He [Wall street and broken government] has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives [ and liberties] of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign [and domestic] Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy [ and torture] scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a [once] civilized nation.
He has constrained [detained] our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms [taken control of state militias] against their will and [forced them] to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands [in foreign lands].
He has [ by his misdeeds] excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian [ and Neo-Con Republican] Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble [ and Pelosian] terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury [ and arrogance]. A prince [of thieves], whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a [thoroughly corrupt] Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British [and ruling elite] brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their [indepedent, plutocratic, bodies] legislature to extend an unwarrantable [and unwanted] jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity [for the few], and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt [or force] our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity [and the vast majority]. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces [and motivates] our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the [corporate free] Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United [states] Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown [and ruling elite controlled government], and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce [according to the will of the wage-earning majority], and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
We, the people of the United States, then and now...
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Kent Welton
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