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Declaration of
Independence Readings in
Texas
2010 Part 1
For four years now, the Constitution Party of
Texas has had a small, but growing program to
sponsor and encourage Texans to gather at their
county courthouses on the 4th of July and read
the Declaration of Independence out loud.
Sometimes it's only an individual, or a single
family. This year, on our nation's 234th
birthday, we did it again. Several of you
participated in this event, and took children
along to see that their parents and
grandparents take this thing called Liberty
very seriously.
Some have referred to the gathering of those
lawfully elected delegates of the Colonies as
"the Cradle of Liberty", but we would disagree.
The Cradle of Liberty was neither the Battle of
Lexington nor the Declaration of
Independence. Before there can be a
harvest, there must be seeds planted, and the
incubation period for that most remarkable
event in the political history of the world had
required about 150 years of fathers reading the
Bible to their families every morning and every
evening.
Out of that spiritual climate of Faith in God
and Jesus Christ came a generation of leaders
who were not only capable but determined to
convey their faith into the public arena of
government -- men who understood that Freedom
comes from Obedience to God, and the
application of His laws to human acts of
legislation.
They believed that the king himself was subject
to the Law, and the Law was subject to the
Creator and the Savior. Radical stuff,
both then (to the Europeans) and now (to the
Humanists). But it resulted in a country
where Life, Liberty and Property became
protected, not subsidized, not burdened with
control, but where the opportunity to fail was
just as important as the opportunity to
succeed.
These men were, by today's paltry standards,
religious fanatics who knew little of
"political correctness", and nothing of
"sensitivity training".
But they had HOPE -- hope of seeing their
posterity living in a climate of freedom, NOT
merely equality as the property of the Crown.
They sought CHANGE -- from the tyranny of
Central Planning to the exhilarating liberty of
every man planning his own destiny.
Sure, there were still improvements to be made
-- they were radical for their day, and yet
they had blind spots (like we all do).
They compromised on many things in order to
hammer out a workable system of government
which released the potential of its citizens
like nothing known to history.
When we stop what we are doing, on a national
holiday, and remind ourselves and our children
why we have had such a country for so long, we
plant the seeds for them to repeat the process
and to hold at bay the wolves which never cease
baying for "Equality, Fraternity,
Liberty."
That slogan, from the perverted French
Revolution, lives on today. It was the
antithesis of what our Founding Fathers
created, for it resulted not in the building of
anything, but in the tearing down of a society,
then subsiding into absolute tyranny and murder
on a scale never seen before in Europe, then
ending in the welcome relief brought by a
military dictator.
If American continues on its path today, of
redistribution of the wealth instead of
allowing the People to create new wealth, then
Liberty will die and the Servant - the State -
will become our new masters, and that Dream of
our ancestors will have died.
We trust that we can rekindle the flame, with
God's help, and see Freedom on the march once
again.
And we trust that you will finally be willing
to cast off the psycho-babble of the two major
Socialist parties in America, and help us build
a viable alternative. Our duty is to
obey. Victory will come to us only when
enough people start to care about reserving
their votes for a standard of Constitutional
Law, minimal government, where government is
not regarded as the solution and not the
provider of welfare and subsidy.
We encourage you to build the Constitution
Party in your county, and help us build an
infrastructure that will have thousands of
citizens listening, and participating in the
readings of the Declaration next year, in your
county.
Our readings were published in several
newspapers around the state.
See link below to the article in the Princeton
Herald:
http://www.princetonherald.com/
We have posted a short video showing some of
the sights and sounds of our annual reading of
the Declaration of Independence. Click
here to see the video.
For Life, Liberty and Property,
Bryan Malatesta
Chairman
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