Independence Day. Really?

I was wondering what, if anything, would be appropriate to post today, 236 years after a group of men decided they'd had enough of tyranny. Wandering around YouTube took me down a very dark path, where videos of:

1) a college kid being beaten unconscious by three cops for nothing more than skipping down a street
2) a man sitting in front of his house being tased and then jumped by ten cops
3) a cop who broke an 84 year old man's neck for "touching" him
4) a woman who was tasered for not signing a traffic ticket
5) a group of poor people who have squatted on an abandoned military base ("Slab City" in Imperial county Calif.) who were confronted by police for not having "permits"

 . . . and several more showed me that we have come full circle from tyranny to tyranny. Only this time it's the kind we may have much more trouble getting out from under than what a mere King back in England could impose on us. Now we have drones that can not only spy on us from several hundred feet in the sky above us, but take us out if our Usurper-in-Chief decides we are "enemy combatants". This is a decision that he alone may make, and is now legally justified in doing so, thanks to his unchallenged abuse of power via executive orders, statutes, public laws, policies and procedures.

So what did we fight for, some nebulous idea that we would eventually be a free people in the country our forefathers built?

Ann Coulter gave a little reprieve in her article today posted to World Net Daily:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/on-july-4-remember-we-are-not-french/

However, in reading a comment I was reminded that in fact we never did actually get out from under British rule, as most of us were taught in schools. All one has to do is read the works of The Informer or those of his fellow researcher James Montgomery (much of which was hosted at a now defunct website atgpress.com but can be found in bits and pieces here and there if you but look).

Thankfully a website for Montgomery's published work - "The United States Is Still A British Colony" - still exists. It can be found here:

http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/

Happy "Independence" Day . . . or not.