When in the course of human events

As those of you know who read this blog, occasionally I am a bit of a history geek when it comes to these United States. Well, tomorrow is no exception as far as huge days go in our history. Two hundred and thirty-three years ago some people got together after dealing with the crap they’d been getting from King George of England and decided it was time to tell him to piss off.

In Philadelphia, this group of people had one of their brethren start drafting a letter telling the king in the politest of terms, “thank you for your help and hospitality so far your highness, but you are a raging prat and quite frankly a bit of a wanker. So bite us if you please.” Now of course this seriously pissed off King George and he drafted a bit of a response.

“…we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal
Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice ,but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity…”

Never in the course of history has war been declared by both parties so dignified and proper. The colonists, fed up with having to deal with the King taxing them to death and not allowing them representation got fed up and fought back. Britain, responded in kind and off we went.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Strong words which, to this day, help our current leaders build upon the foundation of the greatest country in the world today. How very cool is that? It never ceases to amaze me how brilliant the founders of this country really were. They drafted a document such as the Declaration, and created a government and Constitution that could changed and adopted for generations to come, so long as the changes were agreed to by the people it governed.

I think these reasons are why America has become the envy of the world. Thanks for reading, I hope you weren’t bored and God Bless the United States of America. Oh, and Happy Birthday to our country, 233 years old and still rocking!!! Gotta love that.