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Nictuku

(4,342 posts)
20. We should hold events across the country Reading Out Loud the Delecaration of Independence
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 12:27 AM
Jun 29

People will be shocked by how many of the old bullet points they - made against the Monarchy - where the People were Wronged - fit today's situation.

Full Text Here:
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/resources/text

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 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 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 harrass 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 Offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring 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, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat 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.

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I understand the sentiment. I feel the party is over chicoescuela Jun 28 #1
It is a day of grieving the loss of our democracy and country. Irish_Dem Jun 28 #2
I will NOT let these repukes take everything Skittles Jun 28 #3
That's the way I felt about Christmas, right after the election. pacalo Jun 29 #16
I didn't put out all my Christmas decorations and no tree inside last December Attilatheblond Jun 29 #36
Exactly why I wore my flag Tree Lady Jun 29 #21
OUTSTANDING Skittles Jun 29 #24
Too many MAGAt idiots around me to not hear fireworks constantly. Xavier Breath Jun 28 #4
Somebody across the river just gave the area a brief earful. calimary Jun 29 #18
Guess I should not have worried about taking a single .16 gauge shotgun blast Jack Valentino Jun 29 #25
I usually observe the day by watching "1776" dflprincess Jun 28 #5
So do I. MAY be able to find it somewhere; elleng Jun 29 #19
1776 will be on TCM Friday, July 4, at 10:30 PM EDT. Xavier Breath Jun 29 #30
GREAT!!! THANKS!!!! elleng Jun 29 #38
I love "1776" now, but the first time I saw it, I was offended by Jefferson's Jack Valentino Jun 29 #26
In his defense, he was married to a 28-year-old Blythe Danner, so I'll cut him some slack. Xavier Breath Jun 29 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba Jun 28 #6
I was a bit that way, but my son wanted to go buy fireworks today... Mark.b2 Jun 28 #7
I sure won't be celebrating. The country foreseen in 1776 is gone. sinkingfeeling Jun 28 #8
Dreading the 250th celebration next year with him at the helm. Xavier Breath Jun 29 #37
You are not alone Timewas Jun 28 #9
I am going to have a blast on Fourth of July Sympthsical Jun 28 #10
No plans. No parades. Maybe I'll eat a hot dog, putter around and have some quiet respect for the holiday. dameatball Jun 28 #11
Resist Chilopsis Jun 28 #12
Won't be celebrating blubunyip Jun 28 #13
I just enjoy my family and friends at a bbq. BlueTsunami2018 Jun 28 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 29 #29
i don't feel any desire to watch a celebration of ideals that no longer exist. Takket Jun 28 #15
then use it as a reminder of what we are fighting for Skittles Jun 29 #17
We should hold events across the country Reading Out Loud the Delecaration of Independence Nictuku Jun 29 #20
Thanks, I usually do that. elleng Jun 29 #23
I won't be celebrating... no money for fireworks, even if I wanted 'em. slightlv Jun 29 #22
I would LIKE to celebrate this July 4th by "shooting off some fireworks"--- Jack Valentino Jun 29 #27
I'm MORE inclined to fly the flag to show that I love America 🇺🇸 and the live love laugh Jun 29 #28
I'll be remembering the America that was once the great hope of generations. mucholderthandirt Jun 29 #32
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." Mark Twain Ping Tung Jun 29 #33
I will 100% be celebrating purple_haze Jun 29 #34
Yep ...I won't celebrate, I feel like flying the flag upside down Tribetime Jun 29 #35
It's kind of like what they did with the Gadsden flag KnoxVol Jun 29 #39
I'll celebrate because of the words of a 33 year old man born in Virginia, as was I DFW Jun 29 #40
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