A question for Independence Day 2014: How can we Americans maintain our vigilance for liberty and justice?

Check out this site.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270964/four...

By refusing to depend on government or any organization to fight to preserve that and by realizing it is those very organizations which are the greatest threat to our Liberty.

By not needing them any more.

Men with rifles are way less dangerous to "The System(s)" than men with garden hoes.

Why? Because the powers that be know how to deal with men with rifles. Indeed, they crave uprisings because putting them down increases the power of The Systems.

Why are men with garden hoes more dangerous? Because they are more self-reliant and need Systems less. Don;'t need the FDA, don't need the EPA, don;t need Monsanto or Kroger grocery Empire because they trade firewood for eggs in their neighborhood. That is a very direct threat to those who always strive to increase our dependence on corporate/governmental complexes. I should probably mention The Church plays the same game, but that's a different letter.

How do we maintain our vigilance? Knowledge is power.

We now have the tools (which humanity has never before had) with which to educate ourselves. Internet, etc. 10 years from now you won't recognize the American education system. There will still be some brick & mortar but half the teachers will not be needed and most education will have gone private enterprise.

Educator: educate thyself:

http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/reformation-of-e...

http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/jacks-rants-2

http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/info-graphic-and...

Unions arguing about merit pay is so obsolete because in 10 years a good teacher can make a whole lot more money designing and teaching classes online to way more students than s/he can now in a room. Only the top 50% will find customers. The bottom 50% will have to find some other line of work.

Need I mention the economics of scale? We now spend more per student in the government schools than it costs to send a student to a very good private school.Instead of teaching 35 kids, which results in the lowest common denominator controlling the pace, what if a good teacher could teach 1,000, each at his own pace? The geniuses will burn through it like a wildfire and the ordinary will get a much higher quality of education than under the current system and both at a much lower cost per student than is now available.

The times they are a changing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4A72JEgRs

Which loops back to your question. The mistake the rebels of the 1960s made was rebelling. By pushing against something, you tie yourself to it. They would have been wiser to just blow it off and ignore it, laugh at the absurdity of it and walk away: then they would have been much more free.

It is the first duty of government to provide security for its people. However, the people must be ever vigilant that the government doesn't use this as an excuse to curtail freedom of the individual or hide embarrassing matters for reasons of 'National Security'. Guard with your lives the freedom of the press.

He says all is not lost. Well no, all is being given away. Literally. Today's entitlement generation are a bunch of spoiled children who do not appreciate or even comprehend the value of what they've been given. THAT'S the problem. They welcome this third world invasion as if there will be no consequences. Why wouldn't they. They've been protected from the consequences of their actions all their lives.

Sorry if I sound negative but there's no sugar coating this. We're in big trouble.

Reset immigration to the old standards where immigrants had to rely on family members because the US was not in the business of creating victims. No food stamps, no housing or any kind of subsidy should be awarded to illegal who sneak over the US border, just a jail term then deportation.

Happy 4th

PATRIOT act turned the US into a disguised dictatorship.