Dear Former Senator Obama
America has been at this brink before. How long your fellow citizens endure the abandonment of American Tradition, Values and Law remains to be seen. What their reaction will be is also unknown.
The men who drafted and signed this document, and the equally brave women who stood behind and beside them, were guilty of Sedition and Treason of the highest order. Yet today we call them Patriots. Founding Fathers.
So is it Sedition or Treason today to ask, to DEMAND, that you either abide by this document, and it's Sister The Constitution, or resign your current position?
If our own leaders will not abide by these, why should any of us? Why should any of us be bound to those same leaders?
"A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." -- Ed Abbey
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another (are you aware you are pushing us to that point? Will America wake up soon enough to realize it?), 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 (STILL) 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 (your actions of late would indicate you care not for the pursuit of anyone's happiness but your own). 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 to 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 (what you have wrought, and continue to do so, is far from light or transient) ; 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 (taking over the car industry, closing dealerships, dictating compensation for officers of Financial institutions), 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 (Senators and Congressmen -- when someone has the ability to correct a wrong, they have the responsibility to correct it. THAT MEANS YOU. WE HIRED YOU, DO SOMETHING). --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 (and you, former Senator Obama) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states (you're working towards just that). 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 (about those Black Panthers).
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries (and now that of financial institutions).
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 legislature (National Civilian Security would be just such a thing).
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to 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: (do you not want this to happen with the UN?)
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by 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 (wait for the Stimulus Bill to come due):
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 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 in 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, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete 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 (National Civilian Security would be just that), 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 endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 attention 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 the 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 (whatever you have left us) and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Midnight Rider, Always on Watch, jdamn, WC, Revere Rides Again, Pastorius, Carlos Echevarria, Epaminondas, Christian Soldier, Total, Her Royal Whyness, Rob Granger, Christine, Godefroi, BabbaZee, Grant Jones
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Do you agree? Say so in comments. The only way we will defeat the encroaching despotism is LOUDLY AND IN NUMBERS.
Want to add your name on the front? Let us know in comments. It will go under IBA
Do you Comment or Post at other Blogs? Link back to this one. The more names the better.
America has been at this brink before. How long your fellow citizens endure the abandonment of American Tradition, Values and Law remains to be seen. What their reaction will be is also unknown.
The men who drafted and signed this document, and the equally brave women who stood behind and beside them, were guilty of Sedition and Treason of the highest order. Yet today we call them Patriots. Founding Fathers.
So is it Sedition or Treason today to ask, to DEMAND, that you either abide by this document, and it's Sister The Constitution, or resign your current position?
If our own leaders will not abide by these, why should any of us? Why should any of us be bound to those same leaders?
"A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." -- Ed Abbey
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another (are you aware you are pushing us to that point? Will America wake up soon enough to realize it?), 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 (STILL) 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 (your actions of late would indicate you care not for the pursuit of anyone's happiness but your own). 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 to 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 (what you have wrought, and continue to do so, is far from light or transient) ; 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 (taking over the car industry, closing dealerships, dictating compensation for officers of Financial institutions), 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 (Senators and Congressmen -- when someone has the ability to correct a wrong, they have the responsibility to correct it. THAT MEANS YOU. WE HIRED YOU, DO SOMETHING). --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 (and you, former Senator Obama) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states (you're working towards just that). 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 (about those Black Panthers).
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries (and now that of financial institutions).
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 legislature (National Civilian Security would be just such a thing).
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to 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: (do you not want this to happen with the UN?)
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by 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 (wait for the Stimulus Bill to come due):
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 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 in 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, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete 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 (National Civilian Security would be just that), 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 endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 attention 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 the 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 (whatever you have left us) and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Midnight Rider, Always on Watch, jdamn, WC, Revere Rides Again, Pastorius, Carlos Echevarria, Epaminondas, Christian Soldier, Total, Her Royal Whyness, Rob Granger, Christine, Godefroi, BabbaZee, Grant Jones
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Do you agree? Say so in comments. The only way we will defeat the encroaching despotism is LOUDLY AND IN NUMBERS.
Want to add your name on the front? Let us know in comments. It will go under IBA
Do you Comment or Post at other Blogs? Link back to this one. The more names the better.
32 comments:
Count me in!
I figured as much. Was almost tempted to just put you there from the start :)
I'm there!
I'm in.
Let us all hang together. Count me in.
Or surely we'll all hang separately.
So added.
It looks like Obama is well on his way to fulfilling the same list of trangressions as did King George.
You are right to tell Congress that we hired and paid them to do something about this. They are are first line of defense. I am pulling for them to censure Obama for his usurpations of power beyond his authority.
If Congress does not call Obama out on his policies and behavior, then it will be left to the People.
Epa believes the courts will assert jurisdiction.
I hold no such hope.
We shall see.
"Let us all hang together. Count me in."
I echo Revere Rides Again, but add that like the boy patriot Nathan Hale I regret I have but one life to give my country!!!
put me in..." H1 " in case they are nearsighted
Send this to ALL of our 'servants' in government....R an D ...
Count me in....
Carol-CS
Please add me.
http://carlosechevarria.blogspot.com/2009/06/dear-former-senator-obama.html
I have it up...
MR,
Hope you don't mind. I decided to change the title.
;-)
My pledge of loyalty to this nation includes no other God.
Obama can go to hell. Count me in.
HRW
Pasto -- Don't mind a'tall. Think we should/could slide a link to it in the sidebar once it starts dropping down?
HRW -- You're in.
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea to me.
I get one of those once every ten years or so :)
You do realize that once this gets out Michelle is going to hunt each and every one of us down and bitch-slap us with those $400 sneakers?
Rob Granger, Katy TX
Welcome to the dissent, Rob Granger, happy to have you. For a modicum of security we'll at least keep your coordinates off the front page.
Revere -- oh thank goodness. For a while there I thoguht she was going to give us that evil wicked mean and nasty "Kill Carla, Kill Kill Kill" withering stare ;>)
You definitely can add me.
I just added a link to this post at my site.
Chrisitne -- Done.
AoW -- Thank You!
Aw man - count me in too.
Yer linked up!
Counted in, Godefroi. Thanks for the link and the nice words there.
shouldn't my name appear automatically?
;)
ululululululululululululu!
Humblest of apologies my favorite outraged spleen. The Dominican monk scribes had fallen asleep. So hard to get good help these days, what with Bernardo Gui now out of the picture.
You've been added :)
ululululululululu!
Todah Rabah
I linked to it here
http://babbazeesbrain.blogspot.com/2009/06/floatin-powa-news-service-ridin-seizers.html
Gracias, Babba.
Count me in. You only begin to touch upon the long train of usurpations committed by the Obamatons.
Grant Jones -- "You only begin to touch upon the long train of usurpations committed by the Obamatons."
we only have so much room on this blog :)
You're in.
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