Again, this is true in occupied nations abroad, and domestically as regards states' rights to provide health coverage, drug legalization, or same sex marriage.
"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. "
This is most blatantly so in places Obama is drone-bombing: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia. It is also so at home where banks and corporations are protected with massive bailouts, but people are not, while huge investments ARE made in incarceration and military recruitment.
"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. "
Our president is pushing nuclear power, "clean" coal, and abandonment of the earth to climate chaos. The largest environmental disaster yet, the BP oil spill, has not been clean up, nor anyone punished. Los Alamos and Nebraska face the imminent risk of fires and floods causing nuclear catastrophe. Storms and more storms and worse storms are a-brewing, while Washington obsesses over weiners, dicks, and debt ceilings.
"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. "
One word: Afghanistan.
"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. "
Afghans and Iraqis view collaborators in these terms. Observers of the torture of Bradley Manning also view that action as an effort to compel testimony against others and to intimidate other Americans.
"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. "
Of course, the United States military long since destroyed the nations of "Indian Savages," but much of this rings true today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"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."
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