Comments on: Still a Good Read…Maybe Now More Than Ever?

By: No-nonsense-Nancy

No-nonsense-Nancy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:19:16 +0000

Tricia–We ARE out in the streets! We who have attended tea parties. Our voices are being heard. We just have to have more and larger ones. I spent the whole day on the 4th in Philadelphia at several tea parties. I also spent tax day at two in my area in a cold rain. It didn’t put a damper on any of us. This is how we can get our intentions known.

Thanks, Pat for the post. Anyone interested, I recentlhy read a book by Cokie Robets called Founding Mothers. It is excelent. You can’t read it and not want to fight with all your might to win our country and our freedoms back.

Does anyone see from reading the Declaration how much the tyhrany under King George resembles the tyrany that we are facing today?

By: mamakay

mamakay — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:23:16 +0000

I think we should all send a copy of this to the White House and our congressmen. I think they have forgotten what we are all about.

By: bayareavoter

bayareavoter — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:53:53 +0000

Thank you for reprinting this. I haven’t read it in a million yrs and it seems so relevant today!

By: ga yankee

ga yankee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:44:07 +0000

modern day patrot = Sarah Palin

By: PainkillerJayne

PainkillerJayne — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:13:42 +0000

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This strikes me every time I read it.

By: elise

elise — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:19:57 +0000

Reading this document always gives me a chill, now more than ever before. It’s a fragile flower which needs to be nurtured and protected. We’re losing it one petal at a time.

By: Lynn L.

Lynn L. — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:27:23 +0000

“I always wonder why we are not all out in the streets with these wars and so-called stmulus packages while friends and neighbors are losing their jobs and homes.”

Yes, why aren’t we? Why aren’t I? I send email messages to members of congress and write blog replies, but I should be in the streets.

By: Don X

Don X — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:58:28 +0000

Great cartoon, Pat. And Rich, you are on target with your comments. It seems to me that with most holidays, we have all but forgotten why we have them. We see them as a means to a little vacation from work or a chance to have some fun or a get together with family. Pat, It’s good that you remind us of the true significance of this holiday by reprinting the Declaration of Independence.

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:04:37 +0000

And, I think graywolf, less old-fashined guts to try to do anything about it!

I always wonder why we are not all out in the streets with these wars and so-called stmulus packages while friends and neighbors are losing their jobs and homes.

By: graywolf

graywolf — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:35:38 +0000

Nothing has changed.
In 1776, Americans were ruled by a remote “all-knowing” government that excessively taxed and wanted to take away their guns.
In 2009, Americans are ruled by a remote “all-knowing” government that excessively taxes and wants to take away their guns.
We have LESS independence than our forefathers.

By: Lynn L.

Lynn L. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:29:57 +0000

When I read through the entire document today, maybe for the first time ever, I was particularly moved by its final paragraph; those last words read by patriots who attached their signatures and pledged their Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor to each other.

Does sacred Honor exists in government today?
Are there modern day patriots?

I ask these questions with wishful yearning that someone will have a positive response.

Happy birthday America.

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:34:07 +0000

McIntosh was furious. He publicly denounced Gwinnett in the harshest terms, and Gwinnett challenged him to a duel. Though each man shot the other, only Gwinnett's wound proved fatal. He died on May 19, 1777, and was buried in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery, though the exact location of his grave is unknown. Gwinnett County was named for him when it was established in 1818.

. The election of Jeffererson was in no small part thanks to the State of Georgia. Might we establish "a new Guard" in the coming year. Thanks Pat Safe and Sane.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:27:53 +0000

it,s time we took back our country.
those politicians forget that they work for us.
we hired them we can fire them.
we did it once.we can do it again.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:29:56 +0000

Hi Pat. Very nice cartoon. Hands are always hard to do. As a standalone cartoon I am not sure if the person is complaining about the noise as it hurts his ears or that there is so much noise that he is concerned that we have forgotten the meaning of the Holliday and what the Declaration of Independence really stands for.

My understanding is that what the founders were really concerned about was that people in power can abuse power very easily and that what they wanted to do was to limit that temptation. To make people aware of this and to have the people involved in government, which is why I believe they did not want career politicians. Now we have career politicians, greater and greater power is centralized in government, and we only look at the Constitution when lawyers have a case, which usually involves some small segment relating to our freedom.

We sent mercenaries over to Iraq to fight our war. We look to government to solve all of our problems and to know what is best for us. We will end up with higher and higher taxes and fewer freedoms and fewer people taking personal responsibility for their own situation. Our founders must be very disappointed.

Rich

By: Stan Davis

Stan Davis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:25:39 +0000

I read the Declaration every year. I’m always amazed by how radical its philosophy is–that a people has not only the right but the OBLIGATION to overthrow an oppressive government.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO