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VOL.
23 COMMON SENSE REVISITED
OPPRESSION
REVISITED!?!
Webster
dictionary defines oppression:
“Oppression
is the cruel, unfair, or unjust exercise of power and authority
over a person or group. It involves creating systemic barriers—such
as prejudiced laws, policies, or social norms—that limit the
freedom, opportunities, and rights of specific groups while
benefiting others.”
Webster
dictionary list the following Key Aspects of Oppression as:
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“Systemic
Power: It is not usually an isolated incident, but a
sustained,, organized system of mistreatment.
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Unfair
Treatment: It involves discrimination, coercion, and abuse.
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Marginalization: It
places restrictions on specific groups, causing hardship and
inequality.”
Examples
include: Racism, sexism, classism, and systemic discrimination.”
Uh…..all
of the above connotations appertaining to oppression pertains to
the Black American Experience as well then as it continues even now.
In
Congress, on July 4, 1776, the disgruntled American colonists
endorsed the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of
America. The Declaration of Independence says:
“When
in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
(Pluribus Unum, Latin for "Out of many, one," is a
foundational American motto adopted in 1782 to signify that
thirteen distinct colonies united to form one nation. Proposed in
1776 by a committee including John
Adams, Benjamin
Franklin,
and Thomas
Jefferson,
it was featured on the Great Seal of the United States to highlight
national unity and strength. 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 the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
to render a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
mankind should declare the evidence which impel them to demand the
separation.” (Such eloquent and lofty thoughts expressed to impress
the colonials to revolt against Great Britain, and yet a great deal
of them did not believe that blacks were their equal and, in many
cases, they viewed blacks as only 3/5ths of a person. Where is the
COMMON SENSE in that mind set of those colonists that were willing to
take on the most powerful country in the world? Especially with the
religious belief that God was with them and blessed them in their
thoughts and actions.)
Think
deeply on those, thus written in the first paragraph of the
declaration as you read the rest of the American colonists
declaration. Reflect on the circumstances that we Americans are faced
with now in 2026 and beyond. The declaration further states :
“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,
(COMMON SENSE expounded on for clarity as to the warning for the
colonists to guard against any attempts to erode those just powers
given by divine God.)--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. (The
by-product of this major posit/truth dictates the subsequent results
called for from “the consent of the governed.”)
chief of these by-products is Prudence (Prudence defined means, (from
“Latin: prudentia , contracted from providentia meaning “seeing
ahead, sagacity”) is the ability to govern and discipline oneself
by the use of reason.” In short “COMMON SENSE REVISITED.”)
Prudence indeed will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath
shewn/shone, 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.--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/the taking of a position of power or
importance unlawfully or by force “by a truly evil man,”
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let Facts (Evidence
That Demand a verdict)
be
submitted to a candid world.
He
(King George III of Great Britain)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
(George III and trump)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
(they have)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 (George III and trump)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 mean time 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 migrations 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
(George III and trump)has made Judges dependent on his Will alone,
for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their
salaries.
He
(George III and trump)has erected a multitude of New Offices, and
sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass 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
(George III and trump)has affected to render the Military independent
of and superior to the Civil power.
He
(George
III and trump)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:
(George
III and trump)
are guilty of Quartering/placing large bodies of armed troops among
us to harass the American citizens:
For
protecting them (giving troops of military soldiers immunity), 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 offences:
For
abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
Province, establishing therein an (based on random choice or personal
whim, rather than any reason or system) 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 abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He
has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and
destroyed the lives of our people.
He
is at this time (1776) transporting large Armies of foreign
Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny,
already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head
of a civilized nation (this applies to trump as well).
He
has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to
bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their
friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He
has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
Savages (indigenous inhabitants of North America), 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 the ruler of a
free people.
Nor
have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have
warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable/unsanctioned,unjustifiable 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/called upon them by the ties of our
common kindred to disavow/deny these usurpations, which, would
inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too
have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity/descended
from the same British ancestors. We must, therefore, acquiesce/(take
the required actions called for in) the necessity, 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
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.
COMMON
SENSE REVISITED…
UNTIL
WE READ AGAIN…
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BE CONTINUED…
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