Proposed Purpose.... Purposeful Prose? The Reason...Anyway.

My fellow Americans! Uh, sorry, couldn't resist.
      My intent in this blog is to examine our American experience and compare and contrast the differences that I find in our contemporary lives with those of our ancestors prior to and immediately following the revolution and beginning of the federal republican government in regard to our level of personal freedom. I will examine and enumerate the reasons given by early revolutionaries for the divorce from the British empire and see whether we have escaped from the grip of tyranny or simply changed it's form. I will speak out against instances of freedom being taken from "we the people." I will write the praises of those I find fighting to preserve or enlarge said freedom. I will look at issues of current political significance without partisanship and without allowing, to the best of my ability, any of my personal experience to affect my opinion.