Happy Independence Day
It has been quite some time since I have written about this wonderful Holiday. Whenever I look for inspiration for the celebration of the birth of this glorious nation I tend to look homeward. I look towards the lovely scenic northeast, The Birthplace of our nation. Where freedom and Liberty was born. After drinking a six pack of Sam Adams and half a bottle of whiskey. I began to realize that this holiday season I should be looking further east.
It is a sad state of affairs that a Connecticut Yankee finds the spirit of 76 in the Middle East. The French showed Jefferson the way to liberty and Beaujolais. It is only fitting that another nation shows us that determination and courage is what this nation is all about.
Weeks away from our Birthday, There was a massacre on the other side of the world. People who were tired of tyranny decided to do something about it. The world wept. Neda Agha-Soltan is the face of democracy. For a generation of people who are unaware of Penelope Barker. (Look it up Snider) Neda is a fitting replacement Gods call was heard throughout the world. (gotta love Twitter)
We the people have been asleep while those people were awakened by liberty’s bell. It is annoying to say the least that we use you tube to get make up tips for women with large eyes, while a country , whose people are oppressed, repressed and have no chance of freedom of the press, Decided to do something useful with youtube.
We the people have elected an obnoxiously popular president.
We the people twitter him to death about how muscular his wife’s arms are
We the people are interested in who Governor Sanford is sleeping with
We the people just wanna see pretty explosions on Fourth of July
Those people want an end to tyranny
Those people want their votes to count
Those people have taken to the streets
We are the sons and daughters of the revolution. How the hell did our spirit get fucking outsourced?
If Jefferson were alive today he would be packing his bags and dusting off his passport.
We as a nation have come a long way from 1776 We have elected someone who’s views seemed to coincide with Jefferson’s Ideals something about electing a constitutional law professor to protect the constitution brings tears of joy to my eyes. In the late 1700’s we were an up and coming nation we were going places the new tomorrow the way forward. In 1900 we built the first airplane. We invented the hanging chad for God’s sake. Why is it when we have a problem with an election the first thing we do is try and cover it up and we the people race home to see the beginning of survivor There is something to learn from our eastern brethren.
Not the getting butchered by a repressive government. The making your presence known part we went to the voting booth in record numbers and we have hit the unemployment line in droves. I know how much we love blowing things up so we will have a blast on the fourth. God knows we have enough time on our hands. If we spent as much time letting our representatives know how disgusted we are, as we do text messaging each other maybe we would be in a better position and we wouldn’t get an American history lesson from FUCKING IRAN!!!!!!
Perhaps we the people should get some reading done
The Declaration of Independence
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.
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 affect their safety and happiness. 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. 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 is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. 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 mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions 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.
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 harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the 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:
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 cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
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 into 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, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an 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 our attentions 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 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, and our sacred honor.
Jerry