A letter to King George

King George of America, This Letter is For You -- by Beth Quinn

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The history of the present King George of America 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 about the excesses of King George of America be submitted to a candid world:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. By use of a device called the "signing statement," he has placed himself above more than 750 laws enacted since he became king, including the anti-torture law passed by Congress to correct a most grievous wrong.

He has appointed Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices and, in so doing, he has created a Supreme Court to be an arm of his government absent the usual and customary checks and balances.

The Supreme Court of his Land has removed the protections of the Fourth Amendment by allowing unlawful police searches of our homes, all evidence thus obtained to be used against us in a Court of Law.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Incompetent Officials to run up our spending without producing services for those Citizens in need, such as the victims of the tempestuous storm that pounded our Southern Shores.

He has affected to render the Military independent and superior to Civil power, thereby creating a netherworld of despair at Gitmo, in which prisoners are held without charges, isolated from their families, deprived of a trial by jury, and subject to abuses against humanity.

He has abrogated the Citizens' right to privacy by ordering Officials of the Crown to monitor our phones, track our e-mail, demand to know our reading habits and examine our banking records.

He has censured and attempted to silence the Free Press for revealing his excesses, such as those enumerated above.

He has plundered the nation's land and air and picked the pockets of the Common Man, even as he has filled the royal coffers and called for Legislation to protect the riches of the Upper Classes.

He has desecrated our Constitution's Bill of Rights - our most sacred freedoms - by attempting to subvert that document's purpose and instead use it to limit rights through amendments that would ban marriage for certain of our Citizens and to criminalize certain expressions of Free Speech.

He has cut off the Good Will extended us in all parts of the world.

We, therefore, the citizens of these United States, do solemnly publish and declare that we wish to be free and independent of this monarchy. And for the support of this Declaration, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor, we mutually pledge to call for his impeachment by the Congress of these United States.

Signed:

Friends, I urge you to read the original Declaration of Independence to see how closely our own King George's various offenses mirror those of the king from whom we declared independence 230 years ago.

We can't wait another 932 days for this tyranny to end. Let us each declare our independence by signing the above document. Send by post to King George at The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20500; or fax to 202-456-2461; or e-mail to comments@whitehouse.gov. Then implore your representatives in Congress to dissolve this presidency.

(Beth's column appears Mondays in the Orange County Times-Hill Record. Email to: bquinn@th-record.com)