Being that it is Independence Day in this great Republic, The United States of America, I find it fitting to refer you to a great article posted from a place you would normally associate with hippies, war protestors and flag burners (the U.S. flag, not any other one), Santa Cruz, California.
Entitled ”As We See It: Declaration of Independence: Great in any version”, it is a great post and I recommend you read it.
To stimulate your appetite, here is an excerpt:
But when a government becomes tyrannical and abusive with consistent, repeated violations of the people’s rights, with the intent to make them slaves of the state, then the people have the right — in fact, the duty — to revolt and put new safeguards in place to protect their future rights.

Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and keeper of our northern defense ring, has decided to run. Before you liberals start quipping she is running away from Alaska, Let me set you straight. She is running toward a new goal. 
Enjoy your freedom. It was earned by brave men and women that gave their lives, fortunes and souls for our initial and continued freedom from despots and repressive politicians.
Pray to God with worship and thanks, as He is our Creator who gave us the Unalienable Rights of which our Founding Fathers enumerated some, but not all, of them in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States and The Bill Of Rights. Also Pray to God with thanksgiving that our founders created our Republic that we enjoy today.
Also give thanks for the millions of men and women Americans of all descents for their service they gave to us in defending these Rights for us and people all over the world who requested our help in remaining free or for liberation from tyrants. Many of our troops paid the ultimate sacrifice to make and keep us free and it is our duty to make sure we remain that way.
God bless,
Fred
July 4, 2009
A couple of months ago, I started receiving reports of BATFE agents invading people who had Federal Firearms Licenses (FFLs). They were rude and ripped through the dealers’ records and questioning them in detail on a random basis. 
July 1, 2009, By Fred Hoot in Business, Economy and Finance
Bernie Mad(en)off was sentenced to 150 years in prison for floating a ponzi scheme that allowed him to live a lavish lifestyle for years. A lot of people lost most of what they had invested, some lost everything. The strange thing is that some people actually of people made money. 
July 1, 2009, By Fred Hoot in Politics, Voters Rights and Fraud
Norm Coleman gave up today when the Minnesota Supreme Court assigned his Senate seat to Al Franken, the SNL comedian and Extreme left-wing Marxist leader of Air America which went bankrupt during his radio show.
The first policy statement out of his mouth was his announcement that he will push the Marxian government mandated health care. The second piece of stuff out of his mouth was his promise to make Minnesota the center of alternative energy to lead the way to eliminate the need for foreign oil. I bet he is not talking about drilling our own oil, just drilling us, the taxpayers. 
June 27, 2009, By Fred Hoot in First Amendment
Imagine applying for a job and finding the following information request: “Please list any and all, current personal or business Web sites, Web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.” Placed below this request, which is actually a demand (skip this section and you will not get the job) are three lines for the username and password of your accounts. The city of Bozeman, Montana has been doing that for years. 
Friday, June 6th, 2009 is an historic day in the history of the United States. This day will be written in history as the start of the destruction of capitalism in the United States. On top of this the House of Representatives run by Madam I-worked-hard-for-this-title Pelosi voted to create Carbon Trading Billionaires sponsored by the plebian tax payers. 
The Democrat Party is working on culminating the Marxist/Socialist wet dream of epic of all time. Socialized medical forced upon their citizens/subjects is the ultimate people control other than mass murder. The world’s communist and Nazi dictators elected or not, were very good at that (mass murder, not the socialized medicine). 
June 25, 2009, By Fred Hoot in Music

I turned on the news and I saw the announcement of the death of Farrah Fawcett. Ed McMahon had just died a couple of days ago and I wondered about that old urban legend that celebrity deaths come in threes. Who would be next? 