John Adams

It has been a real treat to watch this mini series. The camera work is such that you feel you are in the room with the actors as they speak, actually moving around with them as opposed to viewing something through a glass wall. The economy of words is also breathtaking – we live in a time where words have become almost meaningless with the most extreme adjectives and adverbs used to describe simple bumps, bruises or slights. When Adams describes his physician being bayoneted and stripped with “the full measure of British atrocity beyond description” you see the pained and horrified look upon the faces of delegates listening and understand that a detailed description is simply unnecessary. I also learned that John Adams defended the British soldiers who stood trial for The Boston Massacre and they were all acquitted, by New England men suffering from the King’s yoke no less! I would like to think it would happen today but our legal system seems hopelessly perverted by our secular culture and cast adrift from the foundation of God’s moral order. Politicians do not seem to have any foresight or vision and simply make laws as if thought equals deed. Our founding fathers were very special men of virtue and vision and we have been greatly blessed by the sacrifices that they and their families made in crafting our Constitution and country.