I’ve just concluded interviewing Katie Pavlich, news editor for Townhall.com and author of “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up.” As her book shows, with one powerful and factual example after another, the four most powerful figures in our government are corrupt and guilty of crimes against the citizens of the United States.
Their involvement in Fast and Furious plays out like an organized crime movie, complete with: greed, deception, money, power and murder. The President, The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Director of Homeland Security are guilty of Obama’s stated plan to take away our Constitutional right to own and bear arms. They are guilty of forcing small gun shops to break the law, and their actions are responsible for the murders of those who are among our most loyal public servants and innocents in other countries and the numbers are still rising.
It is with the thoughts above in mind that I feel moved to post our Declaration of Independence and the names of those who signed it. For some this will be their first time reading it. But I implore you all that as you read it let yourself feel the words and the passion contained within, and decide if you as an individual, and we as a collective, can afford to do nothing while our nation is in the control of the most reprobate people to ever occupy their positions. I trust these words will move you as they do me every time I read them.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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 [George III] 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 harass 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 and 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 British 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 the 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 signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:
New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts
John Hancock, 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 York
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
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
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
North Carolina
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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Throughout this awesome design of things you’ll receive an A for hard work. For the moment I will, no doubt yield to your issue.
I know this is an “old” link in news time, but I was scanning for a particular article without paying much attention and noticed the list of grievances in this one….and for a minute, I thought you were writing about what Obama is doing, until I realized this was the Declaration of Independence!!!!!
jocelyn anderson: the parallels are eerily similar aren’t they…our response should be no less than that of our founders…
Mychal, the most powerful and meaningful line to me at this moment in time is: “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.” I never thought I would be thinking like our Founders and wanting to rebel against the people (tyrants) in our own government who are pushing us around, but these words seem relevant to us now. I think most of us have had more than enough. Thank you for reminding everyone of the reason America came to be.
dlb: those were dark times…but God’s grace and will shined through the darkness giving men the vision of freedom…and setting a place that country which would many years later befriend Israel…it is time again…
It is fitting that the formal, carefully considered and thoughtful statement of our cause for separating from our former colonial power, brought about through repeated usurpations, constant angitation, and endless repressing designs, delivered by a hand which knew no restraint, which took apparent pleasure in the squirming and discomfort of the subjects of ill, evil and wrongdoing, now, while we have a similar mind, with equal if not more repugnant intent, sitting two thousand miles closer, in the very heart of our own Nation, committing upon ourselves, the exact same depradations, with the same will to rule with absoluteness, without any respect or consideration for his own nature, nor for the natural rights he assumes as his own while deny them from all others.
The Bible says many will say “Lord, Lord”, but do nothing comporting with the actions of God. Are we not to take note, do we not have duty to attend to?
So many reach the comforting, the extolling of virtue, the warming verses, both of the Bible, and of our Declaration, yet so few look at the the hard parts, those which call us to duty, and look long and hard, studying them, and taking serious consideration in what must be done to fulfill “duty”.
The Declaration of Independence is perhaps the clearest, most succinct statement of natural law the the laws of Nature’s God, and most enjoy it’s opening, and its statement of rights and enjoy the opportunity envisioned therin, but very few ever spend time over the statement “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.
There have been many times in our past, little different from the present, and each has portented cause, endured wrong, evil suffered until it has become unsufferable any longer, and we have righted wrongs in the past.
Can we look at what has been done, both by those who set up planned, and established the path for this “Manchurian Candidate”, making the way straight for him to come to what should never have been his, what his very existence denies him the right to reach for, and his taking, by the power infilled in our government by those who work the communist plan of our destruction from the inside, while others prepare for our destruction by setting up and establishing a criminal alien to assume office, and openly take our government, and wreak destruction upon our Nation with those powers, tearing us appart, by deliberate intent, casting some as evi, and others as victims of the first, setting fires within the House we call government, at several corners, with pernicious intent, and then going outside to watch our House burn down?
If we are tightly bound to God, to The principles he gave us in Natural Law, in Self Evident Truths, and held tight, nothing at all could assail us. It is because we have wandered away from our faith, allowed distance to separate us from our first love an beliefs, which has allowed this invasion to take place, slowly, over a century, and provide the open door, the welcome of government for the man whose nation is legion, not ours, and whose goal is to join us to Legion, and keep us from keeping our hard won, hard fought for independence.
What Americans among us would rather watch our Nation fall under the weight of debts to great to pay, surrounded by those nations of the world which resemble wolves, and in this, note how close we are to our fall, and cheer this on?
What American does not know these are among us, who does not know some of them, and will not chastise them, call them to action, call upon their faith, their heart, the only thing which matters for government to be good, calling upon the reliance on truth, who will not stand with us in calling for this simple thing, Truth as the standard for every act of government?
If not us, then who? If not now, then When? If not because of what we see, then for what will we actually choose to stand up and hold as has been done so we even have the liberty to ask these questions, and not be arrested for our dissent?
Is this “the republic”, do we see our consent, the rule of law, is our government coming to us for instructions, does it wait on our every thought and whim?
When we say there is wrong, does our government kneel before us and ask what it is that must be done to right wrong? Who has questioned and received a respectful, subservient answer? Not citizens in quest for truth.
Can there be any doubt the time has come to once again, set things back on “right” eshew the bad habit of compromise with evil, and wash away all the results of the good, making compromise with what is evil, and laying out our intent to stand on first principle, without allowing anything come between us and it.
It is time to clean out the whole of the accumulated wrongs, the perpetual groanings for relief from absolute and fixed principle, and the accepting of it with cheer, good attitude, and the full intent of fulfilling the whole of it, knowing it difficult in the job, but well worth the work in its completion. A thousand acts of compromise to wrong cannot be undone one act at a time, should we desire such, we would confront the very voice which demanded the compromise in the first place.
It must be said the compromise was wrong, its accumulation is the acceptance of evil incrementally, and with evil in our house, we must stop, clear out the clutter of life and living, rid ourselves of the dirt and corruption, and start with a clean house, free of compromise, and established firmly on principles we have confidence in.
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC
john mcclain: “If not us, then who? If not now, then When? If not because of what we see, then for what will we actually choose to stand up and hold as has been done so we even have the liberty to ask these questions, and not be arrested for our dissent?
Is this “the republic”, do we see our consent, the rule of law, is our government coming to us for instructions, does it wait on our every thought and whim?”>>>>>it is the correct answer to these questions that spurs us to fight…