[Marty62]

Maybe it is time for a reading of this Document again.

[patriot preacher]

Perhaps it’s past time... Unfortunately, to give in any real impetus, I’m afraid we’ll have to see another Lexington/Concord first...

[MichiganConservative]

Yeah, man. This is why we’re free. Yay USA! We live in a free country. I can watch whatever I want on TV or drive a For OR A Chevy or go to work or not. This really is a free country.

[Enterprise]

"the thirteen united States of America hen"

Obviously the people didn't want a chicken as a national symbol bird, thus we have the eagle.

[LearsFool]

Thanks for posting. Any time is a good time to re-read it.

You can buy a poster-sized copy from the national archive website - to hang on the wall where you work and irritate your un-American coworkers. (Funny thing is they don’t use the U.S. Postal Service to ship it!)

[SaveTheChief]

I believe it should be read and re-examined every July 4th.

I wonder if the masses here even know why the Founding Fathers felt it necessary to take this action. My guess is that we've been so dumbed down, most of us don't even know what freedom and liberty even mean, nor do we even care to understand that the freedom and liberty sought by the founding fathers was from the kind of tyranny the current government is busy establishing for us right now.

[housemouse 1]

picture of the Declaration of Independence

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/images/declarationscan.jpg

[Vaquero]

(w)hen

and agreed.

our founding fathers gave us many ways to keep us free...if the Constitution is treated as a trash as it is currently being treated as...we fall back on the Declaration....

[zavvone]

Deja vu all over again!

It’s been about ten years since I read it and because of our country’s current path to serfdom it’s words mean more to me now than ever.

[Ignatz]

"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 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. King George can kiss our a$$!"

Paraphrasing, of course.

[MichiganConservative]

...in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...

What was that about secession?

[Bobbisox]

The most important line for FREEPERS:

“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.”

It is OUR responsibility to provide new Guards for OUR security!

[PORD]

“with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence”

It sounds like our founders believed in the intimacy of God.

Did they not know this would offend the ACLU and their ilk???