What began in troubled times seems to be ending in troubled times. The document that marks the beginning of the United States of America contains a long list of grievances that justifies the unanimous decision of the original thirteen colonies of our country to, in essence say, enough is enough. They would take no more abuse and usurpation from the government that they were under, and relying on God’s protection, they were willing to make great sacrifices to break free.
There was another beginning long before this, when certain European Christians likewise decided to get out from under oppression. They were called Puritans, Separatists, and Pilgrims, and they went to great lengths to attain freedom. They risked their lives and their families in order to obey the God of the universe. They came to the wilderness of America for freedom to follow the truth of God’s Word. The actual beginning of our self-government was in a document they signed aboard the vessel that brought them to America. In this document, the Mayflower Compact, they pledged their endeavor to be “for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith.”
Their desire was for freedom and to free others from their bondage of ignorance of God’s Word. As it is written, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4: 6). They knew from reading the Bible that the king or any government was not who bestows rights. They knew that God gives rights and is the standard of what is good and righteous. They were the first to print Bibles in English so that others would know the truth that had been hidden from them by those in power. Through God’s providence we have reaped the harvest of blessings from those who sowed in righteousness before us, but we as a nation after them have sowed unrighteousness and are now reaping curses.
Our situation now is much like that of our founders in the thirteen colonies. There are and have been leaders in our nation, and those who follow them, who have corrupted our country and brought us now to the brink of destruction, but there are many others who would have us return to morality, righteousness, and common sense. This feat seems impossible, and is impossible for man alone, but not for God. “For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1: 37). “He brings one down, He exalts another” (Psalm 75: 7). The government, the media, the educational system, the financial system, even much of what is supposed to be the church, has been taken piece by piece by those seeking to debase our country.
There is much similarity in the grievances put forth by the colonists in the Declaration of Independence to grievances that we can put forth today. While their grievances were directed at the king, government, and people of England, ours is toward our federal government and those who usurp authority over the Constitution and the people. Christianity is the foundation of our government and our Constitution is derived from Christian principles. Freedom, prosperity, and peace are some of the fruits of these Christian principles.
The following are the grievances of the original thirteen colonies listed in the Declaration of Independence that justified their separation from England, and the correlation to our grievances today against our own federal government:
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
The president and the Department of Justice have refused to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, our immigration laws, and have opposed states that attempt to enforce these laws. The president and Congress have foolishly wasted vast sums of tax payers’ money in countless ways, but particularly on so called stimulus packages that have done little if any to stimulate anything except debt.
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.
There are many issues now facing our nation that are of immediate and pressing importance, including the killing of unborn and newborn children, immigration and border protection, health care, and education. When a state acts upon issues such as these because of the inaction or erroneous action of the president or the federal government, it is forbidden to do so by them, and action is taken against that state to prevent any sort of state control of these issues.
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.
Our federal government has established voting districts that accommodate the election of anti-constitutional candidates and their agendas. Between such gerrymandering and rampant voter fraud, the right of representation has been severely compromised.
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.
The president and his cohorts in the legislature have slipped in laws during congressional recesses and placed on the American people regulations decided on in distant global conferences, outside the boundaries of our country and our Constitution.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
The president and his appointed attorney general have refused to enforce our laws, particularly the Defense of Marriage Act, our immigration laws, and voting regulations, effectively dissolving our representative houses. They, along with a majority of legislators, have grossly neglected to protect unborn children from harm, death, and much suffering, thus denying them the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
Having effectively dissolved the rightful legislative body, legislation and its enforcement must come from somewhere, so it rests with the individual states and the people, leaving the country without unity. The states and the people are left to defend marriage, to defend their own borders, to deal with voter fraud, and to protect the people, including unborn children. The duty of the federal government is neglected and left to the states and the people. Then the federal government opposes the states and the people who tend to the neglected issues.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Population by birth has been hindered through laws discouraging marriage, through inflation, taxes, abortion, and through the encouragement of homosexuality. For the purpose of undermining unity, the economy, and nationalism, laws of naturalization have been neglected. The executive branch has refused to enforce naturalization laws and Congress has refused to act upon this disregard of the Constitution. The influx of indigent immigrants flowing in unmitigated has strained the economy through tax expenditures and job losses for American citizens, and undoubtedly allowed entrance of many with harmful intentions. Further debilitation of our nation has been through the restriction of lands rich in natural resources so that these needed resources must be imported from other countries, often from those opposed to our ideals and hostile toward us, so that by purchasing these resources from them we are giving aid to our enemies.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
The president has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing to enforce laws concerning life, marriage, the right to keep and bear arms without infringement, and immigration. Congress has allowed this obstruction to continue. The president and Congress have allowed the courts to overstep their constitutional bounds. They are allowed to not just make judgments, but to make law, as in the infamous Roe verses Wade case that has resulted in heinous crimes against millions of babies, born and unborn. Only Congress is permitted to make laws. Every law must pass constitutional muster. Therefore the president is unlawful in enforcing what is not law, and in not enforcing what is law.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Judges are appointed by the president, not according to their strict adherence to the Constitution, but according to their liberal viewpoints in spite of the Constitution. They are a law unto themselves and not held accountable by the president or by Congress.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
The number of government agencies and bureaucracies has increased greatly under the current administration. These represent repetition of purpose, burdensome regulations, and wasted tax dollars.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
We have intervened in the affairs of other countries militarily, when our nation was not at risk or in danger, resulting in great loss of life, limb, and substance.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
The Constitution gives only Congress the power to declare war. However, the president orders our troops into combat here or there, with or without Congress’ consent.
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:
European law and Sharia law have been referenced by U. S. courts for reaching verdicts. Treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement have subverted our Constitution.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
While our military is being reduced and dismantled, the Department of Homeland Security is stockpiling huge amounts of ammunition, and has thousands of armed agents in place among us.
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
The mock trial known as Roe v. Wade has protected the federal government and others from being held accountable for the torture and murder of millions of babies. It has paved the way for tax money to fund this macabre mayhem and has given aid to those committing these hideous crimes.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
Federal taxes, regulations, and policies have created disincentives for manufacturing in the U.S. This has led to excessive unemployment and lopsided trade.
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
Through unlawful executive orders such as amnesty for illegal aliens, and unconstitutional legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, an increased tax burden has been laid upon us without our consent.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
Unborn and often newborn babies suffer cruel and unusual capital punishment, without trial by jury, without facing their accusers, or even being accused of a crime.
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
Instead of being tried overseas, our courts apply foreign laws to cases within our borders, regardless of our constitutional protections.
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:
The set system of laws that had served England and the colonies were being disregarded and replaced by tyranny. Our Constitution is being disregarded by the three branches of our government. Judges make arbitrary rulings as we are being set up for tyranny, which is ever encroaching.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
Our fundamental law, the Constitution, has had parts of its meaning distorted or disregarded. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have been unlawfully usurped by treaties and agreements.
For suspending our own legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
The president has legislated through executive order. Laws have passed during the absence of much of Congress in a stealthy manner. Our courts have become legislative bodies.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
The president has gone to foreign countries to speak against our country, apologizing to our enemies. His words and his actions are acts of war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
Our seas have been plundered by government confiscation of our oilfields. Our country has been ravaged from coast to coast through harmful government policies that ruin our schools, our cities, and 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.
Our borders are left open for our enemies and those who would live as parasites on American taxpayers, to complete the work of destruction that our own government has begun and that was accelerated on September 11, 2001. Our enemies kill and maim indiscriminately, and our government aids and abets them in an effort to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny.
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.
Our military personnel are basically held captive after their enlistment, and being intertwined into their training is the conditioning to attack their fellow citizens.
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.
We see the policies of our government causing racial tension, demonstrations by illegal aliens, and the indiscriminate killing by Muslim terrorists, anti-Christian extremists, and others motivated by these insane policies.
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.
We have also petitioned our three branches of government for redress, to little avail. Our republic has turned into a tyrannical government much like the one from which the founders and our ancestors gained independence. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, so painstakingly drafted, have become sources referenced by the federal government only when misconstrued to serve the purposes of tyranny.
Our grievances go beyond those of the colonists to include gross immorality that is promoted by the federal government, and with all the entitlement programs of the federal government, the land of the free has become the land of the freebies. Just as surely as we were being assaulted with bombs and bullets by the British in 1776, we are now being assaulted with policies and programs by the president and his people.
Ours is not a call to revolt but a call to recover. Our heritage has been allowed to be stolen, and now we want it back. With voter fraud and few righteous candidates for government office, recovery is difficult. Will we keep following the breadcrumbs of government promises into the trap that is ready to fall, or will we be disciplined enough to say no to the insane policies that are ruining America, and work to regain what has been lost? We the people are America and those elected to offices of government work for us. If they don’t do the job, we must terminate their employment and prosecute when necessary. Every American citizen is called to be vigilant. We must be aware of the activities of those making decisions for us and spending our money. We have to take what action we can to preserve liberty for us, our children, grandchildren, and the world. Freedom is worth fighting for!