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Time for a New Declaration of Independence?
American Greatness ^ | May 24, 2022 | Dan Gelernter

Posted on 05/25/2022 6:11:57 AM PDT by Heartlander

Time for a New Declaration of Independence?

Will we continue to endure this long train of abuses? It seems likely.

Hillary Clinton signed off on delivering the Russia hoax to the FBI. Hooray. I have a hard time getting excited about something that matters so little. It is not merely a question of confirming something we already knew—that happens all the time, especially if you’re what, up until recently, was called a conspiracy theorist.

But if you have even the slightest hope that demonstrating Clinton’s culpability would yield any tangible results other than getting to say “I told you so” to people who won’t remember the events you are talking about and, in any case, don’t care about them, give up those hopes now. Hillary doesn’t matter anymore. It would be much better to let her fade away like the old criminal she is and expire in peace: She’ll have all of eternity to contemplate her sins.

I’d be paying more attention to the FBI. Their defense for the Russia hoax is simple: They were tricked. Don’t you see it? Michael Sussmann lied to them. So, obviously, they were fooled into following false leads for several years. It’s not as though America’s primary federal law enforcement agency expects people to go around lying to them and making stuff up. Tell the truth, people! Or else the FBI will be easily and totally baffled.

It goes without saying that no one really believes this narrative. The FBI knew what it was doing and needed merely the barest covering-their-tracks pretense to direct the full resources of federal law enforcement against its political enemies. The FBI’s proud history of bungled political persecutions goes back to the extensive legacy of J. Edgar Hoover.

So what happens now? We let them get away with it, of course. There’s nothing to be done. The FBI and the Justice Department have made a deal with the American public: They pretend to uphold the law. We pretend to believe them. It’s easier than admitting that, with discretionary rather than impartial law enforcement, these agencies are not protecting Americans—they’re just protecting the government’s monopoly on organized crime.

Under this monopoly, to take just one example, the rise of local homicidal maniacs shooting people on the New York subways (or maybe just robbing them) is simply a crime concession that law enforcement has granted to the petty criminals so the government can get on with the serious business of stealing our entire life’s work. Who, after all, is getting the better deal: The mugger who runs off with one wallet a day, or the government that is entitled to about 50 percent of the contents of everyones’ wallets every day for all eternity?

Still, it’s a lot easier to get fed up without those occasional distractions like “Vaccine!” “Ukraine!” “Baby Formula!” “Gas Prices!” and “Monkeypox!” (And get ready for “Recession!”) In addition to which, people are much more inclined to bear those ills they have than fly to others they know not of—or, as Jefferson puts it, “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.” Of course that is a pretty heretical, dangerous, white-supremacist sentiment. Which is probably why we don’t study that document in school anymore.


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1 posted on 05/25/2022 6:11:57 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Independence from overreaching governments sounds nice.
We have a say only every two years while 537 people in DC can screw us over every day.

2 posted on 05/25/2022 6:22:36 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Heartlander

It’s time.


3 posted on 05/25/2022 6:23:34 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Heartlander

Perhaps better a Convention of States to add a couple of amendments to the Constitution. First establish absolute term limits for members of Congress and the SCOTUS. Second, repeal the 17th Amendment and put the election of Senators back to state legislatures. A balance budget amendment or at least setting limits on the amount of debt should also be considered. I would also like to see requiring Congressional approval for the adoption of rules by executive agencies and limitations of presidential executive orders.


4 posted on 05/25/2022 6:42:08 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Heartlander

Agreed.

and the 2nd Amendment should be amended to:
The right to bear arms and DEFEND YOURSELF


5 posted on 05/25/2022 7:06:33 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: The Great RJ

COS, agreed. Imo, just do Term Limits, then have another convention for more. 1 per year maybe.

The world will scram in agony over a COS. And do anything to rip us apart. Divide and conquer. So keep it to the easy one, to show everyone it didn’t end the world. And it will take everything we have just to get that single thing done.

Win one, first.


6 posted on 05/25/2022 8:24:06 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: The Great RJ

Words on paper don’t work against malfeasant actors. The federal government is outside of bounds and doesn’t even follow its own rules.


7 posted on 05/25/2022 8:25:47 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

And yet, apathetic conservatives lack the will to act


8 posted on 05/25/2022 8:27:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: bert
-- And yet, apathetic conservatives lack the will to act --

Apathy or wisdom.

The enemy during the american revolution was across the pond, had a long supply chain, and was attempting to control people who didn't want to be controlled.

Now the enemy's supply chain is the same as the resistance, the enemy is much stronger and certainly willing to perpetrate violence to keep its control, and the people do not want personal independence.

I don't even see enough guts to effectively perpetrate a Gandhi model of civil disobedience. "We're a nation of laws, doncahknow."

Tragicomedy.

9 posted on 05/25/2022 8:47:24 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: BitWielder1

Since our Constitution opens with “We the People,” a Declaration would constitute independence from ourselves.

Silly.


10 posted on 05/25/2022 9:10:29 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Cboldt

America has degenerated into a land of lawyers where there is really no law.

Where there is no law, there is no law

That’s why we must keep a firm grip on our guns


11 posted on 05/25/2022 11:17:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Heartlander
The Real 2nd Declaration of Independence Signed by President Trump 7/4/2020

David Straight reads the 2nd Declaration of Independence signed in 2020. NCSWIC!
12 posted on 05/31/2022 10:49:32 AM PDT by plsjr (<>< Mankind "knows" by trial and error. Only the CREATOR really knows His creation... and the TRUTH.)
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