Please find below, in parentheses, commentary that compares the Trump Outrages of the last four months with the litany of misdeeds of which the Founding Fathers accused King George as justifying their decision to rebel absolutely and completely against his unjust rule.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people 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, 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 of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
(Pardoning J-6 convicts and other MAGA trash, destroying government agencies through DOGE, disbanding the DOJ Civil Rights division, ending criminal prosecution and civil enforcement of laws for the public benefit.) - He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance...
(Pressuring big city mayors and state governors to end migrant protections, DEI policies, and withdrawing funding for universities and nonprofits that support Palestinian rights, defunding AID, SNAP, Medicaid, and a host of other social services.) - He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people...
(Cutting off funding for states, counties, and cities deemed political enemies of the Trump regime.) - He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable...
- He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly...
(He has gutted administrative agencies, firing long-time civil servants because they refused to kowtow to MAGA priorities.) - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected...
(Trump has defunded public health and welfare, infrastructure maintenance, land management, and socially beneficial nonprofit activity.) - He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States...
(Obstructing immigration policies, especially harming industries reliant on migrant labor.) - He has obstructed the Administration of Justice...
(Refusing to enforce laws that constrain his misconduct, threatening judges, and inciting violence.) - He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone...
(See above.) - He has erected a multitude of New Offices...
(Deploying ICE officers en masse to intimidate communities of color.) - He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies...
(Remember Gavin Newsom suing over military deployment?) - He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
(As per the DOJ under Pam Bondi—yes, seriously.) - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution...
(Aligning with authoritarian regimes like Bukele’s El Salvador.) - For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment...
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
(Tariffs have returned—with a vengeance. Like the ones that triggered the Boston Tea Party.) - For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
(Trump tariffs cost average Americans $1,700/year—basically a MAGA tax.) - For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
(Mass deportations with no conviction, no trial.) - For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
(Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a foreign prison, wrongly accused.) - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province...
(Red states implementing harsh, theocratic laws to set precedent for national imposition.) - For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws...
(Dismantling DEI, defunding police oversight, shredding due process.) - For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power...
(The MAGA Congress does Trump’s will. Democrats offer no real opposition.)