Oddly enough, as an anarchist, I seem to support a good number of my arguments with the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and writings from American revolutionaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, et. al. I also love a cold pint of Samuel Adams now and again, but I’m pretty sure the beer and the man are in no way related. Today, while reading the Declaration of Independence once again, I found a few lines to be of particular importance, considering President Bush and his never ending hubris and quest to expand the executive branch to the point of dictatorship.
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 these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain 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.
It is a shame, I think, what has happened to this country. It started out with some pretty good ideas, equality for all, power of the people. But when one looks at American history we can see that these documents have been ignored completely since the beginning. There has always been, in America, the right and the left. Today there are those still in vehement support of Bush, the ignorant willing to passively submit themselves to tyrannical rule; there are pacifists, folk who simply don’t care – they are distracted by the society constructed to distract them – then there is the left. When speaking of Democrats, the left is just as ignorant as the right in that is supports subordination, and restraints on freedom. Then there is the far left, the revolutionaries, the free-thinkers, the anarchists.
I just can’t take living in this absolutely outrageous fascist state anymore. I hope Vermont splits from the union, they have far better ideas for government than what is happening in our sorry state. Free thinking is so pre-9/11. These days any criticism of the president is taken as treachery. To this I would answer with another figure from American History, Teddy Roosevelt:
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Think for yourself. Question authority.
