Following President Bush's unsurprisingly deplorable speech to the Nation delivered on Wednesday evening from the White House library, I happened to read our country's Declaration of Independence (for the first time in at least ten years).
For those of you who have not encountered this treatise since your days in middle school, you owe yourself a reunion. In an age dominated by bullshit rhetoric and political spin, this elegantly composed, well-argued, and appropriately concise document will (almost certainly) provide (the proverbial) breath of fresh air.
The Declaration of Independence contains a very specific list of grievances directed at King George III in particular, and to the English Crown in general.
Five of these grievances caught my attention, and I have listed them below. (While you will not observe a series of direct parallels--the political climate has changed a bit in 231 years--you may find some unsettling similarities. I certainly have.)
I remind you: the following injustices galvanized the birth of our Nation, and our Constitution (completed eleven years later), was specifically designed to ensure that such injustices were never again perpetrated against the people of this sovereign State.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of People.
He has endeavoured 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 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.
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.
Following these (and other) grievances, is this assertion:
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.
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