"Independence" Day
Today is Sunday, 2 July 2006. Of the Independence of the United States Empire/United and Subject States, the 230th year.
Your author suspects that a survey of the USE/USSA citizenry would reveal that most don’t realize or recall that the Thirteen Colonies, assembled in the Continental Congress, declared independence from the British Crown on this date in 1776, by adoption of a resolution proposed by Col. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.
"Resolved: 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."
“July 4th” and the Declaration of Independence were the spin, the icing on the cake. It was the 2 July vote that created the rebellion and made the delegates to the Congress eligible for hanging for treason.
(“Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785.” (Wikipedia) This position, somewhat analogous to Speaker of the House, was as close to an executive as the Articles provided.)
2 July 2006 is one of those interesting dates with an unusually diverse range of significant anniversaries:
1778 – Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies (born 1742)
1839 – Slaves aboard the Spanish vessel Amistad revolt off Cuba and commandeer ship; apprehended by the U.S. Coast Guard off Long Island, they sue, claiming their enslavement was illegal; Supreme Court (where appeal was argued by former President John Quincy Adams) agrees in 1841
1863 – Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg; repeated Confederate attacks fail to break the U.S. lines, setting the stage for the disastrous failure of Pickett’s Charge the next day, and Lee’s retreat south
1877 – Novelist and Nobelist Hermann Hesse born (died 1962)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, great Russian novelist, born; (died 1977)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall born; argued Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1993)
1925 – Medgar Evers born; Mississippi civil rights activist; assassinated 1963
1925 – Patrice Lumumba born; first prime minister of Congo; assassinated by Mobutu and CIA in 1961
1947 – Alien space craft purportedly crashes near Roswell, New Mexico; government allegedly conceals wreckage and corpses
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964; with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided the deathblow to legal segregation
The Amistad case is particularly of note in our time.
The creatures of Warlord W. Bush argued before the Supreme Court that the President is, not Commander-in-Chief, his Constitutional office, but Warlord-in-Chief, with unlimited powers when he pretends the nation is at war. They therefore argued that he had the power to unilaterally institute, by Executive fiat and whim, unConstitutional military tribunals to try such persons as he chose.
Contrast this with Amistad, when a former president argued in favor of the Constitution.
It is significant that the three InJustices who voted to confirm Warlord Bush in his attempted overthrow of the Constitution are three who pretend most loudly to strictly construe the Constitution. (The Treasonous Three are Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. Roberts would have joined them, save he had, as an appellate judge, ruled for Warlord Bush, and was thus disqualified.)
What a contrast between John Quincy Adams and the Genghis Khan of Crawford!
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As your author has noted, he treasures the words and life of Hermann Hesse greatly, so much as to chose his initials as his nomme d’ blog.
Your author suspects that a survey of the USE/USSA citizenry would reveal that most don’t realize or recall that the Thirteen Colonies, assembled in the Continental Congress, declared independence from the British Crown on this date in 1776, by adoption of a resolution proposed by Col. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.
"Resolved: 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."
“July 4th” and the Declaration of Independence were the spin, the icing on the cake. It was the 2 July vote that created the rebellion and made the delegates to the Congress eligible for hanging for treason.
(“Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785.” (Wikipedia) This position, somewhat analogous to Speaker of the House, was as close to an executive as the Articles provided.)
2 July 2006 is one of those interesting dates with an unusually diverse range of significant anniversaries:
1778 – Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies (born 1742)
1839 – Slaves aboard the Spanish vessel Amistad revolt off Cuba and commandeer ship; apprehended by the U.S. Coast Guard off Long Island, they sue, claiming their enslavement was illegal; Supreme Court (where appeal was argued by former President John Quincy Adams) agrees in 1841
1863 – Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg; repeated Confederate attacks fail to break the U.S. lines, setting the stage for the disastrous failure of Pickett’s Charge the next day, and Lee’s retreat south
1877 – Novelist and Nobelist Hermann Hesse born (died 1962)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, great Russian novelist, born; (died 1977)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall born; argued Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1993)
1925 – Medgar Evers born; Mississippi civil rights activist; assassinated 1963
1925 – Patrice Lumumba born; first prime minister of Congo; assassinated by Mobutu and CIA in 1961
1947 – Alien space craft purportedly crashes near Roswell, New Mexico; government allegedly conceals wreckage and corpses
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964; with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided the deathblow to legal segregation
The Amistad case is particularly of note in our time.
The creatures of Warlord W. Bush argued before the Supreme Court that the President is, not Commander-in-Chief, his Constitutional office, but Warlord-in-Chief, with unlimited powers when he pretends the nation is at war. They therefore argued that he had the power to unilaterally institute, by Executive fiat and whim, unConstitutional military tribunals to try such persons as he chose.
Contrast this with Amistad, when a former president argued in favor of the Constitution.
It is significant that the three InJustices who voted to confirm Warlord Bush in his attempted overthrow of the Constitution are three who pretend most loudly to strictly construe the Constitution. (The Treasonous Three are Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. Roberts would have joined them, save he had, as an appellate judge, ruled for Warlord Bush, and was thus disqualified.)
What a contrast between John Quincy Adams and the Genghis Khan of Crawford!
______________________________
As your author has noted, he treasures the words and life of Hermann Hesse greatly, so much as to chose his initials as his nomme d’ blog.
posted by HH at 7:03 PM
1 Comments:
Regarding HH's post of 2 July 2006:
"Today is Sunday, 2 July 2006. Of the Independence of the United States Empire/United and Subject States, the 230th year."
HH would show some class if he would discontinue the practice of referring to the USA as the United States Empire/United and Subject States. There are other contries for which he shows distain; however, I do not recall him referring to them by other than their proper names. I submit that HH should show a modicum of respect by referring to the USA as The United States of America. He chooses to use HH as his name; that is his choice, as it is my choice to sign my comments anonymously. Choosing to call the USA by, what HH apparently believes is, an inflamatory, contorted name is also his choice and his right under the 1st Amendment. However, referring to a county with its proper name would give a little more credibility to HH's words. "Naming calling" reduces the impact of his words.
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