“Up the rebels and down the British!” Independence Day blog, July 4, 2016

In the 1972 movie, “1776,” and the musical that was its inspiration, there is an dispute in the Continental Congress about referring to Britain’s King George III as a “tyrant.”

Delaware’s John Dickinson moved that any reference of George III as a "tyrant" removed from the Declaration.

Thomas Jefferson: Just a moment, Mr. Thomson. I do not consent. The king is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We might as well say so.

Charles Thomson: But I already scratched it out.

Thomas Jefferson: Then scratch it back in!

John Hancock: Put it back, Mr. Thomson. The King will remain a tyrant.

Today we celebrate the American Revolution's declaring the American Colonies’ independence from Great Britain. Our forefathers rejected the following imposed on them by Britain:

• The Stamp Act which imposed on the American Colonists “Taxation without representation.”
• The Coercive Acts, among other things, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America.
•  The Tea Act in 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. 

Well, let’s see where we stand now on these items 240 years downstream of declaring independence:

•       America is taxed to hell and back with what has deteriorated into all but a sham of representation of the common man in Congress it has gotten so corrupt and self-serving.
•       It seems that certain American officials are now immune to criminal prosecution in America –

o   Barry Obama was accused by Senator Ted Cruz, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, of 76 illegal acts in his presidency to date.

o   Bill & Hillary Clinton (abuses of power – using the IRS and FBI as weapons against political opponents, lying under oath – hell; lying like rugs about anything & everything, attempts to loot taxpayer-funded items from the White House, Travelgate, Chinagate, Filegate and Pardongate and who could forget Hillary’s 9,987% profit in just nine months on cattle futures because of a highly placed connection at Tyson Foods, which – “coincidentally” was the largest employer in Arkansas and a BIG Clinton donor.  To say nothing of her alleged illegalities regarding accepting inappropriate contributions from foreign nations and her sloppy email security when she was Secretary of State.)

o   And let’s not forget Al Sharpton’s and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s  unresolved tax troubles.

Anyone want to place any bets that any one of these individuals will prosecuted on any of these things? Anyone want to place any bets that if any one of us commoners were to do any one of these things we’d get the same treatment in the law that these individuals have received?

And while we’re not being forced to quarter troops in our own homes (3^rd Amendment of Bill of Rights) or rescinded the right of trial by jury, we certainly have seen:

• assaults on religious freedom and free speech (1^st Amendment of Bill of Rights),
• assaults on the citizenry’s right to keep and bear arms (2^nd Amendment, which states literally states “shall not be infringed.” Apparently somebody forgot to tell the Democrat Party about this).
• Every man, woman and child traveling as a paying passenger on an airliner these days continue to have their rights under the 4^th Amendment of the Bill of Rights constantly pummeled by being forced to take off their shoes and subject themselves to being x-rayed and illegally molested by TSA officials at the airport
• The citizenry is not to be deprived … liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Yet we’ve seen all kinds of violations of due process – the latest being the liberals’ latest idea to deny anyone who finds themselves on the “no fly” list with the ability to “keep and bear arms.” And should that be enacted, just what protection does one have from being declared a “security risk” merely for disagreeing with the liberal agenda? And Lord knows the EPA and “imminent domain” have done more than their share of denying property without truly “just” compensation. (5^th Amendment)
• And, just exactly how much did Nakoula Basseley Nakoula “enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense” as provided by the 6^th Amendment of the Bill of Rights for his alleged crime of producing a supposedly anti-Islam video that Hillary Clinton et al tried to blame for her tragic and fatal fiasco in Benghazi, Libya in 2012?
• And how does the infatuation with applying Sharia Law in US Courts – like the city council of Dearborn, Michigan which voted 4-3 to become the first US city to officially implement all aspects of Sharia Law – square with the 7th Amendment of the Bill of Rights which states that civil trials in any court of the United States, shall be decided according to the rules of the common law? Furthermore, how does it square with Bill’s 8th Amendment which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments – you know, like stoning, beheading, hands cut off and the like? Answer: It doesn’t.
• And, let’s take a look at how the Federal courts – the Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court being the most glaring examples – abuse the living hell out of the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights which states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Has the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court declarations that properly state legislated and/or voted on laws against illegal immigration, healthcare and gay marriage (just to mention three examples) been properly reserved to the States or the people therein? Answer: Not no, but hell no. If a state passes a law the liberal tyrants don’t agree with, the federal courts just rule it unconstitutional.

In light of such abuses to the Bill of Rights, it’s sadly obvious that we’re living in the midst of a tyranny just as devious and oppressive as that of King George III just by different means.

So what do you think? Personally, I can’t help but think General William Tecumseh Sherman said it best when he said, “You politicians have gotten us in a hell of a fix….”*** 

SOURCES:

"Quotes." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 03 July 2016.

*"U.S. Declares Independence." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 4 July 2009. Web. 01 July 2016.

**"Here They Are: Hillary’s 22 Biggest Scandals Ever." WND. N.p., 18 May 2015. Web. 01 July 2016.

***Klingaman, William K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865. New York: Viking, 2001. Print.

**** Hodges, D. "Sharia Law Is Attempting to Replace the U.S. Constitution - Freedom Outpost." Freedom Outpost. N.p., 09 Sept. 2015. Web. 02 July 2016.

*****White, T. "The Five Worst Grievances of King George III." Prezi.com. N.p., 09 Oct. 2013. Web. 03 July 2016.