"Long Train of Abuses"

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson and the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence gave the world a list of compelling reasons for the 13 united States (each considering itself to be its own sovereign nation) to separate themselves from Great Britain. Jefferson called the abuses of the British crown, "a long train of abuses and usurpations. . . to reduce them under absolute Despotism. . . " Then he wrote out the list of how royal government had by-passed the laws of England in order to get what they wanted out of the American people.

It really stunned me when I read this abuse of powerby the British King: "He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance." To me, that sounds just like 34 "czars" who run our land now. Our President has created new bureaucracies (with more to come--like the "Health Czar") to rule over us in the form of a shadow government. This is in order by-pass our Constitution and enforce what they think is best for us--the peasants. Do not look to most of the people in our current Congress (either party) to stop this. They are either rushing it along, or complacent in "trying to get along."

If this new tyranny continues we will not be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." You'll have to finish the song with the line, "the land that once was free, and the home of the slave."