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Better than anyone else I know, Thomas Friedman can start with a simple, obvious, one-sentence concept and “condense” it into forty-one pages of self-important bullhockey. And yet manage to get it so very wrong.

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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. . . .

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

The fruit of our labor did not belong to the British Aristocracy, it did not belong to the slave masters it does not belong to congressmen, senators, health care bureaucrats, educational bureaucrats, or czars. It doesn't belong to Barak Obama.

Taking the fruit of our labor for purposes other than securing our natural rights is robbery. By continuing this long train of abuses LIBERALS are inviting strife, discord, and violence upon the country. If you abhor violence and long for true peace you must pledge your life, fortune and sacred honor to uphold the principles set down by Jefferson et. al in 1776.