Notes From Gordon: Let’s Hear It For Solomon Brown

Since publishing The Risky Reader on Amazon I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on the book for which I am truly grateful.

The book consists of over 70 articles on freedom, government, political philosophy, human nature, etc., written by yours truly over the past 30 years.

Given that every government throughout human history has eventually failed, without exception; and that the current collection of stooges, crooks and psychos in D.C. is in process of escorting our precious republic into the trash can of history, I thought it might be useful to serialize many of those articles into this newsletter since they certainly do pertain to our modern life and times.

Let me emphasize that I am NOT doing this to promote book sales. If you’d like a free copy of the book in PDF form, get in touch and I’ll be happy to send it to you. That said, let’s meet Solomon Brown.

Dedication

This work is dedicated to that valiant son of liberty, Solomon Brown *, who according to various authoritative sources, very likely fired the first shot—"The shot heard ‘round the world!”—at British troops on Lexington Green on the early morning of April 19, 1775.

Brown was alleged to have been a “rabble rouser” who had been detained and roughed up by British troops the night before when he and Paul Revere were arrested, then let go at sunrise, just in time to make it to the party.

Brown was married three times, fathered 19 children (busy boy!), died in 1837 at the age of 82 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, which I now consider to be hallowed ground.

God bless you, buddy.

You rejected the tyranny of monarchy and got the whole ball rolling. And you did it with a single mini ball.

* The statue on the green in Lexington, Massachusetts is that of a citizen militiaman representative of that era, not of Solomon Brown.