Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the first American declaration of independence from the British crown was penned in Charlotte. Upon hearing of the British firing upon citizens at Lexington and Concord, rebellious North Carolinians had enough. Declaring their right to be free from government tyranny, they sent a rider north to present their declaration to the Continental Congress, where the NC delegation turned it down, believing it too rash a move just yet.
In 2025, we should all have fresh memories of government tyranny – from forced vaccines and closures of businesses to people being deported with little to no due process of the law – there are always examples of the government wildly overstepping the power we the people have ceded to them. On this day, let us remember why Libertarians choose to fight against both sides of the Uniparty when they trample on our rights.
While there is controversy surrounding the document in question, the reason for it is well and clearly understood as the rest of the colonies found their spine and rose up together to declare that they were no longer a part of the British Empire a year later.
Let us not forget that rebellious spirit today, and not give in to the next indignity, the next trampling of our rights, the next incremental tax increase or rezoning of a beautiful house with a yard a child could actually play in into a warehouse, or police stealing cash on the side of the road and calling it asset forfeiture. There’s a million small and large ways our current governments all the way down to your local town trample your individual rights and liberties that are exponentially more egregious than what those brave men in 1775 and 1776 got fed up with.
Let’s get people into office that understand these things. Let’s show them that they can’t turn every farm and single-family home with a yard into an apartment complex. Let’s show them that if they decide they can steal cash from people without due process, we’ll be at the council meetings to ask where they got it from. Let’s open our businesses if they get so brazen as to tell us we can’t be open during their manufactured crisis, but Walmart can.
Join us in the Libertarian Party of Mecklenburg County, because our heritage is to throw off the yolk and tell tyrants they are not our masters.
James Higgins,
Chairman, Libertarian Party of Mecklenburg County
May 20th, 2025
