ordinary citizen had a right at the helm of the ship. Americans sent them back where they came from.

Well that monster is back, and he is similar to previous enemies. He has already taken over the country of Australia - as King George III's spirit lives through Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who will crush you if you do not obey his COVID commandments. The monster is in China, as Muslim Uyghur's are placed in concentration camps, and the citizens have no free speech and work for pay that equates to slavery. The monster is in the Middle East, as terrorists regain power and trample the rights of women and minority groups. He is in Russia where opposition to Putin is often killed or tossed into the modern day gulag. The monster is slowly spreading across Europe like a fatal tumor as the European Union (EU) crumples beneath the weight of their own self-destructive policies.

However, he has only just arrived on American soil - the worlds last bastion against tyranny. Some have crumpled at the sheer site of this enemy, but the American spirit cannot be tamed, the soul of this nation knows no limits. At the heart of the American endeavor is the desire to be better and improve the condition of mankind. We believed we were electing public officials with our best interest at heart, but it turned out we placed people in office who worship a god many other tyrants also prayed to - greed. Greed has corrupted the most brilliant minds amongst us over the course of human history. He is a plague the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has been unable to approve a vaccine for - maybe because they don't want to?

As this enemy spreads and comes to your community brandishing the full force of tyranny - do not submit. Do as Patrick Henry said, and look the beast down back into the abyss it came from. If you don't stand up now, nobody else will be able to later.

Viktor E. Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, once said the following:

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

The final COVID variant is communism - don't let it get to that point. Never surrender your dignity to a machine that doesn't value individual liberty.