Message to Britons: Heed America’s Founding Fathers

By Armando Simón

            In this time of twilight before the darkness falls, when Britons are being persecuted for voicing their opinions, Muslim savages are murdering, assaulting and raping with the government’s tacit approval, when your history and your culture and your values are being denigrated, when thousands upon thousands of barbarians are being allowed in through the gates, when your government deprives you of your wealth to bestow it on these savages, when the elections mean nothing, when the courts are simply the obedient dogs of the regime passing out punishments in an assembly line fashion, in short, when political prisoners are beginning to fill up the jails, when totalitarianism is about to fall on your heads and the musical words “Britons never, never, never shall be slaves” will sound like cruel mockery, Britons should heed the words of America’s Founding Fathers.

“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.” George Washington

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination in the action of the magistrates.” Benjamin Franklin

“You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.” Thomas Paine

“The press, so efficient as the opponent of tyrants, may become despotic itself; it may substitute new errors for those eradicated, and like an individual spoiled by success, may generally abuse its advantages.” James Fennimore Cooper

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin

“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” Thomas Jefferson

“If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within,” James Madison.

“It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.” Abraham Lincoln

“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense—to fight the government.” Alexander Hamilton

“Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.” Marquis de Lafayette

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” Thomas Jefferson

“But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.” George Washington

“When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.” Thomas Paine

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.” Marquis de Lafayette

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson

“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?” George Washington

“Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.” Thomas Jefferson

It is not too late. The situation is serious, but not hopeless.

 

 

Armando Simón is a retired college professor, author of A Prison Mosaic and This That and the Other.