some things just make ya proud

There stood my girls exercising their first amendment right in a small rally my daughter Kandice put together to oppose the bailout. You can click on the link below the photo to read the article if you like. Kandice said she experienced a lot of negative reactions from people as well as support. A man from the county court house congratulated her on making local history...it seems this was the first demonstration to ever be held in the town of Marysville.

By KURT MOORE • The Marion Star • September 30, 2008

Kandice Thompson and Destiny Wilson, left, of Richwood, Chris Anderson, a Vietnam Veteran from Lancaster, and Angela Beaver, also from Richwood, protest the federal government’s proposed financial bailout at a rally in Marysville on Monday.

My grandaughter Destiny holding a copy of the Marysville Journal tribune from Tuesday. Pretty cool to make the front page of two local newspapers. (Hey Dee, I love the shirt you're wearing!)

On July 4, Put Away the Flags

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

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