|Liberty and Justice for All| When Americans Understood the
Declaration of Independence by Thomas J. DiLorenzo The Fourth of
July was not always a national celebration of the militarization
of American society and of the federal government’s never-ending
quest for world domination (disguised as "defending our
interests abroad"). Americans did not always attend church
services on the Sunday before the Fourth of July to "honor"
their "military heroes" and pray that they may kill many more
human beings in other countries that have done them no harm.
Americans once actually read and understood the Declaration of
Independence for what it was: a declaration of secession from
the British empire and a roadmap for opposing a highly
centralized, militaristic empire of the sort the U.S. government
has become. The Declaration of Independence was the ultimate
secessionist or states’ rights document. "Governments are
instituted among men," Thomas Jefferson wrote, for the sole
purpose of securing God-given, "unalienable" ri