'He has abdicated Government here'
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.
A.
Nicely done Athenae.
Why we cannot move the Democrats in Congress to impeach is a mystery to me. More than even Nixon, Bush deserves impeachment. There are no good excuses for avoiding impeachment.
Posted by: cosmic tumbler | July 04, 2007 at 13:30
I think you need to sign your name bigger.
Right on.
Posted by: mdhatter | July 04, 2007 at 14:02
Iraq's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mahmoud al Sheikh Radhi wants to put US Troops on trial for conducting raids in Baghdad.
So what kind of horrible treatment must US troops be guilty of in conducting these raids?
I don't want my tax dollars to be going to support a corrupt government that treats its children in such an inhumane way. To top it off, they want to try our troops who are fighting for them for exposing their inhumanity.
I hate this war and everything it stands for.
Posted by: Duane | July 04, 2007 at 14:46
I was hoping someone would do that. Nice.
Good connections.
I wonder what the talk radio and think tanks of the day would be saying about the founding fathers and their comments about the king?
"King George is the kind of guy who you can have an ale with!"
"Great, now Hancock and his ilk will be Forcing the King to send more of his troops HERE. If these whiners don't like the rules they should go to England and fight them there instead of bringing the battle here where we will be attacked. Hancock's actions are going to embolden the King's troops! Hancock is the wealthiest man in New England, have you SEEN Hancock Manor on the top of Beacon Hill? Yet he pretends to care about the good of all the people. Balderdash!"
"Did you notice that fancy signature that HandCOCK made? I'm not saying he is light in his buckled boots buttttt... Has anyone noticed what an expensive wig he has? The fancy gold braid on his coat? How snugly his breeches fit? Put it all together folks. Expensive wing, tight breeches, flamboyant handwriting? I'm just saying..."
Posted by: spocko | July 04, 2007 at 14:55
Don't forget the last line:
"we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
Posted by: virgotex | July 04, 2007 at 16:05
made my way over here from Spocko - nice work.
happy forth to the first draft crew with a special heyo to Tena.
Posted by: | July 04, 2007 at 17:18
er, that was me, Nancy, just now!
Posted by: Nancy Willing | July 04, 2007 at 17:19
er, that was me, Nancy, just now!
Posted by: Nancy Willing | July 04, 2007 at 17:19
Bravo!
Where is the outrage? Why do the Democrats still cower in the cage the Repugnicans stuffed them into in 2002?
Don't 3500 dead mean anything at all to them?
IMPEACH! dammit.
Posted by: Metro | July 04, 2007 at 18:07
Metro;
1) Thanks for your excellent comments over at Spocko's Brain. You really have helped me deal with the concern trolls. I'm so glad you have responded to them.
2) Outrage fatigue is rampant and I think that the democrats are making a lot of mental calculations about the next race and working about what the media (who really aren't on their side) and the right wing noise machine will say about what they do. Sadly they thing are their constituents are the media and they do worry about what the right-wing gas bags will say, because they actually are very powerful.
I think that they need to make both symbolic acts as well as actual effective acts. A Symbolic act WILL mean something, and if they are also on the path to a real action step it won't be wasted. Some times a "Frak YOU!!" means something and will boost the people.
(Why am I thinking about that scene in Animal House?) But it might make us feel better in the space between now and 2009. I know it would me, I feel so hopeless these days and beaten down. I've got a lot of "what's the point" ism in my heart and head regarding my various battles.
But a friend said to me, "When working for Justice it is often two steps forward one step back." we are fighting a multi-billion dollar industry of pundits and multi-billion dollar entrenched power structure, this is not easy.
Posted by: spocko | July 04, 2007 at 19:40
Yeah, but you're forgetting:
1811 changed everything.
Posted by: RoD | July 05, 2007 at 01:47
Bravo, Athenae. Far, far too few people have ever read those words...
Posted by: John H. Farr | July 05, 2007 at 10:29
For those that are interested, here is the ORIGINAL New Declaration of Inderpendence;
http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-declaration-of-independence-2007.html
Posted by: vini | July 05, 2007 at 10:38
Well done!
And Spocko, you're right about burn-out.
Posted by: Batocchio | July 05, 2007 at 13:45
m533k
Posted by: ro890ck | July 05, 2007 at 17:33