As we gather with family and friends for this Independence Day celebration; as we still hold the memories of how government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by dispatching liberty; we remind ourselves that freedom is a valuable and precious gift worth fighting for.
There are many current anxieties, frustrations and feelings of despondency as our July 4th, 2022, celebrations take place. However, we would be well served to remember that we alone control our responses to events around us.
We can choose to put aside all of the challenges and issues that seem beyond our control, and we can gather in joyful fellowship with our family and friends to celebrate the reason our forefather’s defeated tyranny.
We Americans come from solid stock.
We carry in our DNA a fortitude of individual identity that is not dependent on government for affirmation or permission. We are the beneficiaries of those who believed in stubborn independence. What takes place at your picnic, gathering or assembly of fellowship is your independent choice.
I am reminded of an article written more than two decades ago, that still rings true to this day.
“An American credo, By Don Feder”:
I am an American. I was conceived at Plymouth, born in Lexington and Concord, and reached maturity at Philadelphia.
I went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.
I am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden – still, I seek no quarrel.
I march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.
I am an American. I’m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor — names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt — make my blood stir.
Glancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today — who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.
I am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America’s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation’s destiny.
I am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion — these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.
I am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.
I am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.
I am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.
From the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.
I am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red — Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli’s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn’t a color or creed, but a state of mind.
I am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.
I am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that’s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.
I am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag — faith in God. I acknowledge that America and God, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.
I am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.
I am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.
I am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.”
~ Don Feder

Play FREEBIRD !
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VOA recorded by Sammy Hagar might be a better choice, but that’s just me.
Play LIBERTY by Phil Lesh and Friends.
This
Excellent song, Bad Dog, thank you for that.
If the unselect committee found out the size of my morning insurrection… THEY COULD FINALLY IMPEACH ME!!! MUCHO DANGEROUSO!!!
Good thoughts to all the Deplorables and Ner Do Wells that frequent the blog, may we observing the events in this time of history not squander the efforts and sacrifices of those who went before us when the time to stand up is at hand. And that time is close. FJB and all his minions.
God Bless America and this blessed Treehouse!
Thank you Sundance for all your labors, long may you strive.
And thrive:)
And help to keep America alive
And that ain’t no jive.
And for the “GO DEEP” dive
Let the Valcan salute be given to Sundance… “Live long and prosper”.
May this foreigner be permitted to say
God Bless America!
Welcome aboard — American!
Patrick, you are a spiritual American!
We thank you and bless your country too.
Amen
Seen on a sign somewhere not identified…
“JULY 4, 1776 WAS BORN ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
244 YEARS LATER IT NEEDS TO BE BORN AGAIN.
To which I say an almighty AMEN!!
Just beautiful. Thank you.
Here’s one thing that we can do to protect our freedom: When a MSM news article is biased or inaccurate, we can speak up. We can write a “reader’s comment” reply to the article, which will appear on the news organization’s website.
Keep your comment simple and clear, and stick to the point that you’re trying to make. If possible, include the URL of an article that backs up your point – preferably from news organization that a liberal person would trust.
Try to reply during standard working hours. If you send in your reader comment in the middle of the night, then you might get a “Comment awaiting moderation” response, and your comment might then never get displayed on the website.
Writing a clear, well-backed up reply takes time. But the time is certainly worth it, to protect our beloved country.
Many of them removed the ability to comment. I go on Yahoo finance to see market related items. I have noticed many articles the comments are nixed. I love the commenters on Yahoo many are conservatives and I agree with your sentiment. They set the record straight. I have to say when the MSM removed comments in mid to late 2020 it sent a chill down my spine.
Nix Yahoo…
The worst of the worst of the worst.
Instantaneous propaganda outlet. Yahoo hurtles into attack mode at light speed
whenever the narrative is threatened in any way, shape, form.
Happy fourth, everyone!
Now on to channeling my inner Emo Phillips. Coleslaw has to be made for the
holiday potluck. Swimming has to occur. Neighbors have to be fed.
God Bless Sundance and crew and God Bless America 🙏🙏🙏
And all the wonderful people in the treehouse ♥️
“We are the beneficiaries of those who believed in stubborn independence.”
Been thinking on that…clan-Gregor and I say….
“FREEDOM!”
Happy Independence Day, Treepers!🇺🇸
Semper Fi !
The problem to any patriot American is he is fighting a losing battle…….
The sort of battle where he is forced to call a man….a woman……. where he cannot fly his flag and where others who have just come into the country illegally…actually can have more rights….
That same battle where if you caution a person of a different skin color on their behavior ….YOU are racist….. or when you tell them to leave your property…..you are a misogynistic tyrant….
A battle where those that served the country and those that lay down their life in another era…are now bitter old white men…. and where their racism always shows through.
A battle where the government wants to decide when your child can be sexually aware and where single mothers are somehow encouraged to be in that position…. with politicians that are too old…… to stupid….or simply too liberal to really understand life!
I am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.”
Unless society has a very big rethink on its attitudes and opinions……last of a kind is the likely outcome.
That is why we need to start at the bottom to change the top. Local politics and school boards is where we all need to focus our energies on. If we can change locally we can then change nationally. That is exactly what these Communists did for the last 50 years.
So true……… but unless they see the problem there is no chance…. and…… if come these midterms they are not motivated enough… they never will be!
Might try starting lower than that, try starting at the level of the local HOA.
Can’t raise a radio antenna where you’re at (used for when the cell phones, the current bush, and these internets no longer work?) Can’t raise a Gadsden flag or another flag of your choice? Hint: local elected officials and school boards will not help you.
HOAs don’t apply to me since I live in what the Census Bureau calls a “frontier” area, <5 people per square mile. But HOAs apply to many in FUSA. If you allow little Hitlers who run your neighborhood to affect your daily behavior, then your chances of fighting for school board and local political races is going to be lessened.
I would add the church. We are in the mess we are in, in no small part, due to the apathy of the Christian Church. If the Church will rise up, partner with the Living God, take their rightful place, with boldness and courage, He will restore our land!
The problem we face today is that all the major denominations have been infiltrated with Liberation Theology. Trevor Loudon’s “The Enemy Within the Church” is a great documentary that explores this very issue.
The “major denominations” have been bribed with “refugee” $$$ to
make up for all the lost income from people that quit going to church,
or started making the narrative their religion.
I am no long a Methodist. Currently shopping around for any church
that practices actual religion. Increasingly hard to find in metro Atlanta.
“The problem to any patriot American is he is fighting a losing battle…”
Nope…
The only people who think we’re in a losing battle are those who are not in the battle.
Thank you. Quitters to the rear please
Wrong! Patriots capable of unspeakable violence are among us. Their ranks are small, yet sufficient. They are prepared. They quietly wait.
When the darkest of evil descends upon the Righteous,
Fear not….for the Virtuous shall be called forth.
Fear not….for they carry the Sword of God.
Fear not….for their wrath shall be swift and merciless.
Pray for them……….for they shall be few.
What are we waiting for? A leader. Until then, nothing will happen.
Not until you do somethng about it.
Someone like William Wallace, Francis Marion, Ahmad Shah Massoud, or even Sarah Connor.
Exactly times 1000 !
Better to die as the last free man standing than to live as one of the willfully enslaved cringing on his knees.
Completely disagree.
We MUST NEVER LOSE HOPE. Hopelessness is hell’s trap and the dems are from hell.
We fight to the last man. It is ALL worth it.
None of the boys who fought in WW2 thought of loosing a battle. Visit all the WW2 ships in NC and NC and see what those young men went though! For crying out loud, they fought when their destroyer was almost sunk.
That’s why we are in trouble-too much comfort and a loss of the desire to fight for what is true and just.
Pull the wool off your botoxed face and start praying and fasting – you will see the evil at your door.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Terrific message from Pastor Jeffress this morning!
When he gave his unsolicited opinion on the jab, he lost me forever.
Fabulous! Thank you!
I wish we had sung this at church this morning.
We did!!!
for all you do to water this tree i say THANK YOU Sundance and a blessed 4th for all treepers be well stay strong never give up
R.D.
Thank you Red Dog, and God bless you also.
Hot damn, beautiful cowgirl, Old Glory and a roman candle/sparkler…perfect.
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time.” -Chesty Puller
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”-Chesty Puller, Battle of Chosin
“There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.”-Chesty Puller
Note: I used 3 Chesty Puller quotes, because, well he was a badass.
This is where we find ourselves, but Chesty was truly surrounded. This go round we have the swamp rats surrounded massively, and once we get that understanding, the horror show ends.
God Bless America! …not our government it has nothing to do with the USA.
Have a great 4Th, Happy Birthday America! …uniparty, leftist, globalist are not invited.
Appropriate.
Thanks.
And same to you.
Amen! I was very conflicted about displaying the Stars and Stripes this year but decided to do so because not everything is bad,
there are still great people fighting for this country both here and abroad and, frankly, it might tick of fsome people who see it. Probably not since usually all I get are compliments on the Gasden flag I routinely fly but you never know. We aren’t dead yet!
Some thoughts.
Anyone who is offended by the Gadsden flag should be ashamed of themselves. It is a quintessentially American flag and has a historic place alongside Old Glory with her Stars and Stripes.
Then you have those yahoos who besmirch the symbolism of that flag and likely the same sorts to defile and burn Old Glory.
Those flags belong to all red-blooded Americans. A few morons are not going to redefine those symbols of the spirit of America, unless we let them.
I hung my We Appeal to the Heaven flag this year.
Love your post. God bless you Mari…
Our flag flies EVERY day with a beautiful TRUMP flag under it. We are FREE Americans!
Me too, Keystone. I love our flag and proudly fly it everyday.
The brawler in me knows the left hates them so am tempted to get another and fly two.
I fly the flag at home and my lake house. FJB and F the traitorous left.
I fly the Betsy Ross flag myself
Amen to the Betsy. We are planning a new large flagpole. I am thinking in this order Betsy, flag of Taiwan (just to tick off China), 3rd the Gadsden
Be fearless, steadfast in your faith in God and our common cause of freedom.
Let Old Glory fly in their faces. Let Old Glory remind them of where they live. Let Old Glory be the warning sign to all that we aren’t dead yet and are willing to speak our minds as freedom loving patriots.
Let Old Glory fly!
My 6’ x 4’ Old Glory flies 24hrs a day , well lighted in the dark of night with appropriately aimed illuminations. I may be the last one standing but Alaska will not go down if I’m still standing.
Glory to our King God the father and may He bless this land.
Daughters and Sons of the Revolution here. Husband and I share Pvt Sam Phipps 2nd PA “Henry’s Rifles.” He has two members of the York PA Militia, plus a Col Canan and a Surgeon Rieger 2nd PA and Wm Parr ex-sheriff of Phila. I have Joe Studebaker, translator, Ben Williams Frontier Ranger, Jim Scott spy and the afore mentioned Sam Phipps (lapsed Quaker). Joe Studebaker (Injin Joe) was captured as a kid by Delaware Chief Shingas just after Gen Braddock killed near Pittsburgh.
Cool. : )
Very cool.. I wish I were a daughter of the Revolution..
We are a dying breed. Over the years the two chapters I belonged to went kaput as death overcame us. I’m over 80 and can only be “at large” as no local chapter. Lots of help, Bananas, with research if you want to join.
yeah my local chapter is being run by just a few of us we have no
top officers but doing our best to keep the chapter going.
The Sons of the American Revolution are doing well here. Bunch of big guys who eat a lot and are very religious. Every meeting they dedicate to one battle and go over it in detail. They know all about their patriot(s) and their families. The Daughters seemed to have no idea who their patriot(s) were and mostly talked about how to wear pins and fund raisers. Boring.
My ggg grandfather, Major James Carter and Colonel Elijah Clark’s adjutant, was killed by the British in 1780 at the siege of Augusta. I think we have a small SAR chapter here but don’t know who to contact to join.
just google your city and sons of the american revolution. they have great databases and happy to help.
James Carter born VA 1750 died in refugee camp 9/18/1780. DAR Ancestor #A019945. Wife Mary Martin
Capt. Carter has one son FARISH whose descendents are listed in NSDAR database.
Maybe you should read a little bit more about what the DAR does for others and look at their ancestor database before comparing them to the SAR.
https://www.dar.org/
Don’t I have to have an ancestor that was here during the American Revolution, or fought in it? I don’t think mine did as I am Cajun… but it would be AWESOME if they were.
I can do that research…
Yes, Bananas, your Patriot had to contribute something even signing they supported the Revolution. One lady’s sold horses to the army, another’s had an armaments factory, Wm Parr escaped Philadelphia with the records just ahead of the lobster backs. Do not have to have been soldiers. Surprising who your great grandmothers ancestors. It must be blood relative no cousins or in-laws. Proof must be certain: old family Bibles, church records, wills, etc.
Thanks merrie.
We go back to Luke Kelly, An Irishman who came over and fought against the Brits here.
Only Luke Kelly in NSDAR database born in Virginia 4-3-1757 died Ohio 11-25-1821. Married Mary Keyser and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, have DAR members. Are you sure Luke’s dad isn’t the one straight from Ireland. The Irish disliked the Brits more than we did.
My ancestors, William Fletcher and John Church were both at Valley Forge with George Washington.
I have the application to join DAR San Diego but Covid 19 ran interference. Good to meet all you DAR
Treepers! Happy 4th!
DAR Member here from CT.. My DAR patriot ancestor Moses hailed from MA
and was a private..
“Yea, we have a goodly heritage…”
From the 1942 movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdyJX1jaUI
Great clip, thanks!
On this holiday please remember these wise words “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronal Reagan
I am an American and tomorrow, this Patriot will celebrate, this amazing country’s real Independence Day. I will forever believe in America First. This country is the greatest on God’s earth, and it will never relinquish that title. As this country goes, the world follows.
When I look, America is standing there
I can almost breathe her in like summer in the air
When I look at her, America is touching me
I would reach for her, but who can hold a memory?
WATCH: 100-year-old WWII vet cries, says America today ‘not what they died for’
The 100-year-old WWII vet cried for those growing up in America today saying, “Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It’s just not the same. That’s not what our boys, that’s not what they died for.”
Florida native and World War II veteran Carl Spurlin Deke turned 100-years-old on June 29th and began crying as he reflected on the current state of America.
Worth a second view. Awesome.
Thank you. This was much needed today.
I’m overjoyed that the SCOTUS is dispatching the DC usurpation of power not granted in the Constitution
This last few weeks ma my cases pulled back the judicial tyrrany. Everything back to the states
Executive branch started with EPA and will continue next session
Congress next
This is what PJT has done and is still doing
States rights. And the power of DC only comes from We the People
Make sure you state Constitutional Republic when You hear these cretins say Democracy
Mob rule never works and only ushers in socialism and communism
Knock them back hard
Democracy dies. Yes absolutely
“freedom is a valuable and precious gift worth fighting for…”
That said, it’s probably about time to start fighting.
Lincoln’s Electric Cord Speech
Leftists in America call themselves Americans, yet their solipsistic sense of self-importance cannot abide individuals with God-given inalienable rights interfering with their designs for totalitarian control. Unlike a FDR or JFK Democrat, a Leftist will swear on the life of his mother that his respect for the inalienable rights of individuals is as profound as Jefferson and Lincoln’s. Yet, that same Leftist would just as easily renounce the entire founding of this nation, and sell his own mother into slavery, if it meant achieving his utopian vision of a collectivist state. To that end, Leftists are singularly dedicated to “fundamentally transforming” this nation into a totalitarian collective by diluting the population of American Citizens with non-assimilating illegal immigrants.
One of their recurring tactics is the repurposing of our icons as beachheads for their assaults on our principles. For example, through relentless huffs and puffs of political correctness and shameless appeals to emotion, Leftists call for the eradication of this nation’s borders by citing a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty—placed “in loving memory of Emma Lazarus,” circa 1903—as “defining us as Americans.” If Abraham Lincoln was resurrected today, he’d find the idea of a socialist’s sonnet from the late 19th century “defining us as Americans” more painful than the bullet from John Wilkes Booth’s derringer. In fact, if Lincoln actually saw Lady Liberty, he’d probably direct our attention to the tablet in her hand, inscribed July IV, MDCCLXXVI, by reciting this little ditty of his:
A person without boundaries surrenders himself to the mercies of those around him; allowing them to define him however they wish. Likewise, a nation stripped of its borders can neither defend nor define itself; surrendered to the mercies of its occupiers.
Just as a bartender who steals from his employer by giving away free drinks to increase his tips is a fraud and a thief, an American Marxist who gives away his country to illegal aliens to “fundamentally transform” it while increasing his own power is what Dante called a “complex fraud.”
In Dante’s Inferno, the ninth and final circle of hell—two levels below murderers and one level below regular frauds—was reserved for those who committed the worst sin of all; “complex fraud;” i.e., fraudulent acts between individuals who share special bonds of love and trust, a.k.a. treachery and treason.
The ninth circle is divided into four rings of increasing treachery:
1. Treason to family
2. Treason to country
3. Treason to friends or guests
4. Treason to benefactor
Dante named the second ring, dedicated to Treason to country, “Antenora;” after the Trojan prince, Antenor. According to Greek mythology, during the Trojan War when the Greeks had surrounded the city of Troy, Antenor opened the city gates and allowed the Greeks to overrun it and burn it to the ground. In exchange, the Greeks spared Antenor’s life. After the war, Antenor went on to found the city of Padua; where he was buried with the epitaph: “Hic iacet Antenor Paduane conditor Urbis. Proditor ipse fuit et qui sequuntur eum.” “Here lies Antenor, the founder of the city of Padua. A traitor he was, and those who follow him.”
Like Antenor of Troy, Leftists calling for the eradication of America’s borders seek to “fundamentally transform” it by diluting its citizenry united by “the electric cord in that Declaration” with a “diverse” and permanently dependent underclass loyal only to the Marxist frauds that lowered the gates for them.
“WE ARE AT WAR…
…even though we think we’re not. We don’t see bullets flying. This is a new kind of war, and it’s a war that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has developed very skillfully. Stalinists also developed it skillfully. It’s never been done to us like this before….”
— Dr. Naomi Wolf
COVID-19 is not a public health emergency; it’s a treasonous cognitive warfare operation. It’s about terrorizing people out of old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas by killing off old people. It’s about murdering our mothers and grandmothers to foster the illusion of a desperate disease justifying desperate remedies designed to isolate and atomize humanity, destroy all forms of capital, and extinguish the fire of free society worldwide. It’s about diseasing us with desperation to rid ourselves of our American social compact and embracing a “new normal.” Where Americans are no longer born with the inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Where the State has taken the place of God and State slavery is a form of worship. Where the American individual is deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed, educated , vaccinated and surveilled as a ‘depotentiated social unit.’ It’s about replacing the government of Liberty Loving Americans with the Totalitarian game of Mother May I. It’s about a cartoon ideology so hostile to life, liberty and individual happiness that resolving to burn the planet to a cinder in lieu of surrender has been the only language that Leftists have respected since the dawn of the cold war.
(The rest of my letter to Naomi Wolf is posted here:
https://www.houseofstone76.com/
We’re not dead yet.
Well said.
Sundance, Thank you for this haven❣️
Thank you, good people who gather here!
The interaction, information ….
and fellowship
is so “American”.
Lord, Bless us all.
-🇺🇸
Happy 4th of July to the Patriots here who help me maintain my faith and sanity.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But 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.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
I broke it up into some paragraphs to make it easier on the eyes.
The Declaration of Independence listed 27 reasons against King George some of which are relevant with today’s tyranny.
For establishing … an arbitrary government (fraud elections)
For … altering fundamentally the forms of our governments
He has made judges dependent on his will alone
Subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people
For imposing taxes on us without our consent (in our case inflation)
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us (BLM, Antifa, FBI)
He has burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people
He has refused his asssent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good (close borders).
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance
In every stage of these opppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury
We have nearly come full circle.
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
Once more, we will need to standfast, and steel ourselves. Duty calls for those with the spirit to answer it.
Wow, sound familiar…huh?
Words to live by. What men were these? Are we up to the challenge? Yes. For our posterity.
“Facts submitted to a candid world” Could they write or what?
I don’t think I’ve ever read this list of facts/grievences and I just love it. Imagine how it all went down. Thanks Aggiegirl.
I want to see the movie when I get to Heaven.
The admins see my IP address all day every day…pretty much. Up thread, Patience called this place a haven. I agree.
God bless you all and thanks for your felllowship.
Beautiful! Thank you, Sundance, and The Conservative Tree House! I am so grateful to have found The Last Refuge! You all mean so much to me.
Happy Independence Day! You are part of America’s treasure! Each and every one of you.
first thing in morning and last thing at night God, family (cth) and country
May God bless all of you. Happy Independence Day.
Freedom!
Born In The USA
(If Springstein had been a real American)
Born down in a rust belt town
Learned to love this land
When tootsies touched the ground
You hear about folks who sing a diff’rent song
But you spend all your time
Tryin’ to get along
Born in the US ….
Had a November ’20 wake up call
Forced to push back lest we lose it all
Rouse up folks in my native land
Go fight the schemes of the Hair Plug Man
Took my concern to a Townhall space
RINO said “Son doncha know your place.”
Fired an E-mail to my Senate man
He said, “Son that aint in the plan”
Had a brother .. in Saigon
Helping folks flee the Vietcong
We pulled out; they’re all gone
Left to their fate cause we lost our will
Their pleading faces haunt him still
Down in the shadow of the Capitol Hill
Where Nancy and the RINOS crushed the peoples will
Twenty months since they stole our rights
No room to give, have to stand and fight
Born in the USA, I was born in the USA
Born in the USA; Im a fired bagger in the USA
Thank you at CTH for another excellent reminder for Americans this year. Have s really great celebration tomorrow!
Retired Magistrate here: Went to our little country church today and our pastor stated that the recent Supreme Court rulings were not a win for conservatives, nor a loss for liberals, but a win for the United States Constitution. He then went on to preach about the Bible being the WORD of GOD.
It was a great sermon and a wonderful gathering of brothers and sisters in Christ. We might be a small congregation but we are mighty in our love for the LORD.
Everyone have a wonderful Independence Day with family and friends. GOD Bless America!
How can I believe in America again. Can I ever do so? How can I smile on the Fourth of July when I know deep down it’s not a celebration of independence for the American citizen, but rather a celebration of free reign for the federal government over its populace?
You won your war against England and can do to us what you please. Vaccine mandates, sky high inflation on everything, lock downs, drone strikes, domestic spying, interfering in foreign and domestic elections, policing the world, installing dictators and funding radical rebel groups only to fight them decades later, endless wars, drowning in spending and debt. Some freedom.
If it’s your thing to celebrate this day, then please do. I take no pride in this country I am sad to say, but not at the fault of me. I didn’t vote for all this, I didn’t create the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
We are prisoners in a cage. “Freedom.”
I can understand how you feel. But part of being American is a state of mind.
I honor my patriot ancestor who fought in the Revolution,my family
members who fought in WWI, WWII etc, I fly my flag,
I will wear red white and blue tomorrow.. As much as the government tries
to break us..they won;t make me ashamed of being an American..
Look up!
I take no pride in those in power who call themselves our leaders.
But they are not America.
You are America. So is Sundance, so are most of those who comment here.
It is discouraging to feel that you are alone, but you are not.
There is a fire of God-given freedom in the hearts of these brothers and sisters here at the Treehouse. While even one of us lives who knows what freedom is, freedom is alive, too.
And never forget that the One Who died to set us free will never know defeat.
Freedom is the will of God for man.
Be strong and of good courage.
You are not alone.
Thank you. Your words of encouragement mean a lot, and the fellowship at the Treehouse also. It is easy to feel alone sometimes, but all of this is from God, the free will. The founding fathers knew that at least.
It’s my choice to give this organized crime syndicate power and control over my thoughts or my vision of America or not.
Truth be known, these satanists are not worthy of walking in the shoes of 99.9% of us on this site. They are evil, vile people
At 78 years old, I have loved my country since I was a little girl and I’m not going to stop now. The pride I have felt placing my hand over my heart as a little girl reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. The joy of watching a small town parade and marching band on the 4 th of July. The blessings received from God as I thanked him in my prayers. The thrill of singing The Star Spangled Banner . The pride I have felt for those who have served to keep us free.
Fellow Treepers, we must all continue to count our blessings instead of sheep. It is through our vision of a great America that we will defeat evil and restore our great country.
Happy 4th to all.
We’ve Got This!!!
Happy Birthday America!
The song that I raised my boys on is the song that is as important and appropriate today as it was 26 and 21 years ago.
Triumph
Fight the Good Fight 🙌🏼
The words will your life!!!
Stay frosty my Patriot friends 🫵❤️🇺🇸❤️🫵
To think of the first time, it dawned on my consciousness that I had by G_d Almighty’s grace been born here, in America, in this time, amazes me still! And that I found a wife, had a family and found The Treehouse is the trifecta of life. Thank you Sundance for all you do! May your days be many, your hardships few and your health strong. America must, and SHALL survive!
God bless America & all who fought for her.
I’ll be celebrating Independence Day as I always have, with a grateful heart that I was blessed to be born in the greatest country on 🌍.
I’ll reflect on my numerous missing family members & the gubmint’s culpability in that tomorrow.
AMEN for the ACCURATE DESCRIPTION by Don Feder OF —> AN AMERICAN
PRESIDENT TRUMP WON!!
God Bless America.
Not a Son of revolutionaries or Pilgrims
Just the generational offspring of Austrian/Polish/German
legal immigrants.
My offspring and I will be firing up the grill and the smoker on Monday.
Links, ribs, steaks, dogs, burgers, and all the assorted sides.
We will read aloud the Declaration of Independence together again.
When it gets dark, we will blow some sheet up.
Happy 4th!
I think the Pilgrims and Revolutionaries will be proud to claim you as a descendant of the ideal that is America.
When I was a kid, we were taught about our true history, even on Saturday mornings during cartoon time…this was not that long ago. It is beyond sad and a travesty where we are today.
Here’s a little throwback to the 70’s and the last bastion of instilling patriotism into our youth…feel free to share these Schoolhouse Rock vids with your wee ones! (To this day whenever I hear the Preamble, I hear that tune in my head!)
Happy Independence Day, Treepers!
God bless you all and God bless America–let freedom ring!
WHEN WE Actually LEARNED USEFUL STUFF on SATURDAY MORNINGS — Like Mentioned earlier
–> NOT TO STAND IN a RED CIRCLE <–
I know many are discouraged because of what is going on in our country . This 4th of July seems different. Not as many fireworks, people not doing the normal family get togethers because of the price of gas. I wonder what our forefathers would have done . It is hard to figure out as we have never had to face this situation . That being said, and since it is 4th of July thought I’d mention a year ago my church had a program by Dan Fisher, one of our state representatives. The name of his presentation is “Bringing Back the Black Robed Regiment”. If you have the time look it up as he has a site on the internet. It showed the courage of those that fought for our country
Here’s a link for anyone looking for more on this program.
https://www.danfisherbrr.com/home
See also the doctrine of the lesser Magistrates. A link for a .pdf follows.
https://fecunited.com/wp-content/uploads/The_Doctrine_of_the_Lesser_Magistrates_A_Proper_Resistance_to_Tyranny_and_a_Repudiation_of_Unlimited_Obedience_to_Civil_Matthew_J_Trewhella_etc.pdf
American Heros Channel is running a self funded mini series about the Revolutionary War.
I hope that’s you on the beach. I think it is.
More fireworks in this area of the country, where we weren’t supposed to even HAVE fireworks, than I’ve seen in years. People are fed up with being told what to do, where to do it and how we should be doing it. FJB was the chant we heard all day all around this area. One of our state reps was mentioned several times in many of those FJB chants, as well ! People are well and truly fed up with all of the nonsense coming at us from every direction.
Screw “freedom.” Give me Liberty or give me Death.
God bless America.