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AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 895) [Remember the Trade Center!!]
Various News Sources and FReepers | July 4, 2003 | All of Us

Posted on 07/04/2003 4:18:30 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate 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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--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. 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 harrass 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 benefits 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.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

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.


The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton


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To: Pippin; Miss Marple; OldFriend; Guenevere; A Citizen Reporter
Whoa! Thanks Pippin. That got my attention.:-) Sorta completed the "wake-up process"!

Well, my trip to Borders on Wed....found Ann's (1 book) and the other one's(4) books side by side near the front of the store.

All I had to do was carefully re-place the 4 books in a less obvious place...Took no time at all!

61 posted on 07/04/2003 6:14:42 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (Is Reality Optional?)
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To: Northern Yankee
(Sorry I caused confusion; here is the last serious comment for the day:

You may look at your child's life and be awed by the possibilities. You may recognize that literally anything is possible for your child, limited only by what he or she is exposed to or is drawn to or is capable of doing. You probably encourage him or her to pursue whatever it is that is of interest, and would do all you can even if those things are wildly expensive (like medical school or studying the arts abroad). If so, that is wonderful.

But consider the parents who view their children a burden, who only see their children's lives a real drag on their own desires and ambitions. Some of these parents shut down their children at every turn: 'Don't even try, you'll never make it; Why would they let you do that?; You'll never be anything.' These parents are the ones who order their children to 'Snap out of it' when depression sets in...

So that's what I was reacting to when I saw MM's post about 'constantly denigrating' spouses...

We now return you to our regularly scheduled program...;-))
62 posted on 07/04/2003 6:16:05 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Brought to you by our rag tag tag team)
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To: Guenevere
Hi Guennie! Thanks for the nice words I can hardly contain myself because this people HAS NOT LEARNED. 8 years of the most despicable, embarrasing, dishonorable, perverted habitation of the White House hasn't taught this people, 9/11 hasn't taught this people......

The entertainment of the thought of running hillary for president is something that is so far beyond my comprehension, that I can hardly even type words anymore.

Even little dick morris, WHO CAN THANK HIMSELF FOR THE RE-ELECTION of the ABSOLUTE WORST PRESIDENT that we ever had.....not only the worst one that ever was elected, but I dare say, the WORST OF ALL THE CANDIDATES WE HAVE EVER HAD, AND THAT INCLUDES THE COMMUNISTS.....at least they didn't lie to us.....writes a book about how HIS FORMER BOSS HAS A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF BLAME TO CARRY FOR 9/11.

Thank you, little dick morris.....you should have helped get this piece of crap out of there when you had the chance....INSTEAD, YOU HELPED KEEP THE WORTHLESS EMBARRASEMENT OF A HUMAN BEING IN THERE.....now it's too late......morris...you should donate ALL your profits from your book to the ABOLITION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

The democrat party, ahhhh, yes, the democrat party....which is DOING EVERYTHING IT CAN TO SEE OUR WAR ON TERROR FAIL....TO SEE THE GREATEST PRESIDENT SINCE PRESIDENT REAGAN, IF NOT, SINCE PRESIDENT LINCOLN, IF NOT, SINCE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, FAIL IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT THIS TERROR THAT IS ATTACKING THIS LAST BASTION OF FREEDOM, else the entire world would be one concentration camp at best, or the closest thing to Hell on earth at worst. This is a president that says to BRING IT ON, instead of what one that previously inhabitated the White House woyuld say, "bring on monica". Even on the conservative radio talk shows, I hear people giving credence to that absolutely disgusting pile of....as if he 'kicked the can down the street'...NO! He didn't 'kick the can down the street'!!!!!!HE DIDN'T CARE!!!!!!! All he cared about was himself!!They STILL DON'T GET IT. ....well, I don't have enough time to type more here.....

On 9/12/2001, I didn't know one American that wasn't putting their trust in President Bush. I didn't know one American that wasn't completely behind President Bush in every action he took to begin this war on terror.....a fight a fight that is only in the second round of a 30-rounder....a fighT that the baby-boomers' grandchildren will be suiting up for AND WE STILL WON'T BE TO THE 30TH ROUND. Thank you, bill clinton. Thank you, hillary clinton. You 2 have no more business leading our country than I have doing brain surgery on Guennie.

What happened between 9/11 and July 4, 2003 to cause such a hatred toward this great President Bush? al-Quada? al-Hamas? Saddam? No, the best friend of those 3, the democrat party.

I am so outraged that I really can't type fast enough, nor can I even write fast enough, to put forth my premise that this democrat party MUST BE ABOLOSHID nad repalced with another party, or we very well stand to lose this Republic.

I continue to see the democrat party, that IS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN AL-QAEDA, BECAUSE THES STINKING PEOPLE IN THAT HORRIBLE PARTY HAVE A VOTE IN OUR GOVERNMENT, a party that will DO ANYTHING TO SEE THAT THEY REGAIN POWER, AT ALL COSTS.

The democrat party MUST be abolished and replaced with another party if this republic is to survive.

63 posted on 07/04/2003 6:17:11 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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To: Bitwhacker; lysie; Northern Yankee
A terrapin rotisserie????

LOL! Is that what you meant lysie?????!!!

NY, glad to hear that Carolyn is back home. Will she be writing an account of her trip? That's what a young cousin of mine did 2 summers ago. He went to England as part of some Young Ambassadors group...

64 posted on 07/04/2003 6:18:01 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (Is Reality Optional?)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
You didn't mention little Ross Perot....
65 posted on 07/04/2003 6:19:44 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Brought to you by the GOP wedding disruption team)
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To: Molly Pitcher
Is a turtle spitter along the same lines as a cow catcher???
66 posted on 07/04/2003 6:21:23 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Red meat...GOOD...Tofu...BAAAD)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
#63..This is what I've been missing!

And agree with every word!!!<

..brain surgery on guennie.......oh my!

67 posted on 07/04/2003 6:25:20 AM PDT by Guenevere (...a Florida resident for almost 30 years!!)
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To: Bitwhacker
That's right, BW...That's why I can't type fast enough to cover all my thoughts....There is SO MUCH behind all this....it would take HUGE volumes of books to even SKIM over it all..
68 posted on 07/04/2003 6:26:03 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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To: Bitwhacker
#62..There ARE parents like that.
I know there are.
69 posted on 07/04/2003 6:27:04 AM PDT by Guenevere (...a Florida resident for almost 30 years!!)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
Here is what I don't get about the current political situation:

Pre-1994: Democrats were in control of both houses and the presidency, and always got their way. Republicans were constantly frustrated and acted like the out-of-power party.

Post-2002: Republicans are in control of both houses and the presidency, and Democrats get their way. Republicans are constantly frustrated and act like the out-of-power party.

I agree that Dems are a scourge that deserves eradication, particularly when you see the Rats in Texas flee the state simply to stymy the process for fear that they would lose a vote. I say any Rat who purposely abuses the legislative process like that should be recalled for malfeasance, and if it can be proved that it was an organized effort (like from the DNC), even RICO. But where are the Republicans? Where are the knockout punches to punish the perps?

Where is the outrage? (cringe ;-))
70 posted on 07/04/2003 6:31:08 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Earth to Sen. Hatch: laissez faire my computer)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
Well, just KEEP WRITING -- I just love it when you are on a roll!!!

(You need to start a blog! you may even get people to donate cash money!)
71 posted on 07/04/2003 6:33:18 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Hillary for Governor -- of Puerto Rico!!!)
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To: Bitwhacker
You're right on with your post.

Perhaps another cup of coffee is needed for this poor soul?

It reminds of that old saying... that a child who lives live with criticism will learn to condemn,etc.

72 posted on 07/04/2003 6:35:24 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom.... needs a soldier !)
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To: Guenevere
Thanks, Guennie....I miss ranting, too....I just am so overwhelmed with it all that I don't even know where to start.....I could start with robert byrd......I could start with barbara boxer....I could start with RINOS Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, WHO BOTH VOTED 'NOT GUILTY' ON BOTH ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT IN THE 'trial of shame....I could start with .....well, I'm running out of time....With people like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins in the Senate, WE DO NOT HAVE A MAJORITY!!!!!!!!!

I also not only KNOW that the democrat party must be ABOLISHED and must be replaced with a Constitution-abiding party, I laso believe the 17th Amendment must be repealed because that's how the Senate got so corrupted. Even Sean Hannity didn't have a clue about that when a caller from Florida called in a few weeks ago addressing that exactly. Well, have to run...

73 posted on 07/04/2003 6:37:50 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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To: oldngray
'ping'
74 posted on 07/04/2003 6:38:27 AM PDT by Guenevere (...a Florida resident for almost 30 years!!)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
Love your rant two thirds. Welcome to the forum.

Now... I don't have to ask, A patriot or a Torrie?!

You do Patrick Henry proud!

75 posted on 07/04/2003 6:38:38 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom.... needs a soldier !)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
Thanks!

...have to run...

I suspect you mean that literally, knowing you :>)

76 posted on 07/04/2003 6:40:51 AM PDT by Guenevere (...a Florida resident for almost 30 years!!)
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To: Bitwhacker
:)) Thanks BW! If I could retire, I would love to pursue a variety of interests, including the abolition of the democrat party and the repeal of the 17th Amendment, which almost destroyed the Power of the States that the Founders built into the Constitution.
77 posted on 07/04/2003 6:42:55 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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To: Northern Yankee
#75...'Thirds' is one of the charter members of FR :)

He's been here since the beginning.....but has recently taken a too long hiatus.

He means everything he says.....and then some :>)

I think you joined when he was not posting as much.

(just a little history commentary from guennie)

78 posted on 07/04/2003 6:44:13 AM PDT by Guenevere (...a Florida resident for almost 30 years!!)
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye
In re Dick Morris: I am happy that he has finally seen the light and is letting the gang-who-could't-lie-straight have it with both barrels.

But every now and then Morris slips into War Room mode. His article the other day about Hitlery wanting to keep prescription drugs as a political football (because she voted against a Kennedy-Daschle-backed compromise) was great except for one thing: his preamble included complete baked wind and fiddle-faddle about UOx42's 'historic' achievements on Medicare reform, balanced budget, ad nauseum -- and never mentioned the fact that those initiatives were only made possible after the GOP painted Der Schlickmeister into a corner, not because he 'compromised so well.'

BTW, I would also love to hear your opinion on the Dem-Media connection, and particularly with respect to PBS and Voice of America -- two semi-good ideas which were first highjacked by the leftist media and now perverted beyond recognition.

(Also, BTW: The only documentary I ever saw on PBS that was worth the public funds expended on it was a Frontline report on how UOx42 had to be SUED by children's advocacy group in Arkansas to spend budget money on children's programs!!! This documentary did a great set-up, showing Hitlery in action touting her Children's Defense Fund work on the campaign trail, followed by UOx42's lip-biting testimonials about how everything they did was 'for the children' who, 'after all, are our future.' HA!!! I never saw anything like that on netowrk or cable...)
79 posted on 07/04/2003 6:44:30 AM PDT by Bitwhacker (Afraid of what Chelsea might run for...)
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To: Guenevere
:)) Well, already ran and have to do some chores now.... :))

Even one of the greatest days in human history, eclipsed only (and relatively COMPLETELY) by Christmas and Easter, still has me left with lots to do that I can't get to during the week.

80 posted on 07/04/2003 6:46:33 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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