A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 2022

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bonds that have connected them to a government, and to establish a new government to which the laws of Nature and God entitle them, they should declare the causes that impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people 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 people, 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 affect their well-being and happiness.

When a long train of abuses and oppressions reveals a government design to reduce the people to living under authoritarianism and despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future well-being and security. Such has been the patient suffering of the people of the corrupted United States of America, and such is now the necessity that constrains them to alter their system of government. The history of the present U.S. government over the past few decades is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a corrupt and evil tyranny over the people.

This tyranny has been growing for many years, but the abuse of power has now, as of 2022, reached the point of being completely intolerable and unacceptable. This is evidenced by such recent actions as the unconstitutional restrictions on liberty during the COVID pandemic, the purposeful destruction of the U.S. economy to promote false political doctrines, the fraudulent 2020 presidential election and the continued subversion of the electoral process, the persecution of January 6 protestors, the arrests and prosecutions of supporters and associates of former President Donald Trump, and—in the most flagrant abuse of power yet—the illegal FBI raid on the former president’s home in Florida for purely political reasons.

The federal government—including leaders of both major political parties—has persisted in carrying out these horrendous assaults on the people, along with its dishonorable partners in many state and local governments, large private corporations, the media, academia, and other established elite institutions. All of these institutions represent serious problems that the people urgently need to address. However, the present declaration is limited to addressing abuses and oppressions committed by the federal government, with the confidence that once those abuses and oppressions are corrected, the rest of the problems will become much easier to solve.

With all of these points in mind, let the following facts about the current U.S. federal government be submitted to the world:

It has repeatedly ignored, selectively applied, and violated the principles of the U.S. Constitution to advance its authoritarian, undemocratic, politicized agendas.

It has assumed numerous unconstitutional powers over the lives and activities of the people, as recently highlighted during the COVID pandemic.

It has subverted the constitutional rights and powers of the individual states, forcing federal powers and policies upon them through coercive means.

It has stifled free speech and independent thought (in collaboration with its powerful corporate partners), through such actions as the censoring of public commentary on the Internet and the forced firings of people who disagree with its COVID policies.

It has turned almost all of the free press into an enormous, powerful tool of government propaganda.

It has effectively transferred government power from democratically elected representatives to unelected “Deep State” bureaucrats and officials at countless government agencies.

It has both literally and figuratively weaponized the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service to persecute political opponents and dissidents, such as through the harassment and prosecutions of Trump and his supporters and the dramatically increased and abusive powers of tax authorities.

It has perverted and corrupted the private business sector through such coercive anti-American methods as the ESG (environmental, social, governance) agenda.

It has purposely sabotaged critically important sectors of the U.S. economy, such as the fossil fuel and agriculture industries.

It has selectively enforced basic laws and refused to prosecute many violent criminals, often on the basis of political considerations, greatly jeopardizing public safety.

It has provoked societal divisions among the people by stoking hatred and resentment based on race, religion, and other personal characteristics.

It has corrupted the public education system, such as by forcing children to be subjected to political propaganda, lies about science and history, and sexual perversions.

It has surrendered the sovereignty and best interests of the United States to foreign countries and global institutions, including China, the World Health Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the World Economic Forum.

It has refused to enforce the integrity of U.S. borders, allowing an ongoing foreign invasion that endangers the people through crime, narcotics, and other threats.

It has repeatedly provoked and waged pointless and wasteful foreign wars, sacrificing both the wealth and lives of the American people to advance the greedy interests of the military-industrial complex and to expand the powers of the ruling globalist cabal.

And—most devastatingly—it has deeply corrupted both the judicial and electoral systems (as demonstrated by the fraudulent 2020 presidential election and the continuing efforts to corrupt election integrity and persecute the January 6 protestors), effectively neutering the only legal options that the people have to challenge and change the corrupted system and to address their grave grievances.

Because of all these oppressions, the United States is no longer the functioning democratic republic that was established by the U.S. Constitution. The elite authoritarians that have entrenched themselves in power have succeeded in their goal of destroying that republic.

In every stage of these oppressions, we the people have sought corrections through the established legal methods, such as elections, protests, petitions, and court actions. However, our repeated efforts have been answered only by repeated injury. A political leader, whose character is thus marked by every act that may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Therefore, we the people of the United States of America solemnly pronounce that we can no longer recognize the legitimacy of the corrupted, lawless United States federal government. Nor can we any longer retain allegiance to this government.

Furthermore, we declare that—if this corrupted federal government cannot be changed, corrected, and cleansed through the established legal electoral or judicial processes—we nullify its authority and support its removal through insurrection, revolution, secession, or any other available option.

And we support the replacement of the discarded corrupted, lawless government with a new, law-abiding, free, and independent government entity that is strictly bound by the principles of the original U.S. Constitution and its subsequent legal amendments. This new government shall have full power to carry out all activities that independent states have a right to. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the righteousness of our cause in the eyes of Nature and God, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Here’s a list I’ve been keeping.

1. The Presidents have conducted acts of war on foreign soils without a declaration of war and without approval of war from Congress, rendering the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
2. The federal government has a long-standing policy directed at disarming private citizens while militarily arming the once most peaceful of government agencies who now commit acts of terrorism, tyranny, and cruelty.
3. The government has ordered and allowed its operatives to conduct actions in foreign nations that are unlawful in those nations and these united States.
4. There exist secret federal courts and courts favorable only to the federal government that provide warrants and actions against the people.
5. The federal government has established a standing army at great expense under control only of the federal powers.
6. Congress has allowed the President to conduct acts of treason against the will of the people.
7. The President has allowed knowledge and instruments hurtful to the people to be transferred to hostile foreign governments.
8. The right of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, and their property has been infringed. The federal government has a stated position that firearm ownership is a privilege subject to termination. Many firearms have been banned or sizeable taxes levied for ownership by private citizens, while the standing armies and law enforcement agencies of the government enjoy their use.
9. The government has plundered the incomes of the people by taxing their incomes beyond their ability to pay and still maintain a standard of living equal to the efforts of their labors.
10. There exists taxation without representation. Taxes are collected in states for representation and benefit in other states, and countries, without representation or benefit from whom the taxes were collected.
11. Taxation has been disproportionate to all persons and levied only with regard to their ability to pay and not to the fairness and necessity of government’s need for such revenues.
12. Taxes collected from the people of the States by the federal government are used to direct actions of the State’s assemblies. The Congress uses collected tax monies to extort from the States actions demanded by the Congress or else the States are denied the collected taxes in return.
13. There exist taxes on marriage. Taxes are levied based on marital status with increased taxes for the married.
14. Special and favorable tax laws are bought through bribery of lawmakers.
15. The governments have violated private property rights for the sake of insignificant creatures and political interests.
16. The ownership of private property has been inhibited by land rents called ‘property tax’, with confiscation of the property for failure to pay such rents.
17. The governments confiscate private property without regard to private property rights or due compensation.
18. Congress has failed to follow constitutional requirements for removal of the President once proven to be guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors rendering the rule of law subjective to political interests.
19. The federal government has granted itself powers not enumerated nor intended by the constitution.
20. The Congress is controlled and influenced by bribery without fear of prosecution.
21. The representation of the people in the Congress, and state’s assemblies, is denied by political parties. Each party requires its party members to vote according to party policy or else face sanctions in the form of loss of financial support for election campaigns and denial of important posts beneficial to themselves and their constituents.
22. The people are denied equal opportunity to campaign for public office as two dominant political parties control the majority of private and public funding necessary for campaigning and have established rules for candidacy that prohibit equal representation.
23. The two dominant political parties deny alternative party candidates equal access public funds that they enjoy and to public forums through construction of prohibitive election campaign laws and regulations.
24. The right to petition the government has been eroded as to be ineffective. Congress and state’s assemblies have abandoned the concept “one soul one vote” for the passage of laws, preferring to accept bribes that control their voting behavior.
25. Citizens cannot readily have an audience of their representatives while those with large sums of money have ready access and political privileges.
26. Governments have prohibited the public expression of traditional Christian acts, texts, and symbols, and in some places, even banned the assembly for worship.
27. Our children have been subjected to the corruption of their religious and moral values by doctrines forced upon the public and private schools.
28. Warrants are issued without proper cause, supported by fraudulent affidavits, and without specificity to the items to be collected.
29. Political adversaries are treated to government harassment, investigations, and prosecutions without cause or merit.
30. The public media is a witting accomplice and benefactor of government corruption and tyranny by disseminating lies, deceptions, and propaganda, such that truthful information is not forthcoming, denying the people their ability through knowledge to play a proper role in government.
31. Police and government officials are inadequately prosecuted for violent or deadly acts that are committed without warrant or cause.
32. Votes in elections are bribed by candidates and political parties through promises of welfare, spending, and comfort, and paid for through taxation.
33. The laws of government are too numerous and cumbersome to be understood and respected.
34. The courts are too cumbersome and contorted to allow the people fair and proper representation of themselves without having to give payment to a member of a legal trade union for guidance and representation in the courts, a trade union who is in direct association with the courts.
35. The federal government has cooperated in allowing foreign governments to control our laws, our regulations, and our actions, foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws without consent by treaty or approval of the people.
36. The government has placed our armies in the control of foreign governments.
37. The federal government has regulations and orders that allow foreign armies on our soils to conduct actions against the people of these united States in support of the federal government.
38. State sovereignty has been eroded by federal usurpation of state’s powers and high taxation of the state’s citizens such that the states have little self-determination or control.
39. The states no longer have representation in the federal government through the office of state appointed senators.
40. Secrecy of government actions in the name of national security takes place at the expense of the public good.
41. Through government mandates, the people are required to associate with those they do not wish to associate.
42. Laws are created that are owned by private interests and must be paid for by private individuals and governments in order receive the written law such as to obey it.
43. The federal government refuses to perform its constitutional duty to secure the borders and protect the nation from a massive and continued invasion by the people of Mexico and other countries.
44. Private armies are contracted by the government to disarm the people.
45. The courts have removed the private property rights of the people to the protections from abusive eminent domain and have ordered properties taken merely for profit of the government. Property is owned at the leisure of the government, subject to confiscation and sale.
46. The courts have ordered that the people must pay taxes on things they did not desire to purchase.
47. The government has taken control of our health care and denied us a republican form of government, having replaced it with a Marxist form of government.
48. The government spies on the people and takes their private information in violation of our right to be secure in our papers and property.
49. The government violates our right to self-incrimination by using our silence against us in court.
50. The government has abused us by violating our morals and ethics through the punitive demands of homosexuality, forced teaching of promiscuity to our children, and the destruction of marriage by defining it away from a man and a woman.
51. The government has removed our currency basis in gold and silver and created a system of fiat currency created and controlled by private enterprise that has eroded our monetary holdings through money laundering and unwarranted national debt. The members of the private federal reserve system refuse service to those people that do not adhere to their politics beliefs.
52. The people no longer have the vote. The political parties have found they can perform many acts of fraud to declare themselves the victor in any political election without consequences, with court support and legislative support.
53. The governments of the States have declared themselves to be dictators under the guise of public health and safety and have demanded that we shut our businesses, stay in our homes, restrict our travels, prevent our presence in public places, and participate in acts to display our obedience to the government.
54. The governments have allowed foreign invaders to assume citizenship, to hold public office, to be officers in our courts, and to serve in our military and in command over us.
55. The governments have allowed the election and seating of those who demonstrate hatred and contempt for the Constitution their oath requires loyalty, who argue for foreign rule, and who violate our laws.
56. Federal agencies have conducted espionage, conducted fraud to federal courts, and colluded with foreign nations against federal presidential candidates and seated Presidents in an attempt to overthrow the election of those candidates and Presidents.
57. The federal Attorney General refuses to prosecute crimes against the people committed by those in government, including acts of espionage, treason, sedition, and insurrection.
58. Acts of riots, looting, arson, and destruction go without prosecution or stoppage when the governments support those acts against the people.
59. Acts of sedition and violent insurrection by those against the citizens are not punished and are protected by government while those protecting themselves from such violence are prosecuted.
60. The government has misused Impeachment to try to overthrow an election of the President.
61. The Democratic party conducted illegal spying on opposition political parties to try to overthrow the presidential election.
62. The Internal Revenue Service has been weaponized against those not in the Democratic political party to harass and intimidate them and remove tax benefits from those not of the party.
63. The Democratic party cooperated with foreign powers to attempt to illegally remove a duly elected president not of their political party.
64. Governors and mayors have become dictators and violated the civil rights of the citizens by closing their establishments and businesses, forcing house arrest of all, forbidding travel, and forbidding gatherings or speech or religious services.
65. The government has declared those exercising their right to free speech to be domestic terrorists if that speech does not support the government.
66. There exists monopolies that ban commerce and free speech to those that do not support their political opinions.
67. The government provides through the counting the census representation in congress and the executive branch to foreigners.
68. The liberal judges and prosecutors refuse to prosecute liberals for violent crimes against the people while persecuting and jailing non-liberals.
69. The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are used to terrify, intimidate, harass, and jail political opposition candidates and members.
70. Elections are overthrown by the Democratic Party through illegal ballots cast by noncitizens, ballots boxes stuffed with fraudulent ballots, technological systems used to alter election outcomes, and opposition parties denied access to elections processes and ballots for verification.

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Now that is a list!