Perhaps because of the absence of the staff (and their noisome behavior) some random thoughts and efforts from days past pushed their way forward. With all due respect to Thomas Jefferson, this little tidbit from days past found its way into my attention and I decided to put it forward once more. It seems terribly appropriate.
About Congress July 4, 2012
The Re-Declaration of Independence of the 50 Oppressed, but still United States of America
When
in the course of government-controlled events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which connected them to what
can no longer be considered a viable form of government, and to decry
among the powers of the earth an intellectual position which has nothing
to do with either The Laws of Nature or to Nature's God to which they
are entitled, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes that have separated them from such
Tyranny and reconnected them with their own good Common Sense.
We
hold these truths to be evident to all but apparently a few misguided
members of the Mainstream Media; that all men are created equal (in spite of the fact that some in their eyes appear to be more equal than others). That while they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights, they are now often encouraged
by Government and that same Media to show the lack of courage and
good sense which allows them to relinquish those same rights:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; while simultaneously
embracing the ridiculous concepts of the right to a good paying job,
full medical care, a home that they can't afford, a
smoke-free environment, and full amnesty and free education for illegal
immigrants.
That
to secure such relinquishment, Governments are constantly and corruptly expanded in
spite of Men, deriving their increasingly overreaching powers from the
belief that an elite group of elected officials and non-elected bureaucrats are far
smarter than they. That whenever any form of Government becomes
aggressive in securing such twisted ends, it is the further Right of the
People to be ignored by such Government, and for that Government to
create new laws, rules, regulations, and taxes to exert such control
over every aspect of a population so as make them into little more than a flock of bleating
sheep; laying its foundation on previously committed abuses of power,
and altering such rules or forms as may be deemed necessary to most
likely protect their petty Government positions, overreaching authority, and lavish
salaries and benefits.
Prudence
indeed will dictate that Governments, changing the rules as they go
along, shall not be changed back by those in power, nor be challenged in such pursuits for
light, transient, or any other causes for that matter.
Accordingly, all experience has shown that once such Government has been
insidiously instituted, that mankind becomes gradually more disposed to suffer the most
insufferable of evils rather than to right a ship of state that has
listed so far from its original purpose that the deck may no longer be
stood upon.
But
when a long train of abuse and usurpations pursuing invariably the same
Object, evinces a design to reduce them under all but absolute
Despotism, it should be their right and their duty to throw off such
Government, excepting that such would require far too many of what has
become little more than flock of sheeple to remove their morbidly obese,
overstuffed faces from the Government trough.
Such is now the patient
suffering of the people of these States and is now the necessity which
constrains them, as the Federal government seeks to alter the last bit
of freedom and liberty left in this nation in order to fully embrace the
concept that the lack of need for honest labor, for self-reliance, and
for personal responsibility are no longer essential to their continued happiness.
To
prove this, let the Facts of our Government be submitted to a candid
world.
It has confiscated the legitimately earned money of some to in turn give
it to others; outside the rule of law, the concept of a legally binding
contracts, and the definition of property rights as understood in law
for many centuries.
It
has favored Union workers over legitimate investors when dividing up
private corporations that it had no right to divide in any way, let
alone as it sees fit.
It has fired the chief executives of private companies with neither the
vote nor approval of that company's Board of Directors.
It has forced private companies to accept government funding, and with
it government control of its operation.
It
has forced both sale and merger on private companies at the point of a
financial gun and the threat of never-ending government-funded investigation and a full-throated, government-backed,
negative media campaign.
It has appointed the equivalent of government royalty (more commonly
known as Czars) to run aspects of private business without either lawful election or the legislative confirmation required of it under the document which defines it.
It
has sought to make equal not the opportunity of all, but the results of
all through wealth re-distribution in the form of ill-disguised, onerous,
and oppressive taxation.
Not blameless by any means, in
every stage of these Oppressions we citizens have sat idly by for the
most part, ignorant by choice to the assault on liberty and freedom and
numb to the abuses of power committed upon us. Those few who have
humbly begged for a return to Common Sense and a Redress of such past
ills as have been committed have been universally maligned and
unmercifully vilified for their efforts by both those in power and by
the members of the so-called fourth estate who willingly do their bidding.
We
the few who remain standing in righteous indignation therefore, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world for rectitude of our intentions, do in the Name, and by the
Authority granted us under the original Declaration of Independence, and
by the Constitution which it, and by which our Government was designed (and most especially limited),
solemnly publish and declare ourselves in opposition to the destruction
of freedoms and liberties being perpetrated on us at an ever increasing
pace in this country.
We
further declare that we will Peacefully resist further oppression of
its people and perversion of its laws to the best of our abilities, and
if need be to our final breath. We undertake this endeavor humbly, but
firm in our resolve, firm in the belief of our principles, and firm with
the knowledge of the rightness of our cause as God has given us the
light to see it.
