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| Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of
the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men
often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will
not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do
opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my
sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The
questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own
part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and
in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the
debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill
the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep
back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should
consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of
disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are
apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that
siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged
in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number
of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which
so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of
spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and
to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of
experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And
judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the
British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which
gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that
insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not,
sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed
with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports
with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are
fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown
ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back
our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and
subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir,
what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?
Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any
enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies
and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for
no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the
British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them?
Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the
subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find
which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive
ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm
which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have
supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored
its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional
violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been
spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these
things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no
longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve
inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long
contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have
been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until
the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat
it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is
left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next
year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be
stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our
backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have
bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those
means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people,
armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we
possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who
presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight
our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the
vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were
base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There
is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their
clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it
come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--
but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from
the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are
already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish?
What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.c...give-me-death.h
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Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
Nemesis Peace Centre
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.../protector.html
Abuse of Women and Children
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Nemesis News
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/
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| In article <o1lsf.1719$h24.702@trndny05>, "!:?)"@invaid.net (!:?)) wrote:
> Still, it's over 200 years old and it's still a stirring Speech!
> Love stuff like that!
I've got the declaration of Independence too, which I declared for Milton
Keynes, but then I realised that the Queen is not the problem, the problem is
Tony Blair.
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 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 shown 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 the
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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of
invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that
purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing
to pass others to encourage their migration 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 harass 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 offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring
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 plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and
destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to
complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with
circumstances of cruelty, and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored 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 ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British 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 nesessity, 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 the
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.
So I formally declare myself Independent from Tony Blair and his stupid cabinet.
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html
http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm
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| Waterspider 2005-12-29, 1:04 am |
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"!:?)" <"!:?)"@invaid.net> wrote in message
news:DMGsf.2931$h24.1145@trndny05...
> Alan wrote:
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> Wow more than what I asked for and it was good.
> Boy if you ever applied yourself as a Speach Writer you'd have a hell of a
> career
Um, I don't think Alan wrote that.
Waterspider
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| Whatsup Doc 2005-12-29, 1:04 am |
| give me pussy or give me death! (i dont want to die!!)
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| Waterspider 2005-12-29, 1:04 am |
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"Whatsup Doc" <coinsinwell1111@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:10420-43B33E55-914@storefull-3351.bay.webtv.net...
> give me pussy or give me death! (i dont want to die!!)
Yeah, but with your attitude, I can't imagine you getting laid...
So, rest in peace.
<evil grin>
Waterspider
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| Waterspider 2005-12-29, 1:04 am |
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"Whatsup Doc" <coinsinwell1111@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:10420-43B33E55-914@storefull-3351.bay.webtv.net...
> give me pussy or give me death! (i dont want to die!!)
>
Oh yeah,
Careful, you'll get torn to shreds in here.
You're much safer trolling the nice folks at ash-c.
Waterspider
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| In article <11r6fs96ts6l88b@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
(Waterspider) wrote:
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> "!:?)" <"!:?)"@invaid.net> wrote in message
> news:DMGsf.2931$h24.1145@trndny05...
>
> Um, I don't think Alan wrote that.
>
> Waterspider
Hey, I would have done if somebody hadn't got there first. Why blame me just
because I was born too late?
http://interventionmag.com/Primary/...ws&file=article
&sid=85
The woman is severely retarded and now five months pregnant. Experts say she
operates at a one-year-old’s level, emotionally and mentally. Living in a
special care home in Orlando, Florida, she was raped many times.
How can a retarded woman living in a "special care home" get raped many times?
How sick is that?
Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
Nemesis Peace Centre
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.../protector.html
Abuse of Women and Children
http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/
Nemesis News
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/
Absolute Anarchy
http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/
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| In article <11r6i528r23mhc1@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
(Waterspider) wrote:
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> "Whatsup Doc" <coinsinwell1111@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:10420-43B33E55-914@storefull-3351.bay.webtv.net...
> Oh yeah,
> Careful, you'll get torn to shreds in here.
> You're much safer trolling the nice folks at ash-c.
>
> Waterspider
There are trolls in ash-sea? What kind of support newsgroup is that?
Here you get the song of the day:
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html
http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm
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| Waterspider 2005-12-29, 12:56 pm |
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"Alan" <alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
news:memo.20051229102041.304Q@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk...
> In article <11r6i528r23mhc1@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
> (Waterspider) wrote:
>
> There are trolls in ash-sea? What kind of support newsgroup is that?
> Here you get the song of the day:
>
> Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Thanks for reminding me to play some music.
Off to Virgin Radio...
Spidey
>
> We'll be fighting in the streets
> With our children at our feet
> And the morals that they worship will be gone
> And the men who spurred us on
> Sit in judgement of all wrong
> They decide and the shotgun sings the song
>
> I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
> Take a bow for the new revolution
> Smile and grin at the change all around
> Pick up my guitar and play
> Just like yesterday
> Then I'll get on my knees and pray
> We don't get fooled again
>
> The change, it had to come
> We knew it all along
> We were liberated from the fold, that's all
> And the world looks just the same
> And history ain't changed
> 'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
>
> I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
> Take a bow for the new revolution
> Smile and grin at the change all around
> Pick up my guitar and play
> Just like yesterday
> Then I'll get on my knees and pray
> We don't get fooled again
> No, no!
>
> I'll move myself and my family aside
> If we happen to be left half alive
> I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
> Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
>
> Do ya
>
> Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
>
> There's nothing in the streets
> Looks any different to me
> And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
> And the parting on the left
> Is now parting on the right
> And the beards have all grown longer overnight
>
> I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
> Take a bow for the new revolution
> Smile and grin at the change all around
> Pick up my guitar and play
> Just like yesterday
> Then I'll get on my knees and pray
> We don't get fooled again
> Don't get fooled again
> No, no!
>
> Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
>
> Meet the new boss
> Same as the old boss
>
>
>
> Lord Cerne Abbas
>
> Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
> Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
> All his spin doctors and all the President's men
> couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
>
> http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html
>
> http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html
>
> http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm
>
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| In article <11r8ato7tnv6j9c@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
(Waterspider) wrote:
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> "Alan" <alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:memo.20051229101601.304P@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk...
> Why thank you, your lordship, but that wasn't me, it was my evil twin.
> <sweet smile>
>
> Spidey
Hey, when you talk to me like that I just have to come up with another song.
I come from down in the valley
where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
when she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green
We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride
Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress
That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride
I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care
But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
they haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
that sends me down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
my baby and I
I love that song. My sister-in-law said it was depressing, bit I kinda see it as
more in the way of prophetic.
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html
http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm
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| Whatsup Doc 2005-12-30, 12:56 pm |
| oh evil one i have no problems in that area.
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