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THE DECLARATION OF SOVEREIGNTY
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for All people to dissolve the political Bonds which have subjected them by oppression, and 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 truth to be self-evident, that this present moment, All of mankind are Not created equal, other than all having been endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.~
That to secure these rights and other human rights such as food, water, shelter, clothing and health care, Governments will be instituted, 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 abolish it, instituting a new Government, and 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, in most cases, 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. But when a large record of abuses and usurpations from that Government continually pursuing the People, showing a design to reduce them under absolute Tyranny, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such evil, and provide new Guards for their future security.~
Such has been the patient perseverance of these People; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former $y$tem of Government.~
The form of the present government has taken that of a living organism feeding off the fears of the people who submit to it. Its history is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having an exact purpose of establishing an Oligarchy over these people. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.~
It has refused Its approval to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the earthly good.~
It has repeatedly arrested and murdered the inhabitants, for opposing, with firmness, its invasions on their rights.~
It has refused, for too long a time, the legislative powers being in direct control of the People; statutizing basic freedoms into "laws", which It compels the People subject to.~
It has endeavored to prevent the People of this land, and those from the lands it gained through conquest - which it claims dominion over - sovereign rule, through misrepresentation and the creation of the 14th Amendment (1868). And it has shown ignorance about its station in life, by claiming to hold the rights to all the property, when they were created by the People, who belong to the land.~
It has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing us Article III courts, and has conspired with others, foreign and domestic, fictitious and real, to retain claim to Titles of Nobility and subjugate us under a jurisdiction foreign to Our constitution, and unacknowledged by Our laws; giving its approval to their Acts of pretended Legislation:~
For stationing large amounts of armed agents among us:~
For protecting them, by a panel/commission of investigators or by mock Trials, from punishment for any Murders or other violations of rights they should commit on the People of this land and others:~
For cutting off free Trade between the People:~
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:~
For seizing our property without just compensation:~
For depriving us, in almost every case, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:~
For transporting us around this land to be tried for pretended offenses (victimless crimes):~
For handing out cruel and unusual punishment:~
For the denial of due process to the Japanese-American by placing them in internment camps during WWII:~
For denying us to live by the Common Law:~
For lying, over and over to the People:~
For the Stock Act:`~
For covering-up the original 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified 1819::~
For continuing to enslave People for up to 89 years after it’s formation:~
For not allowing woman, who are the People, the right to vote for up to 144 years:~
For granting banking and law charters, which led to the establishment of private banks and courts, which led to the bankruptcy of this nation and the creation of statutory jurisdiction for its administration, thus altering fundamentally the Form of Our Government:~
For secretly suspending the constitution, and declaring itself invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever:~
For entering into secret treaties~
For disregarding the Bill of Rights.~
It has sent our People to foreign lands, often against their will, to fight in wars without the Consent of the legislatures.and without ever giving them the right to vote for almost 2 centuries:~
It has demonstrated imperialism by invading foreign lands, 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 in those countries.~
It has engaged in genocide as it wiped out the over 12 millions native Americans whose only crime was being born on this land.~
It has stationed foreign Armies on this land.~
It has erected a multitude of New Offices, Commissions, Bureaus, Agencies, and Departments, and sent out swarms of Agents to harass the People, and eat out their substance.~
It has declared war on us, by compelling us to perform in accordance with "statutory" jurisdiction.~
It has given Judges a percentage of the fine money collected by them through deferred compensation.~
It has affected to render its agents independent of, and superior to, the Civil power.~
It has destroyed our forests, contaminated our lands, poisoned our seas, polluted our air, and unsettled our minds.~
It is, at this time, conspiring with the United Nations, the controller of large Armies of foreign Governments, to complete the works of death, destruction and tyranny; already having shown circumstances of Cruelty & treachery almost paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.~
It has coerced our fellow Brothers and Sisters, through the use of institutions and intimidation, to bear false witness in favor of its fraud; to become the oppressors and executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their laws and hands.~
It has excited domestic descent among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of this land: racial strife, additive drugs, colorable money, deadly ailments, and matters of no real importance, in an attempt at dividing us, so they may conquer.~
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress of Grievances. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Government, whose nature is thus marked by every act which may define a Oligarchy, is unfit to be the rulers of a free people. It’s hypocrisy is evident in all the things the people had to fight for; i.e. the right for a black man to be free, giving woman and eighteen-year-olds the right to vote; civil rights, equal right, gay rights, human rights, ect...~
We have been trying to educate our agent brothers and sisters. We have failed, from time to time, to warn them of attempts by their fellow agents, to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have failed in reminding them of the circumstances of their employer's creation here. We will, however, summon them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which will inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of brotherhood. We must, therefore, submit to 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 natural born inhabitants of the United States of America, planet earth, in Council Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of all worlds for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the like People of these lands, solemnly publish and declare: That these Free and Independent inhabitants are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Sovereign to any ruler; that we are Absolved from all Subjugation of the United States Government, and that all political connection between us and any government we choose not to give consent to, is, and ought, to be totally ignored, or dissolved; and that as Sovereign People, we have full Power to have Arguments, conclude Peace, make friends, trade freely, travel uninterrupted, and do all other Acts and Things which Sovereigns may of right do.~
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Wisdom, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.~
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