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.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.
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.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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 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 invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
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 benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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.
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America…..
Shouldn’t these human rights apply to all humans, not just those we choose. From Palestine to Darfur to Guantanamo Bay, when did we acquire the right to do just those things that caused us to revolt against the tyrannical rule of others. Our founding fathers would be the first to fight against such atrocities that the world has not seen since Nazi Germany. The terror that is inflicted on the Palestinians today, is the product of fascism and terrorism, nursed from Hitler and Mussolini’s breast and brought to fruition by the narrow-sightedness of the American Government.
As a matter of propaganda, complacency, or just plain apathy, Americans have become the unwitting dupes of a specific propaganda campaign, directed from overseas, and supported by our government. Like the cattle being herded to the slaughter, they blissfully follow the Zionist controlled media and the American government, who is on the payroll of the Israeli government and Zionist political action groups.
But, this is not a matter of Pro-Israel or Pro-Palestinian, it is about our American values and what do those values say about us as Americans. One step, just one step by the American government, to ease the suffering and humiliation of the Palestinians and grant them the rights that any human being should expect and deserve, would do more to fight terror than all of George W Bush’s wiretaps, invasions and lies. As long as there is one, just one, individual who knows the truth about what is occurring in the Middle East, there will never be peace. Using the war on terror as an excuse to turn your back on your fellow human beings and allow the type of suffering that is occurring is not only unforgivable, it is inhuman. THE WAR ON TERROR IS NOT A BLANK CHECK TO MURDER, TORTURE AND OPPRESS.
Greenpeace spends millions to save whales, PETA receives millions to save dogs, the lumber industry was shut down in the North West as a result of a spotted owl, why do 80% of all Palestinian children go to bed hungry every night? Why is a Palestinian child’s life and rights expendable? Where are our priorities? Do these words included in our Declaration of Independence mean anything to Americans anymore, since we have become the main supporter of the new King George Ohlmert. Now is the time to bring back the Wilsonian philosophy on what makes America great, leading the free world by example and not being a thug nation and ruling at the end of a Nuclear weapon and supporting those whose tyrannical rule, by an iron fist, disgraces our country. We need to embrace those ideals that made America the leader of freedom and liberty and not the leader of forced democracies. Ben Franklin stated that Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. I will put my money on liberty every time.
