AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 895) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | July 4, 2003 | All of Us

[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.

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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

[JRandomFreeper]

Morning all. I fell asleep during the movie last night.

I pray that everyone has a wonderful Independence Day. God Bless our Nation, and keep it free.

/john

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Well, BW, you are far ahead of me when it comes to the democrat controlled media. All I know is that I would make a blanket statement that it IS controlled by the leftist movement and it will do whatever it takes to get democrat back into power, including undercutting Pesident Bush AT ALL COSTS, including losing the War on Terror, which if that would help them regain power, they would do regardless of anything else.

[Miss Marple]

I cannot agree with you more! Yes, the democrats must be disbanded, much like Hamas! The thing that has me the most outraged is their effort to take the victory of Iraq away from the President, and in the process they are also attempting to rob the men and women of our armed forces of their historic achievement! I cannot think they are anything but evil.

[Bitwhacker]

Here is a link to the documentary maker who did the story on UOx42's shameful behavior: Who Cares About Children?

The thing that this write-up does NOT mention is that before the $57 Million Child Welfare bill was proposed by UOx42, and AFTER the bill was passed and UOx42 crowed about implementing legislation to 'save the children', he sent his Attorney General to court to appeal the original ruling.

So there you have the Dems real contribution to our country: Take credit for doing the right thing, after being sued to do so, then go quietly to court to try to overturn the decision...

[M Kehoe]

Good morning Chair.

Happy Independence Day. We, the United States of America, are 227 years young today.

I'm proud to be an American. I will always remember how much I missed this country when I was over seas. I always made a 'short timers' calendar, and marked off the days.

I do wonder how many people would risk their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for this great land today. Watching the human debris on TV makes me wonder if any patriots are left.

The Founders of this, the greatest country on earth, were imho, devinely inspired. The foresight, intelligence, and courage of those men are an inspiration to all (except if you're a democRAT/socialist/leftist).

May the Lord of Hosts, King of Kings continue to bless the United States of America.

I ask the Lord that we all have a happy and safe July 4th weekend. Amen.

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[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

HI NY! Guennie explained about me in a post below.....I lurk when I can here. I went to the March for Justice in D.C. on October 31, 1998, when we began a push for the impeachment of the most horrible president that we have ever had. I posted lots of posts daily from then until after the trial of that piece of #%^#&# in the CORRUPTED SINate on Feb. 12, 1999. Then I posted fairly often for a few months. Finally, at work, it got to where I couldn't post much and that's where it is now. The main thing that keeps me from posting is that I am so completely overwhelmed with everything that I don't know where to start....

Anyway, I have seen your posts and I know you are a geat patriot like so many others here....keep it up!

[Northern Yankee]

Thanks Guennie.

While considering Two Thirds rant, I was reminded of this morning's Federalist homage to Sam Adams.

Two Thirds, I think you'll appreciate Adam's thoughts:

"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals." "As long as the people are virturous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtues they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first internal or external ivader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."

Amen!

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

HI Jane! WELL SAID!

[M Kehoe]

Good post/rant.

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[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

AMEN! Thanks, NY!

[Bitwhacker]

I resent the acceptance of hypocrisy from Dems by the leftist media and rabid Dem partisans. UOx42's actions in Somalia, Haiti and Kosovo were 'unilateral', 'dragged on for a long time', 'cost lives', and 'failed to capture Aidid'. In one instance (Kosovo), UOx42 accidently-on-purpose bombed the Chinese embassy, and in another, blew up aspirin factories.

Why do I bring all this up now? Because the snot-nosed King and Queen of the Charlatan Party are still pulling the strings on their side of the aisle....

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Thanks, MK! I always agree with your posts when I'm lurking!

[M Kehoe]

Imho, the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution are an abomination. The 18th amendment was just plain stupid. Next thing you know the brain dead in this country will try and eliminate the Electorial college.

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[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

WHOOOO! HOOOO! Well said, as always, MK!

[M Kehoe]

Hi Guenie. Happy belated anniversary.

It's not nap time yet, is it?

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[Northern Yankee]

Thank you, sir!

I am humbled, and at the service of this great Country of ours whenever possible.

In the words of Benjamin Franklin:

"WE must hang together, or we assuredly hang separately."

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you, again!

Must be off to work.

Everyone, have a blessed and wonderful Independence Day.

As George Washington says:

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

[M Kehoe]

Good morning. Long time no talk to.

I cannot think they [democRATs) are anything but evil.

Like Chair says, they are the Criminal party.

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[gulfcoast6]

AND GOOD 4th A.M. TO ALL OUT IN THE BEST NATION IN THE WORLD (REGARDLESS WHAT THE DEMOCRACTS SAY) FROM THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST, USA!!!!

All this renovation and packing is getting to me but it has got to be done by the 14th. One thing about pcing up your house, you find things you have completely forgot you had. I know one thing that is deep down in my inner most thoughts, leaving this house I have spent 25 years in and with the most wonderful lady in the world, raised one daughter and now, it will be no more. I fast forward and see myself up on my farm feeding my chickens, sheep and donkey's and that helps a lot.

CNNfn is really making me mad. I watch it while the Fox reruns or on over and over and over and all they do is slam the USA. The announcers are from Europe and ain't no question how thay feel about us. Shameful. I will be glad when we find the WMD's in Iraq and shut them up. Oh forgot, see where Blix in now in charge of the Sweden WMD program? He will be busy won't he (a slam).

Oh well, back to slave labor and get the last of the painting done. Sure soes not look like a house of the 70's as it did a week ago and when al is done it is going to be sharp looking. Now if it would only the rain would stop so I can cut the grass.

HAVE A GOOD DAY if you want to, if not have the kind of day you wish to have).

[Pippin]

A Republican running for the Senate in Maryland?

HMMM!

Could happen! :O)