CPR Lifeline Advisory - Considering Again – A New Birth of Freedom

8/1/2026

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… _________________________________________________

Recently, I was speaking with a good friend about our American heritage and what it means to truly be an American. In the course of the conversation, I referenced the “American Creed” by William Tyler Page, and he admitted he had not heard of it. I am sure he is not alone, but it is a meaningful document nevertheless. I explained that I had written about it a number of times and before I could say much more, he had located it on the internet and was telling me about it. The reason this is relevant is that the discussion about what an American is in our time, is extremely important. With the national debate (sort of) proceeding after the recent Supreme Court ruling, essentially supporting the rights of “anchor babies” as American citizens, it is a notion that all Americans should consider. The reality of non-U.S. citizens coming to the nation for the sole purpose of having a child in order that the child could be a citizen is not new. But, there are now new circumstances in the world which change the scope and consequences of such reality for the United States in the long term. What such new citizens believe will determine our future.

In the conversation with my friend, I promised to search for an article I wrote about America that accompanied the “American Creed,’ so he could get a sense of my perspectives on American heritage in one way at one time. That article is reproduced here. I originally wrote it for July 4, 2017, during President Trump’s first term. The article is entitled: “Ideals of the Declaration of Independence Still Challenge the World.” I still believe those ideals do challenge in good ways and in ways that can lead to bad outcomes. We also offer the “American Creed,” so our readers can grasp in a few choice words, what should define an American.

The ideals of the Declaration originally challenged the founding generation and subsequent generations to hold onto them and advance them as best as they could as they hoped to produce good rather than evil outcomes. However, America has now reached the stage of growth in which agents of evil constantly are provoking bad outcomes in ways intended to destroy the ideals embedded in our founding documents, and with the ideals, the vision of the Land of the Free as a solution for the history of corruption and criminal dominance and tyranny over the good people of the world. To be sure, without America as a beacon of hope for freedom to exist, there would be little real freedom in the world. So to many, the ideals of the Declaration are most desirable, but to others these ideals are an impediment to dictatorships or monarchies, which are just forms of slavery by other names.

So, this edition of our CPR - Lifeline Advisory is also focusing on those ideals that are the basis for the United States of America as a bastion of freedom for the people of the world. In recent years, unfortunately, the American citizen has apparently forgotten the reality of human history and the sacrifice of human life – the hard reality of spilling blood for Freedom. I have written on this previously this year, but what I wrote in 2017 is still true nearly a decade later. The serious question being pondered by many who love this nation as founded is whether those high ideals of the Declaration of Independence are such noble ideals that they are too far beyond the reach of most American citizens today.

On May 31st, our LightWing Messages featured an article I wrote five years after the article featured today. It was titled: “The Will to Sacrifice for a New Birth of Freedom.” CSN - Sunday LightWing Messages - To Sacrifice for Freedom The article challenged readers to consider the reality that: “America was created upon the foundation of our receiving God-given rights, and brave and brilliant folks were willing to lay down their lives for the sake of a future free land that they would likely never be able to enjoy.” I believe that such a spirit or willingness to sacrifice oneself in a genuine and serious way is needed in America today. We as a people, need to collectively consider what we truly believe in and whether we are willing to do anything to willingly sacrifice our wherewithal, our time, our energy, or our efforts for the sake of our children, for the sake of future generations, so they may be able to enjoy the fruits of freedom as our generation has. I believe that “Such a movement of intentional people forming a critical mass can create positive change and perhaps a new birth of freedom throughout the world.” It may be the only way we could make it happen; I believe it would happen if we seek God’s help.

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While the Declaration of Independence formulates a framework and a premise for all people to declare their reliance upon freedom and reject tyranny, it represents not just an affirmation of faith, it remains a very real challenge for all of humanity.

Ideals of the Declaration of Independence Still Challenge the World

By Dennis Jamison July 4, 2017

The Declaration of Independence was for the World!

Although a majority of Americans celebrate Independence Day, there are many who give little thought to Independence and how it fundamentally relates to them on a daily basis. To many, the freedoms enjoyed are taken for granted, and some people live from day to day with little focus upon the future with exceptions including upcoming vacations, or the saving of money for a significant impending expense (that could be a wonderful family vacation). Yet, few today would ponder the future and consider risking their lives for a better world, but that is what the Declaration of Independence was all about.

Brave and brilliant men were willing to pledge “... their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor… ” to fight for the cause of Independence to create a nation of freedom. It was the appeal to the concept of self-government and freedom from tyrants. And certainly, the consequences of the Declaration’s call to action altered the course of human history; the world had never witnessed a revolution like common colonists fighting against tyranny to create a Land of the Free.

The words of the Declaration of Independence represented what these men would agree upon regarding declaring Independence from the Crown and creating a new nation based upon the principles of freedom. And they were under no illusions that it would not involve great cost.

The words of the Declaration were also a powerful explanation to the rest of the world of why freedom itself was so important, and without Thomas Jefferson’s deep philosophical framework of ideals embedded within the Declaration of Independence, there may never have been a nation that valued the pursuit of freedom. Yet, Leftists and Progressives are questioning the value of the beginning of the Declaration, and are attempting to eradicate the “self-evident truths” that the Founders could clearly see.

These self-evident truths of the Founders are the underpinnings of the Land of the Free, but Jefferson’s words formed a premise for all people to declare their alliance with the belief that all men were created equal and that all were endowed by the Creator with the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and freedom in the Pursuit of Happiness. Such ideals had been around for some time, but they were woven into the very fabric of the Declaration of Independence, and it was more than a philosophical treatise.

Indeed, specific ideals embedded within the Declaration of Independence served as a powerful statement to the rest of the world why freedom itself was essential:

“... to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them…”

Yet, Americans are the ones who have been most challenged over the centuries to live up to these ideals; they have sparked civil disruption and outright warfare within the United States. Such ideals are a challenge to the entire world, and to all people to abide by in their nations. Certainly, the American War for Independence changed the world with respect to the expectations of self-government as opposed to tyranny. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense may have expressed this sentiment best: “We have it in our power to begin the world all over again. A situation similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birth-day of a new world is at hand, and a race of men perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom…”

Such noble sentiments from Paine stirred the minds and hearts of the American public, and gave the leaders in the Continental Congress a playbook for the course of action that needed to be pursued to plot a course towards independence; especially it was Paine’s call for a document to express to the world America’s ideals for freedom. And the Declaration was written, and not just for Americans, or a bunch of old white guys; it was for all mankind.

The words of the Declaration of Independence summoned all people of conscience to fight for the noble ideals linked to freedom. Yet, many today confuse conception with accomplishment, mistake ideals to equal fulfillment. While the fundamental ideals inscribed in the Declaration had existed since ancient times, they had remained only ideals. By creating a nation dedicated to such ideals, the ideals needed to be implemented by future generations who would value those same ideals. Thomas Jefferson had skillfully woven into the core of the Declaration a manifesto for the freedom of all people, aligning with what Thomas Paine had claimed in Common Sense: that the cause of America was the cause of the world!

Beyond mere belief in previously postulated ideas, the Declaration of Independence created an intellectual or philosophical framework of ideals that sparked and sustained the American colonists’ fight for freedom and the ideological framework for a nation based upon principles of freedom. Initially, it took many years of sacrifice and suffering before genuine independence was accomplished through the Paris Peace Treaty on September 3, 1783. Nevertheless, the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence were such noble ideals that they were beyond the reach of most people, not only in the last quarter of the 18th century but throughout America’s history.

In fact, properly viewed, the history of the United States is a history of a people fighting to implement such incredibly high ideals. The first great confrontation over these ideals in the United States took place in the middle of the 19th century through the horrendous warfare in the American Civil War. This struggle was centered upon the single concept of whether “all” men were created equal. Those in the Deep South, who eventually attempted to destroy the U.S. Constitution, had been informed by their ancestors that Jefferson had not meant “all” men when they had signed the Declaration of Independence—he only meant “all free men.”

The second great confrontation over these ideals in the United States occurred in the middle of the 20th century through the political and social unrest of the Civil Rights Movement. This struggle was centered upon the single concept of what “equal” truly represented within the specific ideal that all were “created equal.” After slavery had been abolished in the United States through the Thirteenth Amendment, there remained the residue from resentment and hatred in the Southern governmental establishments that legalized the restriction and outright prevention of citizens’ freedoms and civil liberties. This became the reason for the Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of the central personage of the struggle: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King was fighting against a White power structure whose leaders had inherited attitudes of racial prejudice from their slave-owning ancestors who had established a system of political thought and instilled an attitude of superiority that Dr. King fought against in the laws of the “reconstructed” South. He fought against the inability to speak up or speak out; he fought for the freedom to voice one’s concerns and to vote in a South that had been under the mental and physical control of the aristocratic, power-hungry Democrat politicians of the old South since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Today, the existence of True Freedom still depends upon the people with common sense who cherish it.

The third great confrontation over the ideals in the one sentence of the Declaration of independence is taking place right now in the United States. At the beginning of the 21st century, there is a struggle centered upon the integral concept of all people being endowed by God with unalienable rights: Life, Liberty, and the freedom to Pursue Happiness. This struggle has been initiated through political and social unrest brought about by the thought originating with the “Progressive” Left. Under the guise of eliminating racism, prejudice, and discrimination, the Democrats, the spearhead of the “Progressives,” are once again attempting to manipulate people’s lives through control and dominion under a legal construction of their own making.

Almost a half-century after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, a question that needs to be asked is whether genuine leadership exists within the contemporary American political spectrum to help in retaining the ideals that have kept this nation strong and vibrant for over 240 years. While the Declaration of Independence formulated a framework and a premise for all people to declare their reliance upon freedom and rejection of tyranny, it remains a demand for what all human beings should expect in their lives on this planet. The Declaration of Independence is still a call to people of conscience to fight for such noble ideals. Today, the existence of True Freedom still depends upon the people with common sense who cherish it.

The American’s Creed

by William Tyler Page

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a Republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

Articles of History…

Video links…

From The White House Historical Association: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World - White House Historical Association – 2026

From History.com: What Happened on July 4

From The American Minute with Bill Federer (video): American Minute for July 4 - The U.S. Declaration of Independence was approved on this day in 1776.

Article links…

From History.com: Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain

From The Library of Congress: Drafting the Documents - Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence

From The National Archives: Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

From The Heritage Foundation: The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed

From American Minute with Bill Federer: Independence Day -- “GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY”-Ronald Reagan – 7/4/23

True Fact Check -

We strive for accuracy and objectivity in the entries in this section. But if readers see anything that doesn’t look historically correct, send us an email and let us know your feedback: dj.light@protonmail.com

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Editor’s note:

The CPR Lifeline Advisory has been revised, and the CPR group activities or articles follow our featured issue focus’ section. The CPR group activities segment will continue to shine a spotlight on member organizations or allies or affiliates. We know new patriots are awakening each day across the nation, and as necessity breeds invention,’ the CPR seeks to work with additional Christian, conservative, groups as they work to organize, mobilize, and actively respond to the current clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

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From Election Integrity Project®California: Election Integrity Project®California Becomes an Affiliate of Election Integrity Network – 7/31/26

From Unite 4 Freedom: Unite 4 Freedom’s Harry Haury on Red Pill News – 7/22/26

From Camp Constitution: Miracles of the Revolutionary War: A Presentation by Pastor David Whitney | campconstitution.net – 7/29/26

From Last Call Radio Show: 7/11/2026 Occupying Springfield and Celebrating an American Heritage Month – 7/11/26

From Family Peace Association: Families and Communities Strengthen Bonds at the International Culture and Family Festival 2026 – 6/27/26

From Safe Kids Now (by Stephanie Mann): The Unlimited Power of the Soul! - Safe Kids Now Network – 6/9/26

From Informed Parents of California: Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral – 6/9/26

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