Title: Stirring Short Film That Says It Source:
XRepublic.tv URL Source:http://xrepublic.tv/node/3166 Published:May 4, 2013 Author:Huron Films Post Date:2013-05-04 12:19:01 by Original_Intent Keywords:To Arms!, To Arms! Views:161 Comments:5
Poster Comment:
A cry I hope never to have to hear or utter: "To Arms! To Arms! The Federals are coming!"
The next few years are going to be interesting ones. The winds of resistance are stirring and on the breath lies one word: REVOLUTION.
The difference between then and now was that they knew they were each individually free (without the need to have a Constitution tell them they were) ... today people really don't think of themselves as free (even though the Constitution tells them they are) otherwise the lead would already be flying.
You make a good point. The colonists, which includes my ancestors, were raised in an environment where there was very little government and so grew up in freedom for several generations - to the point that any government imposition was seen clearly as it was - an attempt to control and assert arbitrary authority over them, and that is what they rejected because they knew it was a false authority. Freedom is as much a point of view as it is a political state.