Declaration Of Independence Redux

UNITED STATES, July 4, 2006

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States of America have gotten lazy. Over the course of the past 229 years we have become distracted with our own individual pleasure or survival and allowed our grip on democracy to loosen. Now it is money that drives the country. Not us. The tools of manipulation have evolved and permeated our political system and culture to such an extent that we cannot make an informed decision about anything.

Spin doctors and corporations make the decisions with the consent of the people - but not the informed consent.  For citizens with a vote, the truth of any matter can no longer be ascertained and, therefore, voted upon with any degree of accuracy. Americans have grown accustomed to a detestable porridge of duty and lies with sugar on top– leaving them satisfied…and ignorant.

Since there is no informed consent of the governed, the power that our elected officials currently wield is illegitimate.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal regardless of class, ethnicity, education, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, or opinion. Apparently, we simply can’t be clear enough about that. That they are endowed by their Creator, whichever creator they believe in, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are never to be prioritized below what is perceived to be or claimed to be the common good. Period.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive and/or starts to overstep its bounds, it is the Duty of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation and organizing its powers to seem most likely to effect their Safety, Happiness, and Well-Being.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations reveals a pattern designed to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right and duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present two-party system is mixed at best. Lately it's been one of repeated injuries, abuses of power, deceit, and usurpations, all having the direct establishment of a sort of soft Tyranny over the people. A tyranny of manipulation that leads, it seems, down a dark path into the unknown.

UNITED STATES, July 4, 2006

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States of America have gotten lazy. Over the course of the past 229 years we have become distracted with our own individual pleasure or survival and allowed our grip on democracy to loosen. Now it is money that drives the country. Not us. The tools of manipulation have evolved and permeated our political system and culture to such an extent that we cannot make an informed decision about anything.

Spin doctors and corporations make the decisions with the consent of the people - but not the informed consent.  For citizens with a vote, the truth of any matter can no longer be ascertained and, therefore, voted upon with any degree of accuracy. Americans have grown accustomed to a detestable porridge of duty and lies with sugar on top– leaving them satisfied…and ignorant.

Since there is no informed consent of the governed, the power that our elected officials currently wield is illegitimate.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal regardless of class, ethnicity, education, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, or opinion. Apparently, we simply can’t be clear enough about that. That they are endowed by their Creator, whichever creator they believe in, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are never to be prioritized below what is perceived to be or claimed to be the common good. Period.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive and/or starts to overstep its bounds, it is the Duty of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation and organizing its powers to seem most likely to effect their Safety, Happiness, and Well-Being.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations reveals a pattern designed to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right and duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present two-party system is mixed at best. Lately it's been one of repeated injuries, abuses of power, deceit, and usurpations, all having the direct establishment of a sort of soft Tyranny over the people. A tyranny of manipulation that leads, it seems, down a dark path into the unknown.