Samuel Adams: Then and Now!

Read what Sam Adams said at the infancy of our country and see if it stirs the courage and resolve to stand up to the world around us! His first paragraph asks a question. The second gives his answer.
“Bid us and our posterity to bow the knee? Supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war, in order to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams
My interpretation of Sam Adams statement would go like this:
You want what? You want me and my children to bow down to the terrorists and tyrants of the world by electing those who want to negotiate with our enemies rather than defeat them? You want my country to beg for their friendship in hopes that they won’t do to us what they’re already doing to other innocent people?
You want me to work, and make a living, and then pay them protection money?
You want to negotiate with those who torture their own people to satisfy their lust for power - people who bomb and kill people for wanting the kind of liberty you take for granted? And who then warn us and our allies that if we won’t apologize for existing, they will let loose on us the dogs of war? They publicly promise to riot in our blood, to hunt us from the face of the earth?
Let me tell you something.
If you love wealth more than freedom, and the peacefulness of slavery more than the exhilarating fight for freedom, I want you to feel free to leave us. We don’t want anything you have to offer – neither your counsel nor your help in the armed conflict. Crawl over to the politicians who promise to take care of you… and lick the hands that feed you.
I hope the chains they put on you do not chafe you and can be made to blend in with your designer outfit.
And as you go, would you do us one more favor? Don’t tell anyone you used to be an American!

That is what Sam Adams said. He said it in the 1770’s and I still agree!