A 4th of July note from Don Young

While celebrating your freedom and independence this weekend please take a moment to recall that red-blooded, Greek philosopher, Socrates, the famous war hero, revolutionary and defender of truth who proclaimed...

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

If Socrates were alive today and a Citizen of the Shale he might ask questions like:
"What matters most?
"Have we done enough to protect our children and families?"
"Why do we keep electing the same crooks to public office?" and most importantly,

"Why aren't we raising hell instead of eating hot dogs and watching baseball while the enemy is at the gate hiding in a red, white and blue Trojan horse?"

In 1776 it was the Bloody British who got people riled up. Today, "King George" is embodied in the owners and shareholders of corporations like Chesapeake, XTO, Shell, Devon, Encana and Range Resources who are spending record amounts of dirty money to buy-off your local, state and federal elected officials so they can keep polluting our Earth. Does that rile you?

Consider the Fort Worth-Dallas Shale-O-Plex that gas drillers invaded just 5 years ago:

Gas drilling operations now produce half of the dirty air in north Texas.
Gas drilling is essentially unregulated in the State of Texas.
Gas drillers continue lying to the public.
Gas drilling is exempt from the Clean Air Act.
Gas drilling is desecrating the natural world from coast to coast and border to border.

ACTION Item for this weekend.

---Contemplate what matters most to you.
---Examine whether or not the state of our environment deserves an emotional response.
---Ask yourself if apathy has stifled your righteous anger.
---Teach your children that activism against environmental tyranny is a duty.
---Work on your passion. The world needs more hell-raisers, Paul Revere's, rabble-rousers and gadfly's like Mr. Socrates

Light a Roman candle on the 4th of July to symbolically ignite your passion. Use your logic to aim it in the right direction, year-round.

Gnothi seauton.

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PS: Need inspiration to fire your passion? Check out this new video from filmmaker Josh Fox...

Don Young
FWCanDo
P.O. Box 470041
Fort Worth, TX 76147

"God bless Fort Worth, Texas. Help us save some of it."