Have you ever heard of Caeser Rodney? I never learned about him in school, but somewhere along the way I did learn about Caeser Rodney, and I’m glad I did.
Like Paul Revere, Caesar Rodney is famous for a midnight ride. Rodney’s ride ended up at the doorstep of Independence Hall where he cast the decisive Delaware vote for Independence. On June 30, a motion for Independence had been put forward with nine colonies voting for independence, two voting against, New York abstaining while the Delaware delegates had split their vote. Delaware delegate Thomas McKean was in favor of independence, while George Read voted against. Rodney, also a delegate form Delaware was absent during this vote. While there was technically enough support to carry the motion, the Continental Congress didn’t want to go forward and declare independence without unanimous support.
Rodney had been away from Congress because his role as a Brigadier General in the Delaware militia, forced him back to Delaware to squelch a Loyalist riot. McKean got word to Rodney that his vote for independence was desperately needed in Congress. All night, as the first of July, 1776, turned into the second, Rodney rode through a thunderstorm. He covered 80 miles and arrived at Independence Hall’s doorstep in time to cast his decisive vote. Years later Thomas McKean remembered meeting Rodney at the door “in his boots and spurs.”
Rodney’s vote decided the matter. Delaware was going to war.
Next week you have the chance to make a difference, the way Caesar Rodney did. But we won’t have to go to war. We just need a lot of patriots to show up in Washington, DC to remind our representatives who they represent. Folks, if there’s any way you can get there, get there! If the Democrat health care bill passes it will be a decisive victory for the enemies of freedom. This is it, it’s crunch time.
Dan Riehl: When challenged, the statist’s argument does not hold in the minds of free men and women. They know better than that. They do not live everyday in utopia, they live in the free but often tough world. And that is why ObamaCare is instinctively repulsive to the majority of Americans who give it any real thought. There is no such thing as having everything – and at a lower cost, at that. The concept just doesn’t ring true.
But the Left’s political arguments must be confronted forcefully, even outrageously at times if that’s what it takes to get through. Think of it in terms of what Andrew Breitbart is doing in the world of media activism today.
He is calling them out, confronting them, exposing them for what they are and what they believe. And when you prick them like that, they do bleed. Figuratively speaking, if we don’t make them bleed, we will lose. We have been playing politely for decades now. And America has only continued its slide to the Left. And in the face of a pending vote on Obama Care, there is no more room left to give.
I’m not advocating violence. But I am advocating confrontation. Otherwise, most especially now, this one in the White House and his Congressional colleagues seem content to ignore you – to shine you on and you will get only what they choose to give you in the end. That is not the lot of the free man, or woman. It is the lot of the slave, the serf, if you prefer.
That’s why you have to try as best you can to be in DC on March 16th. It’s time to prick, poke, and prod them and make their house of cards cave in. If you don’t do it, now, don’t expect your children, or your grandchildren to do it. If, or when, it becomes their turn on your behalf, when they’re getting ready to pull the plug on you because, well, you’ve lived long enough, they’ll go along, just as you might now. Without our example, future generations of Americans will have no example to follow, let alone believe in.
Come on people. Now is the time. If we allow this bill to pass we will find ourselves living under a government that does not have the consent of the people. Not in any way shape or form. What will they do to us next?
Caeser Rodney rode a horse through the rain from Delaware to Philadelphia to declare independence from a tyrant. What are you willing to do?
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