Seven reasons to refute the US’s right to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence

There are, of course, many, many reasons for refusing to celebrate the 250th anniversary, today, of the 13 US colonies’ Declaration of Independence from the executive tyranny of their British overlords on July 4, 1776, but here’s a list of seven particular reasons why I won’t be lighting any fireworks tonight.  

1) A corrupt pedophile grifter is in the White House, who dreams, in his blackened heart, and what is left of his decaying mind, of being a tyrant himself, and is facilitated in those thoughts by some of the repugnant individuals he has gathered around him, or who facilitated his successful re-election a year last November, with the intention of using him to turn the US into a Christian white supremacist dictatorship.  

2) Despite the lofty ideals of the US’s founders, the aspirational new country was mired from the beginning in the moral abyss of slavery, a vile policy, which white supremacist racists have never abandoned, and which runs through the US’s history like an open wound — from the civil war to lynchings, segregation, a prison system designed to imprison as many black Americans as possible, and racist police who persistently kill black men and boys.

3) The nation’s founding also involved pursuing the eradication of the indigenous population, a largely unacknowledged genocide made all the more apparent as the nascent nation expanded westwards with a belief in its “manifest destiny.”

4) Despite liberating itself from British rule, the new nation has pursued wars of aggression throughout almost the whole of its history, rivalling and then surpassing the aggression of its former masters, whose blood-soaked, genocidal, colonial expansion around the world was seen as a template rather than as a deterrent.

5) Despite proclaiming freedom from executive tyranny, the US, for the last 24 years, has been imprisoning foreign Muslims at Guantánamo Bay, mostly without charge or trial, in what is very clearly the exercise of executive tyranny, as I discussed in an earlier post: substack.com/@andyworth…

6) Despite proclaiming freedom from executive tyranny, the US has, over many decades, made itself subservient to a new colonial master, Israel, in whose service both Democrats and Republicans have been funding, arming and fully supporting a genocide in the Gaza Strip for the last 33 months.

7) Closer to home, in attempting to fulfil a repellant, malignant dream of undertaking the largest deportation program in US history, the Trump administration, under the authority of one of his senior advisors, the repugnant Nazi Stephen Miller, has unleashed unaccountable ICE thugs onto America’s streets, rounding up immigrants in vast numbers.

This is sickening enough, but the administration is also establishing mass detention camps to hold more people than can feasibly be deported, which, if they aren’t stopped, will constitute a kind of mega-Guantanamo “black site” hell of vast mass incarceration sites, holding, without charge or trial, people who aren’t even accused of having done anything wrong beyond foolishly believing that the US is “the land of the free”, and that they might be able to find work there.

I haven’t had the time to follow up on this story recently, but if you have the time, please read my detailed analysis from February, “An Ever-Expanding Gulag of Concentration Camps for Immigrants: The US Under Stephen Miller”, via the link below.