From My Tumblr:
What is the 4th of July about after all? The United States was founded upon the ideal of secession: 234 years ago, radical revolutionaries publicly declared that they would pledge their lives, liberties, and their sacred honor to separate themselves from a tyrannical government they did not consent to, a power-crazed legislature encroaching on their private lives, and an unabashedly imperialistic juggernaut.
Why don’t we honor the 4th for what it really is about – secession?
Oh right, the 18th Century British Empire 21st Century American Empire doesn’t want us to remember that we have that recourse. After all, it spent upwards of $2,000,000,000 (in 1860 USD, or $45+ Bn in 2010 USD) and killed over 600,000 Americans from 1861-1865 to effectively “remove the option from the table.”
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