As people read the Declaration of Independence in Friday”s Record-Bee, I hope they appreciated the irony of the Founding Fathers.
They condemned George the III with the statement: “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries, etc.” The rest of the document is concerned with an itemized list of all the grievances that the king had imposed. The accusations were false. The king had nothing to do with the grievances of 1776 because a democratically elected Parliament imposed the grievances, not a despotic king.
Thanks to the Glorious Revolution of 1642 the British King was politically powerless.
And people say that Bush has misrepresented the Iraq War. Apparently, we have a long history of politicians lying to us.
Charles Moton
Lucerne
