Another Independence Day is upon us. Each one presents to us a challenge: will we also fight for freedom and independence, or give them up? The struggle for freedom has not changed, and will never change. It is the eternal struggle over whether human beings will live free, or willingly submit to slavery.
All over the world today, slaves are seeking slavery. Slaves everywhere are defending and even glorifying slavery. As those who are standing against tyranny continue to be excoriated as enemies of the people, demonized, and marginalized, avoiding slavery will be harder than ever. People everywhere defend oppressors and carry water for bullies and tyrants, and think all the while that they’re serving the cause of freedom.
In reality, you are either fighting for one thing, or the other. If you’re not working to advance the cause of freedom, you’re working to advance the cause of slavery. The cause of slavery has so very many advocates today. Be an advocate for freedom — for what we must defend, not what we must fight against:
1. Governments deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
What we must defend:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
Non-Muslims have “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines.” If they do, “the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life.” — Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami
2. Equality of rights before the law.
What we must defend:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
“The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that of a Muslim.” — Reliance of the Traveller, a classic manual of Islamic sacred law (o4.9)
“Thus if [a] Muslim commits adultery his punishment is 100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his penalty is execution. … Similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the hand of a Muslim has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be punished with the lash. … Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain…Again, the penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must be executed. … Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them.” — Sultanhussein Tabandeh, A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3. Freedom of speech
What we must defend:
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
“In confronting the Danish cartoons and the Dutch film ‘Fitna’, we sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. As we speak, the official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked.” — Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
“Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutch legislator…” — Daily Times of Pakistan
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Hussein Obama
“We also understand that, for 235 years, freedom of expression has been a universal right at the core of our democracy. So we are focused on…us[ing] some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.” — Hillary Clinton
“We are going to have the filmmaker arrested.” — Hillary Clinton, referring to the filmmaker whose YouTube video about Muhammad she blamed for the Benghazi jihad massacre
4. Freedom of religion, and non-establishment of religion
What we must defend:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” — Hamas-linked CAIR co-founder and longtime board chairman Omar Ahmad (he denies saying it, but the original reporter stands by her story)
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” — Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper
The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”
Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced. Freedom and independence forever.
jewdog says
The disturbing thing about what is happening today is not that we are facing those who seek to dominate us and take our freedom – that’s always been the case – but that there are so many people who refuse to see it or want to understand it and help us defend ourselves.
Bharat Mehta says
God is the founder of earth, is belief, which is root of slavery. Western civilization is not product of any such beliefs in God but in accepting supremacy of Science. That science is power that define quality of human life here on earth.
Belief in God as creators is religion, We are all God’s creation and hence we are all equal, is also beliefs that promotes socialism communism…which are not product of science.
Science is Latin word for knowledge. Knowledge belong to human Individual, which is the root of individual freedom. We need freedom not to obey so called God’s command but to worship power of knowledge to improve our life here on earth.
So, for the sake of science, freedom is our right to life. We must ask our Government to put total ban on religion and religious freedom, and religious practice. If citizen of state or nation fail to understand the root of freedom, then followers of religion will not fail to enslave citizen by destroying their freedom.
WPM says
Islam is not just a religion it is a political ideology ,on the supremacy of world domination like Fascism. Christians ,Jews ,Hindus ,Buddhist ,in their religion do not call for this, all major religions believe in the golden rule in treating believers and non believers of their faith as human beings except Islam. The Government of America allows any faith to be practiced, it does not let ideologies that support slavery ,violence against woman, violent subjection of unbelievers, thief of property of unbelievers the Islamic books of the Koran, Hadith and Sharia law command Moslems do this in Allah,s name. You can not ban all religions and should not try. You already have the separation of church and state in America, laws governing all people equal. If try to ban all religion like China you have to run it as a totalitarian with little freedom of speech ,and people under constant surveillance. People turn to God because they want to believe in something bigger and better then life only as found here on earth. I believe in God ,but have no hate in my heart for anyone who does not.
Smack Daddy says
Well stated. Freedom to discuss bad IDEAS such as Islam without the fear of violence is what we are fighting for these days.
Vann Boseman says
You do not have to believe in a creator or god to advocate for the natural rights that this country was founded on. The Spanish Scholastics of the late 16th century anticipated what appears to be your argument before the Enlightenment.
Dentreves points out that “{Grotius’] definition of natural law is nothing revolutionary. When he maintains that natural law is the body of rules which man is able to discover by the use of reason, he does nothing but restate the Scholastic notion of a rational foundation of ethics.”
Grotius pointed out that “What we have been saying would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that which cannot be conceded without the utmost wickedness, that there is no God …”
Certainly Grotius was in the short list of political philosophers that shaped the natural rights tradition in the American colonies throughout the 18th century, starting at the beginning of the century. Hobbes was exactly the sort that Americans considered to be opponents of the Enlightenment and did not tend to be quoted or read. Jefferson did of course but was no worse for it. Hamilton read Hobbes too and knew better than to cite Hobbes, but instead convoluted authors from the short list even if Hobbes’ influence on Hamilton was obvious after the Revolution had succeeded. This is crucially important because it would be Hamilton’s ideas that would be brought forward by Clay, Lincoln’s idol.
Because of the history of the American colonies concerning religion, the phrase “endowed by our creator” was absolutely going to be placed in the Declaration. But it did not have to be in order to recognize the natural rights of human beings as expounded on by the authors in the short list.
gravenimage says
Actually, Bharat, many abolitionists were devout Christians.
It is not Jews, Christians, Hindus, or Buddhists who are enslaving people now–just Muslims.
Papa Whiskey says
5. The right to be armed
What we must defend:
“… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
— Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
“We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons.”
— From The Pact of Umar, forced upon peoples conquered by Muslims in jihad campaigns
“The man who attempts, plans, or even wishes to disarm me must be regarded as my mortal enemy. … I, for one, will not be disarmed. Not while I live. Mark that well.”
— Jeff Cooper, father of the Modern Technique of the Pistol
Savvy Kafir says
True that. The right to be armed is the one that, ultimately, secures all of our other freedoms.
This is one issue (another being Islam) on which I’m always at odds with the vast majority of my fellow Lefties, who seem convinced that being a “progressive” requires a person to hate guns and find no fault with Islam.
Paul N Silas says
From my cold dead hands!
(what type of whiskey?)
Papa Whiskey says
Lagavulin, Caol Ila, Henry McKenna, George Dickel, et al.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Papa Whiskey.
newUser says
I am glad the old hag wasn’t elected for a President. She was bending backwards to islam, just like Hussein Obama.
newUser says
I am glad the old hug wasn’t elected.
Paul N Silas says
Thank you Mr. Spencer, and all of my fellow Patriot Bloggers, for keep America free.
duh swami says
My ancestral family have been here the 1600’s…They fought for freedom in every war since the Revolutionary war…This is no time for me to dishonor them by punking out with surrender…MAGA,,,
somehistory says
This is from a news story on MSN today:
“The Richmond County town of Hamlet, 80 miles east of Charlotte, abruptly canceled its July 4th celebration due to threats of violence.”The Charlotte Observer
Mark Price
2 hrs ago
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The report states that it is gang-related. But this could happen in many places due to *islum-relations.*
mortimer says
A country may resist external attacks but the fifth column of globalist traitors who willingly sell out America to its enemies are hard to defeat. Congress needs to find new ways to punish out and out traitors.
The enemy is ideological. American thinkers need to put their thinking caps on to defeat them. US think tanks can defeat the traitors, but ordinary citizens will have to pay the bill because the 1% globalists and Gulf oil are working together to destroy Western civilization.
mortimer says
Islam is deceit. Allah is the greatest of deceivers. Deceit is the DNA of Islam. Jihad is deceit. All Muslims are obligated to lie about jihad, to conceal jihad, to deny jihad and to disinform about jihad.
If Muslims actually tell the truth about the deception of jihad, they have left Islam and have become apostates.
No practicing Muslim will forthrightly tell the truth about jihad. Even apostates are slow to do so.
Wellington says
America could have never been created by Islam. True, other non-Muslim, non-Western cultures could also have not created America because the West is unique in the emphasis which it places upon freedom and America has been more about freedom than anything else, but other non-Muslim cultures pose either no threat to Western freedom or at least not as much as does the Islamic world. Besides, those non-Muslim, non-Western, cultures that do pose some threat to America and all the West have been widely viewed over time as authoritarian and inimical to liberty, but Islam still gets a major pass here and this is where the ultimate problem lies, i.e., Islam not being seen for the mortal enemy to freedom which it surely is.
A Happy Fourth of July to all people, American or not, who cherish freedom. This would exclude all devout Muslims because you cannot be a devout Muslim AND cherish freedom. You can be a nominal Muslim perhaps and savor liberty but then you are a bad Muslim. No way one can be a good Muslim, which is to say a devout Muslim, and be devoted to liberty. Impossible. And so what America’s Fourth of July stands for is something Islam has never stood for and never will———freedom.
gravenimage says
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Jedothek says
Well said, Robert.
Shmooviyet says
Thank you, Mr. Spencer, for these important, necessary reminders (and to Papa Whiskey for your excellent addition..)
A happy and safe 4th July to all freedom lovers at JW. ??
Seabird says
Selling $350bil. In weapons and “sword dancing” with avowed enemies of the US whose violent ideology is responsible for about 80% of terrorist attacks around the World neither enhances our security nor makes America great again.
It’s very clear “why we fight” the real question left is “how we fight” which leads us straight into a murky Pentagon/CIA swamp even Pres. Trump will never be allowed to drain.
But it could be worse, just imagine what the country would look like if we were still living under British rule with no “amendments” and Prince Charles as our future “King”.
No offense to our British friends intended but sometimes the truth hurts-
Happy 4th!!!
Papa Whiskey says
If we were still living under British rule we’d have probably ended up like the late great country of Rhodesia, whose own bid for independence the U.S. disgracefully helped to thwart. After the Rhodesians were throttled, their country was turned over to a black Marxist tyrant whose party is still in power after thirty-seven years.
One man, one vote — once.
gravenimage says
With all respect, Papa Whiskey, how is the plight of Zimbabwe America’s fault?
Westman says
Amen. And a great Patriotic 4th to all!
manat bint allaha says
happy 4th to all my american neighbors.
Vann Boseman says
Thank you very much for this discussion concerning the ideas of the United States.
I just want to express my appreciation for the Ninth Amendment. Courts and politicians of both sides ignore or downplay this one, yet they know better than to directly repeal it. If one understands the intellectual traditions of Americans in the 18th century, all of the rights you mentioned can be boomeranged back to the Ninth. The tenth is more often spoken of because it speaks of powers. But rights are referred to by the Ninth. If the intellectual history of the short list of Enlightenment authors established in the 18th century by Americans were taught by American parents to their children, then what July 4th is would have a different context than it does now.
Walter Sieruk says
Since that just yesterday was the Fourth of July and is should be known that this primary author of the Declaration of Independent, Thomas Jefferson, had wisdom which may apply to the USA in the year 2017 of a secure and safe America that is well worth remembering
So as Americans we should and must remember that for the United States to continue as a great power in the world in spite of the current threats of the Islamic terrorism by jihadist /Muslim terrorists who are operatives of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other jihadists of other similar jihad terror entities. Americans then should have Vigilance, Conviction and, of course, Fortitude. As one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” and “A conviction that we are right accomplishes half the difficulty of correcting wrong.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had also stated “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.” So in other words we , as Americans ,should have learned keep moving on strongly with Vigilance, Conviction and Fortitude.
Walter Sieruk says
We well all do know, or should know that the July 4 of the year 2017 was the 241 year anniversary of the official signing of the Declaration of Independence. Therefore it’s fitting to site the wisdom of two of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. For they had knowledge that may apply to the evil and deluded madness of jihad suicide/homicide attacks which are a murderous affront to all that is good , right and sane.
Concerning the subject of Islamic suicide/homicide – bombers /attackers: They are so thoroughly brainwashed and deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This jihad evil and madness is based on the Koranic doctrine, 9:111. , of a far-fetched and nonsensical doctrine of a sex- filled paradise with many virgins, hours, in it for the use only the jihadist/Muslim male who dies as a “martyr” fighting for the cause of Islam. This weird religious/Islamic teaching is found contained the Koran in 44:56. .55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and odd, irrational Koranic doctrine is not open, to the jihadist, to inquiry, questioning. logic or reason. So this blind unreasoning kind of “faith” in the Koran is a reminder that Thomas Jefferson had written. “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” Likewise, Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK something which may apply to this topic. For Mr. Franklin had printed “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
livingengine says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0REzamVcg
gravenimage says
Independence Day: Why We Fight
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Inspiring piece, Mr. Spencer!