Happy Independence Day!
On July 4, 1776, a ragtag group of American colonists stood up to the world's only superpower and demanded the right to live in freedom. For the next six years, they risked their lives as one, spilling their blood on battlefield after battlefield, losing over and over again, determined in the words of the license plates on all cars from the State of New Hampshire, whose ratification of the U.S. Constitution made us a country, to "life free or die."
Those brave men and women set an example for all the world to follow. They showed that no matter how overwhelming the odds might seem, those who are determined to struggle for liberty can carry the day. When the apparently mighty edifice of the USSR toppled and fell, the world was reminded not only of this fact, but also that it takes more than the collapse of dictatorship to earn freedom, it takes a concerted effort of all the nation's people to preserve what has been won. So far, the people of Russia have proven unwilling to put forth that effort, and the result is that the average Russian man doesn't live to see his 60th year or earn as much as $5/hour for his labor.
We hope that one day the people of Russia will recognize Thomas Jefferson's self-evident truths and stand together as one to fight for them.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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, 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 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. --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. 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.
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4 comments:
I hope that Tatarstan, like the US, will become independent one day.
It's a great paradox that the authors of the Declaration of Independence proclaiming all kinds of liberties (in fact, it was nothing more than a vast plagiarism from Diderot and other authors of the French Englightment) George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were prosperous... slaveowners. :D
Hope this piece of outrageous hypocrisy being the cornerstone of "American values" will be taken into account by the future International Criminal Tribunal for the Former United States of America.
Your ignorance, and arrogance, is truly breathtaking.
What the Americans claim credit for is not originality of thought but originality action. They put into practice, for the first time in human history and long before the French revolution, the idea of democracy on a large scale, vesting common people with real power for the first time and making it last for more than 200 years now. In just the past century, Russia has changed unstable governments an appalling four times.
Americans themselves routinely criticize their founding fathers for not going far enough, and are free to do so. Can Russians say the same? Not hardly.
Where did you get your brain? K-mart? Was it a blue-light special?
People in Russia have seen that the West wish them only to perish in a new civil war. The West betrayed their Russian allies and supported communists hoping they would destroy Russia. The West supported traitor Yeltsin destroying the Soviet Union and sharing Russia between slave owners. The West stimulates anti-Russian chauvinism, supports terrorists and praises the most amoral and disgusting characters, which were contempted if they natives of some Western country.
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