Thursday, July 31, 2008

New OC Reality TV - Celebrity Cheating - Redux






Apparently Orange County Superior Court Judge Jamoa Moberly did not read the Celebrity Cheating Reality TV script, as she ruled against Trabuco HS Students yesterday and ordered that "testing should go forward. It's in the best interest of everyone."

The lawsuit with a price tag of roughly $15,000, targeted the Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) over the ETS' decision to invalidate 690 AP exams at Trabuco Hills High School and accused the company of not adequately investigating allegations of cheating and improper proctoring on the May exams.

Bill Mitchell, Chris Battersby Assemblyman and Todd Spitzer, R-Orange composed the legal team recruited to fight ETS' decision

Marc B. Victor, with a law degree from Stanford, while working for a high-tech firm that was suing IBM for monopoly, was asked to help the legal team arrive at a reasonable settlement figure. What amount should the firm be advised to settle for, and how could the company feel confident that the figure represented a good deal? Using his legal training and knowledge of decision analysis, Victor helped the firm and its outside counsel develop a decision model - a novel approach that provided a rigorous quantitative assessment of the lawsuit's value

Wondering if Victor's algorithm could have been used by the students to figure probability of success in fighting ETS taking into account cheating trends - for example:

1. MIT admissions dean resigns over fake resume
reads a recent USATODAY.COM headline

2. In the 8-15-2006 issue of the Wall Street Journal there is an article with the following headlines: "Student Plagiarism Stirs Controversy at Ohio University", and goes on to detail how certain professors in preparing their thesis, used someone else's work, without properly acknowledging the source! Of course, penalties are being doled out in this matter! Seems like certain degrees already conferred will be revoked

3. Consider that according to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school,


4. According to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Orange Sup, Orange Squeeze



Orange Sup, Orange Squeeze

July 30, 2008


By now you've heard the bad news: California is confronting a budget hole of historic proportions, one that will require billions of dollars in spending cuts, increases in fees and perhaps even higher taxes - No, this is not referring to the state of affairs in California as of July 2008, but to what then Gov. Gray Davis and the California Legislature were faced with in December 2002.

On Monday July 28, 2008, California Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata canceled a vote on a Democrat-proposed spending plan facing sure defeat aided by minority Republicans who threatened to block the Democrats' plan over its provisions for raising taxes. Click here for story

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to slash the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum of $6.55 per hour to help ease the state's budget crisis and to put an end to overtime pay for all but critical services, a freeze on state hiring and the immediate layoff of nearly 22,000 temporary, seasonal and student workers, because "there is a real and substantial risk that the state will have insufficient cash to pay for state expenditures"

And what is the Orange County Board of Supervisors doing to prevent another county bankruptcy? Abdicate their responsibility by handing off a crippling expenditure to direct democracy: The OC BOS Tuesday unanimously approved an initiative that would require voters to OK any increases in public workers' pensions, with predictable results. The special interest dinosaur will take a page out of the California Teachers Association demanding a "responsible budget solution by increasing taxes"!


Supervisor Chris Norby, taking a page out of Senator Kerry's playbook voted against the move, before he voted for it:

"This initiative is political posturing and comes ten years too late. The plan sends a message that supervisors can't trust themselves to do the right thing, Do we really want to vote to save ourselves from ourselves?" - Supervisor Chris Norby voting against the initiative before he voted for it.


Will the real Republican in the Orange County Board of Supervisors stand up and be counted?

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

$2 million Verdict Returned Against Homeowners Association


$2 million Verdict Returned Against Homeowners Association



Conduct constituted malice, oppression, or fraud and committed by one or more officers, directors or managing agents of the HOA - Presiding Juror





July 24, 2008

Earlier this week a jury in a case filed in Superior Court of California Riverside, a jury ruled in favor of residents Richard and Leslie Fredericks r and returned a verdict of $1.6 million in damages and $400 thousand in punitive damages against Santa Rosa Cove Homeowners Association

Los Angeles attorney Jeffrey Springer represented the Fredericks.

The jury verdict signed by the Presiding Juror and dated 7-15-2008, responded in the affirmative to the question:
"Was conduct constituting malice, oppression, or fraud committed by one or more officers, directors or managing agents of the Santa Rosa Cove Homeowners Association?"

We have been able to obtain copies of the jury verdict. We are in the process of obtaining additional information.



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Auditing Chief Scott's OCSD's Audit

July 27, 2008

When we asked Sheriff Hutchens for a copy of the 100-Day plan she would use to get the ball rolling at the OCSD, we got a not so SMART "120-Day Plan", which we characterize at best as "a plan-for-the-plan".
Our curiosity peaked when we first learned that Chief Scott was going to be helping Sheriff Hutchens on what seemed to be a sweeping number of issues including:

1. Coordination of a standard audit where he is to review overall operations at each facility, with shift by shift evaluations and recommendations on how to improve daily operations


* Specific
* Measurable
* Attainable
* Realistic
* Time bound


SMART Plan OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens


2. Comprehensive review of jail policies and procedures and preparation of recommendations for improvement
3. Hire-Fire Staff review
4. Cost benefit analysis to evaluate the functionality, appropriateness and efficiency of the three existing classifications of jail staff
5. Help develop strategic planning information to be used by OCSD to implement recommendations derived from the audits

To make sure we understand the scope of Chief Scott's assignment at the OCSD, we forwarded a number of questions to the Sheriff's office, summarized below. After repeated attempts to contact the OCSD's office, we finally got an obviously terse acknowledgement saying in essence: "we got your request, don't call us..."


Auditing the Auditor - Questions forwarded to the Sheriff's Office:
1. In the Chief's coordination of a standard audit where he is to review overall operations at each facility, with shift by shift evaluations and recommendations on how to improve daily operations, is there a standard audit template the Chief will be using?

See for example a template for business efficiency audit

Is the Chief planning on using generic or standard benchmarking? If standard, which organization(s) has he selected to benchmark against? - We hear the LASD suffers from similar issues....


2. In Chief Scott comprehensive review of jail policies and procedures and preparation of recommendations for improvement, is this a paper review? Otherwise, aforementioned benchmarking questions apply. Pertaining to the review of existing policies from a security standpoint, is there current data to let the Chief know "who the enemy is", in order to avoid building a $1,000 fence for a $1.00 horse, for instance, or remember the alleged "hidden camera's" in Sheriff Carona's office?

See for example an information technology audit template, and a security audit template:


3. In the Chief's Staff review to determine if changes in selection and training of custody staff are required, what criteria is the Chief going to use? Do you expect the AOCSD to push back? - remember the BMA criteria used to get to the magic Number 9?

4. In the Chief's cost benefit analysis to evaluate the functionality, appropriateness and efficiency of the three existing classifications of jail staff, Deputies, Sheriff's Special Officers and Corrections Services Technician, and determine whether a fourth category is required, is the Chief planning on using generic or standard benchmarking? If standard, which organization(s) has he selected to benchmark against?

See for example Blackwater - Blackwater claims to efficiently and effectively integrates a wide range of resources and core competencies to provide unique and timely solutions that exceed our customers' stated needs and expectations. We have contacted the Blackwater media department, but no response to date.

5. Which end is up? We are confused with the stated "final function of Chief Scotts' service will be to help develop strategic planning information to be used by OCSD to implement recommendations derived from the audits" - appears to be a circular reference:




Usually the strategic direction is set from the vision/mission statement. Chief Scott's assignment in this case implies that the Chief's work must eb complete, before the Sheriff can articulate a vision for the department.


6. Given that transformation is at the top of the list, we do not see how the Chief's audit addresses the OCSD culture/subcultures: Observable symbols and signs of an organization's culture include organizational stories and legends, rituals and ceremonies, language, physical structures and symbols. For example, in secret grand jury testimony, an Orange County sheriff's detective described the OCSD as a frat- house culture (see OC Register article) in the department, yet most employees remained silent. Will the audit be looking at subcultures as in the AOCSD and the Information Systems departments? What is the criteria used to articulate the culture and associated changes, if any changes are required?

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

French Fries or Sushi Rolls, Mr. President Obama?


French Fries or Sushi Rolls, Mr. President Obama?

July 13, 2008

When you have been unable to sleep wondering where you are going to send your kid to college, whom are you going to call at 3:00 o'clock in the morning?

Recently Senator Obama confessed to being embarrassed after coming home from Europe to find that Americans only know how to say mercy beucoup and have not even included the term merd, in any of the rap lyrics (we added italicized portion) . Not too long ago, US popular culture was imbued with the French language. Take for instance the Beatles singing "Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble", or more recently Lady Marmalade's "voulez vous cous chez avec moi"

On the other hand, in the middle of a budget crisis in California "The state is about to pump half a billion dollars into teaching children to roll sushi, juggle pins and master new dance forms, even as spending cuts threaten to erode instruction in reading, math and other fundamentals", wrote recently The LA Times' Evan Halper. This does not include the "untouchable funds" in the special education budget, now a cottage industry in California. Funds to assist gifted children are no where to be found.


Or what about the criminalization of home school teaching? Recently, the Second District Court of Appeals in California effectively banned home schooling in the state and threatened parents who choose to teach their own children with criminal prosecution. "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," Justice" H. Walter Croskey said in the ruling.

What about the state funding same sex bathrooms and paying for transgender teachers to take care of their transformation costs? Or even funding diversity seminars to teach students to be not only tolerant, but also accepting of transgender students?

What is more embarrassing to us is that various reports indicate that India and China are graduating more scientists and engineers than the US - The Economist reports that India graduated 690,000 scientists and engineers of all types while China produced 520,000 and the United States 420,000, for example, and in India, says a Newsweek article, you can get "quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost, and that it is well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to information technology has been declining for some time, and that industries such as the auto industry have been forced to outsource a good portion of the work to remain viable, and newspapers such as the Orange County Register are being forced to do the same.

The point is that politicians such as Senator Obama, instead of pontificating about how we cannot speak French, instead should be looking into fixing the broken US education system by busting the powerful teachers union, for example or outsourcing public education, to parents (as opposed to calling them criminals), or even outsourcing education to India or China. The technology is available to have a virtual classroom where PhDs can teach US children not only math and science, but also languages, at a fraction of the cost.

So, whom are you going to call at 3:00 am? You call Senator Hilary Clinton. After all Chelsea ended up at Stanford University as opposed to any of the branded East Coast schools.

Pass the Olive Tapénade, the Chimay Vieux cheese and a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, hold the French fries!


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OCSD Competitiveness as Public Safety Supplier and US Competitiveness in Global Markets.


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ACM and the WGBH Educational Foundation launching a project to improve understanding of computer science among kids trying to reach Latina females and African-American males”,.


July 4, 2008

Concerned about the OCSD’s infamous culture, deputies have described as a “frat house”, and about the process used by the Orange County Board of supervisors used to select the new Orange County Sheriff, we asked newly appointed Sheriff Hutchens about whether her technology management capabilities matched the needs of the technology complex OCSD.

Various reports indicate that India and China are graduating more scientists and engineers than the US - The Economist reports that India graduated 690,000 scientists and engineers of all types while China produced 520,000 and the United States 420,000, for example, and in India, says a Newsweek article, you can get "quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost, and that it is well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to information technology has been declining for some time, and that industries such as the auto industry have been forced to outsource a good portion of the work to remain viable, and newspapers such as the Orange County Register are being forced to do the same.

Hence, we want to find out what Sheriff Hutchens know that we do not know, to make sure the public safety is not forced to outsource to remain competitive, or will she use the same old tired argument that goes something like this: The OCSD is most efficient, thus additional safety requires an additional budget”

The good news is that although the future of the OCSD remains in the hands of new Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has been very active trying to promote science and technology among high school students in the US. In fact, the ACM and the WGBH Educational Foundation are launching a two-year project to improve the understanding and image of computer science among high schools in the US, with special efforts to reach Latina females and African-American males”, reads a press release. “This is an $850.000 grant with a significant research component that will underpin the development of potential messages and a message campaign”, the press release continues. For full text of the press release, click here




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The outsourcing of the Orange County Register – the Outsourcing of Public Safety


The outsourcing of the Orange County Register – the Outsourcing of Public Safety

Sherff Hutchens capabilities match the needs of the technologically complex OCSD or is it a forced fit? .


July 4, 2008

It is reported that an Indian company in New Delhi will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper. “Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June”, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register.

There is a cost-benefit associated with outsourcing. Then there are the various risk factors. The top five according to Iacovou and Nakatsu are:

1. Lack of top management involvement
2. Requirement miscommunication
3. Language barriers - as in what’s up dude?
4. Inadequate user involvement
5. Lack of know-how

We have never found a high-level manager who did not think his or her respective off-shore initiative was not going to be an unqualified success – mostly because of the ego involved.

In this industry (OCR’s and LA Times’ for example), however, we posit that it is not the labor cost associated with the product, as much as the right product for the right time.

To minimize the impact of some of the aforementioned risks, there is a “near-shoring” movement that organizations may want to look into. In the case of the OCR, they can perhaps outsource their work to other organizations with a much lower cost structure, such as the CZ-subsidized CotoCan, for example.

But seriously, just some four years ago, a CotoBuzz Journal reader argued that the US auto industry was in great shape, pointing to the advances made by Harley Davison and the problems plaguing Mitsubishi. For our part, we stated that for more than 30 years we have argued that that the auto-industry’s labor structure would continue to force jobs out of the country. Guess who was right?

In this context, we asked asked Sherff Hutchens during a recent interview whether her capabilities matched the needs of a department as technologically complex as the OCSD.

The Sheriff was visibly upset when we mentioned that although she had broken a tough glass ceiling, the technology one was even harder. “I do not see what one has to do with the other” she said. Unfortunately, at that moment, she was called for another meeting and we were not able to continue the conversation.

Various reports indicate that India and China are graduating more scientists and engineers than the US - The Economist reports that India graduated 690,000 scientists and engineers of all types while China produced 520,000 and the United States 420,000, for example, and In India, says a Newsweek article, you can get "quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost, and that it is well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to information technology has been declining for some time, and that industries such as the auto industry have been forced to outsource a good portion of the work to remain viable, and the newspapers such as the Orange County Register are being forced to do the same, what is it the Sheriff Hutchens know that we do not know, to make sure the public safety is not forced to outsource to remain competitive, or will she use the same old tired argument that goes something like this: The OCSD is most efficient, and thus additional safety requires an additional budget”

Is public safety the next candidate for outsourcing?



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Does the new OC Sheriff Know Jack about Tech?


Does the new OC Sheriff Know Jack about Tech?

That is the criminal justice system - Sandra Hutchens


July 4, 2008

One of the major criticism levied against the process used by the Orange County Board of Supervisors to select the county’s new sheriff, is that the selection criteria used all but guaranteed that most qualified leaders to effect change would be disqualified and instead select one from the bunch, as it happened.

One of the questions we asked Sherff Hutchens during a recent interview was whether her capabilities matched the needs of the OCSD, or whether this was a forced fit. We also asked her if she knew where the hidden cameras were – she assured us there were no hidden cameras, and she had no response as to to type of fit. All this in reference to reports of hidden cameras in the office of the previous Chief, but more importantly to get a sense of whether Sheriff Hutchens had the experience required to managed a complex technological environment (including forensics), as is the large OCSD, and the needs of the close to 3 million Orange County residents. The Sheriff was visibly upset when we mentioned that although she had broken a tough glass ceiling, the technology one was even harder. “I do not see what one has to do with the other” she said. Unfortunately, at that moment, she was called for another meeting and we were not able to continue the conversation.

However, here is the train of thought. Various reports indicate that India and China are graduating more scientists and engineers than the US - The Economist reports that India graduated 690,000 scientists and engineers of all types while China produced 520,000 and the United States 420,000, for example, and In India, says a Newsweek article, you can get "quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost, and that it is well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to information technology has been declining for some time, and that industries such as the auto industry have been forced to outsource a good portion of the work to remain viable, and the newspapers such as the Orange County Register are being forced to do the same, what is it the Sheriff Hutchens know that we do not know, to make sure the public safety is not forced to outsource to remain competitive, or will she use the same old tired argument that goes something like this: The OCSD is most efficient, and thus additional safety requires an additional budget”

We also pointed to the Sheriff compelling statistics pointing to 70-90% of internal breaches caused by insiders, including the recent apparent suicide of an OC deputy Gerald Stenger, accused of child pornography. She responded by saying “That is the criminal justice system”.

The question is, does the Sheriff know jack about technology? We hope to find out in her 120-Day Plan – but she has not been able to produce the Plan, or a Plan for the Plan as of now.




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The Declaration of US (and Coto de Caza) Independence


The Declaration of US (and Coto de Caza) Independence

The Constitution continues to remain no threat to our current form of government, except when left in the hands of activist judges and secular progressive legislators


July 4, 2008


Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

It is only proper that on this momentous occasion, we recall our Founding Father’s Declaration of Independence, also referred to as a Declaration of Dependence to the Creator, and thank the men and women serving in the military who protect the rights which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle us.

As Columnist Joseph Sobran might say: "The Constitution continues to remain no threat to our current form of government," and we may add “except when left in the hands of activist judges and secular progressive legislators”

Below is a copy of the United States of America Declaration of Independence used as a draft by the Congress with corresponding notes

Happy 4th Orange County!



Notes:

· The Declaration is very specific about a Creator and Laws of Nature - that is, it is not Laxmi, Buddha, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Amitābha, Bhaisajyaguru , Maitreya, Vairocana, the Moon (Tetzahuiltl), The Earth (Texitli), Coatlicue, The Sun, the Wind, the Fire, Zeus, Apolo, or any other god out there.

· Specific unalienable rights include Life (not the right to choose, or the right to murder, as in abortion)

· The Declaration specifically addresses an unresponsive form of government

· The Declaration specifically addresses “Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury”

· Similarities between the King of England depicted in the Declaration and the local Coto governing body political are too close for comfort







Legend

Any additions made by Congress appear «this way as red text»
Any deletions made by Congress appear as struck-out red text
Our emphasis: italics, bold in blue

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A DECLARATION
By the REPRESENTATIVES of the
UNITED STATES of AMERICA,
in «GENERAL» CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

When in the Course of human Events it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth the separate & equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness: —That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, & to institute new Government, laying it's Foundation on such Principles, & organizing it's Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety & Happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light & transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shown 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 & Usurpations begun at a distinguished period and 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, & to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; & such is now the Necessity which constrains them to expunge «alter» their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of unremitting «repeated»Injuries & Usurpations, among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest but all have «all having» in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid World for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome & necessary for the public Good. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, & continually for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People. He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, & Convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the Population of these states; for that Purpose obstructing the laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, & raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.He has made our Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, & the Amount & payment of their Salaries.He has erected a Multitude of new Offices by a self assumed power and sent hither Swarms of new Officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance. He has kept among us in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, and ships of war without the consent of our Legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of, & superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, & unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock-Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
For imposing Taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us «, in many Cases,» of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging it's Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these states «Colonies»:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, & declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by withdrawing his governors, and declaring us out of his allegiance & protection «declaring us out of his Protection, and Waging war against us.»He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, & destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this time Transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of Death, Desolation & Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy «scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, & totally» unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends & Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has «excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, & has» endeavored to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes, & Conditions of existence. He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.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. A Prince whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a «free» People who mean to be free. Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad & so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered & fixed in principles of freedom.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend a «an unwarrantable» jurisdiction over these our states «us». We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration & Settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expense of our own blood & treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league & amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity as well as to «, and we have conjured them by» the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which were likely to «, would inevitably» interrupt our Connection and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice & of Consanguinity ,and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We might have been a free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness & to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and «. We must therefore» acquiesce in the Necessity which denounces our eternal Separation «, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends!»

We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA in General Congress Assembled, «appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions,» do, in the name, & by the Authority of the good People of these states reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of Great Britain and all others who may hearafter claim by, through or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsided between us and the people or parliament of Great Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states, «Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and are of Right 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;»& that as Free & Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce & to do all other Acts & Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, «with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence,» we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, & our sacred Honor.







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