More recently than 1215. Imagine an edited and updated version of the “long train of abuses and usurpations”:
[They] refused [their] Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
[They] have forbidden Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in [their] operation till Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, [they] have utterly neglected to attend to them.
[They] have called together legislative bodies at places unusual, [comfortable] and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of [corrupting] them into compliance with [their] measures.
[They] have endeavoured to [illegally add to] 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.
[They] have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing [their] Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
[They] have made Judges dependent on [their] Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
[They] have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
[They] have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies [of Undercover Federal Agents and Informants] without the Consent of our legislatures.
[They] have affected to render the Military [Industrial Complex] independent of and superior to the Civil power.
[They] have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving [their] Assent to [their] Acts of [thousands of pages of] pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed [federal agents] among us:
For protecting [federal agents] by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which [they] should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For [sending our means of production] off to 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 [into DC] to be tried for pretended offences:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For [overriding] our own Legislatures, and declaring [themselves] invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
[They] have abdicated Government here, by….waging [dis, mis, malinformation] War against us.
[They] have plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
[They] are 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.
[They] have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the [godless communists] whose known rule of warfare [by infiltration rather than invasion], is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Great article, Justin!
Greetings from New Bedford Mass 👋
Deign, not dane
(Sorry, I'm the daughter of an editor, I can't help myself)
And New Bedford Mass a little taste of mass always brings a smile to my face.
Thank you! I could have sworn it wasn't spelled right. You have my full permission to help me with spelling and grammar.
More recently than 1215. Imagine an edited and updated version of the “long train of abuses and usurpations”:
[They] refused [their] Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
[They] have forbidden Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in [their] operation till Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, [they] have utterly neglected to attend to them.
[They] have called together legislative bodies at places unusual, [comfortable] and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of [corrupting] them into compliance with [their] measures.
[They] have endeavoured to [illegally add to] 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.
[They] have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing [their] Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
[They] have made Judges dependent on [their] Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
[They] have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
[They] have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies [of Undercover Federal Agents and Informants] without the Consent of our legislatures.
[They] have affected to render the Military [Industrial Complex] independent of and superior to the Civil power.
[They] have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving [their] Assent to [their] Acts of [thousands of pages of] pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed [federal agents] among us:
For protecting [federal agents] by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which [they] should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For [sending our means of production] off to 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 [into DC] to be tried for pretended offences:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For [overriding] our own Legislatures, and declaring [themselves] invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
[They] have abdicated Government here, by….waging [dis, mis, malinformation] War against us.
[They] have plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
[They] are 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.
[They] have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the [godless communists] whose known rule of warfare [by infiltration rather than invasion], is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Nice work. I am liking that you are putting out more articles. Keep them coming.