When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for
all
people to dissolve the political bands which have isolated and
separated them from each other, and to assume among the powers
of the earth, the united and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature or of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to unite.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all humans 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 us, 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 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 Natural Existence and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that humankind
is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right
itself 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 poverty and inequality,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to
provide new Public Servants for their future security and
existence.
Such has been the patient sufferance of
the majority of the human race; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their present Systems of Government by
the same laws by which these governments were established—the vote of
democracy—the Voice of the People. The history of the present world
governments and their agendas is a history of repeated injuries and inequalities, all having in direct object the establishment of
governing entities that exist to perpetuate themselves without serving the
needs of the people who have established them.
They (our governments) have refused
to establish Laws, which are
the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
They have forbidden
their governing bodies to pass Laws
of immediate and pressing importance to the sustaining of human life,
unless suspended in their operation till their campaign of wars have
been waged; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected
to attend to them.
They have refused to pass other Laws for the
sustenance and
welfare of large districts of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
They have called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with their
measures.
They have outlawed, harassed, and intimidated groups of people thus
formed to supplicate them for peace and the basic necessities of life
repeatedly, for opposing with firmness their invasions on the
rights of the people.
Systematically abolishing term limitations on their members they
have refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others
to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation,
have returned to the People at large for their exercise; they
remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of corporate
manipulation from without, and corruption within.
They have endeavored to prevent the population of
an equal
world; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of all
Foreigners, by transcending the imaginary borders which they
have established to protect them without regarding the ramifications of
abuse said borders have on human rights and decency; refusing to pass
others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of
basic human citizenry in a world meant for all.
They have obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing
their Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers that
protect all people equally, regardless of economic status.
They have made Judges dependent on
their Will alone for
the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither
swarms of Officers to harass our people in protection of corporate
rights, while denying personal freedoms.
They have kept among us, in times of peace,
Government
Bureaucracies without the Consent of our legislatures, whose full
determination is to support government imposed policy in spite of what
such policies do to the rights of the people and their desire to live
without stress and worry of having the basic necessities of life.
They have affected to render the Military independent of and
superior to the Civil Power held by the voice of the people.
They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitution, which should always constitute a guarantee
to us all of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and
unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation:
For sending large bodies of armed troops among us
at the will
of their selfish agendas, pretending to be protecting the people from the
people:
For protecting themselves
from punishment for any Murders which
they should commit on the Inhabitants of this world through their
negligence in assuring the guarantees set herein by the voice of the
people:
For controlling our Trade with all parts of the world,
assuring that those with whom they have formed secret combinations benefit
from this trade, while billions of us suffer from their trade laws and
mandates:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury,
suffering those so impoverished to accept Plea in Abeyance or PLEA and
WAIVER OR RIGHTS agreements, negating the very rights for which we, the
people, established the system to judge ourselves:
For transporting many of us beyond Seas to be tried for
pretended offences, such as, but not limited to: illegal immigration,
passport violation, and document forgery which we are forced to commit in
order to sustain our own lives and the lives of our children:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and
altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments, which, instead of
protecting the rights of all people to those basic human necessities that
allow Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, establish those Forms
which benefit the wealthy minority from whom they derive their powers:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
They have abdicated Government
throughout the world, by
declaring the people out of their Protection and waging War
against us.
They have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our
towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
They are at this time transporting large Armies of foreign
Mercenaries, which they call soldiers and heroes, to complete the
works of death, desolation, and tyranny, scattered throughout the world
with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of any civilized
nation.
They have constrained our fellow Citizens
to take up arms
against us, forcing our hand in defense and offense to protect the rights
they have taken from us to bear Arms against each other,
to become the executioners of our friends and Brethren, or to fall
ourselves by their Hands.
They have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and
have
endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our world, the merciless
travesty which they perpetrated against the native peoples of our
earth, calling them, for example, Indian Savages, who once were a
peaceful people, taking only from our earth what was needed to sustain
their lives, thereby forced into submission to these merciless powers for
their very survival; their (the governments’) known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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 government, whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a humane people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our
fellow humans and our
leaders. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their
legislatures to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us, forcing
us to war with each other, and causing further human carnage without our
majority consent.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our
involuntary
emergence (birth) into the human societies of this world. We have
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common kindred. To disavow these proclamations
made herein would inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence and lead to further degradation of our natural species.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity,
by which all humans are tied together equally. We must, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity, to those whom denounce our Declarations and Intentions, and hold them, as we hold the rest of
Humankind, Enemies of Peace and Decency.
We, therefore, the Worldwide United Foundation,
by strength
of our united voice, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world and the consciences of all its people
for the rectitude of our
intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the majority of the
good People of planet earth, solemnly publish and declare, That
every human thus given the respect and honor of being born into our
world, and so-named equally by those here now, will be provided and
guaranteed free food, shelter, clothing, health care (both physical and
mental), and education, from the day of our birth to the day of our
mortal death; and that as a united voice of the majority, we
have full Power to demand these things from those who govern us,
commanding them to establish international law to protect and enforce our
will. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Providence and our united resolve, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,
herein submitting our names to this cause.
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