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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:25 PM
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READ THESE WORDS - In Congress, July 4, 1776
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.

More: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:26 PM
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1. The Founding Fathers are scum! They designed this system...
to work this way. Everything is controlled by powerful Partisan Elitists!

The American "Revolution" was a sham!
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:28 PM
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2. Not posting as a tribute...but as a reminder...nt
NT
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UL_Approved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:34 PM
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4. Don't blame our forefathers
They had to go through the same shit that we are going through right now. Battles with religious extremists, massive governmental control, limitation of civil liberties. We have survived many different times like this before, and we will again.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:29 PM
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3. I'd like to see congress do the following:
1. Seriously address Campaign Finance Reform
2. Do an immediate review of the FEC and FCC and how they handled this election, via an independent council.
3. Immediately reinstate the "fairness doctrine"

I don't want to secede from the Union - I want the Union to do better, and learn from our mistakes.
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