Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The Declaration of Independence

Something I posted in the comment over on Slacktivist also. Re-reading the D of I is really sad; their great experiment being undone by another King George....

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. Yup
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. In spirit if not in letter
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. Yup
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. Yup
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: Yup (foreign equals not of the Constitution)
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: Not yet…
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: soon alas
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: Yup
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: Yup
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: Yup
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. Yup
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. “If you is not an enemy combatant you got nothing to fear and I’m the one doing the deciding”
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. Or let Nature do it for him
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 and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. BIG TIME

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was talking to Mom about this the other day. Suppose they steals ANOTHER election, stole it they did? What does Smeegles do then?
Riot in the streets?
Also If I was a FBI/NSA/CIA field agent and they told me to go spy on PETA I'd tell em to get F'ed and let me go do something important. Did the field agents do that or did they really think spying on peaceniks was keeping America safer?

Wed Dec 21, 10:34:00 AM PST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

bloggerdammerung it all anyway

Tue Dec 27, 01:34:00 PM PST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what's the address or link to Slacktivist?

Wed Dec 28, 01:09:00 PM PST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/

Fri Dec 30, 10:53:00 AM PST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

So was January 1st the sunset of this blog, or is the sun still setting?

Tue Jan 03, 02:28:00 PM PST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the sun has set on this blog fer sure

Mon Jan 09, 09:55:00 AM PST  

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