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A Declaration of Independence

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They have refused to obey laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

They have bypassed pressing importance to the common good and concentrated on building up the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us of.  

  They have made the prison industrial complex a privately profitable industry and have conducted a war on drugs to fund and expand the profitability of the prison system.

They have made the system so corrupt, unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of public sensibility, for the sole purpose of fatiguing people into compliance with their measures.

They have dissolved the peaceful assembly of people repeatedly, for opposing with firmness their invasions on the rights of the people.

They have allowed corporations access to the rights of individuals.   And they have allowed unlimited financial contributions to political campaigns.

They have made Judges dependent on their will for the tenure of their offices.

They have erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass people and eat out their substance.

They have kept among us standing armies and made for perpetual war.

They have affected to render the military industrial complex independent of and superior to civil power and subversive to The Bill of Rights.

They have combined to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For amassing large bodies of armed troops among foreign people:

For enhancing trade with all parts of the world that institute practical or outright slavery:

For promoting institutionalization and globalism and at the same time eliminating individuation and localism:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

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