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Jul 03 2007
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15 reviews
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usa
• friendsacrossamerica.com
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"* He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
* He has forbidden our Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, Its Federal Tyranny
* He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. i.e. ignoring Balance of 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. from the IRS, to Bush's homeland Security and FEMA goon squads.
* He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. Don't believe it? Ask folks at Ruby Ridge, WACO, etc
* 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: i.e. the North American Union
o For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: Our own troops & police forces spying and holding us captive>
o For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
o For imposing taxes on us without our Consent: The IRS is illegal, and the taxes are beyond anything the founding Fathers would've stood for
o For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: Guantanamo, nullifying habeaus Corpus, etc
o For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: Extraordinary Rendition becoming more common.
o For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: Again, states rights overridden by Federal Tyranny
o 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. Bush's open border illegal-alien amnesty
* He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. Using taxes, corporate and institutional larceny, etc.
* 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 & 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. The coming military draft
* He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the illegal aliens, 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.