Still relevant

A great birthday present for our nation today would be to read this document and ask how many of the charges once again ring true?

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 obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
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 offenses:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments.

Yes, I realize the forms of abuse may not exactly coincide, but in many cases their natures do.  It's legitimate to ask what those who signed the Declaration of Independence would think of what their descendents are willing to put up with.  I suppose 235 years was a good run.

"Oh say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?"