Why We Should Impeach Bush

I am reposting what I consider my most important post since I first discovered this forum five years ago. It’s not my most clever or the most entertaining one, but in this time of peril, it is the most important. It is patterned after the original Declaration of Independence. It received two positive votes and a negative one when I first posted it yesterday. To the two who agreed my appreciation, to the one who did not, my hope that some day we will agree. Here it is for a final time:
The New Declaration of Independence
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to dissolve their political system which ceases to function for their benefit; they must declare to all their citizens and the rest of the world the reasons for such action.
In our country we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women and people of all races, nationalities and religions are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. Among those rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. To secure these rights, we have instituted a Representative government which derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
We submit that, as our founding fathers said in the past, whenever our form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is our right and duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, to accomplish the desired ends.
As the founders of this nation cautioned, governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; They also said that all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, designed to reduce our citizens under absolute despotism become evident. That’s when it is our right and duty, to throw off those who attempt to subjugate us, and to institute a new government with improved safeguards to best serve all our citizens.
Such is now the necessity which constrains us to alter our present system of government. The history of this government is a history of repeated injuries, usurpations, and corruption all having as a direct objective the establishment of an absolute tyranny over our people. We submit these facts to prove our case:
Our President repeatedly demonstrated disregard for the laws of our country as defined by our U.S. Constitution, the document which forms the basis of our form of government and legal system, the very document which defines us as a great free nation. We have petitioned our President for redress in the most humble and sometimes not so humble terms: But, he refuses to listen, instead his answers have been denial of action, meaningless speeches and repeated injury to our intelligence. Our President is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, and therefore unfit to be the ruler of a free People.
We have warned our Senators and Representatives of attempts by lobbyists to extend unwarrantable corporate power over us. We reminded them that this country was established by people seeking freedom from oppression by the powerful. We appealed to their sense of justice and honor, and we have conjured to disavow these usurpations. Instead, they have been deaf to the voice of justice and chose the low road of self interest.
Therefore, WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE FIFTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, solemnly publish and declare, that our people by right ought to be, FREE; that our Constitution must be protected and honored; that we are absolved from all allegiance to the present corrupt executive branch of government; that all agreements of representation between the people and their corrupt representatives in Congress, are and ought to be totally dissolved.
As FREE AND INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, we have full power to choose new leaders who will cherish our Constitutional laws and freedoms provided us by the Bill of Rights, and pledge to protect our Democratic way of life from those wish to destroy it from within and outside our borders.
We support this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the divine Providence, and mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Signed by, THE PEOPLE OF THE FIFTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Ted Neros, Liberal (January 11, 2006; Visalia, CA)