Plant the Seeds of Liberty

Boston Massachusetts. All of its rich history will never be able to be documented. There is too much to learn and to understand. A birthplace of freedom and hallowed ground, we come to understand men and what they stood for. The blood that they shed loosing it to the British. And to the strength of gaining it back.
The “Sons of Liberty” started meeting here and established a network of loyal followers during the Revolution. A great elm tree stood before a grocery store in an area known as the Neighborhood of Elms. On the great elm, a copper plate with large golden letters was placed on its trunk bearing the inscription “The Tree of Liberty”. Cities around the colonies started establishing their own “Liberty Trees” as a place of gathering to discuss the defeat of the British and to acknowledge their personal freedoms.
The Liberty Tree was planted in 1646. Quoting the Pemberton Manuscripts from 200 years ago, at this spot had been “born the first fruits of Liberty in America”. The British made the tree an object of hate and ridicule. Attacking personal freedoms and values was just the beginning of the English’s hate towards America and why this land was created. Liberty. Though we are allies with Great Britain now, they had come to respect exactly why people left their island in the first place.
Our liberties are being ridiculed again. By those who feel we have too much liberty. The individuals, who demand money and power over individual freedom, are on the attack. In the movie Batman Begins, Liam Neeson is teaching how crime cannot be tolerated. He states “criminals thrive on the indulgence of societies understanding”. He knows that those who commit crime do so by fear. They control our emotions by demonstrating unbridled passion towards taking away our liberties. The sad but true part of this whole scenario is that it isn’t criminals trying to take it away, it is our own government.
How is it that our own government isn’t defending us? Sure they are objectively trying to do what they think is right. Stepping in when they don’t think we can take care of ourselves. They feel we are not educated enough to solve the problems. Politicians blaming capitalism for all the recent issues in the news, you will notice very few are taking responsibility. They forget to tell you that one of the biggest contributors of campaign contributions was the ill fated company of AIG. And the biggest recipients of those contributions were John McCain, Barrack Obama, and Chris Dodd. Now the bill is due and “we the people” are the ones who owe the money back. You will notice also, that they are only asking or taxing the bonuses back, but not the bailout money. Why?
Because they hate the individual who has money and liberty, but they want the control of a company and its assets. In other words, power. This is all about class envy and how to destroy those they feel have more power than them. But in return, get to “regulate” what they think they can do better. It is a win, win for big government, and too bad so sad for those who had been punished for their forward thinking, job creating environments.
Let me warn, this is not a conspiracy. Remember the Liberty Tree? The British despised it so bad that about the last day of August 1775, a party of Loyalists led by Job Williams, defiantly cut it down during the siege on Boston. History will always repeat itself.
During the depression, and after two terms in office, FDR knew that he could not win a third term because he had not led them out of the depression and that unemployment was above 20%. The current President says he doesn’t see it that way. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. We need elected officials, there is no doubt. But we need them to lead. During the depression Milton Hershey was a rarity when it came to success, in that he very rarely failed. There is a story of the time he was building himself a new estate. He was surveying the hole in the ground with the foreman. He had noticed a strange contraption at the base of the excavated dirt and inquired the foreman to explain what it was. “It’s a steam shovel Mr. Hershey; it will do the work of forty men”! Milton raised his voice and said “get it out of there and hire forty men”.
There is an old saying in business, “managers are tolerated, and leaders are followed”. Politicians are now “just tolerated” when we need to stand and elect leaders to do the job that the Sons of Liberty died creating and protecting. Plant your own seeds of liberty in your communities and small towns and let it ring from sea to shining sea. Liberty is here to stay as long as there are people to defend it!

Kelly E. Dobson