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 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 benefit 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 & 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 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.
Reprinted with permission granted by 247 years of patriots.
I’m astonished at how many grievances laid out in the DoI weigh on us today.
Leftist reprobates wish to replace, through nullification of the Electoral College, whatever meagre representation the civilized people of Weimerica enjoy, with a monolithic, leftist Medusa.
It will not go like they think it will.
Yep. I talk about that on my “evergreen” (pre-recorded) show I play the Saturday closest to Independence Day.
Libertarians: Huzzah! Give us liberty or give us death!
RINOs: Well, now, let’s not be hasty. Let’s not throw the bath water out with the baby.
Democrats: TL:dr
The Emery Collective: Trump!
my, my, my… nothing has changed in the past 247 years. NOTHING! If these words mean anything at all to the majority of the population, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it” .
Lol…perfectly framed Bigman
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers…”
Opened the borders to invasion and created hatred and dissent among the citizens.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” ~ Lincoln
This is why every proponent/advocate of freedom looks to our Declaration of Independence. Martin Luther King Jr, the protesters at Tiananmen Square who built a papier-mâché Goddess of Democracy and the
Ukrainians who also chose to fight for freedom and independence. When we celebrate the 4th of July, we celebrate this.
How Tiananmen Square’s ‘Goddess of Democracy’ became a symbol of defiance
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tiananmen-square-goddess-of-democracy/index.html
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and Black races”
A Lincoln, 1858
Someone tell Abe he’s been gone from the “Party of Lincoln” since it bowed to the tea party in 2009 and they haven’t noticed so far.
The party of Lincoln ended with Reagan’s immortal “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” The party of Reagan died at the 2016 Republican national convention. The party of Trump is crumbling before our eyes. Whither now no one can say.
See what I mean?
You can’t make in today’s Republican party unless you believe in denying elections and overthrowing the government.
bigman
emery(all of them) have subpar intellects
The reelection of Trump seems highly improbable if for no other reason than it appears that the 2024 election itself will be a well-supervised free and fair election. The coming indictments will take a toll. Boatloads of evidence will come out.
On the other hand, a non-hard right radical Republican candidate with support centered in the suburbs (rather than in the MAGA exurbs) has a high probability of winning against a quite old and non-charismatic Biden who seems to have an increasingly tenuous connection with the American public. (He ain’t connecting.) The big money Republicans have figured this out: get Trump out of the way, and the presidency is probably theirs as well as keeping the House and moving the Senate back into the Republican column. Therefore, the big money Republicans are hugely incentivized to solve the problem — get Trump out of the way. And they have a lot of money.
The next Republican president will probably be somewhat more nationalist, possibly a tad more isolationist — but probably a card-carrying Republican big business internationalist. And American big business is very international — and it is hardly going to abandon the world.
The next Republican president will probably work to maintain European territorial and economic integrity while also pursuing a pragmatic modus vivendi towards China, with which America does a lot of business. Big military budgets will continue. All the normal retainers will be taken care of.
Absent Trump, there will probably be less change than many observers think. The Republicans are usually pretty status quo oriented.
The next Republican presidential candidate will probably come from somewhere on the spectrum from between ex-Governor Chris Christie to current Virginia governor Glen Youngkin.
” . . . the 2024 election itself will be a well-supervised free and fair election. ”
Bwahahaha! Whew, good one.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh today.
proof in the pudding
Emery = sub par intellect
Russia made its coup leader leave the country. Ours is running for president under the banner of the GOP.
^ good one. It’s a contest between wanting to respond because of the ignorance displayed or because of the pointlessly stupid cheap shot. Nah. Let it go.
Ours is sitting in a mansion on Marthas Vineward while his puppet drools in the White House.
I think its fucking hilarious that black Jesus moved to possibly the Whitest community in the country.
A world away from them looking what his son might have looked like, if he hadn’t married a man…I wonder if he even remembers what a hood rat looks like.
“Russia made its coup leader leave the country..ours is running for president..:
Emery-have any evidence that it wars a “coup”? Good luck on that.
But was it the kind of “coup” where Capital guards open up the gates and let the folks in? What a clown….