Thomas Jefferson endorses a 'global test' for America's security.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes 

necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 

which have connected them with another, and to assume 

among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal 

station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God 

entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of 

mankind  requires that they should declare the causes 

which impel them to the separation."

So this Jefferson character thinks that in order for America to declare independence from Great Britain, they should have to explain their position to the world and present specific causes for said revolution? Rotten pinko commie rat.

Then again, the list of complaints against George III are often exaggerated and/or deceptive. Mossad confirmed the accuracy of the charge about those damned Indians, you know.