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Guido Says by Guido Colacci
What Independance Day Means
Between the Bar — B — Qs , the beers , the kids , the 3 day weekend , the fireworks , the baseball games , the pool , the hot dogs and hamburgers , the parades , the patriotism and the flag waving , and the marching bands , and most of all , celebrating our so called FREEDOMS ... PLEASE take 20 minutes and read the Declaration of Independence ... REALLY READ IT ... let the words and the meaning and the original intent sink in . Now compare it to what it has come to mean today ... WOW , pretty sobering huh , even after all those beers ? ANYONE can dress like Uncle Sam and wave the flag and march in parades , but how many people have actually read the Constitution ? How many people know the words , the wrongs that were done that pushed us as a very young colony that belonged to England to create a revolution and fight our very Mother country to become America , The United States of America … It would be unheard of in today ’ s day and age to discuss revolution in amerikkka … in fact it is against the law and its called sedition , treason , or terrorism . And the government would come down on its “ citizens ” like a sledge hammer with no mercy . The definition of sedition is conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch . And treason , the definition of treason is the offense of acting to overthrow one ’ s government or to harm or kill its sovereign . committing a violation of allegiance to one ’ s sovereign or to one ’ s state . And the betrayal of a trust or confidence ; breach of faith ; treachery . All of these unlawful acts , whether one wants to call them sedition , treason , terrorism , or freedom fighting … were the EXACT things that our Founding Fathers who we revere and have sanctified to the level of sainthood committed against the country who we were a part of and that was England , which we said , was oppressing us , and not letting us have the rights we deserved and taxing us without representing us for our own good .
In reality , England was doing what was best for England , no different than we do what is best for amerikkka today .
So in understanding the meaning , words and intent and knowing how our country became our country , which was through land theft , imperialism , genocide , slavery , oppression , eminent domain , propaganda and war and war and more wars … war for profit , war for strategic control , war for our best interests , war for land grab , war for imperialism , but NEVER for freedom , unless it is ‘ freedom ” to make huge profits for certain individuals of the government or working for the government … aside from the Revolutionary War , in truth there is not a single war in which amerikkkan boys and girls have fought and died for the cause of our “ FREEDOMS ”. The freedoms we are reminded each holiday that men and women have died for us so that we can enjoy these “ freedoms .” ... I have had enough of this faux patriotic rhetoric , I ’ m calling people out … aside from the Revolutionary War , I want to know exactly and specifically which wars we fought that threatened our freedoms here and which freedoms specifically were threatened and how ?… Yeah , I can ’ t think of one either ... so sadly we realize a few things . First , we realize we are only playing lip service to The Declaration of Independence . It is a sick joke on all the citizens except the 1 %. Second , the Fourth of July as we know it today , has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with honoring our military or our freedoms … It is about one thing and that is , our Declaring Independence from England . and third , the Declaration of Independence is a document of revolution and war against England . But that was almost 250 years ago and now perhaps we can find the courage in ourselves to speak , to see and to hear and MOST importantly to tell the truth . We can and MUST admit to ourselves the ugly and frightening reality bubbling up all around us . WE HAVE BECOME THE VERY THING WE FOUGHT A REVOLUTION TO GET AWAY FROM ...
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