{"id":18449,"date":"2023-07-03T08:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18449"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:06:32","slug":"celebrate-fourth-of-july-by-cussing-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/celebrate-fourth-of-july-by-cussing-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Celebrating Independence Day with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertarianInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibertarianInst<\/a>-itute&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuinnDriggs1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@QuinnDriggs1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JimBovard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqvnWkQZFW\">pic.twitter.com\/fqvnWkQZFW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scotthortonshow\/status\/1675920150841774080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Libertarian Institute<\/strong>, July 3, 2023<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/celebrate-fourth-of-july-by-cussing-politicians\/\">Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18454\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bovard-photo-017July-4-2013-NSA-rallytweaked-less-saturated.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors.<\/strong> For a couple centuries, Independence Day was an occasion for raising a ruckus with firecrackers and plenty of other friendly detonations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">But in recent times, the Fourth of July has been downgraded to simply another opportunity for citizens to express gratitude to their political masters. <span class=\"s1\">We are still permitted to celebrate, but unfortunately, federal, state, and local governments routinely trample the rights that the Founding Fathers sought to make sacrosanct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>The Fourth of July in Washington has been going downhill ever since 9\/11.<\/strong> In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/projects\/ideas-2010\/archive\/2010\/07\/citizens-not-subjects\/59159\/\"><span class=\"s2\">first draft of the Declaration of Independence<\/span><\/a>, Thomas Jefferson scratched out the word \u201csubjects\u201d and replaced it with \u201ccitizens.\u201d But on\u00a0Independence Day 2003, I wondered whether\u00a0that had been an editing error. I saw long lines of people awaiting outside government checkpoints around the National Mall, kowtowing for permission to celebrate independence according to the latest edicts. Police and security agents continue to have a far heavier presence in Washington and many other places than in earlier times. In 2015, police urged people heading for the National Mall on July Fourth\u00a0to sign up for a free emergency text alert system called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/local-news\/see-something-say-something-park-police-preparing-for-fourth-of-july-celebration-on-national-mall\"><span class=\"s2\"> NIXLE<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0(Subtext: \u201cAll your email addresses belong to us!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">How many Americans recall that the Fourth of July originally consecrated an independence achieved thanks to resistance to a corrupt, oppressive regime? In <span class=\"s1\">2018, Facebook, auditioning for a Federal Censorship Medal of Honor, deleted a Texas newspaper<\/span>\u2019s reposting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2018\/07\/05\/facebook-censored-a-post-for-hate-speech-it-was-the-declaration-of-independence\/?utm_term=.2f76eb3bcbb8\"><span class=\"s2\">a portion of the Declaration of Independence<\/span><\/a> because it went\u00a0against Facebook\u00a0standards on hate speech. <span class=\"s1\">Facebook used the same standard to suppress photos of the Branch Davidian home in flames after the FBI tank assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In 2019, when President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to bring out of mothballs some World War II-era Sherman tanks, the media was indignant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/trumps-fourth-of-july-plans-just-keep-getting-worse\/2019\/07\/01\/6c8527b8-9c2e-11e9-85d6-5211733f92c7_story.html?utm_term=.f47a42c0fbaf\"><span class=\"s2\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em> condemned<\/span><\/a> Trump\u2019s \u201cgaudy display of military hardware that is more in keeping with a banana republic than the world\u2019s oldest democracy.\u201d\u00a0But the real problem was not the military relics. It was\u00a0exalting government power and politicians on a day meant to celebrate individual liberty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In 2020, politicians in most areas effectively canceled Independence Day. Governors and mayors had quickly imposed \u201cstay at home\u201d orders restricting 300 million people after the COVID pandemic erupted. Most of the media ignored the fact that Independence Day occurred under the most dictatorial restrictions of the modern era. Crowds were banned from watching fireworks that governments often chose not to ignite. The Maryland Office of Tourism offered residents consolation prizes\u2014the opportunity to watch a \u201cvirtual pet parade\u201d online or see a \u201cvirtual Independence Day Tour\u201d of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Could Independence Day ever become more servile?<\/span> \u201cHold my beer,\u201d announced Team Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">In <strong>March 2021, President<\/strong><\/span><strong> Joe Biden announced plans to convert the Fourth of July as Americans\u2019 shrink-wrapped \u201cFreedom Day.\u201d <\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>In lieu of \u201clife, liberty, and pursuit of happiness,\u201d July 4 became a benchmark for presidential browbeating for Americans to get politically-approved injection<\/strong>s.<\/span><b> <\/b>If people dutifully got vaccinated, Biden said, \u201cThere\u2019s a good chance you, your families and friends, will be [permitted] to get together [in small groups] in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day.\u201d <span class=\"s1\">Biden did not specify how many people would be permitted to consume hot dogs together before an FBI SWAT team intervened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">On May 4, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-government-and-politics-d6ee06383f123a4ef0941847200757df\"><span class=\"s2\">Biden announced<\/span><\/a> that he wanted 70% of American adults to be vaccinated by Independence Day<\/span>. On June 2, Biden declared that people should \u201cexercise your freedom\u201d to get vaccinated so Americans can enjoy a \u201csummer of freedom.\u201d On <span class=\"s1\">the day of the holiday, the Biden White House titled his remarks as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/05\/remarks-by-president-biden-celebrating-independence-day-and-independence-from-covid-19\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Celebrating Independence<\/span><\/a> Day and<\/span> Independence from COVID-\u206019.\u201d Biden proclaimed, \u201cWe are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.\u201d Biden sounded like a high priest issuing a reprieve to his fearful flock: \u201cWe can live our lives.\u201d But two months later, Biden announced that Americans had failed him and commanded that more than 100 million <span class=\"s1\">private citizens get COVID vaccine injections which the Biden White House <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/14\/the-corrupted-science-behind-bidens-covid-vax-mandates\/\"><span class=\"s2\">browbeat FDA into<\/span><\/a><\/span> approving. (The Supreme Court nullified his edict for 84 million citizens.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Independence Day should be a vivid reminder of how badly officialdom behaved in the past. The Founding Fathers carved the First Amendment to ensure freedom of the press\u00a0after the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/united-states-constitution\/freedom-of-the-press\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0crown\u2019s appointees muzzled criticism<\/span><\/a> of King George\u2019s regime. The Second Amendment, recognizing the right to keep and bear arms, was spurred by British troops seeking to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/american-revolution\/battles-of-lexington-and-concord\"><span class=\"s2\"> seize firearms<\/span><\/a> at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches because British agents with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/writ-of-assistance\"><span class=\"s2\">general warrants <\/span><\/a>would ransack any colonist\u2019s house. The Fifth Amendment\u2019s eminent domain provision was written after British agents claimed a right to seize without compensation any\u00a0pine tree in New England for British navy <a href=\"http:\/\/ccrpa.org\/km\/King's%2520Mark%2520Why%2520The%2520Name%2520King's%2520Mark.htm\"><span class=\"s2\">ship masts.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">But the battles our forefathers fought to secure our rights have long since been forgotten amidst a deluge of abuses at the federal, state, and local government level. There are good reasons why barely<a href=\"https:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2019\/04\/11\/public-trust-in-government-1958-2019\/\"><span class=\"s2\"> 20% of Americans<\/span><\/a> trust the federal government nowadays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Americans should take their Fourth of July to higher ground.<strong> What matters is not what politicians say on any given day but the principles and values <span class=\"s1\">by which Americans live.<\/span> Regardless of how often government agents violate the Constitution, citizens retain all the rights for which our forefathers fought. <span class=\"s3\">Government has become far more oppressive and intrusive in recent decades. But we still have enough freedom to left to make it hot\u2014at least sporadically\u2014for politicians who trample the Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">On the Fourth of July, Americans should recognize those who fought for individual freedom in past times and those who are fighting for it now. One of my favorite Washington Fourth of July events was the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/photos-from-dc-anti-nsa-july-4th-rally\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Stop NSA Surveillance\u201d<\/span><\/a> rally a decade ago. That <span class=\"s1\">protest occurred<\/span> one month after Edward Snowden began leaking documents exposing the Deep State crime wave. Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency executive who heroically whipped the Justice Department in federal court, challenged the audience: \u201cThe government has given up on the Constitution. Have you?\u201d Drake warned that \u201c<strong>the acid of government secrecy is eating out the heart of who we are as a people\u201d<\/strong> and that \u201cnational security has become the state religion.\u201d His warnings are as true now as they were then\u2014and the Fourth of July is a fine time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7_xLvhUSq8\"><span class=\"s2\">watch this video<\/span><\/a> of Drake\u2019s fiery speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">To safeguard our remaining rights, we must keep up a spirit of resistance to official abuses and political lies from all parties. Federal Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/480162-liberty-lies-in-the-hearts-of-men-and-women-when\"><span class=\"s2\">Learned Hand <\/span><\/a>warned in 1944: \u201cLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.\u201d <strong>On this\u00a0Fourth of July, Americans should nourish that spirit of liberty\u00a0by taking a long walk, drinking a good beer, or heartily cussing the politician of your choice<\/strong>. As I<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/220560635090575360\"> tweeted eleven<\/a> years ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-03-at-08-18-44-Celebrate-Fourth-of-July-by-Cussing-Politicians-The-Libertarian-Institute.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18450 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-03-at-08-18-44-Celebrate-Fourth-of-July-by-Cussing-Politicians-The-Libertarian-Institute.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-03-at-08-18-44-Celebrate-Fourth-of-July-by-Cussing-Politicians-The-Libertarian-Institute.png 687w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-03-at-08-18-44-Celebrate-Fourth-of-July-by-Cussing-Politicians-The-Libertarian-Institute-150x41.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating Independence Day with the @LibertarianInst-itute&#39;s @QuinnDriggs1 and @JimBovard pic.twitter.com\/fqvnWkQZFW &mdash; Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) July 3, 2023 Libertarian Institute, July 3, 2023 Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians by James Bovard America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. 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