SACRAMENTO STATE CAPITOL
APRIL 15, 2008
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We believe that a true American who reads this will be overwhelmed by the spirit of these words and will know in their hearts what they must do next to remain faithful to what we believed to be true all our lives.
For those who have lain down there lives and gave all for the belief that this country was set up and established by divine authority and that it is our destiny as a country and a people to spread these truths we hold so deeply in our hearts to all those throughout the world who are under the flag of tyranny.
I can only hope that those who read this will realize our awful state and what we have let happen to our country because our hearts were set upon the vain things of this world which moth and rust will surely corrupt!
Will America watch as the torch of freedom and liberty is slowly extinguished before our very eyes, and watch this once great country be brought to its knees by our creator for the poison we drank and so willingly gave to the world under the false flag of freedom?
I know we will be held accountable individually for what we have allowed to happen to our great nation.
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.
The words of our founding documents show more clearly than ever the ideals we need to uphold & protect. We should read them daily to remind us that there is more to the privilege of being an American than the acquisition of stuff. Like it or not we are part of a great experiment and our individual and family and community lives either contribute to its success or aid in its downfall.
Me & mine will be there on April 15!