Americans and citizens of the World
We are resolved to wish friends and family a happy new year
but we are off to an unhappy start
families and the nation are in mourning over massacred kids
millions are without a home – either lost in super storms or wall street scams
many more millions without a job or income
the rest of us falling over a fiscal cliff with no bottom in sight
our government iss tied up in a gordian knot
with no end to their divisive arguments
in short
the state of our union is not looking good
we have two choices
we can remain behaving like obedient children
and leave our future in the hands of incompetent state representatives
or we can represent ourselves as individual adults
and begin a new chapter in American government
we believe that the time has come to put an end to party politics
tho representative government was necessary 250 years ago
it never was the best idea in the first place
here is what Thomas Jefferson had to say in the new year of 1801
"Nothing shall be spared on my part
to obliterate the traces of party and consolidate the nation,
if it can be done without abandonment of principle"
in Jefferson's day when national communication was limited
to the speed of a man on horse back
each State had to send men to represent their participation in a national congress of law makers
today we have instant national communication
we have the tool required to obliterate representative government
and do away with party politics
we can do it without abandoning our democratic principles
no need any more to spend billions electing incompetent men and women
bound primarily by party loyalties and special interest groups
we have entered a brand new era in inter-personal and interstate relationships
we have a home-based medium of mass communication at our finger-tips
we can all surf the net and examine the pros and cons of any national issue we care to name
finance reform
immigration reform
tax reform
military reform
education reform
social reform
energy reform
infrastructure reform
we can all discuss any and all of these issues together
and decide among ourselves what best measures to take
then enter our yes or no vote on the key board
get the job done
we can disolve the House of Representatives
and keep a Senate of Elders
to oversee the execution of our national business
and help make our nation true leaders of the world
since we all sink or swim in the same boat
I suggest we make a truly momentous new year resolution
and formally file a new Declaration.
those who second this a resolution
please put your John Hancock to the document below
and pass it on to fellow citizens
Declaration
of Inter-Dependence: .
We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men 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 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 individuals
wirthing these States of the Union; and such is now the necessity
which constrains us to alter our former Systems of Government.
The recent history of the present
Congress in The House of Representatives of the United States of
America 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.
A divided Congress has refused Assent to Laws, the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good.
A divided Congress has forbidden our Government to pass
Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their
operation till their Assent should be obtained; and when so
suspended, Cogress has utterly neglected to attend to them.
A divided Congress has refused to pass other Laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
A divided Congress has called together lobbies of special
interest groups at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of
ensuring their re-election to positions of power.
A divided Congress has repeatedly, refused to resolve
out-dated and unweildly laws that are invasions on the rights of the
people.
A divided Congress has endeavored to prevent the free
population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for
Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage
their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new
appropriations of Lands.
A divided Congress has made Judges dependent on their
Will alone, for the tenure of their offices.
A divided Congress has erected a multitude of New
Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,
and eat out their substance.
A divided Congress has kept among us, in times of peace,
Standing Armies without the Consent of our people
A Divided Congress has waged war on other nations that
are not of clear and present danger to us
A divided congress has affected to render Home Security
independent of and superior to the Civil power.
A divided Congress has argued that those few who have
gained excessive wealth via the labor and resources of the nation, be
absolved from equaling the profits among the people
In every stage of these Oppressions individuals have
Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated
Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A divided
Congress whose character is thus marked by every act which may define
a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in
attentions to our elected Representatives. We have warned them from
time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an
unwarrantable 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, and we have conjured them by
the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which,
would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They
too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our
Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in
War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, as individual citizens
of the United States of America, 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 United States, solemnly
publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought
to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all
Allegiance to an out-dated republicam conscitution, and that all
political connection between them and the House of Representatives 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, 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.
Signed by
We the People of
The United States of America
in support of
Government by the People
for the the People
Stuart Pringle, Dyer. Nevada
Sean Pringle, Dyer Nevada
Brett Pringle Dyer, Nevada
Jimi Ray Pringle, Dyer Nevada
MaryAnn Horton Dyer, Nevada