In CONGRESS, July 4, 2001The unanimous Declaration of the nine Western Nations of America
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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable 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.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient 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 Nations; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King George II of the U.S.E. (Unholy Sucking Empire) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. (Kyoto)
He 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 has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He 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: (WTO)
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. (Operation Green Harvest and other D.E.A. atrocities)
- For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
- For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
He is at this time transporting large Armies to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Western Nations 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 the authority of the good People of these Nationss, solemnly publish and declare.
That these United Nations are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Unholy Sucking Empire, and that all political connection between them and the District of Columbia is and ought to be totally dissolved;
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,
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.
Signators:
Kingdom of Hawaii:
King Kamehameha IV,
Queen LiliuokalaniKindom of Alaske:
Daniel Trilli,
Chain Saw AnnieEcotopia:
Ernst Callanbach.
Lara Elaine BonowRepublic of California:
Linda Ronstadt.
Jerry BrownMormon Nation:
Gordon Hinkley,
Suzy CreamcheeseAztlan:
Gary Johnson,
Georgia O'KeefeRepublic of Texas:
Richard Lance McLaren
Evelyn McLarenIowa Nation:
Herbert Hoover,
Willa CatherLakota Nation:
Leonard Peltier,
Patty La Duke
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