> 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.
>
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