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Our Human Right to a New Declaration of Independence And Citizen Government 2008 “IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen 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 Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain 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.” “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 Prince (or Presidents, Kings, Queens, and or etc.) whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people” What happened to America? We live in an America where we can’t take care of ourselves. How can we expect to be a positive role model for the rest of the world if we can’t seem to manage our own country? We are so top heavy with administration that we can’t even mobilize a disaster clean up like Katrina. We showed the world our ass that day and every day since. That sad day in America has come again where old people and single mothers have to choose which bills to pay and prostitute themselves out to pay the rent. Millions of Americans are a couple of bills from a way from being homeless. Our government is cashing checks it can’t write. The Oil companies are raking in the billions every quarter because they know they are done with. (Global Warming: You got to be an idiot to not notice that the whole universe is warming up) Big business is profiteering off of war. | War Profiteering | | | | Even before US troops arrived in Baghdad, looting broke out--in Washington. While Republicans in Congress and their allies in the media yammered about the need to silence dissent and "support the troops," corporations with close ties to the Bush Administration were quietly arranging to ink lucrative contracts that would put them in charge of reconstructing Iraq. Bechtel's contract, worth up to $680 million, to rebuild Iraqi roads, schools, sewers and hospitals drew a lot of media attention, but it was chump change compared with the deal greased through by Vice President Cheney's old oil-services firm, Halliburton. The Army Corps of Engineers told Representative Henry Waxman that a Pentagon contract awarded without competition to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) to fight oil well fires is worth as much as $7 billion over two years. The Halliburton (got new contracts companied with F.I.M.A.)to build under groundsubsidiary has been authorized to take profits of up to $490 million. Congress dozes while the treasury is raided. Waxman has done the best job of monitoring the rapidly burgeoning relationship between the federal government run by Dick Cheney and a corporation formerly run by Dick Cheney. He's been asking polite, persistent questions such as, "What is the exact nature of the work that Brown & Root is expected to be asked to perform under the contract?" But where's the outrage? Where is the leader with the courage to say, as Franklin Roosevelt did during World War II, "I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster"? Democrats in Congress--and Republicans who have not placed their conscience in a blind trust for the duration of the Bush/Cheney years, a group we hope still includes Arizona's John McCain in the Senate and Iowa's Jim Leach in the House--should borrow a page from past wars, when the nation's elected leaders knew what to call businessmen who used hostilities abroad as an excuse to raid the federal treasury. Senator Robert La Follette tagged them as "enemies of democracy in the homeland." During World War II Harry Truman referred to some forms of war profiteering as "treason." When he heard rumors of such profiteering, Truman got into his Dodge and, during a Congressional recess, drove 30,000 miles paying unannounced visits to corporate offices and worksites. The Senate committee he chaired launched aggressive investigations into shady wartime business practices and found "waste, inefficiency, mismanagement and profiteering," according to Truman, who argued that such behavior was unpatriotic. Urged on by Truman and others in Congress, President Roosevelt supported broad increases in the corporate income tax, raised the excess-profits tax to 90 percent and charged the Office of War Mobilization with the task of eliminating illegal profits. Truman, who became a national hero for his fight against the profiteers, was tapped to be FDR's running mate in 1944. How about authorizing a contemporary "Truman Committee" to oversee Iraqi war contracts? There's a strong issue here for candidates John Kerry, John Edwards, Joe Lieberman, Bob Graham, Dick Gephardt and all the other Congressional Democrats who would lead their party in 2004 against a President who will be rolling in corporate dough, some of it from companies that profit from war. Voters will respond to a Democrat who is willing to battle the profiteers. Like most Iraqis, most Americans want to see an end to the looting. | | | | | | We have been sold out and are being auctioned off piece by piece. When is enough enough people? Employment, big business, all forms of our government The Executive Branch, The Judicial Branch, and the Legislative Branch are selling out by the billions. Our government is bankrupt. It is nothing but smoke and mirrors now. We the people need to take back our government, buy back our towns and cities if we want to every see freedom again. It is time to think about a citizen government, coop townships and states. We need to implement a mandate for the farming of hemp for industrial purposes. Cannabis is the only thing that can help us buy back our country from foreign bankers. We as a people are intelligent enough to rule ourselves. Who do you think has been doing the politicians jobs while they are out of town spending our states valuable resources? They are constantly taking money from education. In Idaho, where they rely on federal funding every year, they have cut several hot lunch programs do to lack of federal funding (or pay raises). Like it or not we are economic slaves and our masters are the small group of people lending out the money. By their design we have evolved into a bankrupt country spending outside of our means to survive or live the life of luxury. We as a people are responsible for this including I. We have been lied to and have had an illusional (Adj.1.illusional - marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects"- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; no corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news") cloak of smoke and mirrors represent the people for far too long while these wolves feed at will. Our shepherds have sold us out for slaughter. It is time to become the new shepherds and start providing security for our flocks. We need to provide new security especially against those that would keep us enslaved and hating one another. Government, Church, and Employment (Large corporations) are the greatest weapons our masters use to control the flock. They don’t pay taxes. We do! They have known for as long as man has ruled one another that fear is the controlling factor. All these agencies have fear or discrimination as their bottom line. They all require loyalty and money (10%-15% of your gross income [how much you make before taxes]). We are the ones trading freedom for safety when we should be saving ourselves. We need to get back to helping protect the world along with every other country. All countries should provide the same number of troops. I would volunteer as a veteran to go on peace keeping missions knowing that was what we were really up to. These are the facts that compel us to separate from our current form of government at every level; Our political system has failed us. Our judicial system has failed us. Our lawmaking system has failed us. Our health care system has failed us. Our educational system has failed us. The Veterans Administration has failed us as veterans. They have failed us in so many areas it has become an endless list. There is no democracy. It is not allowed. The free in freedom is nearly gone. We are trading freedom for safety and losing both. Our politicians have failed us and are committing treason with every vote that isn’t in the people s best interest. The past is gone forever. The future may never come. We are always in the present so check in and turn the light on. We the people (All people [police, fireman, doctor, lawyer, baker, plumber, electrician, teacher, and etc.) need to pick a day to walk up to the offices of our trusted over paid civil sever vents and inform them they are no longer needed. When they ask why? We will honestly inform them that we have been doing their job for awhile and that they should have been more loyal to the people. We free (we don’t realize that freedom is almost gone) people have been trying to pick up the pieces of a fracture government. No one is talking about how we are going to eradicate homelessness. All the millions wasted by presidential candidates could have rebuilt all the homes associated with Katrina. It could have built homeless shelters in every city. We desperately need a first stage program to get everyone off the street. Where did the money go? Where did all the resources go? Why have we been sold out? I think it is time to let the world truly know how many people use cannabis in their lives. I think if everyone that uses cannabis would come forward as a free citizen with their testimonies of its medicinal and spiritual benefits it would have a profound effect on the world. It is our human right to use cannabis in all forms. No government has the right to hold cannabis hostage or imprison its practitioners. Ending the drug war will save lives on both sides. It is time to get on with the healing. I think the answer to the meth epidemic is medical marijuana. It has great healing powers. We the people need to act now not tomorrow. Tomorrow is too late. Act now become involved in your communities. Demand your politician’s loyalty for the people. It is obvious that the new President of the United states will be powerless to create change unless we the people demand change and loyalty from its shepherds. No more secrets! No more secret societies! Many blessings and hope to all, Rev. Levon Lion, D.D. |
