Today, January 6, 2022, marks the one-year anniversary of one of the finest days of our shared national experience.  On that day, thousands of good, freedom-loving people went to Washington D.C.  to share their disgust with an administrative state that had worked for years to impede a duly elected President.  Through baseless impeachments, made-up Russian conspiracies, willful disobedience by non-elected bureaucrats, and finally a stolen election, there was an effective coup against the President which rendered much of his term in office largely ineffective.  In fact, it is miraculous that he was able to accomplish as much as he did with the entire federal government apparatus working to impede him at every turn.

There are those in the media (liberal and conservative), as well as public office, who denounce political violence of any type as wrong and immoral.  It is our good fortune that Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, John Adams, and George Washington did not share this view.  The very documents that establish our nation proclaim that both life AND liberty are rights, given to all men by Almighty God.  It is well accepted that violence is both justified and, indeed moral, when one’s life is threatened.  Why is it any less so when the God-given right of liberty is threatened?  Indeed, it is not.  When those who have been elected to serve spurn with contempt the very people whose liberty they are duty-bound to protect; when they respond to petitions and remonstrances with slights and insults; and when they disregard the very constitution they are sworn to uphold; then, there is no longer room for hope.  Then, it is the duty of every citizen to rise and protect that which Almighty God has granted them, and to do so by any means necessary.

The events of January 6, 2021 were little more than a vocal protest…not an insurrection.  Would that the events of that day had sparked a true insurrection!  We the people must come to value our liberty as much as we value our lives…because without the former, the later isn’t worth having.  As Patrick Henry famously asked, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”