Forum Post: A Declaration

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 Sentient Reason 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 humans 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. We understand corporations, as a necessity, arise out of the need for cooperation among self interested individuals, to join in contract upon these endeavors. These corporations, comprised of Individuals, lead by a few are in themselves not persons, they are not sentient. Nor should they be given the Rights of Personhood without responsibility as citizens. The history of the present Corporate Community, a community of lawless few with the wealth of kings, is one of repeated injuries and usurpations, having purchased our Republic, 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 purchased our representatives in Legislature and Executive officers.

They have maintained the privilege of citizenship, while avoiding taxation and civil obligations as set forth by our legislatures. By moving production to unregulated areas of the world, both in environmental as well as humanitarian, without regard for the consequences here and abroad.

They have conspired to destroy Truth and all of its accountability, in journalism and the public arena through disinformation and propaganda, effectively destroying the freedom of the press.

For Usury of the American people, holding ransom their shelter and homes, and then profiting on their loss and dispossession.

They have blatantly stolen from the American people in the form of fraudulent investment and representation of their worth, in essence laundering private citizen monies. Our ‘Representatives’ have not moved swiftly to bring to Justice this theft. Instead they held our future, indeed the world’s future, ransom with the People’s money.

They have endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither. Instead they have encouraged the creation a vilified slave labor class.

They have usurped our military and ventured to foreign lands, without the Consent of our legislatures, illegally to appropriate resources from sovereign nations. For the establishment of Tyranny over other civilized people in the form of dictators, by means of assassination, coercion, and bribery to ensure these resources.

-Felix Inglewood