I probably should have slept instead… pt.4 (finale)

Damn that’s some good coffee… Ok, so as I continued reading along with the Declaration of Independence, we work our way into the following statement: “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.” This is the whole section that breaks down all the bad stuff the King of England did in order for the colonies to decide to break away in the first place. I wont go through them all… only on the basis that I might put certain people to sleep. Not that my writings are read all over the world by millions of people, I just have complete respect for the few that do.

So let’s hit the first “accusation” in the list… “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” Ok… so let me get this straight… Right off the bat, the first “complaint” is about how the current leadership sat on their thumbs, not helping the people out by passing or creating laws to better or even maintain the conditions that they lived in. That reads in my translator that the rising cost of food, taxes that continue to go up, and the high politicians continuing to have million dollar roofs over their heads are a good thing… That there is no need for new laws. Hmmmm where have I heard this before… One sec, need to turn off the news in the background, it’s distracting me.

Rolling on down this poignant list, there is an entry that just punched me in the face. “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.” Can we say border fence anyone? National directories of foreign nationals? The governments “your land is my land and my land is my land stance”? Ok, before we fire off the debate on the fence is good, the fence is bad, or Uncle Ted Nugent will protect us… I will look into that one later. Let’s “stay the course” as one of the bobbleheads said…
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.” Well hell, we have been living this one for a while. In the mindset of the period when this was written there were no alphabet soup organizations. No FBI, no CIA, no NSA, but the functions of those groups were in and under the umbrella of the military of the time. There have always been a select few that operated on specific and direct orders. Most of the time independent of the leader of our nation, acting in what they interpret as “the best interest”. The beauty of this is that any leader can continue to use these services as needed, but continue to maintain plausible deniability. Lovely…

So as I shake off the soup from my sleeve, the closing statements in the Declaration further detail’s that the colonies are breaking away from the tyrannies of the evil empire in order to create their own country.

“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”

Damn, that’s powerful. Maybe it’s just me, but that statement, in reflection of the time it was written… the brass it took to put to paper the words and feelings of the pissed off people… wow. From that day forward the United States has been admired, despised, and emulated. We have been on the world stage ever since. We have more than the watchful eye of our own government to worry about these days though. Not to say that there is any other country out there waiting for the failure of our nation to come in and snatch it. That would be a pretty bad choice all in all. It wouldn’t be our visible military force protecting our nation I would worry about… it would be the ones in the hills, bless their souls, that would bring down such a fire and fury that no human on this planet can imagine. I’ve seen Deliverance… have you?

In closing on this journey some of you have chosen to hang around for, I have to say that I am proud of our country. For what it was founded on and how it has matured. For the unknown that was set forth out of necessity and the sheer guts to do something about it. We are still a 20-somethings on the world stage, but we are collectively doing the best we can with what we have. Could people of today in America band together and break away into an independent nation? No… most likely not. Not for lack of passion or desire. It couldn’t happen because of the information age. It would take too long to filter the “bull” as they say, from fact. When making such a drastic choice, you need to make sure you have all the facts in front of you. The same laws that we as Americans have helped create for our independence and freedom can back fire. In the post “9/11” United States as they are calling it, you have to be damn sure about what you say and do. The powers that we have in control wield a strong fist and can inflict deep wounds in our nation and to our people… as it already has. I always read that we are a nation divided, that we are spiraling down to hell in a hand basket. Again, it depends on whose information you accept as fact. Face it, we live in cesspools of misinformation. Don’t get me wrong, I am in love, actually total lust of the information age. I can’t get enough of it, but I’ve always had to stay true to a single line from a song I used to listen to when I was younger…

“Half of what you hear is bull and the other half’s all shit.”