This is the most positive article I’ve seen since this fiasco began. It certainly gives me hope.
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013
Liberty & How Things Are Not Always As They Seem
By, Chris Rossini
We live in a time where the prospects for liberty do not look good. The advances of The State (over the last decade especially) have been extraordinary.
In the blink of an eye, our every move is now up for grabs to be monitored; and unfortunately prying eyes are not the limit. Prying hands grab and grope our most intimate spots at airports….Stop-and-Frisk campaigns in NYC…Military Lockdown in Boston….checkpoints while driving…
So much liberty lost, in such a short period of time. How can the ideas of liberty succeed in such an environment?
Well, there are some lessons of history that can provide some encouragement. For things are not always as they seem. We may actually be living in a time that has never been better for the ideas of liberty to break through and sweep the world.
Massive changes often happen when they are least expected.
Let’s go back to the year 1763.
The British Empire had soundly defeated the French around the globe, and the French and Indian War came to an end. As the Annual Register recorded of Britain,“In no one year since she was a nation has she been favored with so many successes, both by sea and by land, and in every quarter of the globe.”
Horace Walpole, an English letter writer and chronicler of English life and politics wrote: “Victories come so tumbling over one another from distant parts of the globe that it looks like the handiwork of a lady romance writer…The park guns will never have time to cool. We ruin ourselves with gun-powder and sky-rockets.”
The British were the Kings of the World. Nothing like it had been seen since the days of the Roman Empire.
And yet, just 13 years later, the ideas of Liberty would shake the planet like never before in human history. The seemingly all-powerful British Empire would lose its most prized possession named America.
The saying “Pride cometh before the fall” fits the bill perfectly here. One can only imagine the response that King George III had when hearing of the “Declaration of Independence” from a bunch of his libertarian-minded subjects. We today can imagine Nancy Pelosi having the same type of response.
But ideas are more powerful than even the largest military empires. Enough minds were made up in America, and nothing would stop the birth of “the land of the free”. To top it off, in a sign of poetic justice, the secession from Britain would occur with the help of the French; the very same French who were soundly defeated just 13 years before.
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