Posted on 07/05/2009 8:28:14 AM PDT by xzins
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.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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.
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.
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.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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.
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.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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.
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:
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:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It has killed 53 million of our Posterity through sleight of hand treatment of our US Constitution
It has seized control of private businesses as if a government is instituted among men to administer manufacturing companies
It has seized property not for public use but to transfer to other preferred, private owners
It has voted on legislation that elected representatives have not been permitted even to read as part of an effort to force questionable laws upon the people
We need a New Offices Czar to look into this.
Its representatives have enacted a tax upon one of the most necessary items for this nation’s livelihood which would curtail manufacturing, raise costs on goods, and prices on all fuel, energy and retail items for a fiction invented and supported by faulty reasoning.
Agree.
It has seized control of our financial institutions under the pretext of Crisis, without addressing its singular role and the role of its representatives in the creation of this Crisis, through the establishment of nongovermental organizations whose purpose was to create an enormous pool of taxpayer money that might be given to the fiscally unfit and to be looted by its own agents and representatives for personal enrichment....
It has permitted nefarious and criminal behavior by its own members by abusing constitutional protection of congress’ authorization to speak openly about matters of concern before it.
Add all these additions together. Write them in caligraphy onto a parchment (like paper). Hand deliver copies to Republican Leaders in DC and the Supreme Court. Do not leave anyone’s office without a receipt, signed by at least two office personnel.
Then, send photo copies of the receipts and the parchment to WAPO, WSJ, and a few other newspapers, and to FOX news . . . cc to Glenn Beck.
It has refused to investigate corruption of high ranking members despite repeated evidences of trading in influence for personal advantages.
It has encouraged suspicious means of managing elections and counting votes so that there is no assurance in the outcome of elections that the will of the people has been heard.
"...He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
The parallels are astonishing when you consider 20 new "czars" as "New Offices" -- and can there be any doubt they are going to harass us and eat out our substance?
Good points. Added to the “Updated list of grievances.”
It has taxed unequally and withot representation.
It has pronounced our troops, even while at that moment on the field of battle, to be losers, blood thirsty, and murderers without formal accusations against any commander having been lodged ahead of time.
It continues to violate the Preamble — the stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution — by systematically undermining the Blessings of Liberty when it had been tasked with its [Liberty] security and safeguarding.
excellent
They have provided themselves with elite financial plans, salaries, retirements, and benefits befitting a ruling class.
they have violated the provisions of state power in the 10th amendment and have wrongly seized power not designated for them from both the states and from the individual citizens
This is what I dread the most. I believe there are a number of citizens who will look to suicide and I believe that there will be civil war when states want to secede. This is becoming the near future. :( That is, I believe it is possible in this generation.
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