As America celebrates our Independence Day, it is only right to think about the beginnings of this great nation.  And this is always a good time to reread our Declaration of Independence.  But instead of bringing its usual comfort and that ever-present feeling of gratefulness for such wise actions taken on our behalf, today I find the Founding Fathers prophetically describing America in 2009.

Take a moment and read it with me.

“When…it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another…they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.“

Breaking up may be hard to do, but in the interest of fairness, you always tell the other person why you are leaving.

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.

This is the cornerstone, the solid and unmoveable foundation upon which everything else is built.  It is not some windswept pile of “shifting sand” and it does not guarantee that happiness – however you may choose to define it – will be attained.  Only that you, the individual, have the right to go after it.

…whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it….  Prudence…will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes…but when a long train of abuses and usurpations … 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.

This is the guts of the relationship between a people and those they charge with the job to oversee their general welfare.  But opinion must not be confused with fact, and when opinions remove even a single stone from the foundation to place one single person over everyone else – no matter what weasel words are used to attempt to convince it is for the “greater good” rather than preserving the rights of the individuals – the people must get rid of the destroyers. 

The history of the present King  … is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny….

The problem in a nutshell.  The person trusted to oversee things from the highest perspective has decided that the perceived power of their position is more important than the foundation they were assigned to safeguard.  And they are acting out that perception, to the harm of the people.

So now, in the interests of fairness, let’s look at the Founding Fathers’ original complaints with the King of England in light of current events.

He has refused to pass other laws…unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

Here is where to consider that Obama and the administration see no problem with ACORN helping with the 2010 census.  A false 2010 Census count is intended to give the Obama administration more suck-up lackeys who will continue to help his push towards the socialization of the republic of the United States.  The group who is on trial for voter registration fraud in 14 states with evidence that fraud was on behalf of the Obama campaign, as well as the question of their apparently tangled misuse of donor funds, cannot be trusted to not distort the census on behalf of the Democrats and “progressive liberals”, but those in a position to stop their census participation or investigate them refuse to do so.

Also Obama’s direct involvement with Wall Street and Chrysler and GM, involvement that particularly in the cases of Chrysler and GM directly and blatantly ignored the laws of bankruptcy.

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.

Most recently, on behalf of the Obama agenda, the Speaker of the House threatened Representatives with mandatory attendance until such time as they passed the tax burden of cap & trade legislation.  And how about that 300-page middle-of-the-night amendment to the bill?  In fact, how about forcing votes on bills so big that no one even reads them?  (Though that could be prevented if Congress were not part and parcel of the relationship that needs to end.)

He has refused for a long time… 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.

Under this original grievance may be placed the long list of unqualified Obama cabinet nominees who would not make it through Senate confirmation hearings (and so excused themselves) but the long list of “czars” appointed by Obama who do not need such Senate confirmation continues.  It is also where to give pause and thought to the current bill, HJ 5, that proposes repealing the 22nd amendment that sets presidential term limits (albeit one in a long series of such proposals but dangerous nonetheless).

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

 Short list:  Expanding the powers of the Federal Reserve. The “GIVE” act.  The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.  The proposed “cybersecurity” agency.  And how many “czars” so far?

HR 275 will give the “Department of Defense … authority to execute warrants, make arrests (with or without a warrant), and carry firearms … for any offense against the United States”.

Department of Defense Defense Directive 1404.10 establishes a “DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” and rescinds a prior Clinton-era directive dealing with the emergency use of civilian personnel.  It is designed for such situations “as combat, contingencies,emergency operations; humanitarian and civic assistance activities; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations of the Department of Defense.” in the United States with orders coming from the Pentagon.

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:

Harold Koh, legal adviser to the State Department, documented transnationalist.  Continued support of the U.N.’s “Millenium Goals”. 

 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.

“I won.”

“President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

“I’m the president of the United States, and I’ll carry out my responsibilities the way I think is appropriate.”

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.

Here me well, Washington.  Here me well, America.  This American’s star-spangled banner yet waves.