We have betrayed ourselves.

[plantwomyn]

On the anniversary of 9/11 I look back at 6 years of heartache and wonder what has happen to my country. Online today I read some to the posts and the news and realize that we may already be lost. It seems to me that we’ve been cowed and told way too often that we have to make nice. Stop “politicizing” everything, g-d forbid don’t be rude!
I took a look at the Move On ad for myself just to see if it was just “name calling” or mean spirited. It made me wonder what our founders had to say about telling truth to power. I came up with an amazing document that was so seditious that I just thought that everyone at DU might want to take a look at it for themselves.
I’ll just give you a little taste of what is says.

Facts {to} be submitted to a candid world.
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. VETOED

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. SIGNING STATEMENTS

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. ROBERTS, ALITO

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. VOTER CAGING

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. COMMANDER IN CHIEF

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 taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: TOO MANY TO LIST

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 natioHALLIBURTONTEN, BLACKWATER, et al

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. ENOUGH SAID

BTW this seditious document goes by the name of the Declaration of Independence.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Speak for yourself ...

enough of this "WE" ___ fill in the blank___ nonsense.

[plantwomyn]

3. Thank you

for your deep an thoughtful reply to my op.

[Demeter]

2. Americans Are Too Weak To Handle The Truth

because if they could hear and accept it, then they would have to do something about it, and they can't be bothered, or take the chance that somebody in authority "wouldn't like it".

Hell, I can't get the truth out in my own co-op, because greed and fear are the only buttons around here, and fact just doesn't support greed, and these people are too "entitled" to feel fear, yet. It can't happen to them, they assure each other, we are all University graduates and employees!

REnaming the river outside the door de Nile.....