On this day, April 18, 1775, two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul Revere, on a "midnight ride" along with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, rode to warn of the impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and the seizure of weapons by the British. Only Prescott finished the ride.
In 1860, over forty years after his death, the ride became the subject of "Paul Revere's Ride," a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was one of the most well-known in American history and was memorized by generations of schoolchildren. Most students today would not recognize the name.
The next day, April 19, 1775, was the Battle of Lexington and Concord. British General Thomas Gage attempted to confiscate American colonists' firearms. Captain John Parker ordered his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the "shot heard round the world." The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.
If Paul Revere, Sam Adams, and John Hancock were to be teleported through time into the 21st century, I don't think there can be any serious doubt that they would immediately begin another American Revolution. Americans pay 5-10 times more in direct taxes than the British attempted to levy on the colonists. Of the money you have left after withholding, half the price of a new car represents taxes passed on to consumers. More people are employed as professional tax preparers than doctors.
But consider also the purposes to which those taxes are employed. Planned Parenthood receives tax dollars and kills the unborn. The federal judiciary removes religion and morality from local schools. The National Endowment for the Arts funds pornographic "art" and "theater." Dictators receive hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. The values fought for by America's Founding Fathers are under assault by the federal government they created.
They would work to abolish it if they were alive today.
Completely abolish it.
Virtually every state in the union is larger than the entire population of the 13 colonies combined. And all of the enemies from which the federal government protects us (so we have been taught by the government's schools) have been created or funded by the federal government.
A world of "Liberty Under God" depends upon the willingness and fortitude of the American people to abolish the federal government.
Should we take up arms against the government?
A suicidal and hopeless task. The government has nukes. We could not win.
But even if armed revolution could succeed, it would be immoral, as I argued on this web page 7 years ago.
The American Revolution succeeded because there was a substantial number of people who understood the concept of "Liberty Under God." Too many Americans today want security rather than liberty, and want to be their own god, or let the federal government play god for them. Not only have Americans devolved back to the days before 1776, they have essentially fallen back to the days of feudal serfs. A great deal of de-programming and education must take place before we can expect libertarian victory over "the cult of the omnipotent state."
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