American Revolution II

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 you have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You are not a slave owned by the government, but rather government is here to protect your rights so you can do your thing.

You have the right to do anything you want as long as it doesn't infringe on other peoples rights which are the same rights you have.

governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Again you are the master of government, government is not your master.

whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,

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

I highlighted these rights in yellow.

Last it is amazing how many of the abuses that King George did to the settlers of the American Colonies in 1776 that the Federal government now does to the American people in 2010.

I highlighted these abuses in pink.

In all of the pink text you can replace the word he which refered to King George and replace it with the the text The Federal Government

Some of these abuses which have carried over from the era of King George to the current Federal government are:

1. They tell us we have rights, but when we expect them to exercise the rights they tell us they don't apply. Yes the Second Amendment says the government will not infringe on our right to keep and bear arms, but when the Feds passed a law making machine guns illegal that doesn't really infringe on our right to keep and bear arms. Yes sure!
2. Judges at both the state and federal level were supposed to protect us from government tyrants, but now judges more or less rubber stamp whatever the elected officials and government bureaucrats tell them to rubber stamp.
3. Read this as being a whole slew of alphabetic federal government agencies like the CIA, FBI, FDA, BATF, Homeland Security and so on most of which are unconstitutional and most which suck up huge amounts of money and are used to micro-manage our everyday lives.
4. Well not standing military armies, but standing armies of government bureaucrats like the FBI, IRS, FDA and so on.
5. When the police murder and main people they are almost never charged with any crimes. Of course this abuse is mostly with local, city, county governments although it does occur at the Federal level. A good example is when the FBI and BATF tyrants murdered 100+ religious crackpots at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel which is near Waco, Texas.
6. When the Federal government was formed any tax on Income was unconstitutional. The first income tax was only a one percent tax on the rich when the 16th Amendment was passed to legalize Income tax. Since then the income tax has grown from a one percent soak the rich tax to a tax where even poor people that make minimum wage are shaken down by the Feds for 10 percent of their income. It wasn't until the 1930's under FDR that the Federal government surpassed the spending of the state governments. Of course now the Federal government is the largest employeer in the USA and spends more then any other single sector of American life.
7. The guarantee to a trial by jury has been changed to a system where 99+ percent of the people charged with crimes accept plea bargains, not because they are guilty, but because they don't want to accept the draconian penalties they will receive if they are convicted by a jury. Last buy not least a trial by jury is so expensive that it will bankrupt any person accused of a crime expect the wealthiest Americans.
8. American citizens accused of being terrorists are often transported by the Federal government to the the American military base of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where many have been held for years with out a trial. Of course the government plays both cards. On one hand they say they are POW's and because of that don't need to be put on trial. On the other hand they say they are domestic criminals who will be jailed for life because of their alleged terrorist crimes.

   Of course the American government has jailed non-Americans accused of being terrorists in these secret American prisons in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan.

9. The Bill of Rights and Constitution has been repeatedly flushed down the toilet. American police in the name of the drug war routinely violate our 4th Amendment right against illegal searches. American police routinely violate our 5th Amendment right against self incrimination by forcing criminal suspect to talk and often extorting confessions out of them. The Federal government has created the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Board which routinely violates the Constitution by printing worthless money that is not back by gold or silver.
10. The unconstitutional RICO laws and unconstitutional drug war laws are good examples of this. The Federal government accuses you of a civil violation and says for civil violations your property is assumed guilty of a crime unless you can prove otherwise. And of course when you can't prove your money or property is not guilty of a crime the tyrants at both the Federal level and state level will steal it using the RICO laws.
11. On Americans soil the large standing armies of King George have been replaced by the large number of Federal police agencies such as the FBI, CIA, BATF, Homeland Security and other agencies who are mostly involved in the unconstitutional war on drugs. Outside fo the homeland the American government has military troops in 100+ countries through out the world. And of course currently we have large standing armies in Iraq and Afghanistan which we have illegally invaded under both American and International law.

Here is the complete text of the Declaration of Independence. The original spelling and capitalization have been retained.

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

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 nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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 to 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 shown 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. ¹ 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 houses 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

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 ² , 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. ³

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. ⁴

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to 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: ⁴

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: ⁵

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent: ⁶

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: ⁷

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: ⁸

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, 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 in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: ⁹

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. ¹⁰

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, ¹¹ 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 to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 prince, 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 attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice 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 representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, 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.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776