When in the Course of Daily Kos it becomes necessary to post another diary, to dissolve the temporary alliances forged by previous diaries, and to assume among the ranks of Kossacks the separate and equal station to which my secret password entitles me, respect for the reading skills of fellow Kossacks requires that I should declare the causes which impel me to clutter up the recent diary list.
My keyboard and I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Kossacks are created equal, that they are endowed by themselves with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Diaries, thread comments, and the pursuit of Acclaim -- That to secure these Rights, Screen Names are instituted among them, deriving their powers from the consent of Recommenders, -- That whenever any Diary becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of Kossacks to flame it, and to institute new Diaries, composed on such principles and expressing dissent in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to get some form of attention.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that diaries should not be submitted for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that Kossacks are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by thinking of something new to say. So when a long train of Lieberman diaries, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to glaze their eyes and render them completely comatose, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off Lieberman and get it over with by sending Ned Lamont fifty dollars.
Such has been the patient sufferance of many Kossacks; and such is now the necessity which compels me to condemn Lieberman one last time before going to PayPal.
The history of Lieberman is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over America. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his Assent to Dissent, which is most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden us to speak of matters of immediate and pressing importance, condemned to meek silence till his Assent should be obtained; and when briefly suspended, he has utterly neglected to listen to us.
He has refused to support Laws for the accommodation of the citizens of Connecticut, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Senate, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together fellow incumbents at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from living, breathing Connecticut voters, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has lectured us repeatedly about patriotism, for opposing with manly and womanly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others from Connecticut to be elected to the Senate, whereby Ned Lamont, actually capable of Reason, has called upon the People at large for their support; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from Beltway Hessians, and to convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to deceive the people of Connecticut; for that purpose obstructing the truth about Iraq; refusing to acknowledge the consequences of his complicity in that bloodbath.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Censure and Impeachment resolutions.
He has made Connecticut dependent on his Will alone for the sake of his unbridled ambition, while pocketing the blood money of his wife's lobbying connections.
He has erected a multitude of attack ads, and sent hither swarms of Beltway operatives to harass the people of Connecticut and eat out their substance.
He has kept among them, in his district offices, Standing Consultants with Karl Rove's home phone number.
He has affected to render Bush independent of and superior to our Constitution.
He has combined with Republicans to subject us to slander and supported their Tyranny; giving his vigorous Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of NSA spies among us:
For protecting them, by concocted talking points, from punishment for any felonies which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For plunging us into Shame in all parts of the world:
For imposing Wars on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of fair elections.
For transporting Muslims beyond the Seas to be tortured for pretended offences:
For abolishing the enforcement of American Laws nationwide, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for securing absolute Republican rule:
For taking away our Bill of Rights, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending accountability, and declaring himself invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever:
He has abdicated all Reason, by declaring himself Lieberman for Connecticut:
He has plundered our Treasury, ravaged our democracy, burnt our Constitution, and destroyed the lives of our people:
He is at this time praising the works of death, desolation, and madness in Iraq, unleashed in circumstances of Treachery and Deceit unparalleled in American history and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation:
He has constrained our fellow Citizens from even whispering about Impeachment, so his Idol in the Oval Office can continue to torment our friends and Brethren:
He has excited domestic spying amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the NSA, the merciless Big Brothers whose known rule of compliance with the Constitution is unlimited spying until the war on terror is over:
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. This man, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to represent the people of Connecticut:
We, therefore, the Kossacks of Daily Kos, on our Homepage Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of America, solemnly publish and declare, that our friends in Connecticut, of Right ought to be Free of Lips Lieberman, Inc., that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to Lips Lieberman, and that all political connection between them and Lips Lieberman, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and sentient voters, they have full Power to vote for Ned Lamont, conclude Alliances with bloggers, share their thoughts with Barbara Boxer, and to do all other Acts and Things which voters may of right do. -- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Kos himself, we mutually pledge to Ned Lamont our GOTV efforts and our fifty dollars each.
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