Glenn Reynolds; Three things you can do for liberty

Over at The Washington Examiner yesterday: Sunday Reflection: Three things you can do for liberty

Today, Independence Day is generally observed by shooting firecrackers, eating hotdogs and hamburgers, and drinking beer. These are all worthwhile activities -- in these Bloomberg-prudish times, they even serve to annoy the nannyists, which is always worthwhile.

...While Independence Day is about independence from Great Britain, today it's also associated with more general notions of freedom -- individual independence, not just political independence.

Unfortunately, America's political class doesn't want you independent. It wants you as dependent as possible. As the Rainmakers sang back in the 1980s, "They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please."

So what can you do? Everybody focuses on the 2012 elections, and those are important. But why wait? Here are three things you can do now.

So onto the 3 suggestions (I'll let you hit the link for the details):

1. Attack the federal funding.
2. Stop supporting the enemies of freedom and start supporting your friends. Cancel your subscriptions to cable TV channels, magazines or newspapers that support big government over individual liberty.
3. Join Together. It may seem contradictory to assert your independence by banding together. But our Founding Fathers didn't set America free by acting alone.

1 is probably the hardest of the lot because of ruling class entrenchment. 2 is a bit easier but once you do some digging, you will find it hard to do business anywhere because you will find rampant liberals throughout corporate America. Some are more obvious than others, but it will still be tough. The 3rd is the easy one - join a tea party group. Plenty of them locally. Or start one of your own. So easy a cavemen can do it.

Glenn's best point in the whole piece was the one I highlighted above regarding dependence. Although instead of political class, I would have used the correct term - Democrats. Speaking of, from Mark Steyn (HT: Pundit & Pundette): Obama's Declaration of Dependence

...Big Government on America’s unprecedented money-no-object scale will always be profoundly wasteful (as on that Williamsburg flight), stupid (as at the TSA), and arbitrary (as in those waivers). But it’s not republican in any sense the Founders would recognize. If (like Obama) you’re a lifetime member of the government class, you can survive it. For the rest, it ought to be a source of shame to today’s Americans that this will be the first generation in U.S. history to bequeath its children the certainty of poorer, meaner lives — if not a broader decay into a fetid swamp divided between a well-connected Latin American–style elite enjoying their waivers and a vast downwardly mobile morass. On Independence Day 2011, debt-ridden America is now dependent, not on far-off kings but on global bond and currency markets, which fulfill the same role the cliff edge does in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. At some point, Wile looks down and realizes he’s outrun solid ground. You know what happens next.

Read the whole thing.