When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the financial bonds which have
connected them with another, 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 separation.
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, governments are instituted among men, deriving
their 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 hath 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 American taxpayers; and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history
of the present Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over the American taxpayers. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
This government is guilty of
forcefully requiring the American taxpayer to submit personal and corporate financial
history and using this as a basis to determine how much they will take from the
American taxpayer, and having no authority to do so, except the authority
granted by the American taxpayer. They are guilty of garnishing the hard earned
wages of individuals who fail to submit to their tyranny and placing citizens
who do not abide by these rules under economic duress.
This government is guilty of,
hypocritically, never being accountable or responsible for the money taken from
the American taxpayer and spent on behalf of the American taxpayer. It never
releases detailed public records of their transactions to the American
taxpayers, who finance its usurpations and destructive actions.
This government is guilty of using expanding
government agencies and using their employees against the very people whom they
are sworn to protect and defend, in order to obtain their personal financial
information, when it is not willfully submitted. They fight their citizens with
extreme force to collect these dictated portions of income. In doing so they
have abused the power granted to them by the very people they are elected to
represent. In addition, they have erected a multitude of new offices, and sent
swarms of agents and officers to monitor and harass our people, and eat out
their substance.
This government is guilty of
forceful suppression to the opposition to their invasions on the rights of the
people.
This government is guilty of
treating certain well connected officials and citizens with preferential
treatment and favoritism by releasing them of their debts which no ordinary
citizen would ever be released from.
This government has affected to
render the government and its officials independent of and superior to civil
power and the Constitutional law which we hold sacred.
This government has refused its
assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
This government is guilty of
providing aid to countless foreigners, who illegally reside within our borders
and cause vast amounts of the American Taxpayer’s wealth to be spent on
maintaining the wellbeing of people who violate our laws.
This government has taken away our
charters, perverted our most valuable laws, and fundamentally altered the
original form of our government.
The American taxpayers recognize
this government’s movement towards socialism and nationalization of our private
sector. They have become excessively involved in the regulation of our economy
and financial matters to the point of hindering the normal functionality and
profitability of our economic system. Furthermore, we believe it to be
self-evidently counterproductive to the pursuit of happiness of the American
taxpayers who are forced to financially support or contribute, in any way, to
the reinforcement of apathetic individuals who, irresponsibly, do not provide
for their own enterprise, or betterment. We recognize this government
maintained movement toward socialism and the general support of personal
irresponsibility, unaccountability, and the atrophy of our free enterprise
economic system and our society as a whole by the passing of laws. We believe
this creates dependence on the government thus submitting more power to the
government and releasing us of the blessings of freedom.
This government is guilty of cutting
off our trade with parts of the world.
The American taxpayers find absolute
absurdity in the reasoning that laws should be passed for light and transient
causes. The American taxpayers find reason to believe that the more laws a
governing body enforces is in direct relation to the freedoms the financers of
government must relinquish. Therefore, common sense dictates that passing bills
into law should be done cautiously, with discussion and debate, and with
absolute transparency to the American taxpayer who is expected to relinquish
their freedom or give their money to meet the purpose of a law. Laws should
also be repealed with the same levels of caution, debate, and trust. This
government has acted in manners which do not reflect this intelligent method of
governing. They hastily act to grossly spend the wealth of the American
taxpayer without deliberation or caution. They operate swiftly, at irregular
hours of operation in order to fatigue opposition into compliance with their
measures. They do so as if to hide the contents of their propositions from the
American taxpayer, without obtaining all the information and knowledge required
to make educated decisions. They hide behind the façade that these laws are
passed for a sole common good. They stuff their bills full of wasteful
spending, lobbyist interests, personal gains, and hold the American taxpayer in
obligation to pay for their misuse and outright abuse of power. They have
penned extraordinarily outrageous, massive, verbose, bills which hide
propositions from the officials who are supposed to vote on them and the
American taxpayer who is supposed to pay for them. They rush these large bills
through the process by which bills become law before the elected
representatives of the American taxpayer, and the American taxpayer themselves
have the time to carefully consider the implications or results of passing such
bills. In the performance of these actions, they clearly announce that they
have lost sight of the people they have sworn to serve and have shown more of
an apparent concern in serving their own interests and motives. They have
obtained great wealth at the expense of the American taxpayer. These actions
stand in direct violation to the sanctity of our republic and remove the rights
of the people to govern themselves. This is the very definition of tyranny,
which is to say, a cruel use of power by an oppressive government.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the idea that this government and the elected officials within it still
serve the people for the common good. We believe they forcefully, and in all
ways with all the characteristics of with which tyranny can be defined, rule
over the people for their own interests and this is proven every time they
freely take and spend our money, without accountability to the very people who
finance their way of life, and in the passing of laws that do not uphold or
defend the common good.
This government is guilty in respect
to the failure to meet or pursue all of the basic original, foundational goals
of our governing document, The Constitution of the United States of America.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the thought that this government, in its present form, which seems to only
serve the powerful and corrupt members of its own body, is working towards a “more
perfect Union”.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the proposal that this unjust and tyrannical government can “establish
Justice”. Justice and tyranny cannot coexist and ultimately only one survives
any attempted unification.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the belief that this government, in its current form and forceful tyrannical
nature, can and will “insure domestic Tranquility” while it currently abuses
our national treasury and spends the untold fortunes of our collective effort
and earning in a wasteful and despicable manner.
The American taxpayers take offence
to the fallacy that this government can and will “provide for the common defence” with its current practice of extending and
perverting our sacred Constitutional rights to terrorists and war criminals who
plot and perform actions to attack and kill our citizens and the brave men and
women of our armed forces. We reject the action of releasing these vile,
murderous, lunatics who have directly or indirectly sworn to and carried out
deeds which terminate the lives of American taxpayers. Having not yet been
carried out as of this date, the American taxpayers would like to let our
government know that when these actions result in the harm of a single American
taxpayer, we have no choice but to view this as a blatant act of treason,
committed behind the deception of peace and providing aid to our enemies.
Furthermore, the American taxpayers do not accept any prior notion that we should
finance their release or any expense which strengthens our enemies and does not
result in their captivity or punishment of their crimes.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the belief that this government, in present manifestation, can “promote the
general Welfare” based on its own irresponsibility and fiscal abuses against
its employer, the American taxpayer.
The American taxpayers take offense
to the notion that more government involvement in our personal and private
matters, paid for by their own hard earned income, is the best way to “secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
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.
This government is guilty of every
act contained in the list of factual offenses and injustices which we have
submitted and the continued tyrannical abuses of power against the American
taxpayer.
Therefore, the American taxpayers
hold these truths to be self-evident, that this ineffective government, which
obtains any and all authority from the American taxpayers it is sworn to
govern, has infringed upon the unalienable rights to which the American
taxpayers have been endowed by their creator and promised by their government.
Among these are violations against LIFE, LIBERTY, AND
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS of, by, and for the American taxpayers. This
government, in present form, has become destructive to these ends. Therefore,
the American taxpayers henceforth exercise their right to alter or abolish this
governing body, by declaring independence from the financial ties that bind us
to this tyranny, and recognize this severance by absolute refusal to pay the
debts levied upon us by deceitful and unjust means. Furthermore, we swear to
uphold and defend the Constitutional rights of ourselves and our fellow
citizens to peacefully meet our goal of nullifying those debts which hinder us
from meeting our original Constitutional goals, and all debts which aim to
socialize our government and economy.
Moreover, the taxpayers of the
United States of America, in good conscience, 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 Constitution of these United States of
America, solemnly publish and declare, that the American taxpayers are, and of
right ought to be free from these debts levied upon us by an ineffective,
fiscally irresponsible, and ultimately tyrannical government; that we are
absolved from all ties to debts which do not best serve the American taxpayers
as a whole, and that all financial connections between the American taxpayer
and the debt which this government has incurred on our behalf, is and ought to
be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent citizens of this land, we
have full power to peacefully settle this matter, establish commerce, return
loaned monies, and to do all other acts and things which free people 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.