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Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 11:35 AM by bububjones
A few people in my class were offened and so I taped this up at the front of the class and they stopped bugging me, and I'm wondering what you guys think:
Trying times for trying souls in a trying age of a trying world.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to no longer daily avow the ideological bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the secure and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I was under the impression that we still hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all people are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain rights that cannot be denied nor revoked. That among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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, and will accordingly seek peaceful means of protest until the situation becomes intolerable. These forms of protest being carried out in such a way as does not harm others and that fallow the rule of law. Such now is the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of patriotism. The history of the current President of These United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object of establishment of a Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused to assent Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has, by means of false interpretation of the laws of these lands, imprisoned the citizens of These United States without charge or bail.
He has controlled the representative houses repeatedly from opposing with manly firmness his invasion on the rights of people.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing to nominate judges that judged based on the law, and when parties take just action as prescribed by the law, his representatives in the senate coerced those parties by threatening to remove the legality of the actions taken by those who would oppose him.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and placed in those offices political allies, with no concern for the necessity of those offices, nor for the qualification of those appointments.
He has, willingly and knowingly, passed laws onto the states that the states are unable to uphold without funding, and when these funds were petitioned for, those petitions ignored.
He has affected to render the Military independent and superior to Civil power.
He has combined with others to create laws illegal and foreign by our constitution; giving his assent to their act of Pretend Legislation:
For protecting those who support him, by means of mock trial, from punishment for any unwholesome acts which they should commit on the citizens of these States.
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretend offences
For imprisoning members of the press, against any reasonable interpretation of the law, for publicly investigating and questioning the actions that he has taken against the people of these states.
For abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally our form of government.
For allowing the fiscal condition of the government of these United States to become so sorrowful as to be beyond remedy.
He has committed felonies against the people, breaching the very laws he has sworn to uphold:
He has used the revenue from taxes to bribed members of the media of these states in order for them to print in favor of his positions
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.
Then our founding fathers said:
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
No cause is so noble as to allow forgoing that cause as a means of retaining it. No ideal is so great that in reaching it we should lead to its destruction.
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