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.

Ed over at The Daley Gator posted the Declaration of Independence today. And this afternoon Mayor Dassing read from it at the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Ice Cream Social.

I had half a mind to usurp her, to put new meaning into that sacred text, and stand athwart History yelling Stop.

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.

Walk like an Egyptian!

To view democracy as a principle — as a litmus test of governmental legitimacy without regard for what any elected regime may do — is the kind of nonsense that political science professors may claim to believe, but this ignores the horrors that have been inflicted upon innocents by democratic governments. For example, Detroit…

Can anyone doubt that beginning with Woodrow Wilson, culminating in the ascention of Barack Obama, our Democracy has failed? For starters, there is Ben Franklin's apocryphal admonition. Upon being asked what sort of government the Continental Congress had selected for the new nation he replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it."

I daresay the NSA, the IRS, the TSA, indeed all the alphabet soup agencies of our federal leviathan, along with political correctness, speech codes, zoning laws, and reams of ridiculous regulations promulgated by nanny-state ninnies have all served to enslave this Republic far more strenuously than George III ever could have dreamed of.

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 we, the people.

The history of the Progressive Hegemony is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

When the White House has to put out propaganda talking points lauding a merciless poliitcal flack, Caesar has crossed the Rubicon as it were.

The specifics have changed, but the echoes of our Founders complaints are clear and deepening.

All of which apply to our modern, progressive governmental overlords.

Go ahead, I dare you to tell me otherwise.

Alas there are those among us who consider the abuses perpetrated by the bureaucracy to be necessary and proper. Their goal is power, not justice, for justice would evince a government not beholden to the vicissitudes of one political party at the expense of all others.

Make no mistake. There is nothing this government won't do, nothing its legions of minions won't say in order to arrogate, accrue, and accelerate their power.

Barack Obama is Mohammed Morsi, admittedly with better PR. And a compliant press.

No wonder then that Dick Durbin, one of Obama's more vicious attack dogs, has broached the subject of regulating journalism.

"I am constrained by a system our founders put in place."
— Barack Hussein Obama

The Constitution is in their way. For now.

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
— Dick Durbin Josef Stalin

Little by little, bit by bit, step by step, they crush our ideals. Conformity of thought is encouraged as ridicule is heaped upon those of us who refuse to toe the party line. Dissent, once the highest form of patriotism, is an insect to be crushed at all costs, buried by the hammer of public shaming.

"Homophobia," "Islamophobia," note how dissent is cleverly classified as a mental disorder. There is a Syndrome for everything. Dissention from Obama is racism. Refutation of the welfare state is cold-heartedness. Objection to onerous taxation is now considered un-patriotic by no less a luminary than our sitting Vice President.

I wonder then, how many more July Fourths remain before celebration of "health independence" completely replaces recitation of Jefferson's ode to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Not too many, I'm afraid.

In their hour of struggle the Egyptian people recognized, nay yearned for the founding ideals of America. They clearly saw the inherent incompatibility between Freedom and Obama.

It's high time that we Americans did the same.

Wolverines!

Posted at 16:29 by Chris Wysocki   [/rants]   Comments | Perm Link |
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