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Dave Lindorff, This Can t Be Happening: 'Today is the anniversary of the day that the nation?s founders, gathered in Philadelphia a few miles from my house (which as it happens had already been standing for about 28 years old at the time), at great personal risk, signed the Declaration of Independence, with its ringing declaration that all men-Americans and everyone else, too - are born equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'

http://www.truth-out.org/our-incredible-shrinking-constitution/1309792268

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Reflections on the Pledge of Allegiance this Fourth of July

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

07/02/11

In short the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance represent two distinct philosophical concepts which are diametrically opposed. The Declaration of Independence presents a rationale for individual political liberty as against an established authority. The Pledge of Allegiance satisfies a collective political (and presently overtly religious) demand for obligatory individual loyalty and conformance to an established authority, i.e. god and country...

http://tinyurl.com/3z649er



Independence Day hypocrisy

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

07/05/11

All US federal holidays wreak of hypocrisy, representing notions and events other than what they commemorate. Besides Christmas, none perhaps is more celebrated than when America became independent from Britain on July 4, 1776. Coming in the summer, parades, outings, barbecues, other celebratory events, and baseball highlight the day for many - relaxing, not reflecting on the same independence we deny nations globally, waging imperial wars and other ways to prevent it.'

http://tinyurl.com/66msyvj



Has the American Revolution s rationale lost its force?

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

07/03/11

'To repeat, our ancestors declared that 'when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.' Do the Americans of today deny that they also possess this right and this duty?

http://tinyurl.com/4ywrnj7



The forgotten founding document

The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

07/04/11

Every July 4th, America celebrates the signing of the document commonly known as the Declaration of Independence. However, there is another document, adopted a year earlier that, in my opinion, helped lay the foundation for the Declaration of Independence. This document, which contains some of the most moving words ever spoken by Founders, needs to be read and celebrated by every American who still values liberty...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/2011/07/04/greenslade.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Whatever Happened to the Freedom to Fly?

By Brian J. Foley

Memo to Southwest Airlines: Why Don t You Honor All Defenders of Liberty This Fourth of July?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28483.htm



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