More about the 4th

The following message was contributed by an associate, who wished to remain anonymous:

As we've celebrated the 4th of July I am reminded of why the colonists left England to come to this country. They were looking for individual freedoms and a life that was not governed by the rules and ambitions of the hierarchy.

It is all too easy to become complacent and allow others to govern our lives. Many find it easy to complain but do nothing to create a change.

These circumstances occur at national, state, and at the community level. The closest level is in the workplace. Anyone working under the auspice of a community protection service may notice several discrepancies between procedural policies and actual "in the field" and management practices.

The early colonists broke away from their tyranny to create the freedoms and rights we share today. We should not sit idling by while others are acting in an unethical manner to conceal their true agenda at our expense and the expense of clients; we each lose freedoms and rights to these purveyors of injustice while they are advancing their own careers, agendas, and ammassing great sums of money solely for themselves.