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REQUIEM

Below are the two final essays to be posted on Allegiance and Duty Betrayed. The first one is written by a friend -- screen name 'Euro-American Scum' -- who, over the past four years, has been the most faithful essayist here. He has written about everything from his pilgrimage to Normandy in 2004 to take part in the 60th–year commemoration of the invasion, to his memories of his tour in Vietnam. His dedication to America’s founding principles ... and those who have sacrificed to preserve them over the past 200+ years ... is unequaled. Thank you, E-A-S. It has been a privilege to include your writing here, and it is a privilege to call you my friend.

The second essay is my own farewell. And with it I thank all of the many regular visitors, and those who may have only dropped in occasionally, for coming here. I hope you learned something. I hope a seed or two was planted. But, even if not, I thank you for stopping by ... 25 March, 2010

6/30/2008

On Rainbows and Puppy Dogs

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Check out We Are the Ones, an extraordinarily popular YouTube video that has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. It was composed by Hollywood celebrities and ‘ordinary Americans’ who are passionate in their support of Barack Obama in his bid to become President of the Untied States and leader of the free world.

The video is composed of constant melodic repetition of the phrase ‘We can change the world’ and background chants of ‘O-ba-má! O-ba-má!', with the entirety of the remainder of the message transcribed below. (I had to omit a small, but no doubt significant, portion of the message because I am not fluent in Spanish.)

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I would like to see a cleaner earth for my child that I’m bringing into the world very soon.

I think it’s time for change. I want a better future for my children.

I would like our environment to be safe.

This is our America. My America. Your America.

Someone to actually make a difference in my generation.

I would like to see us in a world without fear.

Basically … um … I just want the war to end.

I would like the rest of the world to think highly of our amazing country.

I think the thing that inspires me most about Obama is that he really is going to be the president of the United States. You know, he’s not just going to be the president of the top ten percent, or the president of the most powerful corporations, or the president of the most powerful lobbyists. He’s gonna be our president. He’s gonna speak for us. ‘Cause we put him there.

Obama is about unity to this country and changing America’s face to the world.

This is my America, your America, our America.

And he stands for not just black people but all people. He’s almost like a revival for a lot of people’s souls.

I believe in Barack Obama because he believes in us.

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I suppose that some of those who authored, and appeared in, this video are genuine Marxists and/or black supremacists. But I suspect that the remainder are simply useful idiots who believe that history, education, research and facts are bothersome, and a life of security and fulfillment can result from focusing on rainbows and puppy dogs.

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I don’t begrudge the vast ocean of ‘citizen sheep’ represented by this video their ignorance, but I deeply fear the fact that they may now comprise the majority of the American electorate. Our corrupt-to-the-bone ‘leadership’ in Washington, the NEA, our Marxist institutions of ‘higher education’, the Hollywood elite, and the mainstream media must be very proud.

Al-Qaeda has no use for rainbows or puppy dogs.

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... and Atlas is preparing to shrug.

~ joanie

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

May God continue to bless you, Joanie.

Anonymous said...

Good work as always, Joanie!

Anonymous said...

There isn't a piece of information or a comment worth repeating in the whole damn video, which means it would have a lot of impact with the "average" American voter. We're in big trouble come November.

Anonymous said...

Our corrupt-to-the-bone 'leadership' in Washington, the NEA, our Marxist institutions of 'higher education', the Hollywood elite, and the mainstream media must be very proud.

You've nailed the right culprits, as usual.

Anonymous said...

Simple but powerful comments. Thanks, Joanie.

Anonymous said...

I only managed to get through about a minute of the video before my ulcer started acting up. I appreciate your comments though, Joanie. Spot on!

Anonymous said...

The video is absolutely sickening! And you're right Joanie, it illustrates exactly what's wrong with so many American voters.

Anonymous said...

Good work.

joanie said...

Am absolutely brilliant summary by 'betty boop', a FreeRepublic friend of mine:

... based on what I can glean about Obama's personal history, which the MSM does not talk about much in the U.S., I've concluded that BHO has been nurtured and cultivated in radical politics all his life, starting with his mother; and that he is definitely being "cultivated" now. I get the impression that his entire campaign has largely been about "stage management" (especially including "issues management").

Notice how the campaign is trying to depict the mother: as some farm girl from Kansas, and thus (we are to conclude), a natural born American patriot in all things. Yet it seems fair to say Mom had little use for things American, that she herself had been "radicalized," and was attracted to other "radicalized" people. BHO's father was a Kenyan national whose family is prominent in Kenyan politics. And that politics is socialist, and increasingly Islamist (as we see with BHO's first cousin Raila Odinga, who is fomenting an Islamist insurgency in Kenya today).

Then, abandoned by BHO's father, Mom marries an Indonesian Muslim, and takes her son to live in Indonesia for the first ten years of his life -- the formative years. BHO was schooled in Indonesia, first at a Catholic school, where he was enrolled as a person of the Muslim faith; and then at a Madrassa. BHO has half-brothers in Kenya, and a half-sister in Indonesia, who insist that BHO was born and lived as a Muslim. Yet now BHO denies this, and removes Muslim women from his public stage....

How does he explain this? The fact is, he doesn't; because nobody will ask for an explanation.

Then Mom sends BHO back stateside, to the elite Pounahou School in Hawaii. During this period of BHO's life, he was mentored, nurtured, and cultivated by Frank Marshall Davis, a Black separatist and known member of the Communist Party U.S.A. Eventually BHO landed in Chicago, and launched his political career with the support of nearly every radical-progressive group in Chicago. Long-time friends and associates, such as William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, et al. are radical progressives of one stripe or another; but all are united in the common idea of transforming America into their twisted version of "social justice" -- whether by peaceful means or violent means if necessary -- and let the Constitution be damned.

In short, it seems Barack Hussein Obama's vision of government is premised on the idea that America is a "community" in dire need of being "organized."

I notice that Obama's words change all the time; but his friends do not. And that tells me a lot.

I find the mendacity of the Obama campaign absolutely sickening. Obama claims that words have meaning. Nice of him to acknowledge that. But he definitely "honors" that understanding by violating it all day long.

I mean jeepers, one morning he states it is his policy that Jerusalem should forever remain an undivided city, under the administration of the Jews (Israel). Then by the afternoon of the very same day, speaking before a different audience, he says his policy regarding Jerusalem is that the division of Jerusalem is a "final status issue" that will be decided later on (in conjunction with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas -- folks who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.)

One simply CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. So, where is Obama, really, on this policy question? What does he really think about Jews, Jerusalem, and the survival of Israel itself?

I think it was Lenin who observed that the best kind of a lie of all is the really BIG LIE, because — ironically — the bigger the lie, the easier it is for the public to swallow.

IMHO, Obama is the biggest political liar I've seen come down the pike in my entire life! And that's saying quite a lot.

May God help us; may God ever bless America!


~ joanie

Anonymous said...

Bravo for truth!

Anonymous said...

Betty's summary of Obama's life is terrifying, and you don't hear any of it anywhere in the MSM, even "fair and balanced" Fox. Every American deserves to know this but most of us never will. Talk about a news blackout!

Anonymous said...

One of the most dramatic changes in American life in the years since World War II involves the way we raise our children. We used to do it ourselves. Now, convinced we have better things to do, many of us leave the job to others.

Encouraging this flight from parenthood, Sen. Barack Obama...has proposed what he calls his "Zero to Five" plan.

It is a collection of programs aimed at getting the government involved in the raising of your children from the moment they are born.

"The first part of my plan focuses on providing quality affordable early childhood education to every child in America," Obama said..."As president, I will launch a Children's First Agenda that provides care, learning and support to families with children ages zero to five."

"We'll creater Early Learning Grants to help states create a systemn of high-quality early care and education for all young children and their families," he said.

"And we'll help more working parents find a safe, affordable place to leave their children during the day by imporving the educational quality of our childcare programs and increasing the childcare tax credit."

This week, Obama upped his ante by vowing to "double funding for after-school programs that help children learn and give parents relief."

Obama, of course, will also continue to defend your "right" to hire a physician to kill your child in utero so you won't have to raise the child at all.


-- Terrence Jeffrey

Anonymous said...

If you asked those two girls in the front of the "Change We Can Believe In" photo any pertinent question about the state of the world, you can bet all you'd get in return is a blank stare. Idiots.

Anonymous said...

Frightening.

Anonymous said...

This Obama campaign video (1.6 million hits) will give you chills: O-ba-MA!

Anonymous said...

Cooper, it's the same video Joanie wrote this whole essay about.

Anonymous said...

I am so sick of watching the news showing Obama traveling all over the country, making all kinds of points, "moving to the right" (until he gets in the White House), etc. And you'd think John McCain was sitting in a rocking chair somewhere sucking on a popsicle. They don't even try to hide their bias anymore.

Anonymous said...

The entire verbal message in this video bends over backwards to not sound like English- from the pronunciation of Obama, to the use of Spanish, and probably more than half of the people talking are talking with foreign accents. That alone says volumes. America as we like to know it will cease to exist if this man is elected.

Anonymous said...

Forget the video. Obama himself only talks coherently when he is looking down reading a script. Off the cuff its all oh, ah, ya know... And this is the guy who's going to use "diplomacy" to stare down our enemies. Good God!

Anonymous said...

As published in the June 30, 2008, edition on National Review: "Obama was for black-liberation theology before he was against it". Read the complete article here!

Anonymous said...

John Galt: Boy, is my face red. I found that same video on another forum and in my haste to post it over here, I didn't even notice that Joanie had already featured it. Senility is a terrible thing!

Anonymous said...

Report:
Grand jury indicts PA Majority Leader DeWeese and others

http://www.yardbird.com/reform_pa_DeWeese_Rendell_indictment.htm

Gov. Ed Rendell investigated for alleged corrupt practices
Prosecutors grill Rendell's state police driver

by Bill Keisling July 2, 2008 --

A grand jury in Pennsylvania has reportedly indicted state Rep. Bill DeWeese, the Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

DeWeese is the highest-ranking Democrat in the Pennsylvania legislature.

Also indicted are DeWeese's former lieutenant and majority whip, Mike Veon, and several others.

Majority Leader DeWeese's reported indictment, on the surface, involves the awarding of bonuses to legislative staffers who allegedly performed political work.

But what began as an investigation into legislative bonuses has blossomed into a wide-ranging grand jury inquiry into corrupt practices throughout Pennsylvania state government.

Gov. Ed Rendell and staff members are also under investigation.

A friend in Pennsylvania

Prosecutors in the last several weeks have grilled Gov. Rendell's state police driver about the governor's associations and whereabouts, and other matters.

Federal and state investigators are examining, among other issues, Gov. Rendell's alleged dealings with organized crime figures, his administration's awarding of contracts, and contributions to the governor.

"The problem is Rendell has a lot of immunity," one observer says.

More importantly, there are also significant bi-partisan obstacles to investigating Ed Rendell.

In 2006 the newly created Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board awarded a casino license to Louis DeNaples, a convicted felon who has long been publicly accused of associations with organized crime figures. DeNaples and his Catholic priest, Joseph Sica, are currently under indictment for allegedly lying about mob associations when DeNaples applied for his casino license.

Gov. Rendell, a Democrat, and state Attorney General Tom Corbett, a Republican, both received large political donations from DeNaples in the run-up to the awarding of the slots license. Rendell received two donations from DeNaples totaling $115,000 in August 2002. AG Corbett accepted a $25,000 contribution from DeNaples in 2004.

Both Rendell and Corbett to date have refused to return DeNaples' contributions.

In contrast, Gov. Rendell's Democratic predecessor, the late Gov. Bob Casey, returned donations offered by DeNaples, who is a Scranton businessman.

In Gov. Ed Rendell, DeNaples found a friend in Pennsylvania who does not seem to care at all about DeNaples' dodgy background.

In fact, Rendell increasingly is seen as obstructing the truth about Louis DeNaples. After Gov. Rendell and the legislature created the state Gaming Control Board in 2004, the Rendell-controlled state police refused to share sensitive criminal background information on DeNaples with the board.

Who's the boss?


Heaven can wait: Indicted slots licensee Louis DeNaples (left) with Father Joseph Sica. Former PA Gov. Bob Casey returned donations from DeNaples, but Gov. Ed Rendell (top of page) took $115,000.



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Republicans share equal dollops of blame for the DeNaples fiasco. Former Republican U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Thomas Marino, recused himself from investigations involving DeNaples when he notified the U.S. Justice Department that he was a reference on DeNaples' slots license. Marino now works as an in-house attorney for DeNaples.

"It's corrupt from top to bottom," one shocked observer groans.

Gov. Rendell has not been forthcoming about his relationship with DeNaples, or his roll in the awarding of a casino license to the DeNaples' Mount Airy Casino Resort in the Poconos.

Majority Leader DeWeese may provide insight into this and other questions. As house Democratic leader, DeWeese appointed longtime friend Jeffrey Coy to the Gaming Control Board in 2004.

In Pennsylvania, political calculations play a role in the prosecution of DeWeese and the others. The Democrats in the state General Assembly hold the slimmest of majorities -- a single seat -- and the loud indictment of the top Democrat in the legislature may swing the House to the Republicans in future elections.

As well, Republicans AG Corbett, and U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania's eastern district, are both seen as jockeying for position to succeed Rendell as governor.

Making a list and checking it twice





Company they keep: Former GOP U.S. Attorney Tom Marino (top) was listed as a reference for DeNaples' slots license, and now works for DeNaples. PA Attorney General Tom Corbett (bottom) refuses to return $25,000 contribution from DeNaples.



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Grand jurors in the past months have heard appalling testimony into what amounts to deep-rooted systemic corruption in the Rendell administration, the state legislature, and the courts.

Grand jurors appear to be shocked at the level of corruption and partisan cronyism allowed under Gov. Rendell and AG Corbett.

Under scrutiny, for example, are lists of major political contributors. When a contributor gives five thousand dollars to, say, Gov. Rendell or other Democrats, the contributor's name is added to a list. If somebody needs help from state government, his name must be on the contributors list, or help won't be forthcoming, Pennsylvanians complain.

Investigators are also probing allegations that some $26 million in public money has been given to casino developers.

See no evil, speak no evil

Growing systemic corruption in Pennsylvania also involves the attempted silencing of writers and reporters, who increasingly find themselves threatened with subpoenas and legal action. DeNaples in June subpoened 15 reporters, demanding names of sources.

It's part of an obvious effort to stifle public review of growing corruption under Ed Rendell in the Keystone State.

The trick for compromised Republican prosecutors will be to keep public attention focused on the small-scale Democratic staff bonus scandal, and away from revelations involving the truly dark and shameful Rendell/Corbett/DeNaples travesty.

Meanwhile, also in the background, the not-so-radical League of Women Voters recently filed a federal lawsuit charging that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices gave themselves a pay raise in return for a ruling allowing casino gambling. In essence, between the lines, the suit alleges that the high court judges lined their pockets by selling the commonwealth out to the mob.

It's not exactly a beautiful day in Pennsylvania. Concerned citizens, at last, are beginning to speak out. That could be the darkest trouble of all for Pennsylvania officials of both parties.

Laughing matter




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'The PR trick for compromised GOP prosecutors will be to keep public attention focused on the small-scale Democratic staff bonus scandal, and away from revelations involving the truly dark and shameful Rendell/Corbett/DeNaples travesty'


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For months Rep. DeWeese has been on edge about the possibility of an impending indictment, staffers say. In a playful exchange in his capitol office, DeWeese recently laughed away the possibility that he would be indicted.

Two staff lawyers told him to stop laughing and to take the possibility seriously.

Tom Andrews, a spokesman for Rep. DeWeese, when asked for comment on this story, ironically laughed.

"I laughed," Andrews said. "That's my comment."

When asked if he wished to make any further comment, Andrews said, more soberly, "We have been cooperating fully with the investigation."

Prosecutors are expected to make public the charges against Majority Leader DeWeese and others within the next week or so.

Anonymous said...

Here's another video (different than Joanie's this time).

Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird

Anonymous said...

Face it. It's a love fest and there's nothing we thinking people can do about it.

Anonymous said...

Where are the front-page media reports about your "Guilty as Sin" video, Cooper? Oh, I forgot. Stupid me. The media are busy planning their November celebration orgy. The freedom of the press pendulum has swung so far to the left that it's lost in the leftist stratosphere. It'll never even sit vertical again.

Anonymous said...

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of 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 their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, 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 a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors 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 Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has 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 his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

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 hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes 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 Province, 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 Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, 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.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is 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 of the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has 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 a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States 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 each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

-- John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton