Happy Independence Day, fellow patriot! All Americans, no matter our anger and disgust at some of the things that anti-American traitors do in our name and the ways they are raping the nation and attempting to destroy Faith, Family, and Freedom, should love America and extol her holy name. No greater nation has ever existed. No Republic has ever had a wiser Constitution – a literally God-inspired Constitution calculated to ensure the Liberty of all mankind. No nation has ever had a more incredible heritage of personal Liberty, self-government, and rule of law.

It is precisely because there is no better place on planet earth, no other Republic with the same noble heritage of Freedom, and because no other nation has the same awesome potential that we must stand up for America and the American Freedom philosophy. Now is not the time to join the Ostrich Society and put our heads in the ground, hoping the chaos will blow over or that someone else will do what must be done. Now is the time to work for the American People, to save the Constitution, to educate the rising generation in the principles of Liberty, to inspire a burning love for America in our youth, and walk in the traditions of our honorable forefathers.

Our forefathers were God-fearing, honorable, hardy, hard-working, upright, straight-talking people who jealously guarded their God-given rights and fiercely fought for self-government. They forged independent lives, built up an empire of Liberty on a savage continent, and handed down an inspiring legacy to us, their posterity. Do we thank them for their monumental efforts? Do we remember their sacrifices? Do we take the time to properly honor them and relate their stirring stories to our children?

Anti-Americans are hellbent on casting our forefathers as villains. They lie about them constantly, calling them genocidal racists and murderers. Don’t listen to these damnable lies. Don’t be duped by false versions of history no matter how in vogue by court historians and Hollywood. In August, I will graduate with my master’s degree in history. The more I pour through old records and historical accounts and write research papers, the more I love our forefathers and despise those who have created so many myths about them to smear their memories, libel their names, and encourage their posterity to hate them and reject the institutions, traditions, and principles they handed down to us.

American history is brutal. In fact, world history has always been brutal – there is no exceptions anywhere in the world. There has always been tension between those seeking gold and those seeking God, those who honor just laws and those who abuse them, those who exemplify virtue and those who debauch themselves and promote depravity, and those who fight for Liberty and those who enslave people either through the damnable institution of slavery or through the scheme of government oppression. The world is full of piracy, organized crime, slavery, rape, murder, genocide, tyranny, hedonism, nihilism, occultism, and all other forms of wickedness.

Those who falsify American history tell it as if Americans – white people especially – are uniquely evil. We are not. What a vile lie and a complete bastardization of history! Americans are unique, rather, in giving humanity a way to end all of the insanity, in providing the first example in modern history of a system of Freedom, and in setting up a constitutional system of rule of law that exalts individual God-given rights and presents opportunities for all to be stewards over their lives, their rights, their property, and their futures.

America has given the world hope where before there was none. Freedom has not been perfected yet, and it has been a wrenching experience to fight against 6,000 years of entrenched horrors and oppression, but those who set the ball rolling for humanity were those who rebelled against monarchs and tyrants in 1776 and established the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Therefore, those who unjustly condemn America are, whether knowingly or inadvertently, condemning and undermining these institutions and principles of Liberty.

What we need is not to get away from the traditions of our forefathers, but to go back to them, to embrace them, to live them. We need to break through our programming and conditioning and embrace our nature. Being an American is more than being born in America or holding U.S. citizenship. Being an American is a mindset; it is embracing Faith, Family, Freedom, constitutional rule of law, and the Freedom philosophy that defines our People.

The nineteenth century historian Anson D. Morse, identified the thing that makes Americans different from other peoples. He explained,

“Devotion to the state and obedience to formal law come, at times, into conflict. In such cases, obedience to law, if persisted in, would give us the civilization of Asia. Disregard of formal law, in order to serve the state more efficiently, is a distinctive feature of European and American civilization. In this sense, Ceasar, Luther, Hampden, and Washington were law-breakers. Between these, and those who break the law for the sake of power or passion, or self-love in any form, the difference is world-wide. The acts of the former are recognitions of political duty; the acts of the latter are denials” (Anson D. Morse, “The Political Influence of Andrew Jackson,” Political Science Quarterly 1, no. 2 (1886), 156-157, Accessed on July 1, 2024, https://doi.org/10.2307/2138966).

To Morse, a characteristic American trait is fighting for a higher law, even if it requires us to disobey the laws of the state. When the Founding Fathers declared Independence, they were violating the laws of England, the whims of Parliament, and the dictates of the king in obedience to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” as the Declaration of Independence puts it. They knew 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.” They understood that God-given rights trump man-made laws 100% of the time, and they were willing to fight to ensure the protection and continuation of these rights. That is what Independence Day is all about.

Thomas Jefferson reasoned that the laws of necessity were to prevail over all man-made laws. He said,

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

Highlight this quotation. Study it. Internalize it. There are times when it is the higher duty of a patriot to save his country in spite of or in direct violation of the written law. Laws can be and often are corrupt, harmful, and unconstitutional. Our forefathers knew what all good people have always know, that “we ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). They violated British law when the declared Independence and went to war against their own government, but what honest person would say they did not make the right decision? It was morally right and historically right, and thank God for it!

It is time for Americans today to be on the right side of history and morality in standing for Freedom regardless of what the tyrannical regime in Washington, D.C. says. Their laws are illegitimate if they violate the Constitution or infringe upon any of our God-given rights. Illuminate laws do not need to be obeyed because they are inherently void. Chief Justice John Marshall famous said in Marbury v. Madison in 1803, “A Law repugnant to the Constitution is void.”

Are you morally or legally obligated to obey a voided law? No! The government’s protestations to the contrary be damned. Do not submit to unconstitutional laws. Instead, submit to God’s law – the higher law. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson proposed “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God” as our national motto. It is the unofficial motto of patriots in all generations. Rebellion to Tyrants in Obedience to God is what we celebrate each Independence Day.

Writing about the Stamp Act in 1765, Founding Father John Dickinson said, “If you quietly bend your Necks to that Yoke, you prove yourselves ready to receive any Bondage to which your Lords and Masters shall please to subject you.” The principle is the same for any unjust law. If you submit to them, they compound, bind you, and eventually lead you captive to the whims of dictators and tyrants.  

Rights do not come from laws or even constitutions. Alexander Hamilton said,

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power” (Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February, 1775).

Called the First Lady of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren of Boston similarly proclaimed,

“Self-defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; this primeval principle, the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges every one to remonstrate against the strides of ambition, and a wanton lust of domination, and to resist the first approaches of tyranny” (Larry Schweikart, Dave Dougherty, and Michael Allen, The Patriot’s History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American (United States of America: Sentinel, 2011), Chapter 11).

Ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors were profoundly good and noble human beings who loved Liberty! They were not villains; they were heroes! They were imperfect, but they forged a free Republic and a nation of law in which you could have the individual Freedom to live your life and be a steward over your own future. Independence Day is a chance to show gratitude to our forefathers and to our great God for our rights.

True Americans obey the higher law of Freedom and do not submit to legalized tyranny. The written law means nothing and is entirely void if infringes upon our unalienable rights or contradicts our inspired Constitution. It’s time for this generation to rise up in might against the tyrannical Establishment that has set itself up as our lords and masters. They wish to rule, but We the People are the only legitimate rulers in accordance with God’s law.

This Independence Day, assert your Independence, your Freedom, your sovereignty. Embrace your heritage of Liberty as an American. Return to the American tradition of Rebellion to Tyrants in Obedience to God. It is time to rise and fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom. God bless you to never surrender and to never bow the knee to mortals. Instead, bow the knee to the Savior Jesus Christ who is Lord and King over the earth and who is returning soon to reign in glory.

Zack Strong,
July 4, 2024