Topic: WorldNetDaily
Naturally, Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
The settlers spilt their own blood "in acquiring lands for their settlement," he wrote with pride in "A Summary View of the Rights of British America." "For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold." Thus they were "entitled to govern those lands and themselves."
For the edification of libertarians prone to vulgar individualism, the Declaration of Independence is at once a statement of individual and national sovereignty.
And, notwithstanding the claims of the "multicultural noise machine," the Declaration was as monocultural as its author.
Let us, then, toast Thomas Jefferson – and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that sired and inspired him.
-- Ilana Mercer, July 3 WorldNetDaily column (which originally, and unsurprisingly, appeared at white nationalist website VDare.com)
