That's What Independence Day is all about, Charlie Brown

"[A]s Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Declaration of Independence, 1776


In 1776, a document circulated, alleging that a free people could describe the enumerated, limited scope and structure of their government, choose their own representatives, create and enforce their own laws, and determine the course of their own lives in peace and liberty. Representative government was not unheard of in history, or even in the Empire of Great Britain. The extent to which the Colonialists took it was beyond anything seen in that era. It was, as historian David McCullough wrote, "[A] declaration of political faith and brave intent freely arrived at by an American Congress."


Each July 4th, we celebrate our declaration of political independence from the English Parliament and from the Crown, and our commitment which, essentially, binds us to a republican (representative) form of government. We elect representatives, who wield only the powers we've described, and in a manner to which we've agreed beforehand.


There have been many dark periods in our history. We may be living through one of them now. It was inconceivable, when the Revolutionary War began, that the citizen army of George Washington was a match for the professionals among the King's forces. But, Washington prevailed. It was a cause for celebration, and remains so even during the trying and tumultuous times of 2020.


We celebrate, among other things, the freedom of nameless, faceless basement dwellers to post stupid stuff on the internet. To wit:


"Please remember if you allow your government to tell you, you can't have fireworks. Then also allow your government to cancel your city firework show (that you already paid for). Then you have missed the entire purpose of independence day."

Really? The free people of my city duly elected representatives to hold office, and make those laws they deemed are in the best interest of order, and public safety. They have made fireworks of any kind illegal. We, as citizens of a political subdivision organized under the laws of the state of Colorado, and the United States of America, have spoken.

Would you assholes setting off bombs in the middle of the night, and then proclaiming it is because that's what Independence Day is all about, knock it the fuck off?

You don't know what you are talking about.