This I Believe

I was just reading the Declaration Of Independence, and I found some interesting passages that could be applied to our current government. Remember that the DOC was a revolutionary document, and that it called for the overthrow of a tyrant.

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.

Read: Crawford, Texas. “The Ranch”

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 affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

Read: Homeland Security, Secret CIA prisons, the dissolution of our constitutional right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Read: Relaxation of environmental protection legislation, renewing nuclear programs across the nation, and the opening of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.

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.

Read: Iraq, Abu Graihb, Guantanamo Bay

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.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes?