To: President Donald Trump, The United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Thomas Donahue, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Declaration of Interdependence, 4 July 2012
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty states of the united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people of all lands and Nations of the World to embrace the political and moral 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 embrace each other and caste off any offending influence of division and contempt for All Present and Future Generations.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women 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 when any form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them to seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transparent 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 United State and the World; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of Government. The history of the present Kings of Corporate Empires working in collusion against the best interest of the vast majority of the people of these States and the World is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States and the Earth. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted to a candid world.
They have refused to Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. They have expended great wealth to frame the notion of protecting and nurturing the public good as “Socialism”, and “Communism” and an evil while proclaiming the virtues of extracting value from that which belongs to all and disproportionately enriching themselves while abandoning the ugly consequences of their actions upon the many and future Generations.
They have forbidden their sanctioned Governmental minions from passing Laws of immediate and pressing importance to the public good, unless suspended in their operation till their Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them unless self-serving benefits were realized.
They have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of the environment, and human health and safety for large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature for token rights to the Corporate Kings through their artifices—The Corporate Structure, including “personhood” and The World Trade Organization, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
They have called together legislative and Regulatory bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, and they have gerrymandered the processes for the sole purpose of fatiguing the people into compliance with their measures.
They have manipulated and strong-armed the Governing process repeatedly, for opposing with human firmness their invasions on the rights of the vast majority of the people.
They have refused for a long time, after such manipulations, to cause genuinely representative officials to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned only symbolic control to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, convulsions within—division among families; friends, and shameful inequality.
They have endeavoured to prevent the middle and working class population of these States from continued abundance; having enriched themselves in prospects availed by these States they now burn the bridge of opportunity; moving jobs hither, denying livable wages at home all the while exaggerating the value of cheap goods from distant lands; refusing to pay sustainable wages and the cost of protecting the earth from poisons produced from their business activities in off-shored lands. In s...
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people of all lands and Nations of the World to embrace the political and moral 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 embrace each other and caste off any offending influence of division and contempt for All Present and Future Generations.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women 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 when any form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them to seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transparent 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 United State and the World; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of Government. The history of the present Kings of Corporate Empires working in collusion against the best interest of the vast majority of the people of these States and the World is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States and the Earth. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted to a candid world.
They have refused to Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. They have expended great wealth to frame the notion of protecting and nurturing the public good as “Socialism”, and “Communism” and an evil while proclaiming the virtues of extracting value from that which belongs to all and disproportionately enriching themselves while abandoning the ugly consequences of their actions upon the many and future Generations.
They have forbidden their sanctioned Governmental minions from passing Laws of immediate and pressing importance to the public good, unless suspended in their operation till their Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them unless self-serving benefits were realized.
They have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of the environment, and human health and safety for large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature for token rights to the Corporate Kings through their artifices—The Corporate Structure, including “personhood” and The World Trade Organization, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
They have called together legislative and Regulatory bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, and they have gerrymandered the processes for the sole purpose of fatiguing the people into compliance with their measures.
They have manipulated and strong-armed the Governing process repeatedly, for opposing with human firmness their invasions on the rights of the vast majority of the people.
They have refused for a long time, after such manipulations, to cause genuinely representative officials to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned only symbolic control to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, convulsions within—division among families; friends, and shameful inequality.
They have endeavoured to prevent the middle and working class population of these States from continued abundance; having enriched themselves in prospects availed by these States they now burn the bridge of opportunity; moving jobs hither, denying livable wages at home all the while exaggerating the value of cheap goods from distant lands; refusing to pay sustainable wages and the cost of protecting the earth from poisons produced from their business activities in off-shored lands. In s...
Why is this important?
This is a revised (edited) version of the 1776 Declaration of Independence (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/) that attempts to show similarities between the abuses of the present rule of corporate Kings to those of the British King George III at the time of American Independence. With the advent of the upcoming 4th of July many crises facing us today (Citizens United, etc.) are the result of overreaching corporate influence within our political process. The timing may make for a powerful statement—we once threw off the shackles of royalty; perhaps we should view events today in the same light.