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I will now offer up my own paraphrasing of one of our country's founding documents...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of basic respect for all living entities entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all living creatures are created equal, that they are endowed by themselves with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among humans, 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 all 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 humankind 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 this country; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of America [George W. Bush] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. 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.
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 Opposition 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 Patriot Act.
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 harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us and the populations of other sovereign nations, 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 and the borders of other sovereign nations:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States and other sovereign nations:
For manipulating our Trade with all parts of the world in order to benefit a small group of industrialists:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent and repealing taxes in order to benefit a small group of industrialists:
For depriving us and the populations of other sovereign nations, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting the populations of other sovereign nations beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of Laws of other sovereign nations, 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 this Country:
For taking away our Rights and Freedoms and those of other sovereign nations, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own democratic voice, and declaring himself invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Democracy here, by declaring us not worthy of his Protection and waging War against us and the populations of other sovereign nations.
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 and corporate 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 and the populations of other sovereign nations to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and family, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and the populations of other sovereign nations, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Military/Industrial/Religious Complex, whose known rule of warfare and intolerance, 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 President whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our unenlightened brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their less than compassionate leadership to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here and of our expectations of rights and liberty. We have appealed to their humanity and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the People of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the People of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of this Country and the World, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent of oppression by an elitest and compassionless minority; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Military/Industrial/Religious Complex, and that all political connection between them and the Military/Industrial/Religious Complex, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.