Enough of Bush's Tories and Corporate Cronies. Independence Day is here, and it is incumbent upon us all to declare our Liberty:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to withdraw its consent and cooperation with its government, and to take back power from the Aristocracy of Wealth that denies them the Freedom and Rights 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 ferocious opposition.
We present our case against Bush's Regime in the Continuation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all 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 Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government, Political Party or Regime 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, 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 after the six long years of misgovernment, corruption and tyranny that the Sovereign, George Bush, the Second of That Name, has inflicted upon his country, the long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, a dark and fascist evil that is alien to these shores. It is the People's right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
—Such has been the patient sufferance of most Americans; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Occupant of the White House, King George II of the House Of Bush, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over his subjects, former citizens of the United States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to 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 Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has deprived large districts of people of their right to vote by the basis of their race or class, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He and members of his Party in Congress have governed in secrecy, depriving the public access to the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures, and preventing them from exercising their rights under the US Constitution.
He has dismissed public prosecutors and other government officials counter to law repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people, and has appointed corrupt officials in their place without the consent of Congress.
He has corruptly granted to private corporations and their lobbyists powers oppress and defraud his subjects without fear of the courts or by any action of his federal government.
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 denying to the children of these migrants basic human rights as required by the Bill Of Rights.
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 harass our people, and eat out their substance, and to spy upon them.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power, and placed them all under his direct and unconstitutional control.
He has combined with his aristocracy and their corporations 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 Spying upon us, and for denying us rights of habeus corpus, the right to representation of an attorney, and :
For protecting his cronies and followers, by a mock Trial, or by Improper Amnesty from punishment for any crimes they might commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For turning Trade to the sole benefit of the rich and their corporations, and against the interests of common citizens:
For raising taxes upon the working people in order to lower them upon the wealthy:
For the corrupt use of the public treasury to the benefit of his supporters and cronies, and the amassing of huge debt to be passed to our children and grandchildren:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to tortured or held in secret for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws within our country, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For ignoring the constitutional powers of the Congress and of the Courts, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by leaving the people New Orleans out of his Protection and waging War against them.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, devasted our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of both our own troops and foreign Mercenaries to compleat 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.
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 people.
We have tried without avail to raise the attention of the Corporate Press, and of others who control access to media and to public communication. We have warned from time to time of attempts by by the President's Party 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, should they come to their senses.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the citizens of the United States of America, Virtually Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of this country, solemnly publish and declare, That we are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent of the tyranny of Bush and his Party; that we are Absolved from all Allegiance to his illegal Crown, and that all political connection between us and Bush's regime, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent people, we deny Bush and his regime all rights 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.