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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on July 04, 2006, 11:51:05 AM
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We took a poll a couple hundred years ago.
Right around the time we stopped caring about your polls
This was the resulting message we sent
(http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/images/charters_exhibit_zoom_images/declaration_of_independence_stone_630.jpg)
Oh and so that you may read it without the use of your spectacles
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. Continued..........
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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
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America, **** Yea!
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yep... now that was a poll that had some real teeth in it.
lazs
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:lol :aok
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sore loser beet.
lazs
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Originally posted by beet1e
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I do.
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Beet, I suppose you don't celebrate Guy Fawkes ...
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if anything the yanks should be saying thank you. the bill of rights was based upon our magna carta, british wealth paid for alot of the american railroad system, even your national anthem is based upon a royal navy sea shanty!
maybe it is because we are similar we are such good allies?
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Thank you for losing the American Revolution!
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Dred,
Thanks for posting - I think many have never read the full text (except as forced in school) for the purpose of actually just reading it.
It is always refreshing and encouraging to look back on those words and deeds and to take a moment to recognize the importance of them.
And from the reading perhaps bringing ourselves to a greater understanding of our role as citizens (those of us that are U.S. citizens that is).
Thanks again - And to those that would piss on Dreds boots for posting this, you're sad little creatures... He's rightfully proud of his country. As you should be of your own.
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Bait?
YOU asked for thank you and you got one. The rest stemmed from that.
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Comming in here is like visiting an elderly house after someone switched their pills with acid.
Wait, I take that back... that would actualy be fun!
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Originally posted by dmf
DREDIOCK I knew there was something I liked about you. :) good posts
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Gee and all this time I was thinking it was my killer good looks LOL
then again. Nobody here knows what I look like.(dont wanna scare anybody) ;)
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i have looked at rule number 2 about 50 times already. HOORAY AMERICA!! Even though America has shrunk within the past 10 years I still love it. But the revolution is happening and no one knows it, soon we will have to take over canada... anyway HOORAY AMERICA HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!
See rule number 2...
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Wow!
Looks like Skuzzy came through with one massive Biotch slap LMAO
I personally didnt see anything that was all that bad.
But..his call ::shrugs::
edited
Nevermind
the question I asked. Wouldnt be worth the arguement it might produce
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Wow!
Looks like Skuzzy came through with one massive Biotch slap LMAO
I'm just surprised he didn't lock it.
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I missed the back and forth. Was it better than "you're a snooty royalist!" "you're a hayseed colonist!"??
hap
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Originally posted by Hap
I missed the back and forth. Was it better than "you're a snooty royalist!" "you're a hayseed colonist!"??
hap
Mostly just some silly jibing back and forth.
Some perhaps boarderline
Couple that were modded had me scratching my head as to why.
But... Skuzzy is da man.
His call
No complaints here.
And if people took the time to read the document.some perhaps for the first time
then I accomplished more then I hoped for
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well at least Tim didn't use the adjective signifying the condition of being rooted and ingrained in one's nature as deeply as if implanted by heredity.
hap
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Originally posted by Timofei
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The ban stick can not whack you fast enough.
Have a nice day Mr Elitist.
Bronk
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Originally posted by Timofei
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Now that is BS.
I dont remember every word that was written here that got modded.
But he did Mod with an even hand both sides of the isle
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While in Dubai, UAE on a port-of-call, the British embassy threw a 4th of July (1986) party for our ship's crew, which I always thought was pretty sporting of them considering.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
We took a poll a couple hundred years ago.
Right around the time we stopped caring about your polls
This was the resulting message we sent
Man Oh Man. Dred my man, I don`t know exactly where you have been keeping all that class stored up in one big jar at, but buddy that was one hell of an entrance you made there. :)
When I read it I heard the cannon shot fired at the Alamo in response to the offer of surrender.
The grass looks a little greener than I ever noticed it before. The sky is a little clearer. I`m hearing the words to "Proud To Be An American" in my head. I have a sudden urge to go out and pet an old dog, play with the children and drink some watermelon wine. :)
True, one hundred percent greatness can come out of the blue sometimes.
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I wonder who timofei was before he got banned the first time.
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Did anyone say anything in this thread? :lol
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Last edited by Skuzzy on 07-05-2006 at 08:19 PM
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Seems not anythINg nice to each other after the first few posts.
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See rule # 999, can't find it then look for rule # 40, 40 says that " If a hot chick looks interested in you in Vegas then she is probably a professional"
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
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Last edited by Skuzzy on 07-04-2006 at 08:38 PM [/i]
I think that was the first time I've been edited :cry
I had a good streak going and now it's gone...:cry
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I think that was the first time I've been edited :cry
I had a good streak going and now it's gone...:cry
Now that you have that out of the way... shoot for the ban stick. C'mon man, you can do it!
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I think that was the first time I've been edited :cry
I had a good streak going and now it's gone...:cry
ahhh but now your a part of an elite club
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A sad, sad affair.
:noid
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Bah. Every thread wanders.
Rule 2 could probably be applied to 98% of the posts, including this one.
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Originally posted by Toad
Bah. Every thread wanders.
Rule 2 could probably be applied to 98% of the posts, including this one.
I agree.
Maybe it was just Skuzzies way of trolling? LMAO
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I knew I should have checked the O'Club on the 4th.