The New Sons and Daughters of Liberty reject political dogma in all its forms and permutations. Dogma is the death knell of all political movements and philosophies. Rather we like to proclaim our allegiance to objectivism and pragmatism. It is almost axiomatic that problems define their own solutions. Categorical rejection of real solutions based on dogma is folly if not ignorance. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Among the objective truths of history and the demands of contemporary problem resolution are the words of Edmund Burke when he observed that those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. What follows is a lesson from American revolutionary history updated and adapted for today’s challenges.
It is the Fall of 2011. Unemployment lingers above 9.1 percent; the manufacturing sector of the American economy has long fled our shores; the nation in bankrupt; we continue to expend blood and treasure in hopeless foreign adventures in lands where we are reviled and hated; we remain addicted to the importation of energy resources from theocratic tyrants who pray five times a day for the destruction of what they call “the great satan”; ideological warfare dominates the halls of Congress; fear grips the land. Read, think, respond. We welcome critical analysis.
The Crisis (as amended), by Thomas Pain, December 23, 1776.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he who stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the defense of liberty, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Only heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as liberty should not be highly rated. The collectivists, with an army of elitist supporters to enforce their tyranny, have declared that the right to not only to tax, but to bond the citizenry in all realms of life and if being indentured in such manner, is not bondage, then is there not such a thing as serfdon upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to The Infinate Divine One.
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that The Infinate Divine One will not give up a people to destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of tyranny, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that The Infinate Divine One has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the collectivist/progressives can look up to heaven for help against us: a common criminal, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretense as they.
Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country.Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they can produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret betrayers, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private traitor. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a collectivist/progressive has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which judgment arrives upon these shores. But if we believe the power of hell to be limited, we must likewise believe that their agents are under some providential control.
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