you know what ... a part of me really wants to listen to what the president said today, but ... you know what? the headlines did me in, once again ...
"president orders 6000 troops to our borders" ... what ... i'm so afraid of my mexican neighbor now that i am placing an armed guard between our lawns?
mr. bush, YOU ARE A MEAN PERSON. I DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE WHO TREAT THEIR NEIGHBORS THAT WAY. I DO NOT TREAT MY NEIGHBORS THAT WAY. YOU NO LONGER REPRESENT ME.
AND, BASED ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THAT FOUNDED THIS NATION, AS MODIFIED BY ME, I HEREBY INFORM YOU THAT:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a PERSON 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.
I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all BEINGS and PEOPLE are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, A PERSON JUST NEEDS TO EXIST. ONLY TO THE EXTENT WE NEED THEM, Governments are instituted among People, 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 this Person; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter my former Systems of Government. The history of the current president of the United States of America, GEORGE W. BUSH, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny and Terrorism over the entire planet.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has violated the Constitutional Laws of this Nation, those most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden CONGRESS 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 and seeks to preclude classes of People from equal rights under the Laws, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He uses all branches of the Federal Government for his own ends and to for the benefit of all People without prejudice, for the sole purpose of fatiguing the People and Congress into compliance with his measures.
He has issued more Executive Orders completely bypassing the House of Representatives and the Senate, never having to justify his invasions on the rights of the People.
He has eliminated the need for Congress and is acting without their consent on major issues; the States remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured 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 creating a second class of citizenry of People.
He may have obstructed the Administration of Justice by his appointments to the Supreme Court.
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 People.
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 taking away our Rights, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For ignoring 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 natural resources, made deals with large corporations to the detriment of our natural environment, allows medicines to be administered that is known to kill the People, 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 and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens to violate and destroy the inalienable rights stated herein of other People.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers a complete destruction of all People who will not submit to His leadership.
Since his Election, the People have tried to petition for redress in all available avenues known to them. Our repeated attempts have been answered only by repeated injury. A President whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a Free People.
We are reminded of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here and our past history since the original Declaration of Independence. We have voted and will perhaps now try the Justice System. We will appeal to their native justice and magnanimity, and we conjure them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They may too be deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold MR. GEORGE W. BUSH, as separate from me.
I, therefore, being me, a human being on planet earth, appealing to no one, but notifying all, of my intention, do, solemnly publish and declare, that this Person is free and that all political connection between me and the United States of America is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent Person, I have full power to live in Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States and People may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, I mutually pledge to any other Person, my Fortune and my sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new, free Person of the United States of America as follows:
Elaine Marie Vandenberg Clermont, born Portland, Oregon
