I first traveled to Philadelphia to accomplish two goals. I went to visit my friend Pennsylvania Thom at his house and to visit Independence Hall. Thom was gracious to accommodate my request to visit Independence Hall on July 2nd because he knew as I did that the Declaration was actually adopted by vote on the 2nd of July. I had with me in my possession McCullough's biography of John Adams in which he wrote a letter to his wife confirming the date of adoption. It was kept a secret as long as possible to protect the signers from retribution.
Then as now, we have fewer secrets than we like to think. Within a day, word was noised abroad that the declaration had passed, and so it was read aloud in the square on July 4th so that people would know what it said. I argued with the Park Ranger on site which lead to a very amazing story I like to tell about how the Secretary of the Interior called me at work to apologize for how I was treated at Independence Hall. To compensate myself for my troubles, I took pictures in rooms where they prefer you not do so. Well, nerts to them.
Now as never before we have an imperial president. Obama would be a king if he could. He has a pen, and he has a phone, and if congress wont' act, he will. How very diabolically monarchial of him. Take a moment and read the reasons for independence and then ask if the government of this nation is any different or even any better than that under King George III.
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 till his Assent 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 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.
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 manly 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 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.
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.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
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 harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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 constitution, 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 Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
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:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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.
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.
Obama is a lawless president. He plays "catch me if you can" and manipulates language and abandons his responsibilities to do things that are the purview and responsibility of other people. Obama wanted to "fundamentally transform" or destroy America and rebuild it in his image. What right has he?
Now as never before, remember the men of Philadelphia. They are real to me. Their legacy is real to you, or at least it should be, no matter your ancestry or national duty. When America dies, the last, best hope of mankind on earth goes too, and woe be to all men everywhere. The world is kept in check because America keeps it safe. Without America, we have anarchy.
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