Reading and Thinking

After reading it, I still cannot quite wrap my mind around it: How could we have allowed ourselves to become - at this point in our history, 231 years after The Declaration of Independence was adopted - a pawn in whatever game the Bush administration is playing in the world theater?

Honestly, in comparing what we have seen out of this administration in recent years (and especially recent months), to the tyrannical acts outlined in the Declaration, just how different are the actions of Mr. G. W. Bush from those of the King of Great Britain at the time we decided enough is enough? I know I am not the only one who has made the correlation that that particular King's name was "George" as well, right? How long are we going to continue to be sheeple and just nod and drool, or worse, look away?

"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 to 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 their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.