{"article":{"id":246816,"heading":"A New Declaration of Independence, July 4, 2011","author":"Roy Batty","created":"2011-07-05 15:09:27","modified":"2011-07-05 15:09:27","last_modified":"Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:09:27","article":"

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 the human community entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.\r\n

\r\nWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\r\n

\r\nThat to secure these rights, governments are instituted among human beings, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to 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.\r\n

\r\nPrudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that human beings are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.\r\n

\r\nBut when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce humankind 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.\r\n

\r\nSuch has been the patient sufferance of the vast majority of the people of the United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.\r\n

\r\nThe history of rich assholes and their corporations 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.\r\n

\r\nRich assholes and their corporations have refused their assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.\r\n

\r\nThey have usurped our election process and bribed our elected legislators to make them their own.\r\n

\r\nThey have forbidden their governors and legislators to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till their assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them.\r\n

\r\nThey have refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of equal representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.\r\n

\r\nThey have shut down representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with firmness their invasions on the rights of the people.\r\n

\r\nThey have refused, after such shut downs, to fund or support laws necessary to the common good; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.\r\n

\r\nThey have obstructed the administration of justice, by corrupting laws for establishing judiciary powers.\r\n

\r\nThey have made judges dependent on their will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries and the payment of their wives' salaries.\r\n

\r\nThey have erected a multitude of new offices and enacted unjust laws, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out our substance.\r\n

\r\nThey have affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.\r\n

\r\nThey have affected to render the office of the President of the United States independent of and superior to civil power.\r\n

\r\nThey have affected to render their corporations independent of and superior to civil power.\r\n

\r\nRich assholes and their corporations have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their assent to their acts of pretended legislation:\r\n

\r\nFor allowing United States corporations to be headquartered overseas to avoid paying their taxes:\r\n

\r\nFor protecting corporations, by mock trial, from any criminal or civil liability whatsoever, including liability for wrongful deaths they have caused to inhabitants of these states:\r\n

\r\nFor assuming liability and bailing them out of their iniquitous financial schemes:\r\n

\r\nFor dismantling our system of public education:\r\n

\r\nFor plundering our treasury to finance foreign wars that benefit their corporations:\r\n

\r\nFor imposing taxes on us without our consent:\r\n

\r\nFor enacting laws exempting them and their corporations from paying taxes:\r\n

\r\nFor depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:\r\n

\r\nFor imprisoning our people convicted of inconsequential, non-violent crimes:\r\n

\r\nFor depriving us of our right to universal health care:\r\n

\r\nFor depriving us of our rights to do with our bodies as we see fit:\r\n

\r\nFor spying on our everyday activities:\r\n

\r\nFor transporting some of us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:\r\n

\r\nFor taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the form of our government:\r\n

\r\nFor corrupting our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.\r\n

\r\nRich assholes and their corporations have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, polluted our air and water, poisoned our food, and destroyed the lives of our people.\r\n

\r\nThey are at this time amassing large armies of mercenaries trained in their foreign wars to continue the works of death, desolation and tyranny here, already begun all over the world with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of a civilized nation.\r\n

\r\nIn 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. Self-anointed princes, whose characters are thus marked by every act which may define tyrants, are unfit to be the rulers of a free people.\r\n

\r\nNor have we been wanting in attention to our Rich Asshole 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 found none.\r\n

\r\nWe have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections. 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 enemies in war.\r\n

\r\nWe, therefore, solemnly publish and declare, that we are absolved from all allegiance , and that all political connection between us and rich assholes, their corporations and their politicians who pretend to represent us , is and ought to be totally dissolved.\r\n

\r\nAs a free and independent people, we have full power to levy taxes, to reclaim our natural resources, to enact laws for the common good as opposed to those for corporate good, to punish corporations for their criminal acts, to impeach, expel and dishonor our judiciary and our so-called representatives for their allegiance to corporate masters, and to do all other acts and things which independent people may of right do.\r\n

\r\nFor the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.<\/p>\n","contact":"roy@wheresmyfuckingmoney.com","link":"http:\/\/wheresmyfuckingmoney.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"As a free and independent people, we have full power to punish corporations for their criminal acts and to impeach, expel and dishonor our judiciary and our so-called representatives for their allegiance to corporate masters.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/declaration-of-independence.jpg","filesize":"767.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2011\/07\/246816.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/declaration-of-independence.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/declaration-of-independence.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/declaration-of-independence.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}