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Political rant warning
Jul. 14th, 2008 03:28 amI'm a little late with this, but I'm upset.
Our government has all but repealed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I can be imprisoned for my political beliefs because they don't conform to what the current Powers-that-Be think is right.
I believe in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Particularly this part of the Declaration.
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.
It is time for We the People to resecure our constitutional rights, the rights on which our nation was founded. Our Constitution guarantees us the right to fair government, and the Bill of Rights guarantees us the right of free assembly, press, speech, religion, and other rights that we have taken for granted for so long that we've allowed them to be taken away from us by an increasingly totalitarian and fascist regime.
I'm taking a risk by posting this. I could be in deep shit for saying what I'm saying, but damn it, my Constitution guarantees me the right to free speech, so I'm exercising it.
We are not safe. Allowing our rights to be taken away from us has not made us safer. The only way to be safe is to force the government back into its Constitutional limitations.
It is time for We the People to reclaim our nation.
The government may find this and decide to arrest me (thank you so much, "Patriot" Act), or discredit me as a lunatic.
Guess what? I'm nutty as squirrel shit, but I am not stupid, I am not uninformed, and I am not alone.
Our government has all but repealed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I can be imprisoned for my political beliefs because they don't conform to what the current Powers-that-Be think is right.
I believe in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Particularly this part of the Declaration.
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.
It is time for We the People to resecure our constitutional rights, the rights on which our nation was founded. Our Constitution guarantees us the right to fair government, and the Bill of Rights guarantees us the right of free assembly, press, speech, religion, and other rights that we have taken for granted for so long that we've allowed them to be taken away from us by an increasingly totalitarian and fascist regime.
I'm taking a risk by posting this. I could be in deep shit for saying what I'm saying, but damn it, my Constitution guarantees me the right to free speech, so I'm exercising it.
We are not safe. Allowing our rights to be taken away from us has not made us safer. The only way to be safe is to force the government back into its Constitutional limitations.
It is time for We the People to reclaim our nation.
The government may find this and decide to arrest me (thank you so much, "Patriot" Act), or discredit me as a lunatic.
Guess what? I'm nutty as squirrel shit, but I am not stupid, I am not uninformed, and I am not alone.
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