A Petition by The People, for The People and to The People of the United States Of America

2018

A Petition by The People, for The People and to The People of the United States Of America

For those of you who may not have ever read the original Declaration of Independence, dated July 4, 1776 or those who have read it but have forgotten its contents and intention, I provide you with a link to a transcript from the government archives.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

(Bonus – The Bill of Rights: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript)

My intent with this petition is to educate and awaken the minds of the American People to the current situation which exists in the United States of America.

Many will say that the American People are fully aware of the current situation and do not need an education. I beg to differ. Most citizens and residents of the United States are certainly aware of the situation, but too many have forgotten the intent of The Declaration of Independence.

With that in mind, here is my petition:

Firstly, take the time and make the effort to actually read and absorb all that is written in that declaration.

Once you have done so, take a moment to compare the current situation with that of 1776. Too many similarities for my liking.

It is once again time for The People of The United States to declare their independence from oppression and tyranny and take meaningful actions to correct it.

I will quote excerpts from The Declaration of Independence in an effort to help clarify for some the conditions in existence today that are totally unacceptable to a free and independent people.\

"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."

"I believe that the current course of human events in the United States of America certainly makes it necessary for the 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."

In the United States of America today, too many of its citizens and residents are being deprived of those rights. (Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)

"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."

"The history of the present (king of Great Britain) (substitute with 'Trump, the GOP, the current administration, government agencies, law enforcement' – take your pick or add your own view) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states (substitute with the people in general). To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He (Your Substitution) has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He (Your Substitution) has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He (Your Substitution) has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He (Your Substitution) has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He (Your Substitution) has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He (Your Substitution) has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He (Your Substitution) has endeavoured 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, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He (Your Substitution) has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He (Your Substitution) has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He (Your Substitution) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He (Your Substitution) has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He (Your Substitution) has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

He (Your Substitution) has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, 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 colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He (Your Substitution) has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He (Your Substitution) has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He(Your Substitution) is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He (Your Substitution) has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He (Your Substitution) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Once again; "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."

One thing everyone should keep in mind, The Declaration of Independence was not signed by Americans by today's standard. All these signatories were by all definitions, British citizens. By today's interpretation, they were all foreigners and immigrants.

"Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country…" (a phrase first proposed as a typing drill by instructor Charles E. Weller)

Maybe now is actually the right time for everyone to sit down in front of your keyboard and practice that phrase and then go out and actually do something about it.

There are three parts to this petition.

1. You agree with the content and intent of the petition.

2. You sign the petition.

3. You send it to yourself and to anyone else you feel who need access to this information.