Jefferson’s Warning About the Current Man Occupying the Presidency

King Don the Con.

Tyrants appear in different gold crowns, but threaten the same fate.

A July Fourth tradition in the United States, until about the mid-Seventies, involved a public reading of the Declaration of Independence in town gatherings before picnics, games and fireworks. In 2017, it really should be read again.

Read it on your iPad or Android. Or just listen to it read on Youtube.

The words may be from 1776 but the warning is for right now.

Thomas Jefferson was not merely the third President of the United States (1801-1809), scientist, architect, horticulturist, philosopher, lawyer, and student of religion but perhaps, most importantly, a prophet of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson.

In fact, the person who envisioned the American colonies as a new nation guided by the conceptual ideal of equality left us a terrifying warning about an arrogant, presumptuous Tyrant of enormous wealth, power and privilege intent on controlling America.

A portion of Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence.

A portion of Jefferson’s handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson’s warning about the threats posed to the fundamental core values of democracy by the stated intentions of the 2016 Republican presidential nominee and the current Man Occupying the White House (hereafter known as “The Mop”) are not found in some secret manuscript but rather his most important writing, as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

Ratified on July 4, 1776 by representatives of the thirteen colonies that transformed into the united states of America that day, it is not a mystical document but brief and direct.

(A full transcript of the Declaration of Independence can be found at the end of this article.)

The "Tyrant,"

King George III.

Jefferson’s declaration is a public announcement that Americans were rejecting their status as citizens of Great Britain and breaking their loyalty to that nation’s King George III because of his increasingly harsh control of their lives. In Jefferson’s own words, the Americans were revolting against the King’s “establishment of an absolute tyranny,” and “invasions on the rights of the people,” “abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments.”

Most of the Declaration of Independence is a list of detailed grievances against the “Tyrant” ruling America and crushing the freedoms by which it had come to define itself. It is all there in Jefferson’s own words which then, as he said, to “let facts be submitted to a candid world,” were published in newspapers or typeset for mass-printing and public postings.

The Mop & The Tyrant.

The Mop & The Tyrant.

What is eerily chilling is that in Jefferson’s lists he offers a warning to Americans two and a half centuries into the future about a gold-crowned “Tyrant” other than King George if they permit him to take control.

In five specific passages of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson unequivocally references policies that The Mop has already begun to initiate, and one reaction he already provoked last year by threatening to initiate such policies, pitting citizen against citizen.

First, Jefferson references The Mop’s intention to reject and limit immigrants based on their national origin and monitor the movement of those already in the country by stating of the Tyrant:

“He has endeavored 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…”

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Second, Jefferson evokes The Mop’s belief that judges should be recused, fired or made to resign because he had judged them to be disloyal to him personally, pointing out about the Tyrant:

“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 made Judges dependent on his Will alone...

 

Third, Jefferson points out The Mop’s intention to break existing foreign trade treaties and revoke current global agreements by his claim that the Tyrant was harming the American economy without regard for anything except his own wealth:

‘For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world….

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World

Fourth, Jefferson calls up The Mop’s incitement of physical and verbal intimidation among his supporters towards those opposing him both in and outside of rallies, by pointing out how the Tyrant had encouraged Native Americans to threaten and act in violence against the colonies’  immigrant population:

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us…”

He has excited domestic Insurrection amongst us...

 

In a fifth and final warning about what some have termed The Mop’s “temperamentally unsuited” qualifications to lead the American democracy, Thomas Jefferson concludes that:

“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.”

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FULL TEXTUAL TRANSCRIPT OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

The Declaration of Independence, written by the future President Thomas Jefferson.

The Declaration of Independence as Adopted by the Second Continental Congress

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.

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 meantime 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 harass 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 amoung 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 complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and 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.

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 British 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 the 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.

 


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