Posted on 07/03/2015 8:59:27 PM PDT by jimjohn
Paul Harvey : Our Lives Our Fortunes Our Sacred Honor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-APfe3i8Q
Thanks for that.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, ...
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 obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone,...
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, ...
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 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 excited domestic insurrections amongst us, ...
Wow... some of these sound familiar.
Heartbreaking. 239 years later, the country is being dismantled and destroyed by its own now completely corrupt government. Grieves my soul.
I'm deeply honored to be descended from one of those men. I knew, from family stories, that he had lost everything as a result of his involvement in the Revolution. But I did not know that his misfortune was all too common among those men.
I am beyond humbled tonight, and pray that my Beloved Nation may yet shake off the horrific yoke it now bears as a result of decades of increasingly poor government.
It breaks my heart to think that the hardships the Founders underwent would be for naught -- that we would not, as Dr. Franklin feared, be able to keep our Republic.
God Bless America, and please God, help America regain her footing and rise again.
We will still win. You can’t blackmail a slave. They will fly too close to the sun. Our world is more solid.
230 years was a pretty good run.
It appears we have come full circle, the last elections have meant nothing substantial, instead of a STOP sign, they've become rubber stamps, sigh.
last stance from the Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride:
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,-—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Poor old Uncle Sam. He will be missed! ;)
An Appeal to Heaven, and a covenant with God for the gifts of freedom and liberty.
Now that our present wicked government has repudiated God and adopted Satan’s colors, God will withhold His hand of protection over America.
If only our current “leadership” accepted it as the law of the land.
We need to for the conversion of all to Christ.
Interesting trivia. And 239 years later, after 2 world wars, a revolution, and a civil war...we have roughly the same amount of freedom as a British subject does. And arguably a more corrupt government.
On this day in 1776, the Virginia Convention assembled in Williamsburg declared the Transylvania Colony (Kentucky) purchase by the Richard Henderson & co null and void. In doing so, Virginia asserted control over it’s western lands and declared British law over the colonies invalid.
the action was a first act of independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Grant_Deed
Look at what the Founders endured, and the risks they took to make and keep us free.
Today we thank our veterans and active military for fighting to keep us free.
Tomorrow the fight will be ours to wage. Do any of us — that means YOU — have the balls to yell ENOUGH! and mean it? Or will you crouch down and lick the hand of those who take away your Confederate flags and release criminal illegals onto our streets and redefine marriage without our vote of consent?
At what point do you declare an end to Political Correctness and stand up for YOUR Correctness, for your own belief in right and wrong?
Thanks jimjohn.
Interestingly, the Declaration was drawn up on the 2nd of July, and not signed by most of the signers until early August. On the back of the Declaration there's a single handprint.
Brad Meltzer's Decoded: Declaration of Independence
The ultimate Opus.
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