Healing Liberty

About Us.

It may not seem like it, but we have been here before.  The foundations of the United States republic were forged in a time when many Americans betrayed their neighbors, family, and friends.  In the revolutionary era, several Americans were corrupted by greed, fatalism, and cowardice.  Some prostrated themselves before a cruel monarch who would later become known as "mad" King George III.  Family members turned on family members, husbands against wives, fathers against sons, and alliances that were previously unthinkable were formed.  The prospect of a new order of things was probably best symbolized by the meeting between the globally famous Black Poetess of the American Revolution Phillis Wheatley and her avid admirer, then "Generalissimo of the armies of North America," George Washington at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

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This prospect of Black and white, man and woman, Jew and gentile joining together to secure their common interests in a new nation did not come easy and sometimes we lose our way.  In the years leading up to the American Revolution this new prospect of equal liberty became symbolized a century old American Elm Tree sat near Boston Common in Massachusetts that became known as Liberty Tree.  The revolutionaries used the old tree as a meeting place for speeches, protests, and celebrations.  They decorated its branches with streamers, flags, and lanterns.  The grounds around the tree, though outdoors, became known to the Americans as Liberty Hall.  But, in August of 1775, American loyalists felled the ancient tree in an apparent attempt to cause the revolutionary movement to despair and falter in a critical moment. 

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Present circumstances may not be exactly what they were when American loyalists chopped down Liberty Tree in an attempt to demoralize America, but one can certainly relate to how the revolutionaries must have felt.  Over the last several years in the United States, demagogues have boldly vied for the people's support, apparently hoping to crown themselves de facto kings, queens, or oligarchs.  We have witnessed them misuse every branch of government in their attempts to lay hold of more and more power to support their lavish lifestyles.  America may be as demoralized today as it ever was during the years leading up to the revolution and the Civil War.    

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The mission of Healing Liberty is to follow the example of the American Revolutionaries by leading a dynamic response to the present epoch filled with internal crises caused by widening public support for American demagogues and would-be tyrants.  Our response will be asserted through education, research, litigation, policy advocacy, and public discourse.  Through these avenues, we will promote and secure America's commitment to restore and renew the rights and liberties established by the founding documents of the United States and their sources.  To that end, our hope is to heal liberty in America especially when it seems to be dead or lost forever.