The Esther is Facebooking again.

This time she takes (as has become common in the very recent past among tea partiers) to quoting the Continental Congress’ draft petition to the throne in England. The famous phrase “we were born the heirs of freedom,” but takes it totally out of context, of course. The Esther says:

We’ll celebrate the meaning of our nation’s blueprints, our Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, which are the threads that weave our past into the fabric necessary for the survival of American exceptionalism. Our founders declared “we were born the heirs of freedom,” and despite our difficulties and disagreements, we remain one nation under God in freedom, indivisible. Through visits to historical sites and patriotic events, we’ll share the importance of America’s foundation.

Here’s the whole paragraph (the drafting of which is sometimes attributed to John Jay, and sometimes to John Adams), which is part of a letter to be sent to George III:

Had our creator been pleased to give us existence in a land of slavery, the sense of our condition might have been mitigated by ignorance and habit. But thanks be to his adorable goodness, we were born the heirs of freedom, and ever enjoyed our right under the auspices of your royal ancestors, whose family was seated on the British throne, to rescue and secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant. Your majesty, we are confident, justly rejoices, that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to liberty; and therefore we doubt not, but your royal wisdom must approve the sensibility, that teaches your subjects anxiously to guard the blessings, they received from divine providence, and thereby to prove the performance of that compact, which elevated the illustrious house of Brunswick to the imperial dignity it now possesses.

So, the Continental Congress was buttering up good ol’ King George III, saying in essence how wonderful of a heritage it was to be part of the English crown system and that they were free while serving under George’s predecessors.

Maybe The Esther wants to raise the issue of “popery”??

Sarah Palin is just plain stupid. Maliciously stupid.