Happy Independence Day!

As you may know: “When John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other founding fathers signed [The Declaration of Independence], they did not sign some empty philosophical statement, they signed their death warrant.”

If caught, they would have been hung, drawn, and quartered.

But that is not all: “Today, the most famous offenders of the eighteenth-century English treason laws are the American revolutionaries. The Declaration of Independence violates the 3rd law of treason in this statement: ‘And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other out Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor’ [8]. When John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other founding fathers signed this statement, they did not sign some empty philosophical statement, they signed their death warrant. This action displayed their dedication to the cause of American independence and the ultimate disloyalty to King George the Third (below). Until the Declaration of Independence, Washington, Jefferson, Adams and the others only disagreed with Parliament, not the Crown; in fact, after a day of fighting the British soldiers, Washington and his officers would toast the King before dinner. This document is important because it marks the revolutionaries’ acknowledgment that the corruption of the English government was not contained within the Parliament, but extended all the way up to the King; it marks the point of no return: either the revolutionaries were going to gain their independence from England and create a new country, or they were going to lose the war to the best army in the world, forfeit everything they owned, ruin their families, and be drawn and quartered.”

For more info, see, for example (from which the quotes above) High Treason on the University of Michigan Website.

So appreciate and celebrate what we have — and, like the Revolutionaries, do more to promote freedom and rights.