Saturday, July 04, 2015

The Fourth of July

Start with Ecclesiastes:   The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

There is certainly nothing new in despotism.

...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...

...He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance...

...He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people...


...He has obstructed the Administration of Justice...

 ...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 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 imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:...

... For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:...

 ...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 excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless [Muslim, MS-13, etc.] Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions....

Whaddya going to do about it?

Happy Fourth!  And may you---and your children---have many more!!

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