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  • Repeated injuries and usurpations

    Boy, this sounds familiar.

    The history of the present [head of state] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over [us]. 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 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 harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    [...]

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

    [...]

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

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

    [...]

    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.

    [...]

    A [man] whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

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    Re: Repeated injuries and usurpations

    Heh heh heh. So there you have it: George W. Bush is a despot (or a despot in training, anyway), according to the Declaration of Independence.

    What really amazes me is that our Forefathers were so prescient that they could describe events happening today way back in July, 1776.

    All patriotic Americans should review the Declaration of Independence and in their own hearts and minds, decide if what was done on July 4, 1776 needs to happen again. Or in the anguished words of the TV executive in the film "Network", "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

    Miulang
    "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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