Just a little of the Declaration of Independence for you today.

Posted by PP at the SDWC

July 4, 2009

I’m not going to dress up in a puffy shirt, and bemoan marxist humanist seculars employing a “Piven Jeremy” strategy like my friend Sibby in Mitchell is doing today, but I will provide you some thoughts from the Declaration of Independence that continue to hold true for our time.

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.

Read the entire Declaration of Independence here.

Thank the founders who were willing to take up arms and ideals. We who are living in the country that is their legacy have so much to thank them for.

We should also reflect that this nation was formed to be a beacon of freedom – and we need to recommit to this ideal every day.

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Comments

Comment by Anonymous on July 4, 2009 @ 10:57 am

Way to work as a team there Pat, i’m sure the dems love the way you two bicker, come on and be the better man… I’d say the same thing to sibby

Comment by Jeff J. on July 4, 2009 @ 11:07 am

Big thanks to our servicemen and women on our Birthday.

Comment by Bill Fleming on July 4, 2009 @ 11:11 am

I just thank God that you, Sibby, Newland, Corey, Troy, (et al), and me are fee to make stupendous asses of ourselves on these boards today, Pat. That’s not the case in some other “Democracies” (Iran for example.)

God bless America.

Signed in blood,

Your doltish liberal, humaner-seculist, pinko commie pal,

BF.