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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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 [George III] 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 endeavored 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 harass 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 offenses:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring 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 and 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.

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 British 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 the 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.

Peace ga*

Songs For Our Troops Sons and *Daughters of Liberty

To All The Troops in The Middle East
All Our Veterans
All the People of New York City
And All My Friends Everywhere
Who Helped Me Be Who I Am

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I Want You To Know That We At Home Care Very Much About All Of You!
My Thoughts And Prayers Are With You All!

Thank A Vet For Your Freedom.
Give Them A Hug Too!


The talaban and al qaeda will be finished. They better walk out of those caves and surrender or America is just gonna roll down those roads and blow that mountain up!


*Sons and *Daughters of Liberty



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Barack Obama The People's Choice-Update And In 2012 Too! Yes We Can!

Barack Obama The Peoples Choice-Update And In 2012 Too! Yes We Can!
Obama is my choice for President.
Barack is, the "Peoples Choice".



There is no doubt that he Will be the Next President of the United States!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Barack was my choice right from the start! And I couldn't even pronounce his name back then!

I found some cool videos, for *Future President Obama
GO Barack
We're gonna Win In November






I'm Ready and can hardly wait, President Obama***



ga*

Memorial Day Reflections To Our Troops In Iraq & Our More Than*58,000 Brothers & Sisters Whose Names Are On The Wall

I'm new to finding out about the atrocities that the Bush administration have been perpetrating against our American Military, the Iraq'i population, as well as everybody else in the world that they have chosen to do it to.
I have an excuse*

Marine Corps Cadences Marching song
You know they do! Only kidding, I love you guys!



In May, 2000 I got hurt. I tore my left rotator cuff and hurt the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th vertebrae in my neck. I was in agony for years. The first two doctors a gp and orthopedic did nothing, didn't even give me pain medications that helped the pain.
Then they sent me to a neurologist who tried every synthetic opiate on the market. Was severely allergic, made my skin burn and my hair fall out. After almost a year of torture he put me on the duragesic patch. Did nothing for the pain. Then he switched to the duragesic that I suspect also contained Ibprofin, which I'd told him, many times I was allergic to.

There is an evil force in the world. It took me out first because it knew I would be one of the people who would give it a fight!

I got so knocked out I slept for two years.I kept telling him (and he could see) I was having a severe allergic reaction but he kept ignoring me. Telling me I was crazy that it was the same patch as the first five prescriptions he'd given me. (2.5) I'd made the mistake of asking him if he could give me a higher dose. The patches are all marked the same, but I went from being alert and in pain to unconscious as soon as he gave me the next prescription, seems suspicious to me.
Finally I threw away all the medications and fired all my doctors. Now two years later, I'm walking better and in some pain but not like I was.

I've been having a long distance relationship with a Marine (Vietnam Vet) for 30 years, strange as it sounds (he follows me everywhere), looks at me and runs). That's how shell shocked he is. He loves me, but he keeps running away from me. He's afraid of me.
He wasn't afraid of the vietcong. But me, he's afraid of.

I am going to do everything in my power to stop this genocidal Bush administration from doing what they did to my generation of young men, to any more young Americans.

Growing up during the 60's my generation has seen the evil that the American government is capable of perpetrating against it's own citizens and others.
We fought them all the way then and we'll fight them again!

I think that if George Bush and the Republican Congress, who back him are so tough, they should all suit up and go over to the streets of Baghdad and show us how brave they are. Yeah, right, like that's ever going to happen.

I'm calling all the hippies to join in this revolution and stop the war in Iraq Today.

So now you know a little about me. I couldn't figure out where all the Hippies and Yippies went.* Now I know where they are, on the internet. Yay!

Show your gratitude, thank a Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman or Merchant Marine near you today.

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Have as good an Memorial Day as is possible under the circumstances.

Peace, Love and Harmony
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I Would like to wish our Troops and Everyone else too a Great Memorial Day Weekend.

I will be fondly thinking of you all and praying for a fast resolution to the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I Know that the world is suffering from "Good" music deprivation. I keep finding new music, so I'm always adding. I will only put the best music on my blog.



To Our Troops And Veterans
Never let any punks demoralize You
Tell The punks to Put Up Or Shut Up!

Hero and Heroine came to refer to characters that, in the face of danger and adversity display courage and the will for self-sacrifice, that is, heroism, for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence.
HEROISM

These young men and women do a job that not all of us can, or would inconvenience ourselves and do.
They're brave when others are definitely not.

When America is in trouble we call on our service men and women to save us.
Our US Military forces, unfailingly do what is needed to protect me and everyone in our nation.

Whether our government is right or wrong has no bearing on the fact that our service men and women put their very existence on the line for people like me and you.
If they shoot at you, you don't just stand there and say, give me a hug brother, I'm a pacifist, I love you, you shoot back!

To All The Troops and Veterans, to our Brave Men and Women over in Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere. All the People of New York City and all my friends everywhere, who helped me be who I am.
And
I want you to know that we at home care very much about all of you*

My thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Thank a Vet For Your Freedom*

Love, Justice, and Harmony
ga*

[Update 12/17/10] Georgie Porgie, Pudding Pie, Kissed The Nation Made It Cry

*Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life.
Define yourself.*
*Harvey Fierstein


Denial Is Not A River In Egypt
(title taken from a shirt sold in a poster store on 8th St. between 6th ave and 5th, Village, NYC)

Georgie Porgie, Pudding Pie, Kissed the Nation Made It Cry
When we all came out to say "YOU'RE AN IDIOT"
Georgie Porgie ran away.

A Letter To: George Bush
From: An Extremely, Passionately, Concerned Citizen

George,
What the hell are you doing? This is the most Botched, badly managed war I have ever heard of!

First You Lied. You told the American People that the war in Iraq was progressing to the point where we would have peace soon. That was HOW MANY 3(?) YEARS AGO?

1. Then,You're not even taking proper care protecting our troops!
I can see the vehicles you have them riding around in, all look like Vietnam war surplus. Slap a little armor on those old tanks, "the American public are distracted", they won't notice. But I did!

These kids need the proper armored vehicles to protect them. Why haven't these been provided years ago?

Why don't our troops have the necessary equipment for Survival?

2. Word on the street is, that the LIFE EXPECTANCY of an INFANTRY SOLDIER OR MARINE in Baghdad, is ONE WEEK.
It's said that they *ARE: *MISSILE-MAGNETS*

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, George!
Your probably not even feeding them good either!
This looks like a rip off all around.

*TROPHY ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM*

Missile Defense System

3. Get these kid's in Iraq and Afghanistan those *Trophy anti-missile systems TODAY and everything else they need too.

4. You had Saddam, why has it taken 5 more years to train the Iraqi People and make them self-sufficient.

Then there's a whole lot of talk about corruption,going around

You may be named after the "Father of Our Country", but apparently you can tell a lie!

Are you really a puppet of "Corporate America"?

Why are you sacrificing these beautiful young heroes at the alter of "Big Business"

Be a man George, stand up to all those special interest groups in Iraq and tell them the party's over. That from TODAY on America's TOP PRIORITY is to take care of our TROOPS.

These young men and women joined the Service in order to serve their country. You lured them in with flashy recruiting ads, some meager enlistment bonuses and promises of dubious G.I. benefits.

They may just be Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen to you.

But To The American People they're Our Children, Our Grandchildren, Our Brothers and Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Uncles and Aunts as Well as Our Mothers and Fathers and most of all they are OUR HEROES and PATRIOTS! *****

The American government has a responsibility to provide our troops with the best equipment and resources needed to succeed!
Heck the war is costing enough. Where is all the money going?

Taking my advice would be wise George, because your name is rapidly becoming
"Mud Pie", to the American public.

Soon, you will no longer be President. You'll just be an average citizen like the rest of us. Then what will you do, when nobody talks to you anymore.

One more thing George, While I have your attention. Why do you keep sending our troops out on search and destroy missions? STOP DOING THIS!

Get our guys the proper armored vehicles immediately and stop making them "Missile-Magnets" because the vehicles are not properly armored. No more army surplus with some armor slapped on.

These kids need proper vehicles, not recycled junk that otherwise would be rusting in government warehouses, if not for the convenience of the war in Iraq.

One last thing George,
IS THIS ANYWAY TO TREAT OUR VETS?
it seems like awfully bad form to prosecute and imprison a veteran for pushing for PTSD benefits.

Note to Congress, Please make sure our troops get these armored vehicles immediately! This war has cost the American taxpayers a fortune already and we don't even have the satisfaction of knowing that it is being used to protect our fighting men and women.
Buy armored vehicles. not bombs!

The American people are starting to lose confidence in all of you and definitely have already regarding the White House.

Show the American people that we still have a DEMOCRACY running this government!

Just get and supply our troops in the middle east with as many armored vehicles and ant-missile systems as they need to be Safely Protected from incoming missiles.
Appropriate the money. Use it to give our troops a fighting chance!

*Our troops are the worst outfitted army I've ever seen!
The American public is anticipating a quick and intelligent response to this issue by you all!

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[Update 12/17/10]
So george, Are You Still Hearing War Chants In Your Sleep?
The Only Way To Get Them To Stop Is For You And Your People, To Bring Every One Of Our Troops Home Today! Do Not Leave Even One Person There!
Starting with Iraq, Immediately! We don't need the damn oil!
Let These Countries Settle Their own disputes And affairs!
The Iraqi Govt should be well trained by now, and leave them plenty of ammo!
Forget about the poppies in Afghanistan, Drug Education Is The Answer!
I told you this!

*War Dance*


(TESUNKE WITKO)
Chief Crazy Horse


ga*

Peace For Israel and Palestine

(UPDATE August 14, 2010 WHAT WAS I THINKING)?

December 27, 2008 Has To Be An End On All Sides!
There Has To Be A Peace For Israel and Her Neighbors,
And For Palestine And Her Neighbors, Now!
And Yes, For All Those Warring Countries in the world!

Stop!
No One Is Winning!
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

to talaban and alqaeda, come out with your hands up, Now!


I'm reading today's news about the Hamas offer of a six month truce.
Also about Israel's doubts concerning it's truthfulness.
I don't know. This is a situation where even I am speechless.
I would not want to say give it a try and then have Hamas not keep their word.
But I also would not want to say don't do it. After all Hamas might really be ready to put the past behind them.

The Palestinians don't even have food. They have to depend on food deliveries from the U.N., this is bad! That's how it was in Europe after World War II. For many years.

Palestine is a nation that really needs Peace. It's dumb to fight and starve. Nobody wins with war and violence.* One would think that the world, would have grasped this concept by now.

The Palestinian, Israeli conflict is a terrible tragedy on both sides!

I absolutely feel for all involved.
All the violence is so unnecessary.
Why can't Israel and Palestine to live in Peace?

But of course Peace is not free and those who have been displaced must be compensated. Everyone should profit.
Fair, equal rights for everyone involved.
There has to be some fair agreement that everyone can come to.
The violence has gone on for too long now!

When we were children my mother used to tell us, "two can't fight if one won't".
(A very annoying saying,in my opinion).

Of course the world's situation is much more serious than a childhood dispute, but I would think that the same principle would still hold true.
Peace, Peace, Peace

Both sides should grow up and think of the many innocent people caught in the middle of this argument!

The leaders of the entire world need to have a big conference at the United Nations and nobody gets to leave until the issues of World Peace, Poverty and Human Rights are settled!

No one should be starving, (as many are) in today's world!
There is too much money out there. The privileged people of the world, have a responsibility to help the less fortunate ones!

Until the world is stabilized regarding poverty how can there be Peace? But I think that with the proper interventions and Peace. (*Let's just try it*),
"we" can feed and take care of every person on earth!
I don't know what to say to Hamas, except, are you for real this time?
Maybe they are. Prosperity is so much better than war!
Good Luck, Israel and Palestine I Know that you can work out a lasting Peace!

Peace Now!
ga