have a confession to make. Until I was an adult – as in, until a few years ago – I never completely read the Declaration of Independence.
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Oh sure, I was familiar with the basics. I knew what it said … sort of. But somehow I just never got around to reading it.
This isn’t surprising. I am, after all, a public skool gradjuate. And public schools, as everyone knows, hardly go around emphasizing such things.
But now that I’m a homeschooling mom, I was darned if my kids were going to be as ignorant as I was.When one nation takes over another, that second nation is considered “occupied.” That’s currently the situation of We the People. We are occupied by the Government of America. An efficient parasite weakens and sucks blood from its host, but doesn’t quite kill it. The Government of America has become a parasite on the body of the People of America.
And so this is why a thoughtful study of our founding documents is actively discouraged in government schools. Studying these documents puts students in opposition with the occupying force. The Declaration is considered inflammatory because students might recognize that the whole purpose of it was to put limitations on the Government, not to feed the beast.
— Patrice Lewis, July 2 WorldNetDaily column