Four Corners Liberal: The American Declaration of Independence & Constitution of the United States Or Remember Tulsa

I’ve been listening to a lot of right wing radio of late and one of their most enduring tropes is that American Exceptionalism is due to the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. So, I decided to have yet another look at these two documents. And lo and behold, I discovered something new to me, a completely fresh way of looking at these documents:

THESE DOCUMENTS AREN’T WORTH THE HEMP THEY’RE WRITTEN ON!

Why, you might ask?

Because there’s not one line in either of these two pieces of ‘handi wipes’ redressing the ongoing crime of GENOCIDE against Native Americans (NAs) that the landed white gentry writing the documents was committing! (Of course I’m fully aware that one might not want to admit to genocide before the whole world at the same time you’re starting up a country, but what I really think is the issue is that the ‘founding fathers’ didn’t really think about it all that much! They gave more thought to their slaves than they did to ‘Indians’—especially round evening time.)

Further, the Rube Goldberg government set forth in the constitution is nothing but a recipe for stalemate and compromise, given a population divided into two irreconcilable groups as it was over the issue of slavery and much later over the issues of civil-rights, worker’s right, women’s rights, the environment, abortion, and chemical recreation. Neither of these documents had enough of anything to keep the country from going to war with itself over slavery. (Or, was it property rights?)

Neither of these two documents was able to stop the whites from imprisoning Indians in reservations on their own land. (Oh, by 2009 there was this little thing:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Native_American_Apology_Resolution

Whup de doo! That was white of ‘em!

Neither of these two documents was able to stop the, so called, Culture Wars, that are wrecking this country through the expenditure of vast sums of money on losing propositions like the war on communism, the war on drugs, and anti-abortion terrorism.

So no, there’s nothing really in these two ‘wipe jobs’ for those of you who are not the sons and daughters of the white landed gentry that stole this land from its rightful owners to whom all rights to property and exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants are granted.

If you read the newspapers you see that the only people to which the, so called, Bill of Rights, is applied only to the white sons and daughters of the amerikan revolution!

Everyone of the amendments in the, so called, Bill of Rights was violated or ignored:

under the Jim Crow laws;

when it came to fighting against Bolshevik inspired ‘civil rights’ in the 1960s;

when it came to beating down those long haired free loving dope smoking hippies in the late 1960s;

when it came to beating down those who fought to end ‘the draft’ and the Vietnam war!

Everyone of the amendments in the, so called, Bill of Rights is violated or ignored when it comes to fighting, the so called, ‘The War on Drugs’ and ‘Islamic Radicalism’ in black communities through out amerika today.

Nah, crap! The American Declaration of Independence & Constitution of the United States were documents written of, by, and for white landed MEN of the 18^th century in the rebellious colonies of England against their counterparts in England. The war that ensued between these parties was simply a war to see who would take the Native Americans’ land and trash it for minerals and drug (tobacco) production.

Considering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_1763, it would have been better if the British had kept control over the colonies, rather than the rabble. Afterall:

In the United States, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ended with the American Revolutionary War because Great Britain ceded the land in question to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783). Afterward, the US government also faced difficulties in preventing frontier violence and eventually adopted policies similar to those of the Royal Proclamation. (Hmmm, wonder what this means??) The first in a series of Indian Intercourse Acts was passed in 1790, prohibiting unregulated trade and travel in Native American lands. Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M'Intosh(1823) established that only the U.S. government, and not private individuals, could purchase land from Native Americans.

I guess we know how well Johnson v. M'Intosh turned out!

The rest is history, but whatever you do, REMEMBER TULSA: