19 April 2010

Happy Patriot's Day.

235 years ago today, a bunch of men assembled on the town green in Lexington, Massachusetts, and at the bridge at Concord a few miles down the road, and fired 'the shot heard round the world' . We called those men patriots, because they risked their lives that day (and some gave their lives) to defend the most basic human right - liberty. Such men were hated and reviled by the government then, and by those who clung to that government for their power, and are still hated today. But the patriots prevailed, and changed the world.

Today, not much has changed. Well, except this - the patriots of today's revolution will win the day with ballots, not bullets; with speech, not swords. We have not reached the point of arms to defend our Rights in our own nation; I pray we never do.

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