by Nathan Natas 21 Replies latest jw friends
I'm all for a declaration of independence from the existing US government that sounds word for word almost like the US declaration of Independence, but this time the oppressor is not the King of England but the US Hegemony.
I'm sure if you just replace some words ment for the crown and insert the US government the wording would be just right.
Here's a partial look of the Declaration:
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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, 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.
I'm sure there are many that will agree that these words can be used against the present US government and it's present course,, and agree we need a new form of government to replace it.
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.
Can we not say that under many recent administrations of the office of president we the american people have suffered from the tyranny over us with a steady eroding of self evident human rights?
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.
How many laws have been passed that disreguard basic human rights of privacy, personal choice, and the like.
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 harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
I mean how many judges fit that discription in the US? Come on be honest,, how many judges really stand for justice when they have laws that highly favor the state and ignore human rights??
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:
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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 offences
Sounds a lot like today only it is the present US government that is the culprit and not the crown.
The old saying applies in my opinion: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
