Community | July 04, 2011 | 3 comments

King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July!

source: http://www.infowars.com/king-george-iii-won-happy-fourth-of-july/

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The Declaration of Independence is best remembered as a declaration of war, a war declared on the grounds that we wanted our own flag. The sheer stupidity and anachronism of the idea serves to discourage any thoughts about why Canada didn’t need a bloody war, whether the U.S. war benefited people outside the new aristocracy to whom power was transferred, what bothered Frederick Douglas so much about a day celebrating “independence,” or what the Declaration of Independence actually said.

When you read the Declaration of Independence, it turns out to be an indictment of King George III for various abuses of power. And those abuses of power look fairly similar to abuses of power we happily permit U.S. presidents to engage in today, either as regards the people of this nation or the people of territories and nations that our military occupies today in a manner uncomfortably resembling Britain’s rule over the 13 colonies.

Or perhaps I should say, a large portion of us take turns being happy or outraged depending on the political party with which the current president is identified.

“We have been sliding for 70 years to a situation where Congress has nothing to do with the decision about whether to go to war or not, and the president is becoming an absolute monarch.” Thus spoke Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) on the floor of the House recently, some years after having refused to back the impeachment of President George W. Bush, thus facilitating the slide toward the current situation.

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago, recently commented that President Nixon had finally won. Although Ellsberg was acquitted of criminal charges, the facts made public, and Nixon compelled to resign, all of the abuses of power Nixon faced possible impeachment and prosecution for have now been legalized (or made acceptable practice): warrantless spying, searches and seizures, baseless secrecy, assassination attempts, etc. By the same logic, King George III is as big a winner as Richard M. Nixon. A quick survey of the charges brought against King George III on July 4, 1776, is illuminating:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good....

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3 comments // King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July!

  • Nick19
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      Nick19  

    • Oh god, an article from Infowar? Article automatically discredited. The executive branch is not some all powerful institution that determines all as the article attempts to suggest. If the executive were a monarchy, the president would have the ability to dismantle the Congress, rewrite the constitution, and then have new elections for another Congress. Oh wait, thats actually called Presidentialism and its a common practice in many Latin American nations. This article is overblown since what he's describing would be more of a presidentialist style of governance compared to a monarchical society where the main head of power controls everything. Also, monarchs are not elected by the way (Aside from God of course). Ok, the reason we have bases in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states has more to do with domestic concerns from the Sunni monarch states of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). They all have a common fear of Iran and don't have the numbers to face a sort of Iranian invasion. So they decide to invite the US and other Western nations to build bases in the middle of deserts far from populated areas. I could go on and on and on bashing this article. Anyways, I agree with a few things here and there but other than that, this article feels a bit overblown in terms of it's viewpoint on foreign policy concerns.

    • 11 months ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • Nick19:

      Monarchies, and even dictatorships, are often far more complicated than that.

      While it may seem like these leaders enjoy absolute power, that's only really in theory. If they step on the wrong toes, especially the military's (or the nobility's in Monarchies) or the upper class, things can get real ugly real fast. Even with "absolute power," there's still a delicate political balance to be maintained.

      While I also pretty much instantly discredit anything that comes out of infowars or prisonplanet, this is pretty much an editorial piece and I think you'd have to agree, it raises some interesting points.

      Almost all of the things we fought the revolution for are either in place today or worse than they were then. Obviously, it's not the same time period and it's not the same country. But it's something to think about.

      But the president can, as of right now, with no due process, no oversight and no possibility of contesting the charge, declare you a terrorist, imprison you indefinitely, torture you AND kill you with no legal repercussions at all, to say nothing of all the other crazy shit that's been going on. Obviously doing that has *political* repercussions, but that is the current state of the law.

      Chew on that for a while, then place it in context with the article's claims.

      Never before in our history, not even during the Civil War or World War I, have our Civil Rights been this abandoned, and we're not really even at war. We've "declared" war on a *tactic.*

      I'm just saying, we started a revolution in this country over things about, if not less, serious than that. I personally think the revolutionaries were kind of crazy, paranoid about things that weren't that big of a deal, but it is true.*

    • 11 months ago
  • Saladin
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