{"id":21587,"date":"2025-07-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/our-view-in-georges-shadow\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:00:00","slug":"our-view-in-georges-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/our-view-in-georges-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Our view: In George\u2019s shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selections from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, which listed the inimical actions of the King of Great Britain. Today, replicated by another king:<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=77dd8c29-f4d3-5be4-b89c-25300c784a77&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"912\" height=\"1151\" alt=\"Tattered American Flag\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Tattered American Flag<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2013 He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has endeavoured 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 \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selections from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, which listed the inimical actions of the King of Great Britain. Today, replicated by another king: Tattered American Flagcca \u2013 He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. \u2013 He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}