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what follows is a little angry patriotism from the good old Declaration of Independence.
This part is so timely it is eerie
(my comments in italics):
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
(tell me if any of this reminds you of the current king george)
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
(clear skies initiative, healthy forest initiative, and the new mercury poisoning rules, have they come up with a clever name for that yet?)
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
(sounds like someone I know)
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
(natch, that's w)
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
(FCC hearings for example)
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
(see Texas redistricting. Delay has all the manly firmness in the world when it comes to invasions on the rights of the people, just ask him.)
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
(Max Cleland)
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
(check)
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
(pushing for no fillibusters on judicial nominations)
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
(someone like Owens is really gonna owe him one alright)
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
(the very "flexible" Homeland Security Dept)
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
(PNAC in the hizzouse)
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
(see Medicare act and Energy bill)
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
(those caught protesting outside of the 1st amendment zones beware the rubber bullet wrath of Jeb!)
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
(Fair Trade?Free Trade? What's the diff? W was able to scoop up the Pittsburgh cash while lifting the steel tariff in order to head off an EU trade war designed to hurt him in other states)
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
(deficits as far as the eye can see)
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
(see Padilla for one)
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
(the guantanamo prisoners only wish there would be a prospect of being tried)
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:(see John Ashcroft)
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
(see the Patriot Act)
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.("everything has changed since 9/11")
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
(true dat, bring 'em on)
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
(again see clear skies initiative, healthy forests initiative, no child left behind act)
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
(w and Halliburton both)
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
(Operation Iraqi liberation)
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
(Rush, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, etc.)
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Seems like a little anger about now is prudent indeed.
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