The president's policies have made it harder to recover from the deepest recession in seventy years, exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify, compromised our national-security secrets, and in dealings with other nations, he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it was not deserved, and apology where it is not due.
From Berlin to Cairo to the United Nations, President Obama has shared his view of America and its place among nations. I've come here today to share mine.
I am an unapologetic believer in the greatness of America. I am not ashamed of American power. I take pride that throughout history our power has brought justice where there was tyranny, peace where there was conflict, and hope where there was affliction and despair. I do not view America as just one more place on the map, one more power to be balanced. I believe our country is the greatest force for good the world has ever known, and that our influence is needed today as ever before....
A just and peaceful world depends on a strong and confident America....
Now our leadership depends, as it always has, on our economic strength, on our military strength, and on our moral strength. If any one of those falters, no skill of diplomacy or presidential oratory can compensate. And today, as you know, the strength of our economy is in jeopardy.
A healthy American economy is what underwrites American power. When growth is missing, government revenues fall, social spending rises, and many in Washington look to cut defense spending as the easy way out. That includes our current president....
Strategy is not driving the president's massive defense cuts. In fact, his own Secretary of Defense warned that these reductions would be "devastating." And he's right.
And that devastation would start here at home. Mark my words: Those cuts would only weaken an already stretched VA system and our solemn commitment that every veteran receives care second to none. If I am President of the United States, I will not let that happen.
This is no time for the president's radical cuts in our military.... The regime in Tehran is drawing closer to developing a nuclear weapon. The threat of radical Islamic terrorism persists. The threat of weapons of mass destruction proliferation is ever-present. And we're still at war and still have uniformed men and women in conflict.
All this and more is going on in the world. And yet the president has chosen this moment for wholesale reductions in the nation's military capacity. When the biggest announcement in the last state of the union address on improving our military was the Pentagon will start using more clean energy, then you know it's time for a change....
Lives of American servicemen and women are at stake. But astonishingly, the administration failed to change its ways. More top-secret operations were leaked, even some involving covert action going on in Iran.
This isn't a partisan issue; it's a national security crisis. Just yesterday, Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, who's chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, and I quote, "I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks." End of quote.
This conduct is contemptible. It betrays our national interest. It compromises our men and women in the field. And it demands a full and prompt investigation by a special counsel, with explanation and consequence. Obama appointees who are accountable to President Obama's attorney general should not be responsible for investigating the leaks coming from the Obama White House.
Whoever provided classified information to the media, seeking political advantage for the administration, must be exposed, dismissed, and punished. The time for stonewalling is over....
And let me be very clear: These events make the decision we face in November all the more important. What kind of White House would reveal classified material for political gain?...
The operating principle of American foreign policy has been to work with our allies so that we can deter aggression before it breaks out into conflict. That policy depends on nurturing our alliances and standing up for our values.
Yet the president's moved in the opposite direction.
It began with the sudden abandonment of our friends in Poland and the Czech Republic. They'd courageously agreed to provide sites for anti-missile defense systems, only to be told, at the last hour, that the agreement was off. As part of the so-called reset in policy, missile defenses were sacrificed as a unilateral concession to the Russian government.
And if that gesture was designed to inspire good will from Russia, it clearly missed the mark. The Russian government defended the dictator in Damascus, arming him as he slaughtered the Syrian people.
We can only guess what Vladimir Putin makes of the Obama administration. He regained the Russian presidency in a corrupt election, and for that, he got a congratulatory call from the Oval Office. And then there was that exchange picked up by a microphone that President Obama didn't know was on. We heard him asking Dmitry Medvedev to tell Mr. Putin to give him "space." "This is my last election," he said. "After my election I'll have more flexibility."
Why is it that flexibility with Russian leaders is more important to him than transparency for the American people?...
[T]his is the president who faltered when the Iranian people were looking for support in their struggle against the ayatollahs. That public uprising was treated as an inconvenient problem for the president's policy of engagement, instead of a moral and strategic opportunity. That terrible misjudgment should never be repeated. When unarmed women and men in Tehran find the courage to confront their oppressors, at risk of torture and death, they should hear the unequivocal voice of an American president affirming their right to be free....
President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel's leaders. He was even caught by a microphone deriding them. He's undermined their position, which was tough enough as it was. And even at the United Nations, to the enthusiastic applause of Israel's enemies, he spoke as if our closest ally in the Middle East was the problem.
The people of Israel deserve better than what they've received from the leader of the free world. And the chorus of accusations and threats and insults at the United Nations should never again include the voice of the President of the United States.
There are values and causes and nations that depend on American strength, on the clarity of our purpose, and on the reliability of our commitments. There is work in this world that only America and our allies can do, hostile powers that only we can deter, and challenges that only we can overcome....
I've been critical of the president's decision to withdraw the surge troops during the fighting season against the advice of commanders on the ground. The president would have you believe that anyone who disagrees with his decision is arguing for endless war. But the route to more war — and potentially to attacks here at home — is a politically timed retreat....
It's a mistake — and sometimes a tragic one — to think that firmness in American foreign policy can only bring tension or conflict. The surest path to danger is always weakness and indecision. In the end, it's resolve that moves events in our direction, and strength that keeps the peace.
I will not surrender America's leadership in the world. We must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.
This is very simple: If you don't want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I'm not your president. But with his cuts to the military, you have that president today.
The twenty-first century can and must be an American Century. It began with terror, war, economic calamity. It's our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom and peace and prosperity.
Fewer members of the Greatest Generation are with us here today — and they can't hold the torch as high as they have in the past; they're getting older. It's now our turn: We've got to seize that torch they've carried so gallantly and at such great sacrifice. It's an eternal torch of decency and freedom and hope. It's not America's torch alone. But it's America's duty and honor to hold it high enough so the whole world can see it.
I love America. I love what America represents. I love the sacrifice America has made for Freedom throughout the world.
This is a critical time for our nation — a time of choice. The time to determine what America is going to be over this century. You know where I will lead it: We will have another American Century with freedom blossoming and prosperity for all of our citizens, because I believe in America. I believe in you.
I salute you. And together we'll make sure we keep America the hope of the earth.
Thank you so very much. And God bless the VFW and the United States of America.
Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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didn'tbuildthat™ doesn't value small businesses. Else he wouldn't be demanding that Congress raise their taxes at the end of the year.
Øbodysomeelse™ doesn't believe that the free market is the greatest source of prosperity in our history. Else he wouldn't have wholly taken over General Motors and our health care and heavily subsidized Solyndra and other failed "investments." Plus he wouldn't be allowing a record number of Americans to exit the labor force and become dependent on government "benefits."
Roads and bridges and ports and wireless networks wouldn't exist but for a business helping to create both the demand for them and the tax base essential for paying their cost.
Øbackwards is just an idiot.
And, yes, he did build that idiocy of his himself.
Øbamadethathappen™'s unaccountable administregime approved the $26,000 annual grant that the alleged putrefied asscanker allegedly used to "invest" in rifles and bullets so yes heit can murder twelve American citizens in Aurora, Colorado and maim and wound 58 more.
What is it with Øbamurderer-in-chief's dangerously irresponsible extremistration and it unbelievably, systematically allowing bloodthirsty criminals to thrive and succeed at getting the Guns They Need®?
Just goes to prove — for about the 260,000,000th time — that guns don't kill people; tyrannical, out-of-control governments do nearly all of it.
iberal Øbamedia ghouls(birm) couldn't wait to try, convict, and sentence their political "enemies" for last night's "tragedy" mass slaughter committed by a lone coward.
"Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence!"
But ØbamABC "News" apologized for Ghoul ØbaMorning ØbAmerica, Brian Ross, and George Stephanopoulos's intentional "mistake." So everything's okay now.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
It doesn't say "private businesses are built and made to happen among some somebody elses [megalomaniacal] government officials and bureaucrats, deriving their just successes from the help [sic] of the government."
But what did our Founding Fathers know?
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.
Conservative version: 1. God created the people. 2. The people built government.
Socialist fascist liberal(birm) version: 1. Government built the people. 2. The people created this "god" thingy and bitterly cling to it.
In other words, conservatives believe governments exist only to serve each of us. Liberals feel each of us exists only to serve government.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
There could not be a lighter and more transient cause for "Change®" than "we all ought to be socialists now."
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.
Got that? The reality is we're better off suffering the seemingly countless annoyances, inconveniences, and downright slip-ups of this necessary evil that we have that we call government, because it's the devil we know — as opposed to some national socialist liberal(birm)'s Brave New World of same old fascism which was utterly unknown to us before the unbelievable, sytematic Error of Øbungler™. Change for the worse, obviously, is never what we need.
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.
Just two score and two months into the phAge of Øbam-ache®, yes we can once more know most good and well what they mean by that declaration.
It is the people's business to build a government and "make it happen." We loaned it no power in this country, however, to turn around and build our businesses and make them happen, illegitimate claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Indeed, there can be no longer train of abuses and usurpations than its pursuits in recent generations of that very despotic thing.
Make no mistake: Our successes made and make our unprecedented form of government possible. Not the other way around.
As long as patriotic lovers of American freedom have breath in their bodies, no fascist lying Øbamarxist(birm) can change that.
It's bad enough that, after 41 straight months, no he can't and, indeed, won't do anything to get our extremely high unemployment rate anywhere below eight percent. Or that no he's done nothing but pile up more and more extreme debt on our backs — now over $15 trillion and climbing. Or his alleged economic plans have only stagnated our incomes but not our fuel and food prices, so it's extremely difficult for us to put away any amount into savings.
Also, if you're feeling weak from the heat all that hot air at his rallyreichsparteitag, Øfascist has "paralegals" who'll be coming by to take care of you.
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hose paralegals, instead, should be giving Øfubar one of his Pain Killers® to take care of his terminally addled "brain." It's called triage, folks.
Because according to Øbraindead's non-logic "logic," if you donate money to his campaign, everything you have to say is "non-partisan."
Worse, his "non-partisan" partisan campaign donor is attacking a proposal that members of Øbonehead's own "jobs" council supports.
Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. And Oceania has always been at it with Eastasia.
Is there any "medicinal" choom yes this dazed commierad can take? Because, clearly, Øbonghit needs a few thousand dime bags more than he's already had. Or just let us intercept it so yes we can make some psychedelic-drug-induced "sense" out of all his nonsense.
Unemployment has now remained above 8 percent for 41 straight months.
Obama economic advisers Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein had projected that the $800 billion stimulus would have brought unemployment down to 5.6 percent by now.
In the 36th month of the Reagan recovery, 209,000 jobs were created [compared] to the 80,000 created at the same point in the current recovery [sic].
When you factor in people who have dropped out of the labor force, unemployment is closer to 15 percent.
Baracrook Øfascist helped to create this unbearable War on American businesses that we have that won't allow you to thrive. Baracrook Øfascist "invested" squandered trillions of our dollars on so-called shovel ready jobs which he finally confesses were "not as shovel-ready as we expected."
If you were not successful, Baracrook Øfascist gave you no help. Instead, he was a small-minded economic terrorist everywhere in your life.
On the other hand, if you've been personally successful as a result of Baracrook Øfascist's numerous special-interest payback programs, you indeed didn't get there on your own. Baracrook Øfascist made sure you and your fellow greedy, corrupt Barackampaign contributØrs got your over half-billion dollar "loan" payoff before all of you raked in bonuses totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Moreover, if you're Jonathan Lavine, a top bundler of campaign money for Baracrook Øfascist, you could even be the Bain Capital executive actually in charge of closing plants and killing jobs in 2001, and still be its chief investment officer today, and yes Baracrook Øfascist can say you're somebody along the line who gave him some help. Same goes for Baracrook Øfascist's Bain pals Jeff Zients, Joshua Bekenstein, Stephen Pagliuca, Mark Nunnelly, and Michael Krupka.
Democratic candidates and committees [including Øbamud-slinger] have received more than $1.3 million from Bain Capital workers since the 2008 election cycle — double the amount collected by Republicans.
Obama national co-chair... is a private equity manager["vulture capitalist"] whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy.
[Federico] Pena has already contributed $5,000 to Obama's campaign, even though Vestar [Capital Partners] laid off 1,000 workers from Del Monte this month, closed three factories and laid off 540 people at Solo Cup Co., and fired another 500 workers at BirdsEye food-processor in 2006....
The Pena revelation follows reports highlighting the venture capital careers of two people on the president's jobs council.
Richard Parsons, chairman of Citigroup, is a senior adviser at Providence Equity Partners, and Mark Gallogly is a co-founder of Centerbridge Partners.
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Liberals won't make anything permanent except massive tax hikes, out-of-control, unaccountable government spending, and dangerously irresponsible mountain chains of public debt.
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o the Øfubar Tax Hikes™ won't hit the middle class between the eyes until after the election. How convenient.
You keep getting a raw deal, while His Lyingness only deals from the bottom of the deck.
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aracrook Øliar has stacked the deck against you.
More of you joined the ranks of the disabled than could find jobs last month. You haven't bet on finding any other way to survive in Der Fübar's non-recovery "recovery." Clearly it's a giant leap in the wrong direction.
It should now be more than painfully obvious to everyone except the fiddytarders still drowning in their own drool, this joker's wild, out of control spending sprees have built up a pot that yes only his extremist commierad pals can win. He's addictively and recklessly gambled with your money, and you've lost. Big time. Not just you, but your children and grandchildren too. And every bet it's the same old thing:
First, he'll grin as he deals you and your employer and customers a dead man's hand. Then, before you even see it, he'll sneak up and shoot you all from behind with clip after clip after clip of job-killing taxes.
Make No Mistake®: Øfascist has every card marked for America's economic death. He, like all other enemies of America's free markets, are betting only on America's fiscal destruction and financial demise. How else can they, yes, finish "fundamentally transforming" the game into Soviet Socialist Severe-Crud Stud™?
So the stakes couldn't be higher this election.
In the Cheater-n-Thief's hand are only the executive privilege card, the class warfare card, and, of course, the race card.
But you still have an ace in the hole: Your voter registration card.
I'm not worried, though, because liberals are telling me I don't have a spending-binge problem.
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hen you're a fact-challenged lying fascist — or liberal, for short — your bitterly clung-to system of so called beliefs has to face, usually sooner rather than later, its three mortal enemies; namely, any kind of relevant facts, any sort of truth, and any type of personal freedom.
Let's start with relevant facts. Also known as Things Liberals Willfully and Completely Ignore.
It's a fact liberals don't think that government spending can ever be a problem, unless it's on our national defense. Leave out every word after and including "that" in the previous sentence and you'll really get the picture.
In inflation-adjusted dollars (2005 constant dollars), federal government spending in 2012 is expected to be (drum roll) the highest in history, peacetime or wartime.
Since World War II, it has never been higher in proportion to our Gross Domestic Product.
Annual spending under the Bush administration was an average 19.6 percent of GDP. That's lower than it was under the preceding eight administrations.
“The private sector is so foreign to our pResident that he would need a passport to go there and a translator to understand what is happening.”
But under the extremely out of touch Øfubar fascistration, it's now 24.4 percent. That's higher than it was under all the other post-war administrations.
“Headwind” is that sound Øbraindead hears when the air inside his otherwise empty skull changes position.
None of that matters to liberals, of course. They and their Minionstream Media are repeating over and over a massive, bald-faced Big Lie and are expecting you'll believe it.
"Spending problem? What spending problem?"
You just keep right on maxing out all your credit cards. You haven't put any more on them than you did last year.
After you go bankrupt — as you inevitably will — don't worry.
Yes, you can always Blame Bush!™.
Yeah, that's a Change®.
Which brings us to truth. Also known as the Thing Liberals Willfully and Completely Refuse to Tell.
Calling a liberal truthful is worse than describing water as dry.*
Emotion is their only real "truth." In their "minds," it's sufficient to just feel that something's true. So to make you feel it is, too, all liberals need do is find a way to manipulate your emotions as effectively as theirs have been.
Certainly the most predictable means of manipulating you emotionally are the same old tired ones liberals always use. That is, those that somehow make you feel it's extremely wrong to even question what they're telling you.
"Know why all those people are against government spending? They just don't want the government to be able [sic] to help [sic] poor starving women and black children! Why have they declared war on women? When are they going to stop being such hate-filled racists?"
So you believe you have a royal flush of irrefutable truth? Too bad, because liberals will then throw down the Ace of R. That's a card, multiple duplicates of which they always keep stashed up and down the full lengths of their frilly sleeves, that cheating liberals have ever standing by to turn everything you're holding into a losing hand.
“Obama does accept donations from Wall Street executives. Campaign finance records show that Democrats collect more money from Wall Street than does the GOP.”
The truth also reveals that one of Øliar's rich, fat cat "vulture capitalist" campaign bundlers, Jonathan Lavine, was a director of Bain Capital when it laid off steelworkers in 2001. That's two years after Mitt Romney left that company to rescue the failing Winter Olympics.
You could almost say liberals have no problem with the truth, per se. They simply won't speak it.
Their only real problem with truth is, yes, it can and should be told.
Make no mistake: What penetrates even liberals' thick, empty pointy skulls is that actual truth thrives where all reasonable perspectives may be openly expressed and fairly and freely examined. Normal people call this robust debate.
Except what sounds like robust debate to liberals is indistinguishable from this.
Therefore, whenever you tell the truth about liberals, exposing who they really are, their sole response is to try to shut you up.
No doubt, if you wrote a book titled "Truths and the Truthful Truth Tellers Who Speak Them," liberals would all instantly try to get their fascist comrades in government to declare it a hate crime and order every copy burned.
Which brings us, finally, to personal freedom. Also known as the Thing Liberals Are Willfully and Completely Bent on Destroying.
Explicit in liberals' "defense" of, in effect, limitless government spending is their extreme, cult-like devotion to limitless government.
According to their constitution-unhindered worldview, if the government isn't outright controlling something or otherwise entirely and inextricably involved in it, that thing must be inherently bad.
Of course, first and foremost among such control and involvement are the perpetual bribes — what liberals euphemistically call "benefits" — which they incessantly demand government more and more "freely" dole out to the governed so the latter will, in return, perpetually elect more and more liberals to run the former. That is to say, liberals promoting their own government-"job" security.
It's why liberals reserve their most extreme, vitriolic attacks for whoever has the audacity to suggest even slightly scaling back any exorbitant increase of those "benefits" bribes. No matter these same "entitlements" and "free" handouts keep insidiously reducing whole populations of Americans to one big, degradingly dependent class. What's all important to liberals is forcing all us taxpayers, against our own and our country's best interests, to finance all such expansions of their personal vote-buying racket.
After all, being a liberal means everything is all about you. So whatever helps you personally is always a Good Thing™, regardless who or what gets hurt by it. Even when it significantly damages the security of "your" nation, it's still a GT™.
On the other hand, anything that can't or won't, in some satisfactorily measurable way, either help you and yours or harm your enemies, or both, is always Teh Most Eeeeeevil Thang Evah!™.
Thus, people realizing the change they need isn't government controlling or otherwise involving itself in every aspect of their lives and livelihoods doesn't help liberals at all. Those people are now evil; mainly because they no longer believe in the liberals' "New" same old tired worn out Four Free-dumbs™:
Free-ride
Free-load
Free-lunch
Free-bies
Indeed, the reason more and more people no longer do is they're finally realizing all that "free" stuff comes at an extremely high price: real freedom.
When you choose to sell your votes to the highest spenders it doesn't only make you nearly as greedy and selfish as the liberals buying them, it also shows what an extremely easy mark you are. You're willing to exchange the most precious possession you have — a possession others bought for you with their own life's blood — for those few crumbs liberals "promise" they'll "redistribute" to you once they cut a supersize slice of wealth cake from America's economy. Provided, that is, there are any crumbs left after they and their ravenous fat cat comrades have gobbled up the lion's share of that megaslice.
Don't worry. You'll also get handfuls and handfuls of even more of their crummy promises that you'll get more. But only on one condition: You keep re-electing them. And that, dear fools, is the full extent to which liberals "care" about you.
It's quite some bargain you've made with these corrupt liberal devils(birm). They get your votes and more and more power. You wind up less free and inhumanly dependent. All for the meagerest of crumbs, while the real redistribution of wealth is from Teh Evil Rich® to evil rich liberal dictators(birm). Indeed, the cost of all their vote buying is just barely a pittance compared to what liberals are actually stealing.
Now if you think feel you've been cruelly cheated, too bad. You set yourself and your liberties on the liberals' auction block. You shouldn't be surprised when you find out you've been extremely short-changed.
Heartbreaking are Professor [Eric] Foner's recitations of the horrific acts of terror inflicted by Democrats on black and white Republicans. Recounted on pages 184-185 of his book is one such act of terror: "Jack Dupree, a victim of a particularly brutal murder in Monroe County, Mississippi — assailants cut his throat and disemboweled him, all within sight of his wife, who had just given birth to twins — was 'president of a republican club' and known as a man who 'would speak his mind.'"
As in the past, no one except your new racist masters may speak their "minds."
But as long as you serve unquestioningly their selfish, greedy purposes, liberals won't bother to destroy you... today.
Tomorrow, of course, that may very likely Change®.
The moment you begin to exhibit any inkling of rational and independent thought, you're no longer a reliably mindless vote dispenser for liberals. They'll become increasingly suspicious of everything you do or say. One wrong act or word, no matter how manifestly innocent, will immediately trigger the next violently extreme episode of their innate paranoia. No, not even after you've shown them your complete lack of means, motive, and opportunity, liberals can never acquit you of what they feel has to be the most infamous of capital offenses; specifically, thinking for yourself. From that point on, you're forever dead to them.
“We shouldn’t allow people to educate their own children.”
– LiberalNazi Fascist Bastard caller,
Sean Hannity Show, 6/14/2012.
What it all boils down to is trust. No, liberals can never trust others to actually know any facts, speak any truth, or responsibly exercise any personal freedom. Because, "try" as they might, liberals can never do any of those things themselves. Worse, this collective projection of theirs impels them to render everyone else's ability to do so as pathetically nonexistent as theirs. Yes, unless they can completely tear all others fully down, even the least capable of the latter would, by any comparison, reduce all liberals to nothing but the most obscene objects of extremely deserved mockery and ridicule yes anyone can imagine.
However, rather than wallow unobtrusively in their extremely meaningless lives, bankrupt liberalism, and worthless pursuits of unremitting misery, each created solely of, by, and for themselves, liberals think feel it only "fair" that we also share in such eternally insufferable and damnable hollowness. Indeed, not even they can ignore the fact that that is the only thing they want truly "spread around." Freely so, by unfettered force of government, until it becomes universal.
Yes liberals can never be satisfied with anything that hasn't left our country absolutely destroyed and her citizens totally destitute. In those absolute-zero, forever-unlit voids known as their "hearts," they feel nothing less has any hope of sufficiently distracting us from noticing, whether we have any wish to or not, the inundating instances in which liberals clearly reveal just how utterly laughable and useless they and their always fraudulent ideas invariably were, are, and ever will be.
* Water droplets hiding inside artificially created shells of glass may be called "dry water." But it is deceiving. Like liberals, what lies beneath their carefully crafted outward appearances is still all wet.
So long as we declare we are a free people, it is our right and our duty to throw off despotic government.
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 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 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 harrass 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 Brittish 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.
Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall Geo Walton.
Wm Hooper Joseph Hewes, John Penn
Edward Rutledge.
Tho Heyward Junr. Thomas Lynch Junr. Arthur Middleton
John Hancock
Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Tho. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th Jefferson Benj Harrison Tho Nelson Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton
Robt Morris Benjamin Rush Benj. Franklin John Morton Geo Clymer Jas. Smith Geo. Taylor James Wilson Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney Geo Read Tho McKean
Wm Floyd Phil. Livingston Frans. Lewis Lewis Morris
Rich. Stockton Jn. Witherspoon Fra. Hopkinson John Hart Abra. Clark
Josiah Bartlett Wm. Whipple
Sam Adams John Adams Robt Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins William Ellery
Roger Sherman Sam. Huntington Wm. Williams Oliver Wolcott
