by Susan Shotthafer
Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety ~ Ben Franklin
Will our posterity celebrate their holidays in the United States Socialist Democracy of Amerika?
Happily, this year, our county commissioners did follow through with a fireworks ban proposed last year. Wherever America’s patriots still celebrate Independence Day, fireworks remind us of sacrifice and our heritage. Dazzling, sky-rocketing, crackling, thunderous fireworks embody liberty’s spirit.
Fireworks opponents fret about fireworks hazards. Fireworks remind leftists about a control they still lack.
A wide perspective demonstrates residential fireworks bans are unjustified government overregulation, a solution seeking a problem.
Daily, alcohol impaired drivers kill 29 people.
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
Exposing marijuana muddled brains, fifty-three percent of 15-20-year-olds think marijuana improves their driving ability. Alcohol and/or drug impairment contributes to almost fifty percent of Washington’s traffic fatalities. Poly-drugged drivers, the primary cause in fatal crashes, average a 15 percent increase yearly since 2012. Mixed alcohol and THC compose the most prevalent poly-drug.
Who rants about these realities? But fireworks—they scare animals, irritate and scare some people, and can cause injury!
Fundamental adulthood requisites are annoyance toleration and recognition of what we shouldn’t fear. Do Americans possess a constitutional right to freedom from annoyances and risks?
Approximately 95% of residential fireworks annoyances occur about 12 hours during Independence Day, leaving 8,748 hours annually, without fireworks.
Alcohol and recreational marijuana destroy lives 8760 hours yearly.
Cannot objectors tolerate Independence Day residential fireworks 12 out of 8,760 annual hours? For a day, some animal owners use tranquilizers for their animals. Maybe they could try this remedy for themselves?
Freedom seems the most intangible, underrated value we possess. Americans living only in this rare situation, an anomaly throughout history, cannot imagine living without liberty. We might compare a loss of our American freedoms to the effect on a healthy, young Olympic athlete becoming paraplegic.
Fireworks bans restrict liberty and pursuit of happiness derived from our Independence Day commemoration. We patriots cherish independence. The suggestion that we don’t need our own fireworks, intrinsic in the right to earned property, evokes aversion. We appreciate, but do not want to depend on the chamber of commerce fireworks shows. What if the chamber of commerce someday decides not to provide a firework show after a county ban. Then what?
Ironically, banning of fireworks insult liberty, considering that Independence Day celebrates liberty. Compare the transient reasons to stifle commemoration of Independence Day with fireworks to the 1.1 million United States Americans who sacrificed their lives in total U.S. wars for Americans and American values.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/many-americans-died-u-s-wars
Are12 out of 8760 annual hours for fireworks on Independence Day too much to expect for a nation conceived in liberty?
The widest perspective on Americans’ celebration with fireworks includes the crux of the left’s reason for wanting to ban fireworks. For the left, David Horowitz reminds us, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always revolution.” Reading David Horowitz’s works is very helpful to understanding the left. Especially his autobiography, Radical Son.
https://genius.com/David-horowitz-a-modern-machiavelli-2-lyrics
For nihilistic, radical environmentalists the issue is power, control, and destruction of our economic system. For the radical left, not bigoty or prejudice, (racism, sexism, xenophobia homophobia, etc.) but destruction of our culture is the issue. Not poverty or equality, but more power, control, and destruction of our economic system and culture, is the issue for nihilists.
In public schools of the past and from their parents, children learned about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington celebrating these two most honored U.S. Presidents and two special holidays, Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays. Now we celebrate Presidents’ Day. The Left continues to attack and undermine Thanksgiving, Christianity, Christmas, even Father’s Day. Nothing is sacred.
Will we preserve our American history, culture, and values without a fireworks ritual to celebrate our Declaration of Independence? In the future, will our children and posterity honor Dependence Day by celebrating the United States Socialist Democracy of Amerika?
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. –D. H. Lawrence
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Susan Shotthafer is a Clallam County PCO.
