The following words were written by a well respected author attempting to get the Head of State of our great nation to recognize the extreme consequences associated with misuse of governmental power and authority.

The history of that Head of State is one of repeated seizures and injustices, all having the purpose of the establishing absolute power and control over the people of this country.

The author subsequently created a document which constituted a written a petition of grievances. It outlined the reasons the citizens would no longer tolerate the loss of their liberties and rights. The document was presented to that Head of State. Those grievances stated, in part:

1. "He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. 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.
3. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
4. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
5. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.
6. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and ALTERING FUNDAMENTALLY the forms of our government."

These grievances were agreed upon and published on July 4, 1776. The Head of State at that time was King George III of England. The author was Thomas Jefferson with the assistance of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee and Robert R, Livingston. The document was the Declaration of Independence.

The above items were taken word for word from The Declaration of Independence. There are more than six issues in that document; however, those listed above seem most pertinent to today's environment. They are all as valid and critical now as they were 234 years ago when they were presented to King George III.

All six grievances apply directly to what is going on in the country today - all six are directly associated with the current actions of our officials in Washington. They have passed healthcare legislation opposed by the majority of its citizens. They have prevented local governors from cleaning up their own shores from a disastrous oil spill or from protecting their borders from foreign invaders.

They have appointed an inordinate number of Czars that have significant power and authority and who are accountable only to the White House. They favor and support of International Law over U.S. Law. They
have incited domestic unrest by attributing discriminatory intent to acts that are clearly constitutional.

Perhaps most disturbing is the overt and blatant commitment by the current administration to fundamentally alter our form of government. The United States does not need its form of government fundamentally altered since no other government has ever proven superior to or more successful than the one provided us by the Founding Fathers.

The current administration has violated the very essence of what our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.

During the celebration of Independence Day it is perhaps time for every American to revisit the clause in Declaration of Independence that states, "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."

Fortunately the Founding Fathers provided us with a method to "throw off such government," without going to the battlefield or shedding any innocent blood; we need only go to the ballot box.