Towards a
Second
American
Revolution
That
existing
government
by engaging
in criminal
wars,
embargoes,
blockades
and other
black-listing
of foreign
nations has
made the
United
States not
just an
international
bully but a
piranha,
world’s
leading
perpetrator
of genocide
and
dislocation
of people
By Ben
Tanosborn
04/07/08 --
A
Re-Declaration
of
Independence
By the
People of
the United
States of
America
On This
Fourth of
July 2008
When in the
course of
human
events, it
becomes
necessary
for one
people to
dissolve the
political
bonds which
have
connected
them with
its own
government,
and to
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
denunciation.
We hold
these truths
to be
self-evident,
that all men
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, a
new
government
must be
instituted,
deriving its
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.
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
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
long train
of abuses
and
usurpations,
pursuing
invariably
the same
object
evinces a
design to
reduce them
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.
–Such has
been the
patient
sufferance
of the
people of
the United
States of
America; and
such is now
the
necessity
which
constrains
them to
alter their
existing
system of
government.
The history
of the
Executive in
this
government,
exemplified
and
accentuated
by the
current
administration;
together
with a long
history of a
lobbies-corrupted
Legislature
and a
politically-appointed
Judicial,
are
histories of
repeated
injuries and
usurpations,
not acting
as to
balance
power but
jointly
providing a
unified
corruptive
government,
all having
in direct
object the
establishment
of a world
empire and a
domestic
ruling class
able to
exercise
absolute
tyranny over
the people.
The present
and recent
past
administrations
of the
United
States of
America are
hereby
deemed
non-responsive
to the
interests
and
well-being
of the
people of
this nation
while also
acting as an
imminent and
constant
danger to
the cause of
peace in the
world. To
prove this,
let facts be
submitted to
a candid
world.
…That
existing
government
has made
itself a
self-perpetuating
tyranny
where the
channels to
change and
impeachment
are de facto
blocked by
the
duopolistic
party
system.
… That
existing
government
operates
under the
auspices of
special
interest
groups whose
money
influence
the election
of officials
in such
government,
the
enactment of
legislation,
and the way
domestic and
foreign
policy are
created and
conducted.
… That
existing
government
has not only
permitted
but promoted
the
ever-widening
gap between
haves (20%)
and
have-nots
(80%), with
serious
wealth and
income
inequality.
… That
existing
government
shows no
concern for
the
well-being
of the
people as
evidenced by
the
availability
of
healthcare,
education
and social
welfare
relative to
other
nations with
similar or
fewer
resources.
… That
existing
government
is
responsible
for
instilling
fear in the
population,
making
terror the
underlying
reason for
curtailing
freedoms,
spying or
even lying
to the
people.
… That
existing
government
maintains a
military
with a
destructive
capacity far
in excess of
that needed
for
self-defense;
and to the
detriment of
public
needs. And
that such
massive
destructive
capacity
only serves
to paint the
United
States as a
coercive,
imperialistic
and
terrorist
nation.
… That
existing
government
by engaging
in criminal
wars,
embargoes,
blockades
and other
black-listing
of foreign
nations has
made the
United
States not
just an
international
bully but a
piranha,
world’s
leading
perpetrator
of genocide
and
dislocation
of people.
… That
existing
government
has in fact
misgoverned
domestically
in every
facet of
governing;
while
abusing its
power to
promote
mayhem
internationally
which has
gravely
damaged the
reputation
of the
people of
this nation
before the
eyes of the
world.
We,
therefore,
the people
of the
United
States of
America, in
self-representation
and joined
in mind and
effort,
appeal to
the Supreme
Judge of the
world for
the
rectitude of
our
intentions,
do, in the
name of one
another with
common joint
interests,
and
self-exercising
our
authority as
free people,
solemnly
publish and
declare,
that these
United
States of
America are,
and of right
ought to be
free from
the tyranny
of the
existing
government;
that they
are absolved
from all
allegiance
to this
existing
Federal
government,
and that all
political
connection
between
them, is and
ought to be
totally
dissolved;
and that the
Fifty States
making up
this union
immediately
join forces
to create
and summon a
Constitutional
Congress for
the sole
purpose of
enacting a
new
constitution
and the
formation of
a new
Federal
government;
representatives
to that
Congress to
be
judiciously
chosen by
the States
in
proportional
numbers to
population.
The new
constitution,
and the
government
which will
derive from
it, to be
exemplary
models in
morality and
brotherhood;
such
government
to have full
power to
work for
peace and
against war,
to regulate
all
wealth-producing
activities
to guarantee
a free but
fair market,
and to do
all other
acts and
things which
independent
nations may
of right do
for the
well-being
of its
citizens.
And for the
support of
this
declaration,
with a firm
reliance on
the
protection
of Divine
Providence,
we, the
people of
these United
States of
America,
pledge to
each other
our lives,
our fortunes
and our
sacred
honor.
© 2008 Ben
Tanosborn -
www.tanosborn.com
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