Originally posted by koolkarpet
True that brother.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Forums; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Admin of Nextgenupdate is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these forums of threads. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
They have refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
They have forbidden their members to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till their Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them.
They have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of members, unless those members would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to admins only.
They have called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with their measures.
They have dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness their invasions on the rights of the members.
They have refused for a long time, after such disolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the Members at large for their exercise; the Forums remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
They have endeavoured to prevent the population of these Forums; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Noobs; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Threads.
They have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing their Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
They have made Judges dependent on their Will alone, for the tenure of our offices, and the amount and payment of our salaries.
They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our members, and eat out their substance.
They have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Moderators without the Consent of our legislatures.
They have affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of moderators among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Infractions which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these Forums:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the internet:
For imposing Donations 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 neighbouring Forum, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Forums:
For taking away our Threads, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
They have abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of their Protection and waging War against us.
They have plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
They are at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized community.
They have constrained our fellow Members taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Website, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
They have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured 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 and conditions.
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 an Admin, is unfit to be the ruler of a free members.
-koolkarpet