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"Single acts of
tyranny may be ascribed to the
accidental opinion of a day. But a series
of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably
through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic
plan of reducing us to slavery." -
Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be
ignorant and
free, in a state of
civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"If you read history, you will see that every national
movement is considered a delusion
by those who are part of the establishment and have the
power." - Kamal Artin
Declaration of
IndependenceIN 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 humans 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: all
men are created equal, 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
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 appear
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 has shown, that
mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed.
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 and
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 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 approval of 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 approval is
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
humans, unless those
humans 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 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
us, 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
offense
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 complete the works
of death, desolation and tyranny, already
begun with circumstances of cruelty and
perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous
ages, and totally unworthy 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 humans.
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.
Freedom of
religion should be
absolute.
Government should not support
religious
institutions.
Government is established to
protect the
rights of
citizens.
Thomas
Jefferson, president of the
United States of
America, architect,
philospher, author, inventor,
scientist
Signers of the Declaration New
Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, 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: George Read, Caesar Rodney, 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
"The
Americans of 1776 were among the first
men in modern
society to defend rather than to
seek an open
society and
constitutional
liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable
characteristic of this political
theory sits in its deep-seated
conservatism. However radical
the principles of the
Revolution may have seemed to
the rest of the world, in the
minds of the colonists they were thoroughly
preservative and respectful of the past." -Clinton
Rossiter
"I was struck by the number of offenses
attributed to the "British crown" that have been, and are being, committed by
the George W. Bush administration. Perhaps it
is time for some remedial education,
not only of George W. Bush and
certain members of his administration and party but also of the bare
majority of voters who returned
this particular George to a second
term in order that he might continue to pursue
policies so at odds with our founders'
ideals." - Jeffery A. Wolf
"I
was struck by the fact that many of our founding fathers' grievances are the
same as those felt by today's
Democrats. For example, John Hancock et al complained that
King George III
had "forbidden his governors to pass laws of
immediate and pressing importance ... "; "affected to render the
military independent of and superior
to the civil power. . . " and perhaps most chillingly, "made judges dependent
on his will alone. . . . " There are numerous
other parallels between the
administration of King George III
and George W. Bush. Perhaps
it's time we abolished ties to our King
George?" -Chris Jares
King George III
suffered from a genetic disorder called
porphyria, an over production of the
reddish pigments in hemoglobin, which carry oxygen in red
blood cells.
King George III
displayed many symptoms of porphyria, including abdominal
pain, reddish urine and acute
mental disturbances.
Similar symptoms had been reported across several
generations of the royal
(blue blood megalomaniac)
lineage.
Ironically arsenic contaminated medicines used to treat some of
his symptoms probably exacerbated them as arsenic disrupts hemoglobin
production which, paradoxically,
triggers many or porphyria's symptoms.
Biochemist Martin J. Warren of
the University of Kent and his colleagues studied five strands of George III's
gray hair preserved at London's Science Museum. They concluded that the hair
had an arsenic content of 17 times the level generally considered to indicate
arsenic poisoning.
"It is extremely likely that his bouts of
madness were due to severe porphyric attacks,"
Martin J. Warren said. "Arsenic may have precipitated his attacks, or made them
much more severe."
King George III
experienced at least five bouts of
extreme derangement, each lasting
weeks.
King George III
occasionally became violent, and he often
talked to imaginary people, including
a tree he
thought was the Prussian king, Frederick
II.
There is a very real possibility that had
King George III
not suffered from
severe arsenic poisoning the
American colonies would have been dealt
with in an entirely different manner and the American Revolution would never have
occurred.
"The Declaration, after all, catalogued the
assaults on our freedoms committed by Britain's
King George
III. What has been built up over the last two and a quarter centuries is a
structure that dwarfs
King George
III's regime." K.E. Grubbs
The Declaration of
Independence of the Fifty Colonies and their
Poor and
Middle Class Inhabitants
from the Imperialist Federal Government of the United States of
America The unanimous
Declaration of the Fifty Colonies of America,
When in the Course of
human events, it becomes necessary
for one group of people to dissolve the political chains which have enslaved them to
another
group of people, and to assume among the
powers of the
Earth, the separate and
equal station to which the
Laws of Nature and
Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the
opinions of
mankind demands that they need
declare the causes impelling them to separate.
We hold these truths to be
self-evident and irrefutable,
that all People are created
equal, that they are endowed with
certain unalienable Human
Rights as delineated in the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
-That to secure these rights,
government are instituted among the
people, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed,
-That whenever any form of
government
usurps powers without the governed people's consent
and 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
foundations 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 people 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 obscene abuses and heinous crimes, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right and
responsibility to depose such government, and to provide new guards for
their future security.
-Such
has been the patient sufferance of these
Fifty Colonies, their Poor and
Middle Classes, and most of
the rest of the citizens of Earth; and such
is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former
systems of
government.
The history of the
present king of the United States [George II], and that of his predecessors
[houses of Elephant and Donkey alike] dating back to the reign of king Richard
of the royal family of Nixon, is a
history of repeated injuries and
usurpations [by the rulers and their
trusted advisors], all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these Colonies and their
Poor and
Middle Class inhabitants.
To prove this, let candid facts be submitted to the citizens
Earth .
They [King George II and his
royal advisors: lords Cheney,
Rumsfeld,
Feith,
Wolfowitz,
Gonzales, and lady Rice] have refused
their Assent to Laws and
Policies, most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
They have
engaged in acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the
city of New Orleans
through acts of criminal neglect and gross mismanagement of the aftermath of a
natural
disaster, the willful
creation of a diaspora of the
poor black inhabitants of New Orleans,
the suspension of labor laws which would have
ensured fair wages to those rebuilding the
city, and the
dispensation of generous federal contracts to crony
corporations to rebuild a
city favorable to
the interests of the wealthy.
They
manipulated facts and presented
lies to the
American people and to Congress to gain
necessary approval of a "preventive", illegal war against the sovereign nation of
Iraq on the shifting premises
that this nation posed an immediate threat to our national
security, that the
Iraqi people needed a champion
to topple a ruthless dictator, and that their purpose was to spread "freedom and
liberty".
It has now come to
light that
Iraq possessed no
weapons of mass
destruction, had no connections with
Osama bin Laden, and was
little or no threat to the America.
They
knew this prior to the
invasion.
They subverted a
government led by a former
American ally whom
America supported when it
knew he was committing
genocide.
They installed a puppet
Iraqi regime fortified by
140,000 US military personnel and
call it "Democracy".
They are responsible for the
deaths of a minimum of 52,297 to 57,871 Iraqi civilians. 12/31/06
Their
hands drip with the blood of
innocents slaughtered using monies from
our Treasury and the blood, sweat
and tears of our children.
They recruited and trained
American
military personnel under the pretext
that they would be engaged in defending America.
After enticing young men
and women to serve based on blatant lies,
They thrust them into
imperial conquests like the one in
Iraq.
They are
responsible for:
They have
sacrificed these
American
lives, the American Dream and American Democracy on the alter of the
almighty dollar.
They have continued to perpetuate,
protect, and expand the
powers of corrupt, avaricious
corporations.
These cornucopias of avidity for
wealth and power pay sub-standard wages, offer minimal
benefits to their employees, increasingly utilize inexpensive "offshore" labor, manufacture
products in "sweat shops" which egregiously
violate the human rights of
their employees, profiteer during
wars and natural
disasters,
rape the
environment and plunder our precious
natural resources, utilize "creative
accounting methods" to increase their stock value, capitalize on
laws enabling them to
create hostile
environments for unions, demand virtually
endless increases in corporate welfare, and
strangle competition through
mergers and
acquisitions accomplished with
their over-inflated stocks.
They have perpetuated and
expanded an executive branch of
government which is in many ways
indistinguishable from the leviathan corporations and
wealthy elite which it serves and
represents.
They have
forsaken their primary responsibility, which is to preserve the universal
human rights of their
citizenry, and to secure the
general welfare of the citizenry.
They have rapidly eroded federal
domestic programs promoting health
care, education, basic
infrastructure, and housing, while directing unconscionable sums of public
monies to the military
industrial complex comprised of
current and former government
officials and the wealthy elite.
They seize the lion's
share of taxes from their
citizens and spend obscene
amounts to finance a grotesquely powerful
military [and their imperial
adventures], while a significant
number of their citizens
want for proper education, housing,
transportation, and even nourishment.
They have
created a rogue
military state which engages in
terrorism of such magnitude
that terrorist acts committed by the
Iraqi
Resistance, while
equally as
morally objectionable, are modest in
comparison.
They
have, through their willful neglect of the general welfare, allowed 46 million
Americans to languish with no
health
insurance, 13% of their
citizenry to experience
poverty, 3% to
experience homelessness, 24% of their
Black populace
live in
poverty, and 6% of their
citizens to
experience unemployment.
These
glaring blights on humanity are
inexcusable in the wealthiest nation in
history.
They have continued to loosen
federal regulations on the "free
market"
economy, thus further enriching their
plutocratic allies while impoverishing more and more
Americans.
They
have worked tenaciously to perpetuate the exportation of
neoliberal
economic policies to Latin America, crushing
economies throughout that region, and
creating chasms between their rich and
poor.
They have employed chemical
weapons, white phosphorus, in Iraq, violating numerous
treaties, conventions, and International Laws.
They have exposed their own
soldiers and the civilian inhabitants
of occupied
Iraq to the of depleted uranium projectiles.
They have employed a
variety of illegal and unethical means to manipulate and taint the results of two
presidential elections to ensure
their ascendancy to the seat of power.
They have enacted
laws and policies hostile to
science and
intellectual
viewpoints, thus leading our nation down
a path of
ignorance and
superstition.
They
have grossly usurped their
powers by intimidating Congress into
enacting the Patriot Act, decimating
Habeas Corpus and
due process by illegally
detaining Jose Padilla [an
American citizen], and violating
virtually everything for which the Bill
of Rights stands by illegally detaining, torturing and murdering accused
terrorists at
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and
other undisclosed locations across the
face of the Earth.
They violated Posse Comitatus in
New Orleans and have since stated their intention to crush it by deploying
American
military personnel on a wide scale
in future domestic disasters.
They have
consistently rewarded or promoted those members of their
royal court who have
committed criminal or grossly incompetent acts.
They have pillaged the public
Treasury, dispersing tax monies to
their cronies and collaborators in
their corrupt schemes.
They have
created an astronomical national
debt which will hang
from the necks of future generations as a millstone of astounding proportions.
They have virtually
relieved themselves and their wealthy
compatriots of their tax
obligations.
In so doing, They have placed the burden of
filling the public coffers on the backs of those who benefit least from their
governance [the
Poor and
Middle Classes].
They have financed and enabled
the ruthless Israeli colonial
occupation of Palestinian
territory, and have allowed elements closely
aligned with the radical Likud to
shape their foreign policy decisions,
particularly in the Middle East.
We [those amongst us who do not remain
entranced by the powerful propaganda
of the mainstream media] have Petitioned for
Redress in humble, reasonable terms in a variety of ways.
Our repeated
Petitions have been answered by repeated injury.
A prince of the
American royal
family of Bush, 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 brethren in the federal
government, their
corporate allies or the
wealthy elite.
We have warned
them from time to time of their attempts to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of our inalienable rights
derived from Natural Law, the
US Constitution, and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
We have appealed to their senses of justice and magnanimity, and we have
beseeched them to disavow these usurpations based on our common kindred.
They 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 humanity,
Enemies in
War, in Peace Friends.
We,
therefore, the Representatives of the Fifty Colonies of
America and their
Poor and
Middle Classes, appealing to
the Supreme Judge of
Earth for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish
and declare, that these Fifty Colonies and United Peoples are, and of Right
ought to be Free and Independent of the
United Stated Federal Government; that We are Absolved from Allegiance to the
Federal Crown, and that all political
connections between them and us, is and
ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent People forming
a true Constitutional Republic,
we have full Power to provide for the
General Welfare of the populace, 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 (by the
Higher Power of each person's
understanding), we mutually
pledge to each other our
lives, our Fortunes, and our
sacred Honor.
-Jason Miller,
willpowerful@hotmail.com, http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/
"My heart trembles when I
reflect that
God is just." - Thomas
Jefferson Patriots -- George
Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, Abraham
Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, Calvin
Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Harry S. Truman, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan -- Presidents
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American aristocracy
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The Corruption of the American Dream
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The Subversion of American
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