4th of july?

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  1. #1 stupidstuff, Jul 5, 2012
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    What is the 4th of july?

    Is it a day to drink beer? A day to BBQ? A day to celebrate our independence?

    Or is it a day to honor the ones who fight and have fought for our independence and the principles our republic was founded on? How do we honor those who have fallen for our independence? Not by drinking beer and having a BBQ. Maybe a history lesson. Maybe opening our eyes and seeing that many of the things that our country rebelled against have returned. Allowing these treatments dishonors them and no amount of booze hot wings and pride will change the truth.

    Try reading this and drawing the historic parallels. Many of these listed are currently taking place without major protest.


    IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen 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 shewn, 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 Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. 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 Tyranny over these States. 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 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.

    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. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. 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, the Representatives of the 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 Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, 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.




    Now that you have read the Declaration of Independence try reading and researching these laws that remove a right or freedoms this document was set to protect. Every law, executive order..... listed removes a freedom afforded by your creator and the bill of rights.

    -Patriot act
    -domestic securities enhancement act
    -national emergency act
    -John warner defense authorization act
    -Military commission act
    -National defense authorization act
    -Anti terrorism and effective death penalty act
    -Model state health emergency act
    -HR 645 National emergency centers establishment act
    -Mathew sheppard hate crimes prevention act
    -Brady bill
    -defense production act
    -Executive orders 12919, 13438 and national defense resources EXO.
    -Presidential directive 51
    -NSPD 59,20,5
    -Obomacare
    So many I will leave it at that and just say there is a way for the government to sidestep any right you think you have. Kind of like the king did:rolleyes:

    The part I hate about the 4th is the way it has been turned into a cheap holiday by corporate america and the lack of concern that we celibrate an idea that has been destroyed.


    Happy 4th of july.
     
  2. Wait what?

    Enjoy life.
     
  3. Its just a day to blow shit up.
     
  4. [quote name='"twitchydude420"']Its just a day to blow shit up.[/quote]

    While drunk
     
  5. murica! fuck yea!
     
  6. It's a day to eat lots of food, smoke lots of weed, and drink lots of alcohol.

    It should be a day of mourning, because what the founding fathers of this country fought for in the War of Independence is not represented by our government any longer.

    They have trampled upon the Constitution and become EXACTLY what the British were when those original colonies sought independence from them. They are liars, thieves, deceivers, murderers, imperialists, and back-stabbers, and are guilty of the crime of treason.

    Here's to hoping that one day we can celebrate a new Independence Day, after we have freed ourselves from the shackles and binds of the fascists that now rule us through big business interests and ridiculous taxes.
     
  7. It's day to work 11 hours and then come home to mufuckers blowing off fire works in my apartment complex all damn night
     
  8. for me, it was a day to remember how awesome america CAN be. and a day to get drunk... really really drunk.
     
  9. haha what a joke.

    isn't it funny how American Independence is just celebrated by getting drunk........yet know one actually cares about the full extent of what was put forth on that day.

    You ask the average American they say

    Average American: "it's the day we became independent from Britain"

    Foreign entity: What did that day mean for your constitution as American peoples under a ruling government body?

    Average American: "Alcohol, Parties and Fireworks"
     
  10. #10 pyro44199, Jul 5, 2012
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    It's a day to remember only half of the next day
    And yes I don't give a shit about the 4th of July.
     
  11. i believe it is the day we honor will smith for banishing the aliens from our god given mother earth
     
  12. Was far too drunk to care what sort of day it was supposed to be.
     
  13. [quote name='"D M z"']haha what a joke.

    isn't it funny how American Independence is just celebrated by getting drunk........yet know one actually cares about the full extent of what was put forth on that day.

    You ask the average American they say

    Average American: "it's the day we became independent from Britain"

    Foreign entity: What did that day mean for your constitution as American peoples under a ruling government body?

    Average American: "Alcohol, Parties and Fireworks"[/quote]

    Ok... so how do you suggest we celebrate..? Read the constitution? :rolleyes:

    Edit... I'm willing to bet the colonists got drunk as fuck when they declared independence
     

  14. They were drunk as fuck for almost the entirety of the War of Independence.

    Seriously...they'd go to the bars, get hammered, and then go fight.
     
  15. I burn trees and shoot off 'illegal' fireworks.. we gotta go out of state to get them.. civil disobedience seems american enough. Besides, all other holidays have been raped by materialism.
     

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