I didn’t write these words, but I know that 100’s of thousands of my fellow countrymen have died for them. I know that great men and ordinary men throughout our countries history have taken these words to heart and spoken truth to power. I know that no time in history should these words be more meaningful, or more importance to you and I, our country, and our Legislative Branch. The 56 courageous men, who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, set our nation onto its course of becoming the greatest country in the world. I know that 231 years later, if our founding fathers were here, they would be leading the charge to take back our country.

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.–

I want every single one of our 100 Senators and 486 Congressmen and women whom “we the people” entrusted to protect our country as well as protect us from abuses of power within our own government be required to sit down and read this document. It is their duty as our representatives to stop the escalation in Iraq and the drum beating of war in Iran. If they do not do their duty, we the people are charged by this document to “throw off” such Government.

The Declaration of Independence, it has been a long time since I read it; it was stirring in my youth but stunning in my old age. Send it on to every single one of your Congressman and Senators; they need a good read and a little courage. I for one am tired of hearing about the fighting over the meaning of a word on a toothless “non-binding” resolution concerning Iraq. I want to see our leaders stand up with the courage and conviction of those 56 men. I want to see a “change of course” for our county. Do we have any John Hancock’s or Thomas Jefferson’s amongst us?