Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They left it so that everybody could worship, even the notion of creation, if you didn't want to believe in a creator.
Over the next couple of weeks, they made a bunch of these kinds of edits.
There were lots of different versions that went back and forth.
And while the first part of the declaration reads like a mission statement, we hold these truths to be self-evident, the rest of it is basically a list of everything the king has done wrong.
He has forbidden.
He has obstructed the administration of justice.
He has obstructed.
Cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.
He has endeavored to prevent.
For imposing taxes on us without our consent.
Taking away charters.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.
One of the ones that we hear often is plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
I'm curious who their audience was.
Were they writing this so that King George III would read it?
Were they writing it for all the people they were representing in the colonies to sort of feel like they were unifying as a country?
Yeah, there were three or four audiences.
The people in the American colonies.
You have to remember, the beginning of 1776, most Americans did not want a break from England.
They wanted representation, but they were not trying to overthrow the control of the king.
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