To all those folks having buyer's remorse for Trump, to those who really
want to work for freedom, prosperity, and a more Constitutional
government, the Libertarian Party is accepting members.
Basically,
if you want more freedom, or less government, you should be with us. If
you want less war, you should be with us. Less selling of your data, that's us.
More rights respected -- us again.
If you want the cost of
living to go down, and the standard of living to go up, you should join
us, because economic freedom has been shown time and again to be the
road there, and that's the only road we wanna build.
My globalism -- or, the word I prefer, internationalism -- assumes everyone
follows their own interest. It doesn't discount nationalism....it just
creates a transnational superstructure for transnational interests.
It just means you want universal rights, slavery outlawed everywhere,
global protection of the global environment, freedom of the seas,
universal trade, open currency exchange, and rule of law between nations
instead of the current anarchy and semi-belligerence. It means
pressuring China through economic means to stop treating their workers
like crap, in exchange for greater net growth. Other, smaller countries
as well. I don't know anyone anywhere who is seriously pushing for global tyranny. There are no Lex Luthors.
I don't know anyone serious who is seriously pushing for global
socialism. Liberal democracy and capitalism are really the only games in
town, now. My internationalism is really just a continuation of
how I see the challenge begun by people like Madison, Jefferson, and
Paine.
From wikipedia: Between 9 and 10 p.m. on the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes
that the king's troops were about to embark in boats from Boston bound
for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord. Warren's
intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the regulars'
movements later that night would be the capture of Adams and Hancock.
They did not worry about the possibility of regulars marching to
Concord, since the supplies at Concord were safe, but they did think
their leaders in Lexington were unaware of the potential danger that
night. Revere and Dawes were sent out to warn them and to alert colonial
militias in nearby towns. In the days before April 18, Revere had instructed Robert Newman, the sexton of the North Church, to send a signal by lantern to alert colonists in Charlestown
as to the movements of the troops when the information became known. In
what is well known today by the phrase "one if by land, two if by sea",
one lantern in the steeple would signal the army's choice of the land
route while two lanterns would signal the route "by water" across the Charles River.
Revere first gave instructions to send the signal to Charlestown. He
then crossed the Charles River by rowboat, slipping past the British
warship HMS Somerset
at anchor. Crossings were banned at that hour, but Revere safely landed
in Charlestown and rode to Lexington, avoiding a British patrol and
later warning almost every house along the route. The Charlestown
colonists dispatched additional riders to the north.[41][43] Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington,
Revere warned patriots along his route, many of whom set out on
horseback to deliver warnings of their own. By the end of the night
there were probably as many as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County
carrying the news of the army's advance. Revere did not shout the
phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"): His mission
depended on secrecy, the countryside was filled with British army
patrols, and most of the Massachusetts colonists (who were predominantly
English in ethnic origin)still considered themselves British. Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out."
Revere arrived in Lexington around midnight, with Dawes arriving about a
half hour later. They met with Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were
spending the night with Hancock's relatives (in what is now called the Hancock-Clarke House),
and they spent a great deal of time discussing plans of action upon
receiving the news. They believed that the forces leaving the city were
too large for the sole task of arresting two men and that Concord was
the main target.
The Lexington men dispatched riders to the surrounding towns, and
Revere and Dawes continued along the road to Concord accompanied by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who happened to be in Lexington "returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m." Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord.
Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he
eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his
horse not long after and did not complete the ride.
Revere was captured and questioned by the British soldiers at
gunpoint. He told them of the army's movement from Boston, and that
British army troops would be in some danger if they approached
Lexington, because of the large number of hostile militia gathered
there. He and other captives taken by the patrol were still escorted
east toward Lexington, until about a half mile from Lexington they heard
a gunshot. The British major demanded Revere explain the gunfire, and
Revere replied it was a signal to "alarm the country". As the group drew
closer to Lexington, the town bell began to clang rapidly, upon which
one of the captives proclaimed to the British soldiers "The bell's
a'ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!"[51]
The British soldiers gathered and decided not to press further towards
Lexington but instead to free the prisoners and head back to warn their
commanders. The British confiscated Revere's horse and rode off to warn the approaching army column. Revere walked to Rev. Jonas Clarke's house, where Hancock and Adams were staying. As the battle on Lexington Green unfolded, Revere assisted Hancock and his family in their escape from Lexington, helping to carry a trunk of Hancock's papers.
The ride of the three men triggered a flexible system of "alarm and
muster" that had been carefully developed months before, in reaction to
the colonists' impotent response to the Powder Alarm
of September 1774. This system was an improved version of an old
network of widespread notification and fast deployment of local militia
forces in times of emergency. The colonists had periodically used this
system all the way back to the early years of Indian wars in the colony, before it fell into disuse in the French and Indian War.
In addition to other express riders delivering messages, bells, drums,
alarm guns, bonfires, and a trumpet were used for rapid communication
from town to town, notifying the rebels in dozens of eastern
Massachusetts villages that they should muster their militias because
the regulars in numbers greater than 500 were leaving Boston with
possible hostile intentions. This system was so effective that people in
towns 25 miles (40 km) from Boston were aware of the army's movements
while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge.
Unlike in the Powder Alarm, the alarm raised by the three riders
successfully allowed the militia to confront the British troops in
Concord, and then harry them all the way back to Boston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#.22Midnight_Ride.22
This is a short visualization of Paul Revere's famous ride. It was shot
at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA with an almost entirely
volunteer cast and crew. It has been freely given to schools throughout
the world to use in classrooms. The British dialogue was taken
directly from Revere depositions. Revere's first warnings in the video
were in Medford and Menotomy (now Arlington, MA) before he was able to
reach Hancock and Adams in Lexington. Neither Revere nor Dawes made it
to Concord that night. Fortunately, Dr. Samuel Prescott was successful
in warning them.
(He not only served Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4 as Worshipful Master in
1777, but he went on to become the second Grand Master of Masons in
Virginia from 1784 to 1786)
Frank Parks Briggs (February 25, 1894 – September 23, 1992) was a
United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Armstrong, Missouri, he
attended Armstrong and Fayette schools and Central College at Fayette
from 1911 to 1914. He graduated from the University of Missouri in
Columbia in 1915, engaged in the newspaper business that year, and in
the publishing business at Macon, Missouri in 1925. He was mayor of
Macon from 1930 to 1932 and a member of the Missouri Senate from 1933 to 1944.
Briggs was appointed, on January 18, 1945, as a Democrat to the U.S.
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry S. Truman
and served from January 18, 1945, to January 3, 1947; he was an
unsuccessful candidate for election to the full term in 1946. He resumed
the newspaper publishing business and was chairman of the Missouri
State Conservation Commission in 1955-1956; from 1961 to 1965 he was
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife. He was a
resident of Macon until his death in 1992; interment was in Walnut Ridge
Cemetery, Fayette. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_P._Briggs
[Grand Master of Missouri (1957), Fayette Lodge 47]