Today at Noon, in a borough of New York City I've never stepped foot in, Staten Islanders will speak with one clear, and voluminous voice that "enough has been and is ENOUGH!"
It is my honor to help keynote the event!
But we will do so today
at a very historical site.
For it was the "conference house" on Staten Island, where Admiral Lord Howe, offered Edward Rutledge, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams the chance for peace, and they declined.
Two months previously they had signed their names to a document that made the bald-faced assertion that freedom was a gift from God to man, not from one man to another.
In so doing these three and the rest of the remaining signatories on the Declaration of Independence, put themselves on the execution list should the American colonies lose the war. In 1776 George Washington and troops had just suffered a bloody defeat at Brooklyn at the far southern tip of Long Island. Under the cover of darkness however General Washington had been able to remove his bloodied and battered troops across the East River to Manhattan.
Completed with such efficiency and secrecy the Brits did not know that the Yanks were gone until after the sun rose the following morning.
When Admiral Howe invited Franklin, Rutledge, and Adams to Staten Island the goal had been to urge them to renounce their commitment to the signed Declaration in exchange for Amnesty. And though they knew that Admiral Howe very easily could have had them killed the moment they stepped foot on the Island, they went anyway.
The three hour meeting at "Conference House" ended in abject frustration for Admiral Howe, but allowed the rebels to leave, and of course in that same year the colonies declared not just independence but victory in the topping of tyranny.
Today American patriots meet there again, to topple a tyranny that
has now infected our own government. We will be heard, and the tyrants can not stop us.
Enough spending President Obama. Enough games.
Enough wasting the American's hard earned dollars on junk... literally.
Seriously President Obama... ENOUGH!
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