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A New Declaration of Independence
Thursday 06 July @ 12:19:33 |
 BY ED FELIEN
When Bush stole the Presidency a second time in 2004, there was talk that the Blue states, those that voted for Kerry over Bush, should secede from the country. For the most part, it was meant as a joke. But what if we were to take it seriously? What would be the first step?
What holds us together as a nation is a document written and ratified in 1789, the United States Constitution. For all people who love this country, they must first of all love our Constitution. It is not the flag or our elected officials that hold this country together. It is our Constitution. The President of the United States is sworn to uphold and defend this Constitution, but George W. Bush has done everything in his power to subvert and destroy this document, and a weak and spineless Congress has supported him. Our government has become so debased and corrupt through bribery, blackmail, terror and deceit that it now becomes the responsibility of every patriot to rise up and say, “This is enough! No more! Not in my name!”
Let us begin by using the framework of the argument laid out by Thomas Jefferson and issue our own Declaration of Independence:
When in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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 people 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 people, 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 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; and accordingly all experience has 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.
The people of Minnesota have a long list of unresolved grievances against this President and his compliant Congress and Supreme Court.
Our Constitution says only Congress shall declare war and issue letters of marque and reprisal, yet this President has taken it upon himself to declare a state of terror in which he believes he can wage war against any group or nation that he considers a real or potential threat to U. S. interests.
He has invaded and occupied Afghanistan without authorization from Congress and he has installed a puppet regime there that is totally dependent on continued U.S. military presence.
Without a declaration of war, using lies and distortions, he invaded and occupied Iraq for the sole purpose of aiding Halliburton, a war profiteering company in which he and his family hold a major financial interest.
In violation of the Geneva Conventions and international law he has condoned the use of torture on prisoners.
He has detained people without charges or a trial and even without recourse to military tribunals, contrary to international law and human decency.
He has arrested and detained people simply on the basis of their religious beliefs.
He has stifled dissent by spying on citizens without an order of the court.
Through the offices of corrupted politicians and unscrupulous lobbyists he has collaborated in the further destruction of Native American peoples and our natural resources.
He has sought to create an aristocracy of wealth through the abolition of the inheritance tax.
To benefit Halliburton, he has sought to overturn court decisions that granted widows and orphans legitimate compensation for asbestos poisoning.
We believe this war profiteering President is determined to establish a military dictatorship. We cannot sit back and allow our citizens and the innocent people in foreign lands continue to be murdered for this tyrant’s greed. We cannot continue to allow our freedoms to be destroyed by a man whose goal is complete and total personal power.
Therefore, be it resolved, we shall seek all peaceful and nonviolent means to disaster.
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