Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / Happy 4th of July
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- 0:15Welcome to the Live To Shit podcast.
- 0:17Do you know what the name's George Ross, William Floyd, William Hooper, Arthur Middleton all have in common.
- 0:29Well, what if I add to it, John Adams?
- 0:32Samuel Adams.
- 0:34Benjamin Franklin.
- 0:36John Hancock.
- 0:37Thomas Jefferson.
- 0:39Yes.
- 0:40Those are signers of the Declaration of Independence.
- 0:43Most people don't know the 56 signers.
- 0:45They know the last few that I named, but they don't know Oliver Wolcott, James Wilson, George Walton, Matthew Thornton, George Taylor, Richard Stockton, Roger Sherman, Edward Rutledge Benjamin Rush.
- 1:00They don't know those names.
- 1:01But those, the other thing that those names all have in common, including the more famous ones, is they were the first felons in the United States.
- 1:11Yeah, there were some, because the United States was just being formed and they were creating, actually treason, but let's just say it was a felony, by putting their names on that Declaration of Independence.
- 1:25You know.
- 1:26Benjamin Franklin, he was 70 when he did it.
- 1:29South Carolina sent a couple of the younger delegates.
- 1:32Thomas Lynch was 26 as well as Edward Rutledge was 26.
- 1:38These men were lawyers, merchants farmers, land speculator, a scientist, that's what they have Benjamin Franklin listed past plantation owners I said farmers, ministers, lots of, there was a lot of clergy in there in one way or another.
- 1:55And they had families, you know, most of them all had, almost all had kids and some had substantial number of kids.
- 2:02Carter Braxton had 18 kids.
- 2:05William Ellery had 16 kids.
- 2:08John Hart, 13 kids.
- 2:11Roger Sherman, 15 kids.
- 2:14So, they had a lot to lose.
- 2:19In fact, of the 56 signers, 11 had their homes destroyed, 5 were hunted and captured, 17 served in the military, and 9 died during the war.
- 2:33So, they had a lot, a lot to give up.
- 2:35But, What was going on?
- 2:38You know, why, why did they do this?
- 2:41Well King George, this time was the globalist and one, you know, basically one world power and the source of government was becoming abusive and, and, and, and, and, and excessive very much, not, not Just similar from today they wrote out 27 abuses on the Declaration of Independence.
- 3:03And these abuses included there's a two tiered justice system.
- 3:08You know, he has made judges dependent on his will alone.
- 3:11Sound familiar?
- 3:12Weaponizing bureaucracy.
- 3:14He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass other people and eat eat out their substance, imposing martial law he, to subject he, he wrote, they wrote to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our own, to our constitution targeting this political opposition.
- 3:33He was turning law enforcement and military against his own subjects.
- 3:37Do all of these sound very similar to things going on today?
- 3:41Well, today we're celebrating the 4th of July.
- 3:44We're celebrating the signing of.
- 3:47This Declaration of Independence and famously, you know, Ben Franklin said We must hang together, or most assuredly, we shall hang separately.
- 3:56They all knew what they were doing.
- 3:57They knew the risks they were taking.
- 3:59They knew what was at stake.
- 4:01And we owe a ton to those people.
- 4:04And we need to celebrate this day appropriately.
- 4:08We have barbecues and fireworks and that is all great.
- 4:12And like I said, I've told you before, 4th of July is one of my most favorite holidays.
- 4:16I just love the history around it and all this.
- 4:19But Regarding that day, John Adams wrote many letters to his wife, Abigail, and on that regarding the declaration, the signing of the declaration in that particular day, he said, I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.
- 4:38It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion and God almighty.
- 4:45So he was, he was liking it to a religious holiday.
- 4:49Samuel Adams, when he signed it, he says, We have this day restored, the sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient.
- 4:56He reigns in heaven, and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come.
- 5:02This, this was a significant event to them.
- 5:05This was a, a, a, a spiritually faithful event.
- 5:09And they, they knew What was at stake?
- 5:13Daniel Webster stated, Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6, 000 years may not happen again.
- 5:21Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy through the world.
- 5:29Yes, and that is why this is such an awesome day.
- 5:33I, I, I, thank you for listening.
- 5:36I I celebrate our country.
- 5:38Happy Fourth of July to our country.
- 5:40Celebrate it.
- 5:41Thank God for our country.
- 5:44Praise Him for what He has done.
- 5:45It is a true miracle.
- 5:47Prior to the United States, almost all the world's powers were ruled by a single person, a monarchy, or a dictator, or some kind of czar, or a king.
- 5:59Or something like that.
- 6:00Some non elected official.
- 6:02And we have turned that world upside down.
- 6:05And and we are we have made this world a better place.
- 6:10That is why people turn to us.
- 6:12They depend upon us.
- 6:13And we can't let that go.
- 6:15We cannot drift back to the ways that we were before the Declaration of Independence.
- 6:22So, celebrate the Fourth of July.
- 6:24Thank God for it, praise it, have a great time, and thank God for America.
- 6:29Have a great day.