Lily4Congress It’s Independence Day
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JOHN,
My story begins in China, at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, an insanity
that gripped millions of my countrymen. We were destitute, as were most Chinese
during this period.We lived in a primitive worker’s row house by a river
sharing one tarp-covered outhouse and one water faucet with eight families. We
had a mud floor that, after occasional flooding, would sprout mushrooms.
My parents were illiterate workers, so their positions in the state factory
were too low to be rationed much food. A full belly was a luxury.My uncle even
taught me how to trap rats for food. All we knew was a life of arduous labor
and chaos.
Despite the socialist rhetoric, school and childcare were not free. I even
missed school for a year to babysit my infant brother. Yet despite the few
resources available to Chinese students, I committed all of my energy to excel
in school when I could go. In 1976, when I was 12 years old, Mao died and the
Cultural Revolution came to an end. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
admitted that Mao was only a man and the Cultural Revolution was just a
mistake, my faith in the CCP began to crack.
China’s renaissance began, colleges reopened and after years of hard work and
preparation I was able to pass the national entrance exam.It was during this
time I met an American student. What he showed me would forever change my life
— the Declaration of Independence. What ideas! Rights come not from the
benevolence of the state, but from God? All I had ever known were “collective
rights,” the workers’ rights, the rights of peasants, etc. Never had I imagined
that I, an individual, had rights.
I eventually made it to America in 1988. In the decades since, I have thrived
in this great country. I earned my graduate degree, married, raised three
children, started my own business, searched for deeper truths, learned much
about liberty and the free market, rid myself of CCP indoctrination,
naturalized as a U.S. citizen and volunteered in my local community.
I always defend the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the
documents with the words that freed me from my enslavement and helped me choose
America as my home. I have always wanted to thank our founding fathers who
wrote the Declaration of Independence, the most beautiful document ever written.
This Independence Day also serves as a warning against anything that threatens
our freedom. We cannot allow this nation to weaken, and I hope that you stand
with me in preserving true American freedom.
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Happy Birthday, America, Lily Tang Williams
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I fear that the country I love is becoming like the country I left. That's why
I am running for Congress. It's time for the majority to speak up and defend
our country from the radical left and keep the American Dream alive for our
children.
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