Declaration

[digitaldiscipline]

Just because I'm feeling like firing a shot across his bow, utterly unheeded, here's some of the finer print from the DoI, talking about another asshole named George:

The history of the present King 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. [2000 election, anyone?

- 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. [see also: texas voting district shenanigans]

- 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. [this is the same guy who didn't stop reading a story about a goat on 9/11, and couldn't cut his vacation short for Hurricane Katrina, but signed a bill into law after midnight in the midst of the Terry Schiavo fiasco]

- He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. ["anyone who opposes the patriot act is on the side of the terrorists"]

- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. [Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, please pick up the white courtesy phone]

- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. [Dep't of Homeland Security, anyone?]

- He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. [see previous item, and also those lovely gentlemen on hire from Halliburton et al to help maintain "peace" in places like New Orleans]

- 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: [this doesn't even bear editorializing on, does it?]

- For protecting [troops], by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: [see also: Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, et al]

- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: [see previous item]
- For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences [and again, "non-combat" my ass]

- For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: [again with the no comment necessary]

- For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. [see also the lionizing of any dissenting viewpoint]

- 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. [No Shit.]

. . . and people wonder why I'm openly seditious.

The government is broken, people. The last time things were this fucked up, we had to found a new nation to get rid of the asshats.

Two hundred and thirty years between reboots sounds like a pretty good run. I, for one, advocate hitting the big red switch.