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October 16, 2008
A New Declaration of Independence
What would the Founding Fathers do if they came back to see the bloated abomination into which the government they created has degenerated? Maybe they would respond to Congress the same way they did to the British Empire, by presenting a new Declaration of Independence, with a list of grievances including these:
• Congress has refused to drill for oil, ignoring the plentiful natural resources that God has bestowed on this Great Nation, thus imposing a hardship on the American People for the sake of Environazis.
• Congress has forced the American People to comply with their tax laws while sheltering their funds in trusts as Ted Kennedy has done for decades.
• Congress has refused on numerous occasions to build the fence (Southern Border) that the Will of the People demand.
• Congress has made entire populations of Americans, mainly inner-city denizens, dependent on their Welfare checks, for the benefit of the occupants of the Congress, and for sheer vote buying alone.
• Congress has, under Liberal leadership, through incrementalism, combined with the United Nations, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and has sought and will continue to seek, the subjugation of American Sovereignty to the UN, the ICC, and other such denizens of The Hague, Geneva, Paris, Brussels, etc.
• Congress has sought to abolish the Second Amendment, with such members as Diane Feinstein stating, "Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe," and Senator Chuck Schumer stating, "We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare [ban on guns] is true," and thus they fly in the face of the Constitution.
• Congress has sought to take our Right to freedom of speech (Fairness Doctrine) and our right to support our choice for leadership (McCain/Feingold) and thus, alter our form of a normal lifestyle, free from nanny-staters, communists, socialists, and perverts such as Barney Frank and NAMBLA.
• Congress has plundered our bank accounts, ravaged our wallets, and redistributed this largesse to others.
• Congress has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, by seeking to divide and conquer, to perform class warfare, as dictated by radicals like Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky, and Barack Obama, and thus seek to keep us divided through merciless partisan politics destined to destroy America as we know it and love it.
Then they might lead a mob of villagers with torches and pitchforks into Congress, to tar and feather the whole gang and run it out of town on rails.
But the Founding Fathers are long gone, so Pelosi, Reid, et al. will be returned to power with even larger majorities.
On a tip from Futbol Pro.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 16, 2008 8:53 AM
Comments
Where do I sign? I'm going to make it large enough for obamessiah to see without his glasses.
Posted by: bjd at October 16, 2008 10:18 AM
KABOOM!
This guy should be running for POTUS!
Posted by: Conan at October 16, 2008 10:28 AM
And the demacrook CONgress is wondering why their running so low THATS BECUASE THE ALL DEMACROOKS IN THE CON-GRESS OF CONS
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 16, 2008 11:43 AM
Three more before the signing ceremony:
*Congress has perverted the spirit of the minimum wage law, raising the wage nearly every election year in order to buy votes, thus causing businesses to lower employee benefits, raise prices and encourage general inflation.
*Congress has alowed radical judges to suggest that foreign laws be considered in domestic, American cases.
*Congress and federal courts have granted (or have suggested granting) "civil rights" to certain US citizens (and in some cases, to NON-citizens) which are clearly not granted to other US citizens by either State or Federal constitutions.
Posted by: KHarn at October 16, 2008 2:53 PM
A new costitutional amendment PROHIBIT ANY FORGEIN OWNERSHIP OR CONTROL OF ANY PART OF AMERICA and that would end all those blasted WORLD HERATAGE SITES under the UN thugs which includes INDEPENDENCE HALL
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 16, 2008 9:34 PM
Damn, you people are retarded. I guess saving the environment isn't a big deal. We only need clean air to breathe and all. The polar ice caps melting will only raise the water level about 16ft, flooding all coastal areas. And this is only caused by consumption of oil, which isn't even necessary seeing as there are already cars that run on electricity, hydrogen, and vegetable oil.
Also, America broke the Geneva convention's international treaty prohibiting torture and isn't being punished. Yet Hussien broke an international law saying that he had to let the UN inspect for WMDs, and there's an entire war launched? Your logic is inherently flawed.
Also, the only act that has infringed upon first Amendment rights is the Patriot Act, which has allowed American citizens to be spied on by their government though wire taps. The Orwellian world is starting to become a reality, and all you care about is whether or not you can keep your guns.
This is disgustingly uneducated writing.
Posted by: Chelsea at October 17, 2008 2:01 AM
Also, you do know that we owe billions of dollars to China and Japan that we borrowed for the war, right? So technically, GWB sold out our country to foreign powers. Because of the economic depression, it will be a long time til we can get out of the black hole of debt we owe them.
Posted by: Chelsea at October 17, 2008 2:04 AM
Chelsea, you're on the wrong site. DailyKos is around the corner near the toilet.
Posted by: Conan at October 17, 2008 5:02 AM
You're right Chelsea you are uneducated. Tell me this, retardo, how is it that Co2 is a pollutant? Do we all not expell it? Do not plants use CO2 to photsynthesize? You whacked out moonbats complain that CO2 is a pollutant yet it is needed to bring forth life. How's this Chelsea as a way for YOU to help. Quit breathing! One less uneducated, know-nothing moonbat won't hurt this world, actually it might even enhance civilization
Posted by: Sen. Government at October 17, 2008 9:40 AM
Chelsea, if you stop swilling the kool-aid, you might regain the use of your brain.
The writer of that was right on the money. Probably an average guy like Joe the Plumber and totally pissed off with liberal idiots fucking up this nation.
Posted by: Lord Crom at October 17, 2008 11:20 AM
I have loved this Nation and read from our founding fathers and from history. America was planted by GOD for freedom from tyranny and injustices, and to worship GOD without reprisal. Yet we face taxes on every part of our lives without choice, fines for everything under the sun, and there taking away our voice. I believe in being tollerant but to what extent? How many freedoms are we to lose before we take back this Nation. I love peace, however war is comming either political or physical. I vote in hope that change comes, but am disappointed every election. we have a Marxist that will most likley be the next President of The United States who favors the communist theory. My brothers and sisters war is comming I just pray that we use wisdom in what is to come. I fully support such a declaration and hope for best. For reply chriseppler@yahoo.com
Posted by: Chris at October 17, 2008 1:37 PM
Here is one that is significantly better thought out, originally posted in the SodaHead blog by Warhorse.
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Two hundred years ago our ancestors signed a document which forever changed the course of history. Colonial Americans severed the bonds to a tyrannical king and parliament in England and established in America for the first time a society based on the principle of the rule of law and limited government. Benjamin Franklin, one of our great statesmen, stated at this time: "Gentlemen we give you a Republic, if you can keep it."
The result was a glorious and turbulent 200+ years which witnessed the greatest achievements, the highest standard of living, and the highest levels of individual freedom ever experienced in human history. However, we have allowed government to grow without bounds so that today the golden prize of liberty has been all but lost.
Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and the signers of the first Declaration of Independence made the following observations about the nature of man and government which are as valid today as the day they were written: "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."
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown 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.
WE THE PEOPLE of these fifty States have patiently suffered mounting government outrages against us — lies, corruption, legal plunder and terror.
We have waited in despair for reforms and redress, but the outrages have only gotten worse.
We can now wait no longer. The fundamental rights of the people must be restored now. Government's role must be limited to protection of our lives, liberty and property.
These are the crimes of the State against its citizens:
1. They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. The IRS, Justice Department, police, State and local revenue authorities and a growing list of other government agencies have engaged in an escalating orgy of terror, looting, and wholesale seizure of private wealth to feed the appetite of arrogant and rapacious bureaucracies.
2. They have subverted the electoral process through unjust and exclusionary ballot-access laws. Vast sums of tax-extorted monies have been used to create a Congressional Monopoly and Imperial Presidency, which have crushed dissent and excluded any serious challenge to their power.
3. They have multiplied laws beyond reason or humanity, subverting both the words and intent of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. There is not a single American who could not be arrested, imprisoned and impoverished for violating one of the millions of arbitrary and incomprehensible government laws and edicts now in force.
4. They have instituted oppressive and destructive taxes; stolen over half of our incomes year after year; compelled us to testify against ourselves by filling out endless compulsory reports; made us into unpaid government spies and tax collectors; and destroyed our peace, security, and freedom in order to finance their oppressive bureaucracies, failed social programs, and wars of aggression.
5. They have seized control of our economy and have dictated and controlled every aspect of how our businesses must be operated. They have issued edict upon edict, issued regulation on top of regulation, instituted fine after fine, treated us as common criminals, imprisoned us and seized our property.
6. They have destroyed our financial security. They have debauched the currency, substituting worthless paper for gold and silver. They have clandestinely seized our banking system, inflating the currency and looting the economy. They have burdened us with enormous deficits and waste which have brought our nation to the brink of bankruptcy. They have destroyed jobs and stifled initiative with suffocating regulations and oppressive bureaucracies.
7. They have hobbled and corrupted our system of justice by creating endless numbers of technical crimes against the State, and crimes without victims, making vices into crimes, dissent into treason, and sensuality into perversion. They have seized billions of dollars worth of property without due process of law, imprisoned countless thousands without indictment or trial, and have made equal justice under law impossible by manipulating courts and juries, terrorizing our attorneys, and seizing their fees.
8. They have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies. In direct violation of the Constitution, U.S. troops have repeatedly invaded and reduced to ruin foreign countries without declaration of war by Congress. They have used force to compel our children to fight and die in foreign wars far removed from their homes. In the name of the War on Drugs they have declared open war on the people of the United States, invading farm and field, village and home, and spreading terror across the land.
9. They have perverted our relations with other nations, using their power to support foreign despotisms. They have bribed other nations with foreign aid, restricted foreign trade, and exported massive quantities of weapons of death and destruction, fomenting discord, repression and war throughout the world.
WE SUBMIT that the government of the United States of America has abrogated it's sacred covenant to protect the life, liberty and property of the people of this nation. Our own government has emerged as the greatest menace to freedom, prosperity and peace, both here and throughout the world.
WE FURTHER SUBMIT that we, the people, have all but lost control of our political institutions and that government has ceased to be our servant and instead has become a terrible and tyrannical master. To restore the freedom, peace and prosperity of the people, we therefore now demand:
1. That a new Constitutional Convention be called to restore and strengthen the legal protection of each individual's inalienable right to life, liberty and property.
2. That a new, and stronger Bill of Rights be drafted which will guarantee the inalienable rights of the individual to life, liberty and property. That all laws be abolished which restrict freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and enterprise; the right to keep and bear arms and the right to own and dispose of property. That henceforth it shall be a treasonable offense to pass any laws which violate the rights of the individual.
3. That a "Citizen Veto" be created at federal, state and local levels, whereby all citizens can veto any new legislation, including revenue acts. We also call for the establishment of a universal citizen power of Recall so that unscrupulous politicians may be removed from power by citizen initiative.
4. That the Income Tax and the IRS be abolished and that all persons jailed for tax evasion be freed.
5. That sufficient government property be sold to retire the national debt. That all government agencies which are not engaged in the protection of the life, liberty and property of the individual, be privatized.
6. To restore security to our banking system, we demand that the Federal Reserve, FDIC, FSLIC and currency laws be abolished, and that banking and insurance systems be left to the private sector.
7. That all laws creating franchise monopolies in education, medicine, utilities, mail delivery and other public services be abolished.
8. That State and Economy be separated, and that federal control of interstate commerce be confined to prohibition of tariffs and trade restrictions between States. That freedom of association be restored to enterprise, including freedom to hire, fire, contract and negotiate; that all capitalist acts between consenting adults be legalized.
9. That all restrictions upon foreign trade be abolished, including tariffs, quotas, import duties, license fees, content laws, and "dumping" laws.
10. That all federal laws restricting gun ownership be abolished, and that a trained, well-armed citizenry be encouraged, as a defense against domestic criminals, foreign aggression and domestic tyranny.
11. That due process of law and the presumption of innocence be restored. That RICO statutes and other laws enabling the government to confiscate property without the owners being convicted of any crime be abolished. That the 7th Amendment to the Constitution, preserving the right to trial by jury in civil disputes be strengthened to include disputes between Citizens and the State.
12. That the Fully Informed Jury Amendment be passed, and all juries henceforth be informed of their right to judge the propriety of laws as well as the facts of cases.
13. That Sovereign Immunity, which makes government officers and agents immune from prosecution for their crimes be abolished. That presumption in trials in favor of government officials, police officers and other agents of the state be ended. That government officials and agents, and citizens be treated as equal before the law in all cases, both criminal and civil.
14. That all victimless crime laws be abolished, including laws restricting the sale or possession of pornography and controlled substances. That the War on Drugs be ended, Drug Peace be declared, and all persons imprisoned for victimless crimes be immediately freed and their records cleared. That immigration laws and the INS be abolished. Henceforth the only persons restricted from immigration to the United States shall be known criminals or those carrying easily communicable diseases. That imprisoned illegal aliens be freed.
15. That the function of the military be confined to defense of the territory of the United States, and that all U.S. troops be removed from foreign countries. Henceforth the sole purpose of the military shall be protection of the lives and property of U.S. citizens at home.
WE SEEK to create an America in which the freedom and sovereignty of the people are restored; in which the functions of government are limited to protecting life, liberty and property; and in which each and every individual is again the master of his or her own destiny.
WE SUPPORT this Declaration in the certainty that our rights are inalienable and innate and not subject to the whims of government; that the only rights which we will ultimately retain, are those which we are willing to defend; and that rapid yet peaceful reform is now America's only alternative to tyranny and mounting social violence.
TO CREATE a new dawn of liberty for America, and to secure a rebirth of liberty, justice, peace and prosperity for all, we mutually pledge each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. We seek and will settle for nothing less than freedom in our time.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at October 17, 2008 3:45 PM

