Showing posts with label Independence Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independence Day. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Happy Independence Day!
Today I am more thankful for the Liberty we have than anything else. I woke up in a comfortable bed, in an air-conditioned room. I am a citizen of the 23rd most free nation on earth -- I wish we were the most, but being 23rd means that "shot heard round the world" in 1776 really has traveled the globe. Boom.
I turned on this marvel of a machine, this sorcery of our free society, and I saw my friends -- some politicians, some teachers, scientists, actors, and people from all walks of life -- posting radical ideas that in earlier days, would get people hanged.
I debated some of these things, liked others, ignored others. Either way, we were all free to read and write our radicalism, our crazy, most oddball ideas, and discuss them openly. Nobody feared "the knock on the door."
I then proceeded to publish things on this marvel, bawdy things, that would at least get me the stocks in days gone by, while I prepared a meal that only a man like King George would have eaten, back in the day.
I was able to do this because I am part of the largest, greatest, most libertarian enterprise in history -- the trade network that operates around the world. We are all able to do this, together, because of the liberty we share. Hunger is vanishing, lifespans and literacy increasing, and the world is getting better and better in so many ways, as liberty and democracy slowly, agonizingly expand. This is beautiful, and I think it's something to be thankful for, and reflect upon.
We have so much further to go, so many battles to fight, so many people to win over. So much wickedness, and so much stupidity, have also been part of it all, and that fight's all part of our never-ending battle.
Today, though...I am just going to enjoy our freedom -- and especially the blessings of liberty -- and thank you all for being part of this great experiment with me.
Friday, July 4, 2014
Great Freemasons: Masonic Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Confirmed Masonic Membership of the following:
William Ellery, RI
Benjamin Franklin, PA
John Hancock, MA
Joseph Hewes, NC
William Hooper, NC
Robert Treat Paine, MA
Richard Stockton, NJ
George Walton, GA
William Whipple, NH
Others whose membership is rumored or probable, but not proven by records:
Elbridge Gerry, MA
Thomas Jefferson, VA
Richard Henry Lee, VA
Thomas McKean, DE
Robert Morris, PA
Thomas Nelson, Jr., VA
John Penn, NC
Benjamin Rush, PA
Roger Sherman, CT
James Smith, PA
John Witherspoon, NJ
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Great Freemasons: Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794)
That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.
That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
~Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794), known as the Lee Resolution, or the Resolution of Independence, voted and agreed upon by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee signed. He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a United States Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
(It is not definite he was a Freemason, but it is likely. Hiram Lodge No. 59, Westmoreland County, Virginia)
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