In Congress, July 4, 2006

The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 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 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 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 shewn, 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 these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present elected members of our federal government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

They have refused his Assent to Laws, the same laws they hold us to, most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

They have refused to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, such as Social Security reform. And when they pass other laws, they have utterly neglected to attend to them. Thereby starting a cycle of need for new laws enabling the government to grow and amass more power. They have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large corporations, unless those businesses would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature in favor of outright bribes, campaign contributions, special perks, favors, insider trading, and other preferential treatment, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

They have enacted complex and obfuscated legislation distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing the people into compliance with these measures. They have disgraced the Congress repeatedly, by their invasions on the rights of the people. They have refused for a long time, after passing incumbency protection laws, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the current occupants at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

They have endeavoured to endanger the native born population of these States; for that purpose obfuscating the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to discourage their illegal migrations hither, and raising national security issues of the Lands.

They have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing their Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers and preventing activist courts.

They have made Judges dependent on their capricious behavior alone, for the tenure of their offices, and their legal decisions.

They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of bureaucrats to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

They have kept among us, in times of prosperity, burdensome Armies of regulations without the consent of our citizens.

They have affected to render the federal government independent of and superior to the citizenry. They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to Acts of pretended Legislation by the United Nations:

For Quartering large bodies of militarized police forces among us:

For protecting themselves, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should be responsible for through their own negligence on the Inhabitants of these States, such as on 9/11: For surrendering our autonomy to all parts of the United Nations:

For imposing a complex system of Taxes on us without our Consent that guarantees errors causing us to be guilty of breaking the law which results in a new round of more complexity:

For depriving us, through gerrymandering, of the benefits of voting:

For lying to us before Elections about pretend promises:

For enacting so many complex, burdensome, and contradictory laws, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these States:

For taking away the original intent of the Constitution, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own property rights and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate ownership for their cronies in all cases whatsoever.

They have abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of their Protection and only worrying about reelection.

They have plundered our inner cities, enacting welfare laws that destroyed the will of our people.

They are at this time transporting large Armies of lobbyists to compleat the works of bribery, corruption and other criminal behavior already begun with circumstances of Felonies and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

They have asked our fellow Citizens to bear Arms against another Country, while withholding their full support of our soldiers and publicly fighting amongst themselves.

They have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and have endeavoured to divide our American population by constructing artificial notions of race, and dividing us by ages, sexes, religions, ancestry and other 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 empty campaign promises. Princes whose characters are thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, are unfit to be the rulers of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our beltway brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Citizens of the united States of America, in General Congress, 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 good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the beltway Crown, and that all political connection between them and the Kingdom of Washington DC, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States 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.