Grievances Against the Federal Government

Free Republic | 7/4/2012 | me

[Claud]

Grievances Against the Federal Government

A citizen of these United States, who honors the letter and spirit of its Constitution, hereby asserts the following grievances against the Federal Government.

• It has wasted the Treasury and inflated the national debt beyond all precedent, enriching the coffers of a few at the expense of all.
• It has by its monetary policy everywhere promoted, encouraged, and aided the wanton amassing of debt while destroying prudent savings through devaluation.
• It has arrogated to itself powers that our Constitution has expressly reserved to the States and the People
• It has wantonly expanded its code of taxation and polluted it with myriads of arcane provisions, making compliance uncertain, burdensome, and costly, and subjecting enforcement to the mere caprice of its officials.
• It has promulgated miniscule environmental and agricultural dictates that are oppressive to the most ordinary operations of homes and businesses, and it has enforced them strenously.
• It has secretly devised and hastily approved legislation that is both monstrous in size and perverse in complexity, and it has imperiously demanded passage of these laws before the contents were fully known to the people’s representatives.
• It has neglected to prosecute bankers and financiers who have committed open fraud and theft.
• It has salvaged the largest financial institutions from their own private malinvestments by assuming the losses to the public Treasury, over the severe objections of the citizenry.
• It has engaged other nations in extended hostilities without any Declaration of War from the people’s elected Representatives.
• It has abused and exhausted the armies of the United States by burdening them with interminable and aimless missions as well as noxious rules of engagement.
• It has sanctioned the seizure of property by eminent domain for no real public interest.
• It has refused to satisfactorily address illegal immigration and to enforce its own laws and borders, to the detriment of lawful immigrants chosen by a just and orderly process.
• It has used the Transportation Safety Administration to commit the most vile indecencies against innocent travelers.
• It pretends to place on par with natural marriage the crime against nature, nullifying its own law to the contrary.
• It has sanctioned the abominable murder of unborn children in the womb and demanded that gross immoralities be funded by the public, irrespective of conscience.

Nor are these enumerated grievances the limit to its usurpations, as it dares to assert, with escalating arrogance, boundless powers of taxation and regulation under the Commerce Clause, signaling thereby an intent to tyrannize the entire scope of human life.

Let these facts be stated plainly, as a solemn record of the injustices committed by this government against Almighty God and the people of the United States, and let them be submitted to the judgment of history.

Published on this, the Fourth of July of the year of Our Lord 2012, in the two hundred and twenty sixth year of the Republic.

[winkadink]

Yes. We do have grievances. Thank you for listing them on July 4th.

[Former MSM Viewer]

About the only thing you could have added was, “When, in the course of Human Events...”

A thing of beauty, here, Sir.

[Diogenesis]

BEHOLD THE GOP’s CHAMPION = MR.ROMNEYCARE
INCREDIBLY HAPPY IMPOSING THE GOP's SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENT
WHICH IS: GOPe Romney-DEATHPANELS.

[exnavy]

Furthermore, we the people demand that the federal government cease and desist from the oppressive actions mentioned above, or, suffer the consequences as we the people determine the penalties to be.

[Eye of Unk]

Whatever they expect Americans to do they won”t expect what Americans CAN do.

One has to remember their strategy has been corrupted by a twisted Islamic/Fascist/ Communistic alliance.

[Rudder]

It has arrogated to itself powers that our Constitution has expressly reserved to the States and the People

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[Claud]

Thanks!

[Claud]

There’s a mistake? I don’t see it.

[gortklattu]

I believe your sentence was correct, and also notice that it justifies Romneycare. Interesting.

[NTHockey]

The government we are saddled with is a criminal enterprise and should be prosecuted under RICO statutes. The chances of that happening, with the corrupt judges we have throughout the country, is nil.

We can vote in all the “Conservatives” we want’; heck, we might even clean out the Congress, but we will never clean up the government bureaucracy. We have two choices - accept our chains or regain our liberty, like our Founding Fathers did. We cannot depend on Democans or Republicrats to do our work for us.

IF SECESSION NOT BE, REVOLUTION MUST.

[broken_arrow1]

Yeah, what he said!

[combat_boots]

Well done.

“1776 - The Signing (1972)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJmNnEPZHW8

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[ryan71]

It has enslaved, indoctrinated and brainwashed half our population.

[tomkat]

We have not devolved for lack of warnings:

     . . was right !

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[Travis McGee]

Congress can control the SCOTUS, if it has the will. The bolded part at the end is perhaps the least appreciated sentence in the entire Constitution.

U.S. Constitution, Article 3 Section 2:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

"...with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

Enough Tea Party Patriots could lead a new Congress, and put the SCOTUS back into its box. The USA was never intended to become a tyranny of five judges. It's in the Constitution: The Congress is superior to the SCOTUS. There are NOT "three co-equal branches" as most believe.

[Jacquerie]

Rep Steve King remarked that Congress could reduce the entire federal court system to John Roberts sitting at a card table with a candle.

So yes, Congress has plenty of power, but no will.

Here's a three page pdf on how to constitutionally Curb The Courts.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for the link! As with the concept of jury nullification, the first step is to make more Americans aware of the option. This might be our best route back to constitutional sanity.

[Antoninus]

I believe your sentence was correct, and also notice that it justifies Romneycare. Interesting.

LOL. Hey, if the states want to shoot themselves in the head, they are allowed. The problem is when the Feds come in and bail out failed state programs. They need to stop doing that.