Two hundred forty-seven years ago, April 19, 1775 to be exact, Concord Bridge was the site of the Shot Heard Round the World! It was a shot for freedom, and the catalyst to begin the Revolutionary War. How ironic it is that in our very years there should again be a shot heard around the world, a ‘jab’ as some might call it, threatening our own freedom with lock-downs, masks and penalties, putting heroes on the ‘firing line’ in a different way, i.e. being ‘fired’ from jobs for refusing to take the hit, for exercising hard-won rights for which others have often surrendered their lives. It is a sad evolution of the shot for freedom into no real freedom from the shot. It took farmers then, and truckers now, to demonstrate that we inherited something worth protecting, the right to follow our consciences, a right that comes from God, not from collusion of government, medical, tech, media and finance.
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