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Losing Liberties By The Consent Of The Governed, Or The Victims?(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(PERSPECTIVE)
Byline: K.E. Grubbs Jr.
"We carried you, in our arms, on Independence Day. . . ."
So begins one of those long, surrealistic songs by the great Bob Dylan, probably best interpreted by Joan Baez. By song's end, we hear of a father's angst over his daughter's ingratitude, arrogance, meanness.
Then a revelation, possibly. Could it be that the bard of the youth protest era, now mercifully behind us, actually meant the first Independence Day, July 4, 1776?
Never mind that the historical Declaration was accepted on July 2, read to the public two days later. That factoid doesn't erase the truth that before that famous Fourth of July there were only fourths of July. And that on that first Fourth the Colonies separated themselves from a faraway tyranny.
The Idea Of Self-Government
Could it be, further, that what we were carrying in our arms, nothing less than the boldest political experiment in history, was the idea of self-government itself? Was this Dylan's lament?
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