Heh, yeah, as a bunch of traitors themselves, it doesn’t surprise me that the founders might have had a soft spot for treason…
Yeah, those damned Oceanians!
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the governments which have usurped the authority of Allah, and to assume among the powers of the earth the global and superior station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the infidels requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the dissolution.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Muslims are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are heaven, the Koran and the freedom from insult to the Prophet. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the Word of the Prophet. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect the stability and pervasiveness of Koranic law. Islam, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should be changed for all such 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 abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under secular rule, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future Islam.
Such has been the patient sufferance sufferance of the Muslim world; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter all former systems of government. The history of the present President of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states, and all who are not Western. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to the Koran, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his puppet governments to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Muslim theocracy, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the centers of Islamic knowledge, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has bullied representative houses repeatedly, preventing them from opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
[Further specifics to be added at a future time]
We, therefore, the reprasentatives of Truth and Islam, in cell-based alliance, distributed throughout the world, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the Prophet, solemnly publish and declare, that this solitary planet is, and of right ought to be a golbal caliphate, that it is absolved from all allegiance to secular rule, and that all political connection between it and any man claiming such secular authority, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Muslim planet, it has full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent planets 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 Allah our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
I’ll go first-
WTF does that have to do with anything
Mike’s post was probably just trying to inject a little humor.
The founders didn’t consider a loyalist to be a traitor just for speaking his mind or supporting the king or even declining to support the colonies, unless he actually engaged in aiding the British against the nascent US. Then a few years later the very first amendment to the Constitution called for freedom of speech and press and peacable assembly in all cases. I think that’s a decent starting point.