Knightskye
02-02-2009, 02:15 AM
I was reading my pocket Declaration/Constitution, and skimmed through the part that lists King George's offenses. They seemed pretty similar to Bush's, so I thought I'd list them.
Some of them, I didn't know how to describe the modern version, so maybe you guys can help me out there (or if there's a better explanation for one I've already done).
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1v-jAws4CU
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.
(I'll admit, I don't know what this means.)
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.
Withdrawal from Iraq? Pretty large district of people. :)
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.
Patriot Act.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
Okay, Congress hasn't stood up for our civil liberties (god forbid with manly firmness) - at least not longer for a day without folding - but the invasions on the rights of people part is spot on.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
Executive privilege for Karl Rove?
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Feel free to post your explanation.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Department of Homeland Security (I'm sure there are more offices he's added, but the DHS is pretty evil and popped into my head and I can't think of any others at the moment.)
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
20,000 coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
Private contractors.
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:
Gitmo, Bagram, etc.
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:
Feel free to post your explanation.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
Many parts, especially Cuba.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
Income tax.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
I'm sure it's happened, but I wouldn't know how to link it to Bush.
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
Extraordinary rendition.
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:
Washington, D.C., even though it's been like that for awhile? :D
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
Acting like a monarch is definitely altering the form of our government.
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
Could have if he wanted to.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
"War on terror".
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
Figuratively speaking. ;)
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.
Blackwater in Iraq.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.
Some of them, I didn't know how to describe the modern version, so maybe you guys can help me out there (or if there's a better explanation for one I've already done).
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1v-jAws4CU
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.
(I'll admit, I don't know what this means.)
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.
Withdrawal from Iraq? Pretty large district of people. :)
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.
Patriot Act.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
Okay, Congress hasn't stood up for our civil liberties (god forbid with manly firmness) - at least not longer for a day without folding - but the invasions on the rights of people part is spot on.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
Executive privilege for Karl Rove?
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Feel free to post your explanation.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Department of Homeland Security (I'm sure there are more offices he's added, but the DHS is pretty evil and popped into my head and I can't think of any others at the moment.)
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
20,000 coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
Private contractors.
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:
Gitmo, Bagram, etc.
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:
Feel free to post your explanation.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
Many parts, especially Cuba.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
Income tax.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
I'm sure it's happened, but I wouldn't know how to link it to Bush.
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
Extraordinary rendition.
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:
Washington, D.C., even though it's been like that for awhile? :D
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
Acting like a monarch is definitely altering the form of our government.
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
Could have if he wanted to.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
"War on terror".
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
Figuratively speaking. ;)
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.
Blackwater in Iraq.
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.
Feel free to post your explanation.