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Exercise your control over the government
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 13, 2011 12:46 pm
We the people are facing more oppression than our Founding Fathers. Government exists to secure the civil rights bestowed upon us by God. Government can only do its job if it first gets permission from the people. Government is therefore placed under the control of the people and exists only to serve the interests of the people.
When any government begins to run roughshod over the people, or behaves in such a way that contradicts the will of the people, or actually destroys the civil rights of people, then the people have a right to abolish that abusive government and craft a replacement.
We the people, therefore, solemnly declare our full intention to remove from office all those politicians/office holders who have been complicit in the trampling of our liberties, the undermining of our religious freedoms, the overt/intentional subversion of our Constitution, overstepping the boundaries of their legal authority, the advancement/promotion of a socialist agenda and the massive expansion of a federal government through agencies and czars whose goal it is to “fundamentally transform America.” Hence, we break the bonds between us and them.
We declare that we are duty bound to expose/resist all unlawful decrees/policies issued by the present abusive, depraved, perverted and lawless regime in the executive branch and the U.S. Congress.
Wendell Carr
Ottumwa
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