Page 200 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

when the people did not have a right to speak, protest, and

assemble – from the birth of our Country to the rise of extremist
tyranny and oppression in conquered Europe of WWI and WWII. In

our own developing country our Founding Fathers had to meet in
secret – just to plead with the crown for equality in representation,

taxes and laws. The response was more tyranny and oppression – a
police state. A revolution that was unintended but deemed to be

both necessary and realized by independence. Many other
countries do not have free speech – communication is by a state

media, only certain information is allowed, truth and accuracy are
not necessary. To limit, censor or ban free speech is to control the

individual or collective. It is to make people both ignorant and
enslaved. Not every free country recognizes free speech. Our

neighbor to the north, Canada, does not recognize freedom of
speech or religion in the same respects. Speech, and the free

exercise thereof, has been documented as a right – in some evolving
form – since the Magna Carta and finds its strongest argument in

the greatest assertion of free speech – our Declaration of
Independence. In fact, the crown of England scoffed at our

Declaration of Independence with the notion that the colonies had
no right to make such grievances or demands. Hence, the royal

proclamation that the colonies were in open revolt. When looking
at the Constitutional sacred and unalienable birthright of free

speech – and each of our Bill of Rights, look no further than our

Declaration of Independence. That document is our Country’s
foundation for each of them.
Freedom of Religion

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