Power of the People

by Mowgli Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:46 am

Power of the People

For decades we have been listening to people that are great salespersons that are applying for a job to run part of our countries government. Now there are some good candidates and there are a few bad ones that get by too. But, the real problem is that the people working up in the government would say to a new person there certain things. We do things this way and do not rock the boat other wise others will not want to play ball with you, and I know how much you like to play ball.

Yes this is the Old School of thinking keep everything the same way and do not rock the boat and the New School of thinking was done by The United States of America's Founding Forefather's. Yes these Founding Forefather's where New School and wanted radical change in their and live where they worked hard in their life and reap what they sew in return, not like they lived and reaped nothing. They wanted freedom to explore and seek out anything they wish with out being told you cannot do this at all, that would be wrong by the government they lived under.

I have a voice and feel the need to be heard just like our Forefather's did many year's ago.

I am a guy that loves history and looking at everything right now, and history is repeating itself quick, fast, and hard and we stand to lose more today then our Forefather's ever did. Our Forefather's had a dream and they made their dream com true, and if we do not do what they did their dream dies really fast.

Here is the foundation of our country and it states that we the people are the only ones to change and make a differences.

So, let us not play political games anymore and take different sides. Instead let us all stand together as Americans that love our country and make the dream of our Forefather's continue to live through our sons and daughters and theirs too.

Please take to heart what our Founding Forefather's have done for us.

And my God bless you and your family and God bless America!!!

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

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. 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 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 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 harrass 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 offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring 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 & 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.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

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 Brittish 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 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.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

by TheBeav Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:05 am

Wow...a clear and concise reminder - our Declaration of Independence is a powerful statement to the present day government that is taking on the stained colors of the past.

What's it going to take to get our country back...this time? Since most "Hyphenated-Americans" (who started that divisive term anyway?) seem NOT to hold a reverence for our forefathers vision, it's going to be hard to clean house in D.C. They will continue to vote for the crooks who promise them handouts and freebies without the least thought of "country first". So many have given and continue to give their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for these sheeple who just don't care nor respect the meaning this country holds for the entire world. Sigh...my heart weighs heavy when I ponder such sad realities. :(

by Mowgli Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:11 am

Well we can clean house and start over like it is stated !!!

by TheBeav Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:43 am

Mowgli wrote:
Well we can clean house and start over like it is stated !!!

The operative word there is "CAN".....but "WILL" we? So many sheeple, so many uneducated in history, so many young who are encouraged to be socialistic and Marxist in thought and ideals...so many who just stay at home, not caring to vote or have just given up fighting the fight. I truly hope some of the funds from the RV are given in earnest to support the "clean up" in D.C. and our State legislatures.

I am remembering a fact I heard years ago: Less than 10% of the population of the colonies actually fought in the Revolutionary War...and still won! Imagine what we can do with extreme funding and enthusiasm! This thought makes me feel better!

From my lips to God's ear!

by Mowgli Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:53 am

Just heard on the radio a new website where we can make a difference.

http://www.americanselect.org/

by **rick152** Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:12 pm

Great post here is aportion quote from the affore mentioned..

-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.

WE ARE THERE PEOPLE, THE TIME HAS COME TO RESTORE THE " REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISABLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL"....rick152

by xpectarius Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:01 pm

TheBeav wrote:
Mowgli wrote:
Well we can clean house and start over like it is stated !!!

The operative word there is "CAN".....but "WILL" we? So many sheeple, so many uneducated in history, so many young who are encouraged to be socialistic and Marxist in thought and ideals...so many who just stay at home, not caring to vote or have just given up fighting the fight. I truly hope some of the funds from the RV are given in earnest to support the "clean up" in D.C. and our State legislatures.

I am remembering a fact I heard years ago: Less than 10% of the population of the colonies actually fought in the Revolutionary War...and still won! Imagine what we can do with extreme funding and enthusiasm! This thought makes me feel better!

AMEN, beav......perhaps this is why such a delay. Could those complicit in the RV delay, sense that there is a change coming? I think so.....and the longer the delay.....the more frustration, anger and payback that will be unleashed upon them. We will take our country back!!

From my lips to God's ear!

by **aksafeone** Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:21 pm

AND NOT make the same mistakes as we have in the past. WE need to ensure that there is a mandatory eight (8) TOTAL year term limit for Federal, State, County/Borough and City/Town service. WE need to make it a point to get our Legislatures to enact a law that if you hold FEDERAL OFFICE you DO NOT get your salary for life (if they pay it to you it goes to the State General Fund) and you DO NOT get FREE medical - INSTEAD you get ONLY Social Security and Medicare - JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. Also by STATE law any vote by a FEDERAL politician that involves money the proposition has to be presented to the State Electorate for direction (yes or no) and the politician will vote as directed OR be immediately RECALLED and another elected to their place. Debt? NO WAY. Also there be a State law that allows for the RECALL of Federal politicians for not following the direction (or WILL) of the people within their electoral district(s) or for "conduct unbecoming" of a Representative of the People. Remember, Federal law only is supposed to be used if the State does not address the matter? It was intended for States to be sovereign - in order to do that the Federal government can not interfere with State's rights. One last thought - make them pay back the "borrowed/thieved Social Security Money with interest and prosecute the "robbers of that fund." Thank you. JMHO

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