Has our Country lost the very principles it was founded for? Do we the people really have the rights our forefather's spent so much of their time and effort giving us? People have forgotten the time, not to mention, the reason, our Country was formed in the first place. Hard working, middle and low class men, got together and risked their lives, to form a union, of the people and for the people. When these men put their signature on our Decleration they signed away their lives.

Imagine, signing a documen with the fear of being hung at any moment, for committing Treason. Thomas Jefferson expresses the importance of Independence and states the wrongful actions done by Great Brittian, in detail. So many of the issues recorded in our Declaration, are issues going on today, right here in our own community. I speak mostly of the Drug Task Force. Although their cause is just, their actions in doing that cause are not. They treat people as if they are above them and every law. I myself have heard them degrade others including myself. I have wittnessed the violation of rights. When the Task Force is confronted, they give responses like, "you have no rights", "we don't care", "prove it", "it's your word against mine".

How does that make them any better than the criminals they are intended to bring down? I say, it doesn't. I say, it's time that we the people of today, take a stand, tell our stories. If we don't than nothing that lead up to the Declaration of Indepence has any meaning or value.