| amber438 |
2005-06-21 09:59 PM |
You know, I'm reading all this legal crap mumbo jumbo and thinking, this whole thing has become truly out of hand. By whole thing I mean our govt. and it's assinine ways.
What ever happened to this:
"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.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, 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 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. 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."
The Declaration of Independence goes on the list the transgressions of the then King of England against the colonies and declares that, because of these, they are a self-declared free self-governing country and if King George doest like it to come kick their asses.
They were rebels, accused of treason, etc, and fought to the death for what they believed in.
And now look at what we, their legacy, have become. And by we, I mean the elected officials in govt. Seperation of church and state is gone. Personal liberties have slowly been taken away, almost without our registering it. We have become the parents of our neighbors children. Our brave soldiers are fighting and dying in a war brought on because our President has a father complex.
I am truly disgusted and taken aback at the sorry situation in the US today. And I love my country very much. I guess that's why it hurts so damned much.
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