Not So Glorious Fourth

Below is what Americans are supposed to celebrate on the Fourth of July. The Declaration of Independence, signed this day in 1776, which led to the creation of the United States of America.

 

I am posting a reproduction of the original rather than the William Stone engraving of 1823, the most common version seen these days as it is more legible. Somehow though on this Fourth the illegible almost decayed original seems more in keeping with the state of the ideals of the Founding Fathers in the New American Empire under the not so benign rule of a new King George - the Pretender and his Boss - Big Dick.

 

Under the mal-Administration of the Bu$h Crime Family the goals and dreams of liberty and equality that the great men who signed this document staked their lives on are as faded and almost dust just like the parchment and ink of this once proud and relevant document.

This Fourth of July, rather than a symbol of what you have to celebrate, this document should perhaps serve as instructions for how to get back what is being lost........

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.

Source Paragraph II of the Declaration of Independence - bolding rHk