4^th of July 2009

CELEBRATING OUR INDEPENDENCE

Today is a truly remarkable day if you are a citizen of the United States. This should however, be a day to remember for every souls who inhabit this world. While US citizens are celebrating our independence from a tyrannical King who denied our rights, we are all a little freer today than we were yesterday!

There are people in countries all over this amazing planet who do not share in the freedoms that we have within the United States. I question living within the boarders of a country where laws are passed by fear based hatred, denying the rights of so many. How can millions who have given everything they have just to step within the boarders of this country who dream of a brighter future for their family; however, many of those human souls are hunted for the transgression and the illusion of a life of sovereignty.

There are many issues we endure that might make a person question the liberties we celebrate today, but I am the optimist who also envisions a brighter tomorrow. It is demanded of anyone who petitions the United States for the status to remain within her boarders and to become a citizen of this nation that they know our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I find it interesting that the large majority of citizens born within her bosom cannot tell you what is present in either document. For it is the construct of each document that grants my faith that our country will eventually make decisions based on the principles by which we were founded regardless of personal ideology.

The brave men, who conceived, championed, architected and signed these two documents, had the foresight to know what they could not yet discern. They believed in a nation of people who were equal in every conceivable way. Before those who wish to point out the frailties of our founding fathers and wish to interpret the word of these two documents to their own accord, please read the blogs I’ve written previously:

Our Founding Fathers – A Response to Mr. Wilson

http://tmdobson.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/response-to-mr-wilson-our-founding-fathers-homosexuality/

Happy Independence Day

http://tmdobson.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/

As a student of history, I take great strides to understand the historical context that is documented. Read these two amazing documents: The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, so that you may refresh what makes this country a truly great one. Read the Amendments that grant each citizen the rights we should hold so dear. Then think about the billions who don’t share in our rights. They cannot speak freely or appose those who govern them. They may not bare arms of any kind that may be used against the very government that oppresses them. If a person has anything the government wants or deems against its own, that person does not have the protection of said documents.

My dreams for tomorrow are as they always have been: that every soul within the confines of this planet, be free to live their lives in harmony, with peace and above all else…LOVE! Today is a truly great day to celebrate, but do so with the knowledge that somewhere in the world others do not have the freedoms we take for granted. That even in a country that refuses to let me love whom I wish to love, that I am free to voice my opposition to those who live in fear and with hate in their hearts. Celebrate so that one day, another person who struggles to cross a boarder on a quest to find freedom for his family may indeed rejoice in that independence. Know that on a day soon to come, even I may find, love and marry the person I choose to without regard to race, nationality or even sexuality.