1776 Again?

This is an example of what a modern day declaration of Independence from the USA might look like, if all 50 states did as our forefathers did, and enumerated the transgressions of the federal government in a united stand against further tyranny.  

In bold are the updates.  Otherwise, the text remains the same.  It is scary how similar both the intent and situation are between now and then.

Fortunately, we still have 2 things that were not available to our forefathers.  Widely and instantly broadcast free speech, and a legitimate vote.  And while both of those tools have in recent years been marginalized by both the federal government and the fraud perpetrated by DNC, I believe that they still account for something.  So get out there and use them!

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In assembly; July 4, 2013.

The unanimous Declaration of the fifty 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 shown, 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 States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. 

The history of the current administration 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.

• ·         Congress has refused to assent to its own laws, exempting themselves from regulations that bind the common people. [1]
• ·         The President has forbidden the Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance. [2]
• ·         The President and Congress have called together legislative bodies in secret, for the purpose of concealing their actions from the governed. [3],[14]
• ·         The President has appointed cabinet positions with great authority outside the scope of the constitution, without election or representation by the people, and accountable to no system of checks and balances as the constitution affords to all of the governmental branches. [4]
• ·         The President has issued unconstitutional “executive orders” to implement rule of law, by passing the authority of congress and contrary to the will of the people, insomuch as that the people are no longer represented in the laws that govern them. [5], [7], [10], [11],[12]
• ·         The president and appointed officials have refused to assent to the judgment, operating outside of the political boundaries allowed under the system of checks and balances under the constitution of the United States. [6]
• ·         The President has abdicated his responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States, and to protect the people, economy and sovereignty of our nation and its borders. [8] , [11], [12]
• ·         The president and the DNC have neutered the first amendment to the constitution and nullified the intended and constitutionally protected right to free speech by overwhelming, diluting and twisting true and factual reporting of political activities by monopolistic use of the free press and main stream media, such that those who dare to speak the truth are condemned and demonized.
• ·         The president and appointed officials have repeatedly violated their oath of office. [1-13]

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. An administration, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyranny, is unfit to lead of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our politicians. 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, representatives of the States 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 States, solemnly publish and declare, That these States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Federal Government, and that all political connection between them and the United States Federal Government, 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.

Signed, the duly elected Governors of the 50 Sovereign States 

Robert Julian Bentley Govenor of AlabamaSean Parnell Govenor of AlaskaJanice K. Brewer Govenor of ArizonaMichael Dale Beebe Govenor of ArkansasEdmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. Govenor of CaliforniaJohn Hickenlooper Govenor of ColoradoM. Jodi Rell Govenor of ConnecticutJack A. Markell Govenor of DelawareRichard Lynn "Rick" Scott Govenor of FloridaJohn Nathan Deal Govenor of GeorgiaNeil Abercrombie Govenor of HawaiiClement Leroy "Butch" Otter Govenor of IdahoPat Quinn Govenor of IllinoisMitchell E. Daniels Govenor of IndianaTerry Edward Branstad Govenor of IowaSamuel Dale "Sam" Brownback Govenor of KansasSteven L. Beshear Govenor of KentuckyBobby Jindal Govenor of LouisianaPaul R. LePage Govenor of MaineMartin Joseph O'Malley Govenor of MarylandDeval Laurdine Patrick Govenor of MassachusettsRichard D. "Rick" Snyder Govenor of MichiganMark Brandt Dayton Govenor of MinnesotaHaley Reeves Barbour Govenor of MississippiJeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixon Govenor of MissouriBrian David Schweitzer Govenor of MontanaDavid Eugene "Dave" Heineman Govenor of NebraskaBrian Edward Sandoval Govenor of NevadaJohn H. Lynch Govenor of New HampshireChristopher James "Chris" Christie Govenor of New JerseySusana Martinez Govenor of New MexicoAndrew Mark Cuomo Govenor of New YorkBeverly Perdue Govenor of North CarolinaJohn "Jack" Dalrymple Govenor of North DakotaJohn Richard Kasich Govenor of OhioMary Fallin Govenor of OklahomaJohn Albert Kitzhaber Govenor of OregonThomas W. Corbett Govenor of PennsylvaniaLincoln Davenport Chafee Govenor of Rhode IslandNimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley Govenor of South CarolinaDennis M. Daugaard Govenor of South DakotaWilliam Edward "Bill" Haslam Govenor of TennesseeJames Richard "Rick" Perry Govenor of TexasGary Richard Herbert Govenor of UtahPeter Shumlin Govenor of VermontRobert "Bob" McDonnell Govenor of VirginiaChristine Gregoire Govenor of WashingtonEarl Ray Tomblin Govenor of West VirginiaScott Kevin Walker Govenor of WisconsinMatthew Hansen "Matt" Mead Govenor of Wyoming

  

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Footnotes:

1. Congressional exemption from insider trading;  Congressional exemption from Obamacare;  Proposed Congressional exemption from gun control laws
2. Ruling against the Arizona illegal immigrant enforcement laws.
3. President Obama has appointed numerous people to cabinet level positions without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, as is required by the Constitution. These individuals are given extraordinary power and independent funding, and are not under the scrutiny of Congress. The fact that Obama calls them Czars does not make them legal. He has also made illegal recess appointments of other members of his cabinet that required Senate approval. He simply declared that the U.S. Senate was in recess despite the fact that no such declaration had been made by the Senate. The President has no Constitutional authority to do this
4. The push by Pres. Obama to pass healthcare legislation in the Congress of the United States that he was fully aware was unconstitutional. He has continued to use his powers and executive branch of government to implement this legislation despite the fact that a federal judge had declared the entire law unconstitutional, and ordered that it not be implemented. In addition, Obama has directed members of his administration to violate the right to freedom of religion protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Religious institutions such as churches and schools have been ordered to provide contraceptives and abortion inducing morning after pills to employees as part of the health care bill requirements. The fact that this is a direct violation of their religious teaching is of no concern to Obama. 
5. Despite the fact that the United States Senate refused to pass the Cap and Trade bill, the President has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to use regulations to implement key portions of the bill, including those regulating so-called greenhouse gases. Obama himself has acknowledged that this will force energy prices in this country to skyrocket. He is taking these actions in direct defiance of the will of the people of the United States, the will of Congress, and the Constitution. The actions of the EPA include regulations that will force many coal burning power plants to close. 
6. 6. Through the Department of the Interior (DOI) Obama has placed a moratorium on offshore oil drilling or exploration off both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. He has also prohibited new drilling exploration on federal land in any states in the United States. These actions by the DOI have continued in direct defiance of several court orders issued by Federal Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans, Louisiana declaring that the department had no authority to issue such a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf. In fact, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) has been held in contempt by the same judge. The administration has claimed to be complying, but has tied up the drilling permits in so much red tape that the effect is the same. 
7. Instead of allowing American companies to drill for oil domestically, Obama has betrayed the American people and authorized loans of billions of dollars to countries like Brazil and Mexico so that they can drill for oil, and then sell that oil to the United States. This will dramatically increase our dependence on foreign nations including Venezuela, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya that do not serve the interest of America or the American people. Obama has also refused to approve the keystone pipeline from Canada to the United States that would not only lessen our dependence on oil from countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, but create thousands of new jobs in the United States. The decision on the pipeline is one that belongs in the hands of the members of Congress, not the President.  
8. President Obama has abdicated his responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States against illegal immigration. He has virtually declared our southern border an open border by declaring certain areas of federal land in states like Arizona as off-limits to federal, state, and local authorities. This is despite the fact that these areas are being used to bring in thousands of illegal immigrants, massive amounts of drugs, and also being used by foreign terrorists to infiltrate the United States. He has also ordered the border patrol not to arrest most illegal immigrants entering the country, and has stopped deportation proceedings against thousands of people in this country illegally. He is in effect instituting the so-called “dream act” bypassing the Congress of the United States which has sole authority over immigration matters. 
9. The President and his Attorney General Eric Holder have clearly violated their oath of office by joining with foreign countries such as Mexico, Bolivia, and Columbia, in lawsuits against the sovereign states of Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama to stop them from enforcing the federal immigration laws. 
10. President Obama has ordered the Federal Communications Commission to adopt regulations giving the federal government control of the Internet and its contents, including providing Obama with a kill switch that gives him authority to shut down the Internet if he sees fit. This is in direct violation of a decision by the United States Supreme Court that the FCC has no Constitutional authority to control the Internet. There were two bills pending in Congress to effectively give Obama the kill switch he wants over the Internet. When these two proposals, the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were withdrawn amid public outcry Obama announced he will sign an international treaty that purports to give him the same authority. He has signaled his intention to do this as an “Executive Act” and not bring the treaty to the Senate for ratification as required by Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. I believe he intends to take the same action in regard to the United Nations Small arms treaty and the UN Law of the Sea treaty that are both unlikely to get Senate approval. 
11. One of the paramount responsibilities of the President of the United States and his executive branch of government is to enforce and defend laws adopted by Congress unless they are declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. Obama has decided that he should ignore this Constitutional mandate, and that as President he is more powerful than either the Congress of the United States or the Supreme Court. He has unilaterally declared that the Defense of Marriage Act passed by the Congress is unconstitutional, and further declared that he will not have the Justice Department defend it against lawsuits. His administration has also refused to enforce laws against voter intimidation and federal law that requires states to purge their voter registration lists of deceased individuals and those that are registered illegally. In addition, the Justice Department is refusing to allow states to enforce laws requiring proof of identity by voters at the polls. Obama has essentially said that he is the supreme ruler of the United States, and that the Congress and the Federal Judiciary are irrelevant. 
12. It has been widely reported that acting through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms the Obama administration was involved for months in getting legitimate and law-abiding gun store owners along our southern border to supply weapons to straw buyers who the government knew would deliver them to the drug cartels in Mexico. This was billed as a sting operation against the cartels when in fact it was designed to produce fraudulent data showing that large numbers of weapons were going from the United States to the Mexican drug dealers.  This data was then to be used, and is being used, to try to justify new gun control regulations to limit the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms. It has nothing to do with arresting members of the drug operations. The administration has, in effect, armed our enemies, and one border patrol agent has already been killed by one of these weapons. Now, Obama continues to impose gun control laws by Executive order so he will not have to deal with Congress. The administration is also refusing to cooperate with the committees in the House of Representatives that are investigating the entire operation. It is even defying Congressional subpoenas. 
13. The President of the United States is not authorized by the Constitution to take our nation to war without the consent of the Congress of the United States. The only exception to this is the authority granted to the President by Congress under the War Powers Act. This law allows the President to take immediate action without the consent of Congress if there is an imminent threat to the security of the United States, or its citizens. Although there was clearly no such imminent threat caused by the Civil War in Libya, the President committed members of the United States military to combat missions in a foreign country without the consent of Congress. He based his authority on a United Nations resolution, and a resolution by the Arab League. Now, the President has carried it one step further. During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7, 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told Senators that the President has authority to take our country to war without the Congressional approval required by Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution. The administration is taking the position that it can ignore Congress as long as it has United Nations approval or NATO approval. However, these actions may be the least of the worries facing the American people. The White House insisted that language be included in the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that gives the President sole authority to order the military to arrest and indefinite detain American citizens on U.S. soil if the President suspects them of terrorist ties. This was amazingly passed overwhelmingly by Congress. It appears to be another situation where few members read the bill before voting on it. This was almost immediately followed by another unconstitutional executive order titled the National Defense Resources Preparation order. It is similar to orders signed by past Presidents, but this one includes language that appears to give Obama the authority to declare martial law in peacetime, and take over the allocation of everything from food and fuel to transportation and health care. This violates the Constitution in a number of different ways. 
14. Since taking office the President has used executive orders, laws pushed through Congress in the dark of night, and administrative actions by his departments to nationalize and control automobile manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, and portions of the healthcare industry. This is designed to take our country from a free enterprise economy to a socialist economy. There is absolutely no authority in the Constitution of the United States that allows the President to do this.