The Future Through The Past
One of favorite movies is National Treasure with Nicholas Cage. The sequel came out for the 2007 Christmas movies deluge and although good, it was not up to the original. In National Treasure, Nicholas Cage steals the Declaration of Independence in order to solve a mystery. Prior to stealing it, he visits the National Archives and reads a section of the document. It continues to give me goose bumps to hear him speak those words aloud.
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 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.
That these men were willing to sign their lives to this document shows how fed up they were with the mishandling of their government. That we went to war and fought to overthrow the injustice they all felt was happening says much for their vision of what was to become the United States of America. These same men went on to pen the cornerstone of the freedom they sought; the Constitution of the United States. It envisioned the freedoms for all men and put in place the safeguards to prevent tyranny from creeping into government and usurping those freedoms. It has taken more than 200 years, but those freedoms have been chipped away and are now but a mere shell of what the founding fathers envisioned. The Declaration of Independence is a document that through its very words, provide the outline of how the fathers of our nation dealt with the tyranny of an oppressive government. They gave us a great document as a guideline on how we could prevent future occurrences that resulted in the loss of our freedoms. We are nearing the threshold of the loss of our freedoms that may again require such actions as the founding fathers recommended. We have taxation without representation. We have political dynasties that push to have their families rule greater proportions of our nation. We have political agendas that make killing legal (abortion), allow laws to be broken without repercussions (illegal immigration) and are pushing to remove the only avenue by which a citizen can defend themselves (gun control). The only area that has not been targeted is the freedom of speech that allows the liberal media to manipulate the masses with their own brand of manipulation. And why would we not try to stop the one group that stirs the pot? That seems to be the one area of the Constitution that is free from attack.
I am not advocating a revolution. There is still enough freedom to allow me to write this. But with the courts legislating their agendas and our nation approaching an election with only three liberal politicians in the mix, it may be soon that we need to revisit the words of our founding fathers and look for a way to overthrow the tyranny of an unjust government.
Again not Cool
Cobb
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 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.
That these men were willing to sign their lives to this document shows how fed up they were with the mishandling of their government. That we went to war and fought to overthrow the injustice they all felt was happening says much for their vision of what was to become the United States of America. These same men went on to pen the cornerstone of the freedom they sought; the Constitution of the United States. It envisioned the freedoms for all men and put in place the safeguards to prevent tyranny from creeping into government and usurping those freedoms. It has taken more than 200 years, but those freedoms have been chipped away and are now but a mere shell of what the founding fathers envisioned. The Declaration of Independence is a document that through its very words, provide the outline of how the fathers of our nation dealt with the tyranny of an oppressive government. They gave us a great document as a guideline on how we could prevent future occurrences that resulted in the loss of our freedoms. We are nearing the threshold of the loss of our freedoms that may again require such actions as the founding fathers recommended. We have taxation without representation. We have political dynasties that push to have their families rule greater proportions of our nation. We have political agendas that make killing legal (abortion), allow laws to be broken without repercussions (illegal immigration) and are pushing to remove the only avenue by which a citizen can defend themselves (gun control). The only area that has not been targeted is the freedom of speech that allows the liberal media to manipulate the masses with their own brand of manipulation. And why would we not try to stop the one group that stirs the pot? That seems to be the one area of the Constitution that is free from attack.
I am not advocating a revolution. There is still enough freedom to allow me to write this. But with the courts legislating their agendas and our nation approaching an election with only three liberal politicians in the mix, it may be soon that we need to revisit the words of our founding fathers and look for a way to overthrow the tyranny of an unjust government.
Again not Cool
Cobb
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