Many misunderstand Declaration of Independence
(My Eastern New Mexico News column from September 20, 2017- posted in its entirety now that the paper's exclusivity has expired)
"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." - Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence
Those are some of the wisest words from American history. Sadly, they are almost entirely ignored today, other than occasional lip service to keep up the charade.
As stated, all humans are born equal; with identical rights. This doesn't mean people are equal in ability or that outcomes are guaranteed. "Unalienable" means no one has the power to separate anyone from their rights in any way for any reason. No one has the right to deny anyone their right to life, liberty, their pursuit of happiness, or any of the other rights which it admits those three are merely "among". A government office doesn't grant this power, nor does "national security" or any other excuse.
Government is not the "Creator" of the people, nor of their rights. Equality and rights do not come from government, nor are they only possessed by people under particular governments in certain lands. The Declaration doesn't claim any rights depend on citizenship, or even residency, but exist in all humans, for all times, wherever they may be.
I wish more people understood this.
In fact, I wish more people would read and understand the Declaration of Independence, noticing how it applies to today's situation. The US government has become far more tyrannical than was the government of King George III. Eighteenth Century Americans were bothered enough by the king's violations to divorce Great Britain; backing their decision with deadly force when their right of self-determination was opposed.
Less than one hundred years later, these lessons had already been forgotten. They had become an inconvenience to the ambitions of a home-grown tyrant.
The Declaration doesn't say the union which became the United States of America was to be a suicide pact; no one able to leave after joining. In fact, it states the exact opposite quite clearly. All political bands are dissolvable, as a human right, when the rights of the people are violated by a government which refuses to back down. Notwithstanding the outcome of Abraham Lincoln's war. Lincoln was on the wrong side of that bloody debate.
If you respect the Declaration of Independence, you can pretend its principles don't still apply to each and every person alive, but only at the expense of your honesty.
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Freedom does not exist... needs to break down and start over... too many rules.. and rules for those rules... and who has to enforce those rules... oh now what do we do when someone breaks those rules... need rules about that... its way to complicated... and could go for a good on reset.
They were ALWAYS lip service, even more then than now, all men are created equal (but slaves aren't men, nor are women Men).
The declaration was novel in that it Denounced the Divine Right of Kings.
Those people back in those days had a lot of pretending to do in regards to Women and Slaves, that's why for the large part all they say is tainted with hypocrisy, Slave Owners Championing about Freedom.
The truth is the truth no matter who says it, and regardless of whether they live up to it. You can say the right thing without living up to your own words. That's what happened there. That they didn't shoot the Constitution-writers/signers shows they didn't live up to the words in the D.o.I.
It was always lip service, much much more back then than now. The Constitution doesn't in any way invalidate the government established by the Declaration, and it derives it's authority from the framework that the declaration established, yet They didn't speak the truth, They pontificated their terms so as to usurp the greater truth that everyone knew, that everyone realized, consciously or as a nagging feeling in ones gut: We are all free, men and women, and nobody is free when there's slaves: The master tied to the slave and the slave to the master, the people chained to plantation and the plantation chained to the people.
The people behind these documents weren't tyrant, despotic government, but they were met on a battlefield of commerce and money, the bankers domain. The truth is that we are much more capable of declaring our independence now, with billions watching, than then, when men spoke of things they ought to perform but acted in spite of, in a world where most men were in direct slavery,, and did so more because of their coin purse than on a principled foundation.
These men, hypocrites in large, and in the shoes of TJ, plagiarizers, did something quite commendable despite their character, they created a united rebel nation. What they should have united against was the money changers who were directly responsible for the suffering that lead to that united rebellion. Here we are, in the midst of a real confrontation with the Bankers loving every blame the government takes, every sentiment that drives uncertainty or exclaims insufferable wrongs by government because ultimately they are rooting for instability and praying for desperation and until the moment when unite against them they are going to enjoy the power of having your fingers on the pulse of a planet, which is basically praying that these psychopaths and their willing agents don't kill us all. They have plenty of rope left to hang themselves with, and will more than likely pull the plug on what they can at the last moment, when we are all united, instead of uniting us all against them by doing it now, but make no mistake, our adversary is not Government, it never has been since Government ceases the moment it acts outside it's vested authority, but our adversary has been for quite some time, those who Control the Supply of Money, that is why we are in history at an unprecedented time, and calling out the Bankers on their Bullshit and Fraud is what precedes their long coming fall and our freedom from their clutches.
The only reason we have a Declaration of Independence is Thanks to the Bankers. Granted they Rue it's existence, they are the ones that led the colonies into depression and misery and fueled the desperation that moved the hands that signed that Declaration, so Thank You you self proclaimed Monetary Prophets! It's with your adversity, our most cunning adversary, that motivated us to unite against the Rule of the Kings, and here we are on a battlefield of ideas, our principle is simply to be the wiliest of them all, and we are billions strong, graduating from the University of Tricksters with honors in Sticklers.