Sword's Manifesto

In Cato's Letter number 15, Thomas Gordon stated that "Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as publick liberty, without freedom of speech....Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together."

The Sword of Liberty is a discussion forum for any and all ideas. In an enlightened spirit, the Sword will embrace the intellectual strategy advanced by America's founders such as, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Dickinson, James Otis, Peter Timothy, Christopher Gadsen, and the countless other contributors who secured American liberty from a tyrannical British government. John Adams argued that the American Revolution occurred before a single shot was ever fired. He believed that the real Revolution was in the "radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people" that took place in the decade preceding Lexington and Concord. This radical change in American sentiment would have never occured had it not been for a vibrant social and political discussion that occurred throughout the colonies. American Revolutionaries used the most assessable, effective, and influential medium available, the newspaper, as a forum to hash out the political and social ideas they believed in accordance with good government. Likewise, they used newspapers as a means to expose, sometimes obvious, but in many instances covert, attacks upon liberty.

The conventional newspaper, however, is a relic of the past. The newsapaper's spirit has reincarnated itself in cyberspace. The Sword of Liberty seeks to carry on the Revolutionary conversation by discussing ideas necessary to securing and protecting our political liberty. If successful, this discussion will expose attacks levied by liberty's natural foe, tyranny.

As William Loyd Garrison vowed, "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice." The Sword of Liberty will not compromise. Our life, liberty, and property depends on it. Awaken, while still free. For remaining in your slumber will inevitably lead to irons around your neck.

Manus haec inimica tyrannis

Einse petit placidam cum libertate quietem

(This hand, enemy to tyrants,

By the sword seeks calm peacefulness with liberty.

AS