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The New Declaration of Independence
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 humanity requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings 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 Humans, 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. Moderation, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for trivial reasons; and accordingly all experience has shown, that humankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are tolerable, than to set themselves straight by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a seemingly endless succession of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them to mere subjects under totalitarian dictatorship, it is both their right and their duty, to overthrow such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President of the United States and their Republican allies in Congress and the judiciary 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 to abide by the Rule of Law, as dictated by the Constitution of the United States, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has repeatedly attempted to override laws passed by States 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 their Constitutional rights , a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together Congress at unusual times, keeping them in session until the small hours of the morning, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He is currently blackmailing our elected Representatives repeatedly, for opposing with adult firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such intimidation tactics, 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 threatened our Constitutional checks and balances by introducing to unsupecting American citizens electronic voting machines, programmed by convicted criminals with ties to his party, using software unavailable for the public to inspect for integrity and with no legal method to ensure an honest vote count, for the sole purpose of fraudulently frustrating the will of the people, thereby resulting in rigged elections which invariably favor him and allies in his party, and making it impossible for the people to vote out this tyrannical regime He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing to abide by the Rule of Law as dictated by the Constution for establishing Judiciary powers. He has stacked the Courts with Judges who are of the same totalitarian mindset as the President, to overturn duly enacted Laws which have heretofore withstood Constitutional scrutiny, to exonerate arbitrarily his political allies, and to punish unjustly his political adversaries.
He has implemented clandestine, warantless domestic electronic surveillance programs, under the pretext of counterterrorism and national security, to intimidate American citizens from exercise their Rights under the Constitution of the United States. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He is currently seeking to allow Standing Armies among American citizens on American soil. He has attempted to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has attempted to render the National Guard weak and inefficient by misusing it for purposes other than their original intent to protect their respective States. 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 protecting them, by a show Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For attempting to immunize Corporations from the reach of the Rule of Law. For imposing new stealth Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us overseas to nations known to practice Torture to be tried for pretended offenses For abolishing the free System of Constitutional Law in neighboring States, 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 States: For using his hand-picked judges to nullify our Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For neutering our own State Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to overrule duly enacted State Laws in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us beneath the protection of the Rule of Law and waging War against us. He has perjuriously led the nation into a War of Aggression against the sovereign nation of Iraq by presenting fraudulent and forged documents of the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He has, for the sole purpose of political revenge against a man who exposed his lies, endangered the security of the nation by unlawfully revealed the identity of his wife, a clandestine government operative: 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 overseas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and families, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has incited foreign and domestic Acts of Terrorism among us, and has endeavored to bring on inhabitants beyond our borders, the merciless Islamist Terrorists, whose known rule of warfare is a wanton and indiscrimate 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 President 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 fellow Americans. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their Congress 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 humankind, 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 States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Bush Regime, and that all political connection between them and the United States of America, 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.
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