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PATRIOTISM: IT’S COOL AGAIN!

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As we celebrate 249th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence today we must be mindful that it took great courage for
the 56 men to put their signatures to this revolutionary document.

Hostilities had already broken out
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between the British and colonial militias at Lexington and Concord,
Massachusetts. The English king had declared the colonies to be in
open rebellion, and the U.S. Congress had formed an army under the
command of George Washington.

The signers knew they were committing an act of high treason against
the British Crown that could cost each man his life. Pennsylvania’s
Benjamin Rush later wrote of the “pensive and awful silence which
pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the
table of the President of Congress,” to sign “what was believed by
many at that time to be our own death warrants.”

So let us honor, remember, and celebrate what the Left so often
attacks – the brave, beautiful and, dare I say it, _holy_ founding
document that originated our great nation – the Declaration of
Independence, which I reprint below:

> In Congress, 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 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. 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. 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 mean time 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 migrations 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, 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.
>
> He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the
> Consent of our legislatures.
>
> He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior
> to the 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:
>
> For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any
> Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
>
> For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
>
> For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
>
> For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
>
> For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
>
> For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
> 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 into these
> Colonies:
>
> For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and
> altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
>
> 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, burnt our towns, and
> destroyed the lives of our people.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
> endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
> merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
> 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 attentions 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 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.

In the fighting spirit of this declaration, and on behalf of all of us
here at Judicial Watch, I wish you a happy Independence Day!

Until next week…



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