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HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:23:00 -
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We are not celebrating the fourth day of the month; rather we are honoring the most important day in the history of our great nation, when we declared to King George III that after "a long train of abuses and usurpations" we would no longer be subjects to his tyrannical rule (U.S. Declaration of Independence).
Those who signed the Declaration of Independence were accused of treason and became the objects of vicious manhunts. Some were taken, and some, like Thomas Jefferson, had narrow escapes. All who had property or families near British strongholds suffered, and many died fighting for freedom so that future generations would not have to. |
Krom Ganesh
Holdfast Syndicate Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:25:00 -
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You need a disclaimer for "we". Not all players here are American. |
SoTa PoP
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:26:00 -
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Krom Ganesh wrote:You need a disclaimer for "we". Not all the people here are American. He's just farming likes because I passed him |
Vicious Minotaur
Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:27:00 -
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Being an American, all I can say is:
Stop it.
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Anuliadon Gortusk
Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:28:00 -
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I hope you all are wearing your 'Merica chubbies...i know i am at my midnight-6 shift. |
Kador Ouryon
Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:31:00 -
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HIGH TREASON I SAY! Spot of tea after the battle sir? |
Aizen Intiki
Ghost Wolf Industries Alpha Wolf Pack
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:32:00 -
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We said **** GB. That's all you had to say tbh..... |
HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:32:00 -
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he Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 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, 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 shewn, 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. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. |
BOZ MR
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:32:00 -
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SoTa PoP wrote:Krom Ganesh wrote:You need a disclaimer for "we". Not all the people here are American. He's just farming likes because I passed him Let's make it counter productive , here have my like |
SoTa PoP
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:35:00 -
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BOZ MR wrote:SoTa PoP wrote:Krom Ganesh wrote:You need a disclaimer for "we". Not all the people here are American. He's just farming likes because I passed him Let's make it counter productive , here have my like Lmao! |
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IrishWebster
Molon Labe. League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:35:00 -
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Anuliadon Gortusk wrote:I hope you all are wearing your 'Merica chubbies...i know i am at my midnight-6 shift.
I'm on duty for 24 solid waking hours at my Squadron, for the USMC. Please... do not whine.
Happy 4th of July, everyone, regardless of your nationality. You see, I also come from an Irish heritage, and as such, I don't believe that anyone should be denied the opportunity to celebrate. So love us or hate us, break out a pint for the USA. Drink one for me, while you've got the beer out.
I can't drink on duty.
-Irish |
HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:36:00 -
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He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 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 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 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. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. 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 obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 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: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring 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: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. 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. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured 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. |
HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:37:00 -
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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. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. 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 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. |
HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:38:00 -
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Signed by
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton |
Khal V'Rani
Nephilim Initiative
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:51:00 -
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Ah yes. The legacy of freedom loving rebels, criminals and terrorists. (At least according to the Brits) I'll have a drink to that heritage. Well... I'll probably have quite a few actually. I have a bottle of JD Single Barrel to finish.
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HowDidThatTaste
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Posted - 2013.07.04 07:54:00 -
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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
Words of wisdom to ALL!
Thanks to all the soldiers of the world who celebrate freedom from Tyranny! |
Spkr4theDead
Namtar Elite Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.04 08:10:00 -
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IrishWebster wrote:Anuliadon Gortusk wrote:I hope you all are wearing your 'Merica chubbies...i know i am at my midnight-6 shift. I'm on duty for 24 solid waking hours at my Squadron, for the USMC. Please... do not whine. Happy 4th of July, everyone, regardless of your nationality. You see, I also come from an Irish heritage, and as such, I don't believe that anyone should be denied the opportunity to celebrate. So love us or hate us, break out a pint for the USA. Drink one for me, while you've got the beer out. I can't drink on duty. -Irish Drink damnit |
WhiteMage7322
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.07.04 14:46:00 -
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OP is so hardcore. But the sad part is that everyone think that 4th of July is for days off, hotdogs, beers, fireworks, beaches, Dust 514 x3 SP and Little Caesars $5 Hot and Ready pizza. |
Void Echo
Internal Error. League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.05 04:02:00 -
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funny, the most intelligent people on the planet in the 1700s came together to create this nation, and now the dumbest people on the planet are in control of it. ironic |
TechMechMeds
Swamp Marines
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Posted - 2013.07.05 06:53:00 -
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Cheers to my relatives who were among the first colonists, cheers to the ones ordered to go kill loads of those and cheers to the ones who fought back, cheers to my relatives who won the war of taxation righ I mean freedom, cheers to my relatives who fought on both sides of the civil war and cheers to the ones who came back after it all, also big shout out to the ones who fought the Romans, vikings, Normans, Ourselves,French, French again etc etc etc, Dont forget to buy a flag and wave it high. Should tell you how much tax you paid extra at the bottom of the receipt :-) |
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TechMechMeds
Swamp Marines
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Posted - 2013.07.05 06:56:00 -
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Fyi my family name pre dates 1000ad, random fact the name egbert is over 1200 years old :-) |
TechMechMeds
Swamp Marines
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Posted - 2013.07.05 06:57:00 -
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Egbert is not my name though lol |
Medic 1879
Tritan's Onslaught RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.07.05 12:20:00 -
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TechMechMeds wrote:Egbert is not my name though lol
Lies your Egbert Egbertson aren't you? |
General John Ripper
The Generals EoN.
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Posted - 2013.07.05 20:18:00 -
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I thought independence day was when Mars Attacked and we liberated and saved our country by forcing the aliens to listen to yodeling music. |
Delta 749
Kestrel Reconnaissance
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Posted - 2013.07.05 23:45:00 -
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Krom Ganesh wrote:You need a disclaimer for "we". Not all the people here are American.
On the 4th everyone is an honorary American, and remember that McDonalds is a beachhead to establish long term occupation of your country |
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