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		<title>By: RandomObserver</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-3#comment-225321</link>
		<dc:creator>RandomObserver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
I don’t care if they claim to support Kerry or Obama or Billary or Charles Darwin- they’re Islamists, and our troops overseas fight their allies &lt;b&gt;just as we patriotic bloggers fight them online.&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

From Blogs for Browny. Just something to lighten the mood. 101st keyboarders to the rescue!</description>
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I don’t care if they claim to support Kerry or Obama or Billary or Charles Darwin- they’re Islamists, and our troops overseas fight their allies <b>just as we patriotic bloggers fight them online.</b>
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<p>From Blogs for Browny. Just something to lighten the mood. 101st keyboarders to the rescue!</p>
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		<title>By: atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-3#comment-225172</link>
		<dc:creator>atheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;It’s like Capone’s Chicago, where he owned the cops and the courts. Nobody had access to the tools to stop them, because all those tools had been co opted. And that’s the case here.&lt;/i&gt;

OK. He still got taken down by shitty accounting, of all things. Not that this is what will happen to Bush, but- noone is really invulnerable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>It’s like Capone’s Chicago, where he owned the cops and the courts. Nobody had access to the tools to stop them, because all those tools had been co opted. And that’s the case here.</i></p>
<p>OK. He still got taken down by shitty accounting, of all things. Not that this is what will happen to Bush, but- noone is really invulnerable.</p>
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		<title>By: Sophist, FCD</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-3#comment-225145</link>
		<dc:creator>Sophist, FCD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Wow, great answers guys. I feel put in my place now.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

What would be the point? We haven&#039;t the power to put you anywhere worse than the place you have chosen to put yourself, where you wallow there in the mud and the shit of your own volition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Wow, great answers guys. I feel put in my place now.</p></blockquote>
<p>What would be the point? We haven&#8217;t the power to put you anywhere worse than the place you have chosen to put yourself, where you wallow there in the mud and the shit of your own volition.</p>
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		<title>By: Psycheout</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225138</link>
		<dc:creator>Psycheout</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Have some crow pie, mikey, with extra beaks.  He likes it!  Hey mikey!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have some crow pie, mikey, with extra beaks.  He likes it!  Hey mikey!</p>
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		<title>By: mikey</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225137</link>
		<dc:creator>mikey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm, interesting.  No, really.  What kind of pie, psycheout?


mikey</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, interesting.  No, really.  What kind of pie, psycheout?</p>
<p>mikey</p>
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		<title>By: Psycheout</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225133</link>
		<dc:creator>Psycheout</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, great answers guys.  I feel put in my place now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, great answers guys.  I feel put in my place now.</p>
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		<title>By: mikey</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225130</link>
		<dc:creator>mikey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yeah.  Here, I brought thirteen hundred rounds...

mikey</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah.  Here, I brought thirteen hundred rounds&#8230;</p>
<p>mikey</p>
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		<title>By: MrWonderful</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225129</link>
		<dc:creator>MrWonderful</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doc-

  Please.  I insist.  Everyone needs a little release.  Shoot away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doc-</p>
<p>  Please.  I insist.  Everyone needs a little release.  Shoot away.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan Someone</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225128</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan Someone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon. Oops.&lt;/i&gt;

Hey, this is great news!  We just have to rush this information to the Supreme Court, and they&#039;ll jump to reinstate... uh... oh... um... nevermind.

By the way, I&#039;ve found that the trolls are a lot easier to deal with if you pretend they&#039;re just idiot callers on a talk radio show.  (Not really much of a stretch.)  You can&#039;t actually talk to them, so you just yell at your radio a bit and then change the station.  The Interwebs equivalent is, you yell at your screen a bit and then read something by someone with a brain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon. Oops.</i></p>
<p>Hey, this is great news!  We just have to rush this information to the Supreme Court, and they&#8217;ll jump to reinstate&#8230; uh&#8230; oh&#8230; um&#8230; nevermind.</p>
<p>By the way, I&#8217;ve found that the trolls are a lot easier to deal with if you pretend they&#8217;re just idiot callers on a talk radio show.  (Not really much of a stretch.)  You can&#8217;t actually talk to them, so you just yell at your radio a bit and then change the station.  The Interwebs equivalent is, you yell at your screen a bit and then read something by someone with a brain.</p>
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		<title>By: Doc Washboard</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225126</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Washboard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From Psycheout:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
 But answer me this: why did liberal America elect George W. Bush twice?
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

What&#039;s in that barrel?  Hey, it&#039;s fish.  And I just happen to have my trusty old rifle with me.  Anybody want to take a shot?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Psycheout:</p>
<blockquote><p>
 But answer me this: why did liberal America elect George W. Bush twice?
</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s in that barrel?  Hey, it&#8217;s fish.  And I just happen to have my trusty old rifle with me.  Anybody want to take a shot?</p>
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		<title>By: Doc Washboard</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225125</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Washboard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
See here. The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon. Oops.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Interesting, as they say, if true.</description>
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See here. The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon. Oops.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Interesting, as they say, if true.</p>
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		<title>By: Psycheout</title>
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		<dc:creator>Psycheout</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;America *is* liberals. Why do hate America so much?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Wow, ur smartness mekes us consrvtives fel dum.  But answer me this: why did liberal America elect George W. Bush twice?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>America *is* liberals. Why do hate America so much?</p></blockquote>
<p>Wow, ur smartness mekes us consrvtives fel dum.  But answer me this: why did liberal America elect George W. Bush twice?</p>
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		<title>By: Chimera</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225122</link>
		<dc:creator>Chimera</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/29245#comment-8915&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon.  Oops.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/29245#comment-8915" rel="nofollow">here</a>.  The President cannot commute a sentence; he can only grant a reprieve or a pardon.  Oops.</p>
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		<title>By: mikey</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225119</link>
		<dc:creator>mikey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, I&#039;ve got SKYPE!!  I can call 202 AC for free!!  Hmm, wonder if I have anything better to do tommorrow?


Nope, can&#039;t think of a thing...

mikey</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I&#8217;ve got SKYPE!!  I can call 202 AC for free!!  Hmm, wonder if I have anything better to do tommorrow?</p>
<p>Nope, can&#8217;t think of a thing&#8230;</p>
<p>mikey</p>
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		<title>By: Jillian</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225113</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damn, I love the internet.</description>
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		<title>By: lambert strether</title>
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		<dc:creator>lambert strether</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just in case Dr. Atrios&#039;s prescription leaves the White House switchboard jammed tomorrow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.correntewire.com/can_you_tell_me_if_what_ive_got_is_the_real_white_house_phonebook_in_case_the_switchboards_down_when_i_call_about_scooter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&#039;s a copy of the White House phonebook&lt;/a&gt;. Now you can keep calling someone, anyone until you get through. 

Of course, you&#039;ll be courteous and dignified when you do. Our civil servants have important work to do!

Or maybe some enterprising person could organize a phone tree....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just in case Dr. Atrios&#8217;s prescription leaves the White House switchboard jammed tomorrow, <a href="http://www.correntewire.com/can_you_tell_me_if_what_ive_got_is_the_real_white_house_phonebook_in_case_the_switchboards_down_when_i_call_about_scooter" rel="nofollow">here&#8217;s a copy of the White House phonebook</a>. Now you can keep calling someone, anyone until you get through. </p>
<p>Of course, you&#8217;ll be courteous and dignified when you do. Our civil servants have important work to do!</p>
<p>Or maybe some enterprising person could organize a phone tree&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: g</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225107</link>
		<dc:creator>g</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See , I feel very cynical about this. Of course Bush did it, because Bush doesn&#039;t give a shit. It&#039;s all gone to hell for him anyway, he doens&#039;t have to run for re-election. He&#039;s already demonstrated that he doesn&#039;t give a shit about the nation, the health of its democracy, by the fact that he has allowed the incredible damage done to the Dept. of Justice to remain and fester. He doesn&#039;t care what the people think. He doesn&#039;t need to answer to anyone.

It will go on and on. We could fill the streets, he won&#039;t change. We could mass in the public square, like Tianamen or like the Orange Revolution of the Ukraine, and he would be unmoved. We can can his phone line, and he&#039;ll just turn it off. 

He is the worst of us. We allowed him to be. And we can&#039;t do anything about him because we allowed him to be what he is. 

And fuckerslike Gary, and Ace, and Kevin and Psycheout and all the other stupid motherfuckers - I&#039;m older than you and if we all die a natural death, I will go long before you. But I will go when there&#039;s still a vestige of democracy left in this nation. You have supported the decline and fall of the American state. I only hope that you will end up suffering the tyranny you&#039;ve brought into being.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See , I feel very cynical about this. Of course Bush did it, because Bush doesn&#8217;t give a shit. It&#8217;s all gone to hell for him anyway, he doens&#8217;t have to run for re-election. He&#8217;s already demonstrated that he doesn&#8217;t give a shit about the nation, the health of its democracy, by the fact that he has allowed the incredible damage done to the Dept. of Justice to remain and fester. He doesn&#8217;t care what the people think. He doesn&#8217;t need to answer to anyone.</p>
<p>It will go on and on. We could fill the streets, he won&#8217;t change. We could mass in the public square, like Tianamen or like the Orange Revolution of the Ukraine, and he would be unmoved. We can can his phone line, and he&#8217;ll just turn it off. </p>
<p>He is the worst of us. We allowed him to be. And we can&#8217;t do anything about him because we allowed him to be what he is. </p>
<p>And fuckerslike Gary, and Ace, and Kevin and Psycheout and all the other stupid motherfuckers &#8211; I&#8217;m older than you and if we all die a natural death, I will go long before you. But I will go when there&#8217;s still a vestige of democracy left in this nation. You have supported the decline and fall of the American state. I only hope that you will end up suffering the tyranny you&#8217;ve brought into being.</p>
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		<title>By: mikey</title>
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		<dc:creator>mikey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right on, Lance.  The Declaration of Independence kind of does say it all, and should well make bush feel small and shabby in his participation in this miscarriage of justice...

mikey</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right on, Lance.  The Declaration of Independence kind of does say it all, and should well make bush feel small and shabby in his participation in this miscarriage of justice&#8230;</p>
<p>mikey</p>
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		<title>By: g</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6383.html/comment-page-2#comment-225104</link>
		<dc:creator>g</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t like this new Gary. Can we have the old one back? What happened to him, did he get deported? Does he need a sponsor?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t like this new Gary. Can we have the old one back? What happened to him, did he get deported? Does he need a sponsor?</p>
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		<title>By: LanceThruster</title>
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		<dc:creator>LanceThruster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I called the WH switchboard (202-456-1111) and got through to a polite but flustered sounding women who said try during regular business hours.

I just wrote the WH (comments@whitehouse.gov) with this: 

Dear Whitehouse,

I hope every single person who reads this resigns in protest and out of shame for the actions George W. Bush. The commutation of I. &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby&#039;s prison sentence amounts to an obstruction of justice in an ongoing criminal investigation. The very people who might possibly be implicated in the crime of outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame are also most certainly the ones breathing a sigh of relief over Bush&#039;s mockery of justice. The Whitehouse&#039;s premiere resident has cast a pall over the nation just before it is scheduled to celebrate the principals that motivated the founders to declare their independence from tyrants in the first place.

Clearly criminals reside in the executive branch and both the legislative branch and judiciary choose to do nothing. Please advise post haste as to what American citizens are to do under such blatant abuses of power.

To quote a document from July of &#039;76 (1776) I hope Mr. Bush is familiar with, 

&quot;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&#039;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.&quot;

It actually goes on for a bit but I think the parts quoted pretty much cover it though for &quot;the present King of Great Britain&quot; I would substitute &quot;the present resident of the Whitehouse.&quot;

I hope the document quoted is not considered to be too subversive as it has inspired our nation for well for over two centuries.

With deep respect for the Constitution of the United States of America (or at least what&#039;s left of it) and the Declaration of Independence that brought it about,

LanceThruster (actually, I used my real name)
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I called the WH switchboard (202-456-1111) and got through to a polite but flustered sounding women who said try during regular business hours.</p>
<p>I just wrote the WH (comments@whitehouse.gov) with this: </p>
<p>Dear Whitehouse,</p>
<p>I hope every single person who reads this resigns in protest and out of shame for the actions George W. Bush. The commutation of I. &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby&#8217;s prison sentence amounts to an obstruction of justice in an ongoing criminal investigation. The very people who might possibly be implicated in the crime of outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame are also most certainly the ones breathing a sigh of relief over Bush&#8217;s mockery of justice. The Whitehouse&#8217;s premiere resident has cast a pall over the nation just before it is scheduled to celebrate the principals that motivated the founders to declare their independence from tyrants in the first place.</p>
<p>Clearly criminals reside in the executive branch and both the legislative branch and judiciary choose to do nothing. Please advise post haste as to what American citizens are to do under such blatant abuses of power.</p>
<p>To quote a document from July of &#8216;76 (1776) I hope Mr. Bush is familiar with, </p>
<p>&#8220;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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.&#8221;</p>
<p>It actually goes on for a bit but I think the parts quoted pretty much cover it though for &#8220;the present King of Great Britain&#8221; I would substitute &#8220;the present resident of the Whitehouse.&#8221;</p>
<p>I hope the document quoted is not considered to be too subversive as it has inspired our nation for well for over two centuries.</p>
<p>With deep respect for the Constitution of the United States of America (or at least what&#8217;s left of it) and the Declaration of Independence that brought it about,</p>
<p>LanceThruster (actually, I used my real name)<br />
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