Over the last 150 years, we've had to deal with an increasingly oppressive federal government, almost always with the consent and approval of the ignorant masses who, knowingly or unknowingly, believe it to be in their best interests. How many more encroachments on our freedoms, liberties, and lives must we endure before people finally accept that the US government is no longer one 'of the people, by the people, and for the people?????

From our original D of I, we listed numerous transgressions that the crown perpetrated against us, his own people, that forced us to declare our own nation apart from the crown, and now we seem to have the same things happening.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

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:

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 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.

So how much more evil and oppression do you think we should be made to suffer from before announcing our own independence again???