Merry Christmas!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

As I wrote in the new Judicial Watch book “A Republic Under Assault
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Christmas 2020 finds the
foundations of our republic under attack.

So, at a time like this, it may be best to step back and try to focus
our hearts and minds on things that unite us.

As we do, I am reminded of one of my favorite stories from Christmas
past. On Christmas Day, 1776, the American Revolution appeared to be
dead.
George Washington’s Continental Army had been driven out of New
Jersey.

The British and Hessian troops, who assumed the serious fighting was
over, had entered winter quarters.

King George III and the British Parliament appeared set to continue an
abusive set of policies that American colonists said deprived them of
their rights as Englishmen. The battle cry of “No Taxation without
Representation
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went
unsatisfied.

That all changed after Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River
in the midst of a driving blizzard on December 24, 1776. The “Ten
Crucial Days
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that
began with an audacious strike against the unsuspecting Hessian
garrison in Trenton, culminating with the Battle of Princeton
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reinvigorated the Revolution.

Every year on Christmas Day, thousands of visitors and local residents
would gather along the Delaware River to witness the reenactment
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of Washington’s Crossing
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As much as we all rightly celebrate The Spirit of 1776, in too many
respects our nation is harmed by the progressive counter-revolution
that undermines the republican form of government established by our
Founding Fathers. Just before it left for Christmas, Congress
authorized over a trillion dollars
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in spending with little public debate or disclosure.

That’s why our mission at Judicial Watch assumes a heightened
importance going into 2021. If the ideals of our American Revolution
seem like ghosts now in our “modern” government, it is worth
recalling that the situation looked even more dire before the two
Battles of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton.

Yes, there were two Battles of Trenton. And they serve as a dual
lesson of the audacity and perseverance we will now need in order to
continue overcoming the odds we face.

After crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776,
Washington’s Continental Army surprised the Hessians who were
staying in what is now the Old Barracks Museum and in other homes
throughout Trenton. He re-crossed again four days later to confront
the full brunt of the British Army led by General Charles Cornwallis.
And the American rag-tag forces’ twin victories in those battles
spurred our nation on to victory, and ought to give each of us cause
for encouragement in light of contemporary challenges arguably far
less serious than those our Revolution faced in Southern New Jersey
244 years ago.

Washington himself saw the hand of Providence at work in his Christmas
crossing. An abiding faith can go a long way, even in the darkest
moments.

There is one Christmas message that should give us indomitable courage
for these troubling times. It is from Isaiah 9:6, and it defines the
hope that lies within us all: “For unto us a child is born, unto us
a son is given – _and the government shall be upon his
shoulders_.”

Ultimately, man’s power is limited on this Earth, contrary to what
today’s progressives and their antecedents might try to tell you.
And we know that, in the words of one of my favorite Christmas carols,
“the wrong shall fail, the right prevail.”

Merry Christmas to you and yours from all of us here at Judicial
Watch, and a happy New Year.

Until Next Week...





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