Obituary for July Fourth

July 4, 2012. What a day to remember. It’s a birthday. A birthday which should be celebrated with all the pageantry, joy, parties, and excitement befitting 236 years of the most amazing nation ever known to man. One loved, revered, a helper to others, freely giving to others without a desire to gain personally. But this year, it is a day of sadness.

For 236 years the United States of America has been the hope of the world. It was the refuge of the oppressed, the liberator of slaves, the feeder of the world, the example of man’s best efforts to provide life, liberty, happiness to all who entered. Immigrants were welcomed with the greeting “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

They came because of hope and confidence that they could build a better life in a country free of imperialism, dictatorship, socialism, oppression, and slavery. They came because the law of the land, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, guaranteed their liberty to make a life for themselves and the freedom to become a success or failure through their own efforts.

But in the year 2012, 236 years after its birth, the United States of America died from an internal cancer which ate out its heart and soul. It was a great nation. The cancer of corruption by elected officials finally reached the heart of the nation. After 50 years the lack of public will to find a cure, the United States died this year, and along with it so died the hopes and dreams of the people who lived and died to make her great.

Today, Independence Day means nothing more to the majority of people other than a day off, a holiday, if you will. The glories of what the United States once stood for will be buried along with the freedom and liberty which have been stolen by Obama, the Congress, and alas, the Supreme Court.. The life blood of our heritage, the law of the land, has been taken from the people, not for a while but forever. Our freedom has been stolen by the actions of a president of questionable background, but an undeniable ambition, for a dictatorship in a once great republic with himself at the helm.

Obama was aided and abetted by a Congress, both Senate and House of Representatives, which turned their backs on the electorate and passed legislation which was designed to take power away from the citizen and replace it with a government controlled by an egomaniac the likes of which have not been seen since the rise of Adolph Hitler. The similarities are frightening. The takeover of the German parliament in the 1930s could have been a plan stolen by Obama for the last four years. Bypassing the Congress, ruling by proclamation, detaining citizens over long periods of time without an indictment, illegal search and entry, are becoming commonplace. The control of newspapers, radio, and television to prevent publication of views in opposition to Obama’s is so rampant that it goes almost without comment. Though the names have changed, the results are the same. The specters of Hitler, Himmler, Bormann, Goebbels, Goering, haunt the halls of government in Washington.

It is sad, but the United States of America died last week with the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and Arizona. The Justices of the Supreme Court did the final act by defying their oaths, redesigning the Declaration of Independence, and disregarding the Constitution of the United States.

Yes, it is the Fourth of July, but not the Fourth of July of celebration. For those who care it is a day of remembrance of times gone by. It is a lesson to be remembered by an older generation who lived the glory that once was the United States. Sadly the younger generation will never know what the old country was, will never know what freedom was, or liberty for that matter. They will never know what they missed.

Happy Independence Day.