Welcome to the ABOUT page. I thought I’d share with you the
conceptual origins of our site.
I was doing research recently about the ride of Paul Revere. I
will be honest, it was spawned by a moving episode of Glenn Beck’s show from
Monday, May 25th, 2009 on FoxNews channel. His enthusiastic and
animated delivery of the back story to Paul Revere’s ride was so new to me I
thought I’d check them out. While I could not substantiate his story, I
was able to identify Dr. Joseph Warren, the man who dispatched Paul Revere and
Richard Dawes that night as part of the ‘committee of correspondence’ to do the
now infamous ride. Researching why Dr. Warren was such a treat I came across
the whole ‘committee of correspondence’ culture. I also happened upon the
earliest of American water cooler culture, the Liberty Pole!
The history of the Liberty Pole is discussed in detail on our
history page, but for here, briefly, it was the place in the town square where
the men who formed the local chapters of the committee for correspondence would
meet and strategize on how best to handle the British impingement on their
lives in the new world. It was so productive, so successful an idea which was
practiced up and down the eastern seaboard I thought it would be really
significant to create a virtual LIBERTY POLE in our local town square and
strategize on how best to regroup and promote the very Constitution that arose
from some of those folks.
I have created this blog site initially to deal with
stories in the news from an op-ed perspective but eventually I hope to develop
an actual ‘investigative journalism’ site where stories can be brought to the
blogosphere alerting the readers of opportunities to defend the Constitution
even if it is to expose those who are obliterating the freedoms inherent in our
citizenship by their own political, ideological or philosophical
agenda/motives. In the past few months we have been caught up in a whirlwind of
changes designed to remove our ‘right to choice’ on so many things and if we
allow ourselves to succumb to the water as it slowly comes to a boil we will
have lost them for good! Please join us in sharing your thoughts, storylines,
even how you are using your own blog, web site as a LIBERTY Pole to promote
individual Liberty while securing the inalienable right to life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness.
Thank you.
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