Perhaps we should begin to discuss some of the issues which demand a separation from the Columbian Empire.

Most people start their argument with the Declaration of Independence, but I wish to start with a document penned a year earlier on 6 July 1775. Called the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, it went through three drafts, first by John Rutledge, then Thomas Jefferson, and finally by John Dickenson.

If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully resistible, however severe and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might at least require from the parliament of Great-Britain some evidence, that this dreadful authority over them, has been granted to that body.

A rather long and run-on sentence which asks, “Where did you of the Empire get the idea that you have the authority to rule over every area of our lives?”

The various groups which have been forming and speaking out against the totalitarian tendencies of the Columbian Empire are asking the same question. We are not so different from our “1776” ancestors.

Liberty is the ability to govern our own affairs without interference from government, as long as we are not interfering with the affairs of others. Put another way, my liberty ends where yours begins.

I will be exploring more of the Declaration of the Causes… over the next several blogs.

For a Free Tennessee.

From Solitude,
David O Jones