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All the old forms will still be there: legislatures, elections, campaigns—plenty of bread and circuses. It will all seem “normal”.
But “consent of the governed” will no longer apply; actual control of the state will have passed to a small and privileged group who rule for the benefit of their wealthy peers and corporate patrons. But it will all seem “normal”.
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And when it happens, somehow; it will all seem “normal”.
OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE AND EVERY THING THAT THIS NATION HAS EVER STOOD FOR, AND WAS INTENDED TO STAND FOR, STANDS IN PERIL.
THE WAR MUST END!
THE CONGRESS MUST ACT RESPONSIBLY!
BUSH, CHENEY AND ALL OTHER GUILTY PARTIES MUST BE IMPEACHED AND BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!
WE DARE NOT BE THE GENERATION OF WHICH IT WILL BE WRITTEN: "THEY DID NOT HAVE THE COURAGE, WILL, INTELLIGENCE, CONVICTION OR STRENGTH OF CHARACTER TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY."
OUR ULTIMATE RIGHTS AND HIGHEST DUTIES AS AMERICANS RESIDE IN THESE WORDS:
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.
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