6 June 1944. This 54 year old general made the call knowing the potential implication. I can’t imagine the mental & emotional strain. And it’s so very hard to comprehend the sacrifices for a new future that were a result.

We cannot waste what happened on that day.

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.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has endeavoured 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 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 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 his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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.

"...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

First Published:

February 27, 2006.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them