This past week I spent my vacation with my family in Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown Virginia.  One of the many moments that hit me during this past week was when I was standing and reading some of the monuments at Yorktown and realizing that it was 228 years to the day that the battle of Yorktown took place.  In fact, it was on October 19, 1781 that General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington the beginning of the end of the struggle for our freedom from the tyrannical King George III. 

Walking around Williamsburg and talking with many of the characters in the living museum helped me to understand more than ever before how exactly King George III treated the people of the colonies and why they declared Independence from England.  The first thing was that King George became king at a young age and felt that the colonists were acting like children and needed to be treated as such. Another is he tried to tax anything and everything to show his power and to control the colonists.  The colonists fought back against the taxes by producing their own goods and refusing to purchase the taxed items that were imported.  Tea was the only commodity that they could not produce themselves that was taxed, so they either had to pay the tax or go without.  King George was also thought of as being arrogant and exacerbating a social class system that continued to divide the people against each other and those in the leadership positions.  Basically, the King and those who served under him at his pleasure felt as if they were better than all the colonists and they acted like the colonists' "Big Brother."

Does any of this sound similar to what we are going through today with our politicians?  It sure does to me, and throughout my entire week in Virginia I almost felt a sense of déjà vu.  I sure hope that we the people can take back our country before we lose all of our freedoms and end up being led by a tyrannical dictator.

How do we take back our country?  Below is a list of some of the things I believe we need to do to make sure we don't repeat history and to keep our country free.

·         Learn our true history, especially between the years of 1750 to 1800.

·         Help good conservative candidates get elected in 2010, 2012, 2014, etc. 

·         Encourage our state officials to assert our 10th Amendment rights against the federal government.

·         Encourage our state and federal officials to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments (these two amendments alone give the federal government most of their power and will bring that power back to the states-please read Article V of the U.S. Constitution).

These are just a few items that will help.  I believe these are doable, with the first two totally resting on us as citizens.  The second two can both be accomplished through our state legislature, which is just one of the reasons why the 2010 election is so important.