Normally I post a copy of the Declaration of Independence every July 4th but this frankly is much cooler. The declaration read by every president from Coolidge to Biden.
I’m sorry you don’t get much cooler than that in a political sense.
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The Declaration of Independence From Coolidge to Biden
Posted: July 4, 2024 by datechguy in special eventsTags: history
Which is more tyrannical the British Government of 1776 or the Federal Government of today?
Posted: July 4, 2024 by Jon Fournier in UncategorizedTags: datechguy's magnificent seven, Declaration of Independence, independence day, jon fournier
On this, the 248th anniversary of the issuance of The Declaration of Independence, our Constitutional Republic balances on a razor’s edge. Thanks to our out-of-control federal government the United States is on the brink of descending into an abyss of absolute tyranny. I think today is the perfect day to try and determine if the British government we fought to escape from was more tyrannical than the federal government is today.
It is time to examine some of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and compare them to abuses of power committed by our current totalitarian federal government,
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
The federal government has completely disregarded the letter and spirit of the Constitution. The Deep State, the administrative state, and presidents who rule via imperial edict now pretend to be the three branches of the federal government.
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.
The Supreme Court routinely overturns state laws despite the fact that they were never given the constitutional authority to do so. The federal government routinely passes profoundly unconstitutional laws that trample the sovereignty of the states.
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 invasions from without and convulsions within.
The federal government has completely abandoned its constitutional duty to secure the borders of the United States, opening this nation up to an invasion of illegal immigrants.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
The federal government has engaged in lawfare against a presidential candidate and the American people.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
The federal government now consists of innumerable agencies, none of which are authorized by the Constitution. All of them trample on the rights of the American people.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
The federal government has disregarded the Constitution so thoroughly that they have transformed the United States from a Constitutional Republic built on individual liberty into a socialist democracy built upon collectivism.
By a very wide margin the federal government today is more tyrannical than British government of 1776. This has come about slowly because far too few of us value freedom and individual liberty. Far too of us have stood up against the tyrannical government and have said enough is enough. If we as a people do not stand up and demand a return to our Constitutional Republic the time may soon approach when we need a second revolution.
Today is the 4th of July and normally I would just post the Declaration of Independence and forget the blog.
But today’s 4th is a tad melancholy. My oldest has been sick for a week and it falls on my wife’s day to work this week and nurses, like firemen and police don’t get the day off.
But that’s not what makes this melancholy to me. What makes it melancholy is the idea that so many Americans are completely unfazed by the idea that whoever is running the country and making decisions, it’s not the person who was “elected” to do it.
I put quotes around “elected” and that’s slightly unfair, Joe Biden was elected president as sure as the Cincinnati Reds won the 1919 world series.
But whatever your opinion of that last statement it’s very clear now that not only isn’t he running the country but he hasn’t for some time, but the left doesn’t mind.
Run that through your head on this Fourth of July. A large group of Americans are unbothered that they have no actual idea who is running this land and is unbothered that said person or people are unaccountable for their actions, even to them.
I think Sarah Hoyt expressed it best:
We all want to go back to a place where we could believe the journalists, the teachers, the professors, the scientists. The difference is some of us know it hasn’t existed for our whole lifetimes and longer. It’s just now we can see the lies.
It’s very uncomfortable, this place where conspiracy theories become admitted truth two days later, and nothing stands between us and the howling abyss of finding all the truth ourselves. And of knowing how badly we were always lied to.
But it’s also the way to freedom. You know the whole “the truth will set you free?” It’s not that so much as the fact that lies bind you.
But in the end there are a lot of people who want to be bound, who don’t want to see what is right in front of them because the moment they do they have to make a choice. Ignorance removes responsibility and this is willful ignorance because seeing the situation in the light of truth is more painful to them then admitting they’ve been played.
It’s the very reason why so many people choose the torments of hell.
As I’ve said we always get the government we deserve, I had hoped we deserved better but as the 4th dawns I’m convinced that as of this moment, we don’t.
Hopefully that will shortly change.
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