Independent thoughts…
July 2, 2011
Two days till our country’s independence day celebration. Makes me wonder how free are we really anymore? Each week there is talk of another law to ‘protect’ in some manner. Yesterday I had two experiences that made me think. One was where a man was saying that he would wish the customer service representative that waited on him a happy 4th, but independence really didn’t come until 1887. He does not realize, but his independence day has yet to arrive. The mindset is far more powerful than he understands. Perhaps someday, but I seriously doubt it. The other event was while listening to a call in show. A listener made the statement how his ancestrial grandfather from Germany came to America and at age 17 fought with General George Washington. He went on to say that he was in a lineage of people who loved America and that he made it a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly habit of saying as such; that there are a lot of people that are doing the same. I didn’t agree. He sounded like he would be older than me and I reasoned no, no this is not true. If it were true, then our country would not be in the shape it is in today. This very hour,in fact. Were his grandfather from the George Washington era here today, I believe he would be so very ashamed of his granson , his people and with this nation for what we’ve, yes WE’VE allowed to happen. Their work was in vain. Shame. For shame.
