Article by Colonel Nogov on May 5, 2015
An observation of history
The American Revolution started years before the fighting started. It started with education, an understanding of liberty. Men fight for causes. Those causes must be just. This is why communist revolutions are more common than freedom revolutions. The communists speak of justice, equality. These noble lies sound just. Men fall for it. But… The communist’s justice is a whip at your back. The slavery of the individuals to the collective. It’s a sinking ship. It’s the false promise of benefits without costs. There are no benefits without costs. No, No, No.
Freedom is the ultimate ideal. Freedom is the ultimate justice. A free man forges his life by his own hand. He improves the world around him by improving his own life. America, in the 1700’s, was the land of the free. People fled Europe to be free in America. The fringes of the empire is always the freest parts. The colonists were, for the most part, left alone. What happens far to often is that free men create great civilizations, industrious civilizations, prosperous civilizations which attracts the attention of the parasites, the governments. The parasites then swoop in to plunder the society under the disguise of protector, peacemaker, order bringer.
Weeds had grown in the garden. The Tories. The loyalists. These men preferred a king to rule over the people. The statists of their day. They abandoned the idea of freedom. They preferred the false sense of security that comes from being ruled.
Fortunately, there were men who would not let freedom die so easily in the new world. They set in motion the American Revolution with their words. These three character types all played important roles in reigniting the idea of freedom.
The men like Thomas Jefferson. The Gentleman Scholars. These were the great thinkers of the day. The men who laid out the intellectual case for liberty.
The men like Thomas Paine. The radical pamphleteers. These men understood the scholarly work and may have been scholars themselves, but what they really did was disseminate the works of scholars in short, easily understood books and pamphlets. Bringing the information to the common man.
The men like Sam Adams. The Rabble-Rousers. These were the men who lit the fires in men’s hearts and spurred them to action. These impassioned men formed groups like “the sons of liberty”. Their inflammatory voice encouraged open disobedience and acts of defiance like the Boston Tea Party.
The words of Sam Adams:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams
