Legally
Rejecting The Federal Government
This
independence day is a good time to re-post this 2011 essay on the
Declaration of Independence, its relevance to the plight of 21st
century Americans, and its roots in Christianity. Today's commentary
is taken from my 2011
book
“The Middle and Working Class Manifesto”, the book that
accurately predicted the start-up of the Occupy Wall St. and 99%
Movements throughout the US while making a small but significant
contributions to both these movements by helping to define the goals
and aspirations of each. It is closely modeled after the original
Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in the
pivotal summer of 1776, with updated language and a volatile
description of the criminal activity, class warfare based on enforced
inequality, and sinister manipulations being perpetrated by the US
government against the American people.
The
New American Declaration of Independence
When
in the course of human history it becomes necessary for the American
People to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to
the existing political system, and to assume among the powers of the
Earth the unconditional equality to which the laws of God and of
nature entitle them, a decent respect to the unconditional rights,
stated as civil rights issues, as well as the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to
separation.
We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all mankind is created
with an unconditional equality, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in a clean, nurturing and
peaceful environment. In order to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men and women, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, to such an extent that whenever any form
of government becomes destructive to these ends, it becomes the right
of the American people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new
American government of Direct Democracy, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form so as to seem
to the American people to be most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence dictates that governments long established should
not be changed for whimsical or transient reasons. The American
people have for a long time suffered through hard economic times even
though these hard times have been unbearable, out of a sense of
patriotism and civic duty, maintaining a peaceful servant's heart
rather than revolt against the injustice that surrounds them.
But
when a long series of civil and human rights violations, illegal and
immoral usurping of power and other abuses by those who the American
people have entrusted to govern reveals a premeditated plan to reduce
the American people to poverty so that a certain elite may rule by
political and economic domination in such a way that bypasses or
neutralizes the law of our land, the United States Constitution, it
is their fundamental human right and their duty as American citizens
to throw off such a government, and to provide anew for their future
security through the establishment of a new but very small,
Internet-based, paperless and interactive Direct Democracy that will
be designed to replace the old federal republic. Such has been the
patient suffering the citizens of the 50 states and other American
territories, and this suffering has become the mother of necessity
which forces and compels us to alter our current system of
government. The history of current and recent presidential
administrations is an example of a history of civil rights abuses,
gross economic inequalities and other usurpation of power with the
prime objective of having absolute control over the US economy and
its people while gradually having increased limitations on our
Constitutional rights. To prove this, let certain facts be made known
to a formerly free America regarding the Federal Government of the
United States.
The
List of Charges Against the Federal Government
The US government has refused to
pass laws that provide for the common good of American citizens and
legally residing foreign nationals. Instead, it has passed laws
allowing domestic spying against US citizens without a warrant from a
judge in direct violation of the fourth amendment.
The US government has utterly
neglected to exercise due diligence to governing and to the welfare
of its people, by allowing a national debt to accrue that is well in
excess of $14 trillion dollars, by allowing through gross negligence
an imbalance of foreign trade that has exceeded another $10 trillion
dollars, so that through enormous amounts of deficit spending and
economic malfeasance the US government is effectively bankrupt.
The US government has refused to
pass laws making the USA energy independent, and instead have used
their connections in the global petroleum industry as well as
unsavory alliances from overseas, to solidify the stranglehold that
the oil industry has throughout the world, compromising the national
security of the United States of America.
The US government has called the
legislature, or allowed it to be called, at unusual hours and
uncomfortable times in order to fatigue Congress into compliance with
regard to passing numerous legislative measures, usually without
giving our Congressional representatives time to read the legislation
they are voting on. The sole purpose of forcing this kind of
legislation through Congress is for the aggrandizement of certain
deeply embedded special interests from the American political,
corporate, financial and business establishments.
The US government has harassed,
intimidated, prosecuted and convicted innocent American citizens for
their opposing with firmness and conviction the federal assault on
the fundamental rights of “we the people” as guaranteed by the
Constitution of the United States by arresting and holding in
solitary confinement certain individuals who have exposed certain
high crimes and misdemeanors to the media, and especially to the
Internet.
The US government has been
criminally negligent to defend the borders of the United States, on
our shores, on the north, or on the south, from the dangers of
invasion from without, from the dangers of terrorist infiltration,
and also from illegal immigration and imported workers that
eliminates many possible job opportunities for working Americans. In
the meantime, the US government wages an economic and/or class war
against the American middle and working classes, and also against the
poor, from within America's borders instead, in the misguided belief
that he who governs best governs absolutely in a flagrant violation
of the Constitutional rights of American citizens.
The US government has erected a
multitude of new offices in the form of a huge and prohibitively
expensive federal bureaucracy without the consent or approval of the
American people. It has sent out swarms of armed officers and
undercover operatives whose sole purpose of existence is to harass,
spy upon, intimidate, shake down and rough up unarmed American
citizens while enforcing their existence through the illegal
collection of unjust taxes and by the illegal diversion of fines and
seizures collected through the judicial system.
The US government has kept
standing armies among us, even in times of peace, while outlawing the
formation of armed local militias and prosecuting its members, whose
right to existence is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the
United States Constitution.
The US government has made the US
military independent of and superior to formal civilian authority
through the creation of a vast military-industrial complex, and has
militarized police forces throughout the US for the sole express
purpose of compromising or outright elimination of our Constitutional
rights.
The US government has conspired
with certain fanatical elements within it to subject the American
people to a legal jurisdiction foreign to the US constitution by way
of a presidential assassination in November 1963, in a way that is
unacknowledged by US laws, while engaging in foreign wars that are
contrary to the best interests of the American people:
For shielding US troops and
certain “contractors” from prosecution for any murders and other
war crimes that were committed while engaged in illegal occupations
of certain countries against the civilian population of the country
being invaded:
For creating an unsustainable US
foreign trade deficit well in excess of $10 trillion dollars:
For allowing a US national debt
that has exceeded $14 trillion dollars through massive and
irresponsible deficit spending:
For imposing federal income taxes
on the American people without their consent instead of a far more
equitable national sales tax:
For
depriving the American people of the benefit to a speedy trial by
jury as it is guaranteed by the 5th
and 6th
amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
For allowing the transport of US
citizens overseas without the benefit of due process in order to be
tried for certain unproven crimes in foreign countries:
For failing to enforce US
boundaries to the point of dereliction of duty on the part of those
who are charged with US border security:
For altering fundamentally the
form of US government by allowing a former democracy that operated
within the auspices of a US federal republic to be changed into a
federal government that operates within the auspices of corporate
America, the politically well-connected, the US military-industrial
complex, and all their armies of lobbyists:
The elected US government has
violated its oath of office by waging domestic economic and class
warfare against “we the people”.
The US government has allowed the
cost of a higher education to become out of reach for the majority of
working Americans, effectively neutralizing opportunities for US
citizens to improve themselves and to better provide for themselves
and their families.
In the same vein, the US
government has allowed a pattern of predatory lending to those
fortunate individuals who are able to afford higher education, to the
point that these same persons find themselves under the enormous
weight of student loans that take decades to repay, if they can be
repaid at all.
The US government has endangered
the health and welfare of the majority of working Americans by
allowing the cost of health care to become out of reach for over 50
million of its citizens.
The US government has compromised
the wealth and long-term security of working Americans by allowing
predatory lending practices that have resulted in a mortgage crisis
of unprecedented proportions, resulting in the loss of millions of
homes to foreclosure.
The US government has compromised
the retirement savings of millions of working and retired Americans
by allowing malfeasance, gross negligence, theft, fraud and
incompetence to thrive in US financial markets, and by failing to
adequately fund Social Security and Medicare, and by failing to
monitor those companies that market and underwrite pensions and other
similar retirement and related insurance plans.
The US government has failed to
protect American jobs by allowing mass illegal immigration, the mass
importation of workers from the Third World, and by allowing the mass
out-sourcing of good American jobs to the Third World for pennies on
the dollar.
The US government has neglected
its states, cities and towns, as well as its infrastructure, and it
has devastated the lives of its people by allowing the entire country
to be ruined with debt.
The US government is, at this
time, transporting armies of US troops and paid mercenaries to
complete the works of death, desolation, cruelty and tyranny already
begun under dubious circumstances through the deception of the
American people and in such a way that circumvented the US
Constitution. The illegal and questionable occupation of Iraq and
Afghanistan, plus the hundreds of unnecessary US military bases
located in numerous foreign countries are actions that are totally
contrary to the acts of a nation that purports to be the leader of
the free world.
The US government has threatened
to re-institute the military draft so as to compel America's youth to
continue fighting these unlawful wars that is bankrupting our great
country by spending over $60 billion dollars per month on wars and
unneeded foreign military bases that few Americans are in favor of.
The US government threatens to
excite civil insurrections among the American people by creating a
class system of people who are either wealthy or poor, with few if
any other persons in between. This ticking time bomb of inequality
threatens to explode across the American political and economic
landscape with devastating results if something isn't done to
alleviate this injustice.
The
Conclusion of The Matter
In
every stage of this repression, mass manipulation and control, the
American people have tried
repeatedly to address these injustices by voting new Congressional
representatives into office to replace the incumbents who were
perceived as being part of the problem. The American people's voting
for newer and better leadership has only resulted in poorer quality
of leadership, which is exactly the opposite of the intended effect
of American voting. An utterly corrupt US government, whose character
is so like that of every act that defines a merciless tyrant, is
therefore unfit to be the leader of the free world.
From
time to time “we the people” have tried to warn the US
legislature about their extension of an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them that we address them as united
Americans. We appeal to the federal government in its sense of
justice and magnanimity as we disavow these civil rights abuses and
other unconstitutional abuses of power. The US government has been
deaf to the voices of reason and justice, and it has been blind to
the red-blooded relationship of all Americans. We must therefore come
together as a corporate body of US citizens in the necessity of this
New American Declaration of Independence, uniting with the rest of
mankind while standing against the tyranny that the US government has
become. War has been declared against the US middle and working
classes by the rich and politically powerful, and “we the people”
will do whatever it takes to take back our country. We, the American
people, will stand for this abuse no more.
We,
therefore, the people of the United States of America, in general
Congress assembled of our own free will due to the total lack of
confidence in any currently elected US president or Congress,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World (knowing that He sees all
our good intentions) do, in the name of all the good people of these
50 United States and its territories, solemnly publish and declare
that the population of the United States is, and of a right ought to
be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT PEOPLE OF A NEW UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
that they are all absolved of allegiance to the federal government as
it currently exists, and that all political connection between them
and the federal government is and ought to be totally dissolved.
Furthermore, as independent states free of the jurisdiction and
influence of the current federal government, they have the full power
to organize armed militias, maintain the peace, establish commerce,
mint their own coin currency, administer
education and public health and levy local taxes provided that the
citizens support it. As for the support of this New American
Declaration of Independence, with a firm reliance on the protection
of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to one another our lives,
our fortunes and possessions, our honor and respect.
Respectfully
yours on behalf of the American people,
Rev.
Paul J. Bern
Author's
note: I
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“Occupying
America: We Shall Overcome”,
this book chronicles the history of the Occupy and 99% Movements, it
contains extensive reporting and commentary on where these movements
are headed, and the book ends with a prediction of mass civil unrest
in America in 2012 and beyond if something isn't done soon to relieve
mass unemployment and epidemic foreclosures that are ongoing. Get
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