Paul Revere, along with William Dawes, at great risk of arrest or death to themselves, mounted their horses and rode to alarm of the coming threat. The British "Regulars" were coming to Concord, to arrest the outspoken Samuel Adams and John Hancock, and to seize the militia's weapons caches.
Adams and Hancock had to grab what they could, and took to hiding before they could be arrested. A good many of our Founding Fathers, risked everything, "Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred Honor", to get this new country started.
I don't rant, or "sound an alarm" as it might be, because the "Brits are coming. Or that our government is coming for us today. I sound my alarm, because I fear being silent permits such government encroachments to evolve until too late. I feel there are many signs for such alarm. Our President, and not just this one, has cast a larger net of government rules, laws, dictates by Executive Orders, protected possible wrong doing by Executive Privilege, and has essentially ignored half of his citizenry. Even in this President's own words, "...sometime the constitution gets in the way of some things I'd like to do.", is very dangerous thinking, and if not abated, could lead to a President doing what ever he wants. That isn't Presidential. That's dictatorial!
So, in my small way of blogging, tweeting, discussing on-line or in person, I will protest this government at every errant direction I see it take. To be silent, would be the same as leaving my horse in the barn and not taking that ride of 1775.
How many today would risk "Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred Honor", to take such a ride today? Would you? I promise, I would and will if it comes to that.
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