Obama the new "King of England"

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July 4, 1776 (Thomas Jefferson) : 1. We hold these truths to be self-evident: "that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." 2. "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 a 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." 3. But when a long train of abuses and "usurpations" [Merriam-Webster defines] 1 a : to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right b : to take or make use of without right ...pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism (rule of power), it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security" 4. "[i]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 Tyrannyy over these States[/i]." He writes: "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 til his Assent (consideration) 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 district 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 mainly 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 return- ed 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. [b]--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 harass our People, and eat out their substance. --He has kept among us in time of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislature. --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 constitutions, 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 Content; *for depriving us, in many cases, of the benefit of Trail by Jury; *for transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences; *for suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested w. Power to legislate for us in all case whatsoever. --He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us our of his Protection and waging War against us. --He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. --He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries ("Mercenary" a soldier hired into foreign service) to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy (promising to act in good faith w. intent of deception) 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 Bretherrn, or to fall themselves by their Hands." --"He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored 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." [/b]