That "OTHER Part" of The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE: The Grievances and What They Say About Executive Power, Immigration, and Other Issues

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We know about the first half of the Declaration of Independence and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the Declaration also contains a listing of facts submitted to a "candid world" detailing what was wrong in the American colonies. The Grievances are the second half of the Declaration of Independence. We discuss with Tim Patrick, listener and author of "Self-Evident: Discovering the Ideas and Events That Made the Declaration of Independence Possible" Tim Patrick is known as Tim Odagiri in Japan where he resides and writes. He is an author, software architect, and lover of history. He has published more than a dozen books, mostly on technology topics, and is a regular magazine contributor. He has spent years offering commentary on current events, politics, technology, religion, and history. You can find his current articles at NihonPlusYou.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	This is Michael Medved.
0:07.0	Atovon Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, once said that God offers special protection to drunkards, lost dogs, children, and the United
0:17.1	States of America.
0:19.2	We'll explore that special protection and what it means in the American miracle.
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0:35.0	He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against
0:42.1	us.
0:44.0	He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of
0:50.3	death for imposing taxes on the
0:53.0	without our consent, for cutting off our trade with all parts of the
0:56.5	world whose known rule of warfare, to bear arms against their
0:59.9	contrition, to become the executioners of the friends friends and presidents for taking away our charters.
1:06.0	He has plundered our seeds, ravaged our coast, burnt our towns,
1:11.0	and destroyed the lives of our people. We all know the famous lines from the Declaration of Independence when in the course of
1:31.0	human events we hold these truths to be self-evident or life, liberty,
1:34.8	in the pursuit of happiness.
1:35.8	We know this part of the Declaration, but it's just a small part of the document. And the rest of the document goes like this.
1:46.0	The history of the present king of Great Britain
1:49.0	is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having a direct object, the establishment
1:56.6	of an absolute tyranny over these states.
2:00.5	To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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