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Give me a serious discussion on civil liberties over July 4 pomp and circumstance any day.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

NOTE: Following is a reprint of what I wrote for July 4 in 2007 and reprinted in 2008 and 2009: Whenever I look around on July 4, the scene is long on fireworks, beer, and merrymaking, and too short on discussion of what Independence Day is all about.  The Declaration of Independence was hardly signed by a bunch of pacifists. The signers must have realized that the bloodshed among the warring sides would lengthen and intensify with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and it did. Violence begets violence, and the rampant violence that led to Britain's surrender did not take place in a vacuum. Instead, it has fed into all subsequent American wars and smaller military actions. The United States' repeated victories in wars (and the Vietnam War probably would not have dragged on so long were it not to become America's first war defeat) likely has made the United States all the more militaristic and cocksure militarily...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).