A New Declaration

Borrowed Great Words for your consideration

(This is only an excerpt:)

When in the course of a Great Nation’s history it comes to pass that We The People stumble in our steps, and fall off our long trodden path toward a better Union, then Decency requires that we declare Our National Transgressions and that by Opposing them, we should seek to End them.

Eleven score and nine years ago, our First President warned Our Nation, like a prophet of old, of the “expedients of party to acquire influence.”

And now it has come to pass as Washington feared, that despotic partisans are agitating the public with false alarms fomenting riots and insurrections and inviting influence and corruption through the channels of party passions.

But Today…

… and Tomorrow…

... in this Hour….

... and in the next, and the next after that…

We the People will stand.

We will look to our Flag. We will look to the goodness of what we have built around us. We will call to each other.

We will call to the earth and to the Heavens…

… and we will say... “Enough.”

We will repeat great words:

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all of us are born equal, with unalienable Rights, and that chief among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

We hold that there are Universal Rights for All Human Beings, and that chief among these rights is Dignity.

And! And. We have not just Rights, but Duties.

We have a Duty to exercise our Rights without taking away from the Rights of others.

We say these Great Words knowing that once again our time has come to march toward a better future.

For once again, a long train of abuses and usurpation has pursued an unwavering design bent upon reducing We The People to a rule of Despotism.

And because we now demand the overthrow of Un-Just Laws and Un-Fair practices and Un-Wise and Corrupted Leadership from which We the People have too long endured, we must Present to the World our vision of our new government: our new declaration.

(Consider these demands, add or embellish in your life and your community.)

We demand an End to the Unitary Presidency:

for it must no-longer be the seat of Tyranny for Dominion over the United States. This may mean having the people elect, but may also mean having the Courts nominate, our Attorney General.

(Voting takes an amendment, Court appointment requires only a law.)

We Demand a Universal Basic Share of All Income for all adult citizens:

for we must be free to our labor without the fear and coercion of being without Dignity or even Life itself.

We Demand a Wealth Gap Tax on wealth that is over 1,000 times the wealth of a regular American:

for we must no longer suffer our youth trapped in a world of growing impoverishment for the enrichment of a few.

And we Demand that Tax pay for Universal Healthcare in America.

We Demand a Bill of Rights For All Voters that makes election day a Holiday and that guarantees we vote with our neighbors, and that we shall be represented only by candidates who win either a majority approval, or a majority consensus of the Will of the People

In every one of these demands, we must also admit our own responsibility for these Un-Wise and Un-Just practices.

For too long we have looked away from Injustice. Too many times have we asked what can our Country do for Us.

But these failures were not born of ill will. We failed to make things the best because we saw Patience as a Virtue.

We were like children gave our trust to villains.

Now our time has come and we must awaken to this Great Work.

We will reach out and grab the hands of our neighbors. We will pull ourselves up from the ditch and return again to the path of Righteousness.

We will forgive those who were misled.

And we will punish the ones who misled them.

We will defeat the Fear and the Fear Mongers who traffic in lies to gain Power.

We shall make our country worthy of the name the Land of The Free.

And we will give answer, once more, to a great and eternal question set forth eight-score and one years ago, and we will say “Yes,” a nation conceived in Liberty and Justice can Long Survive, and shall not Perish from this Earth while We The People still Stand.

Amen, America.