Happy Insurrection Day! By Michael Maharrey

Let’s never forget that our country was the result of insurrection. From Michael Maharrey at schiffgold.com:

Today we celebrate insurrection.

No. I don’t mean the fake Jan. 6, 2021, “insurrection.” I’m talking about the bonafide insurrection staged by American colonists against the British government.

We call July 4 “Independence Day.” But the British called it an act of rebellion.

You see, insurrection is in the eye of the beholder.

Technically, the British were right. Encyclopedia Britannica defines insurrection as “an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects.”

The idea of insurrection offends modern sensibilities, and it is certainly an extreme last resort.

But it’s not always unjustified.

Today, Americans tend to be passive when it comes to resisting government. When we get mad, we protest. When we get really mad, we try to vote the bums out (and usually end up with more bums) or sue in federal court (basically asking the government to fix the government).

But this certainly wasn’t the mindset of the founding generation. Americans in that day believed tyranny should be resisted.

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One response to “Happy Insurrection Day! By Michael Maharrey

  1. Horny Viking Coup Putsch Insurrection's avatar Horny Viking Coup Putsch Insurrection

    Read about clueless Mother Jones article advocating to celebrate the bureaucracy.
    No one could be that dull and void.
    Oh…wait.
    Remember the potted plants posing as humans Fauci worshippers?
    Reset times, to counter revolution.

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