A Declaration of Independence, Redux

When one people need to separate themselves from another, and to take the place to which the Laws of God and the Laws of Nature entitle them, they ought to say why they are doing so.

We hold that all humans are created equal, that God has given them rights that none can take away, and that those rights include Life, Freedom, and the means of seeking our own happiness. To do this, most people have found that governments should exist, but that their right to exist depends on the will and consent of those who are governed.

When governments stop doing this, the people have the right to shut those so-called governments down, and start over, in such a way that 'they don't get fooled again'. It is a matter of common sense that one does not change the government lightly, or because one person is upset at the way things are run. And often, one will keep going along with a bad government, because the alternative is often a worse one.

But when the system breaks down, or when it fouls up so repeatedly, or when its so-called leaders do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, it is both the right and the duty of the people to tell the government what it can do with itself, and start again afresh.

Just so that you know what we are talking about here:

The present government has refused to enact laws that would actually help the common good.

It has prevented Governors from passing laws that actually might help us, unless the government can in some way get credit for it.

It has kept the States from passing laws that might help the people in those states, unless those people buy into accepting a public dole.

It has called together Congresses at times and places that the people cannot follow what is going on, so that it can badger them into accepting what it has done.

It has undermined the will of the people, by electing representatives who have been bought and sold by lobbyists.

When it is displeased with the results of an election, it causes contests to exist which wear out the patience of those who were trying to have an election and to get things done.

Rather than helping the people of this land, it has allowed millions of people from another land to come in to waste the substance of citizens and taxpayers, and not to do one damned thing about it.

It has kept justice from being done by preselecting a group of judges who have no interest in justice or the people, but what the lobbyists can pay.

It has made a myriad of lobbies, bureaucracies, interests groups, and others to harass our people and eat out their livelihoods.

It has made standing armies, at home and abroad, without the consent of our governors or legislatures.

It has made the Department of Defense independent of and superior to the Department of State.

It has combined with the Supreme Court and the Congress to subject us to laws which we did not pass, or even to know of.

It has made a Department of Homeland Security, which has quartered a great number of 'gomer gestapo' who trouble and harry us while we try to travel.

It protects these morons from any consequences of their petty tyranny while it puts loyal citizens on 'watch lists'.

It regulates trade so that our jobs are 'outsourced' to other lands and we are sold down the river.

It imposes taxes upon us without our consent.

In so many ways, from traffic courts to administrative courts, it deprives us of trial by jury.

It changes our laws from the old 'common law' to one to which we have not consented, or even known.

It takes away our local Charters, abolishes our laws, and alters the forms of our government, for an agenda which they do not acknowledge.

It has bored us with stupid elections, and then told us that we consented to what was voted on by those who won.

At all times, we have told our government: stop doing these things without our consent or knowledge. But they continue. Anyone who does these things should be called tyrants, Nazis, and thugs, and unfit to try to govern us.

We've tried to warn you about this. You haven't been listening. We're going to have to get serious now.

Thus, we're going to have to stop following your stupid laws, and to make laws of our own. If you won't do anything, we will. Deal with it.

We therefore resist you to our last breath, and claim our independence and freedom. And to this, we will pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.