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That whenever any Form of Government They have subverted the electoral
becomes destructive of these ends, it is process through unjust and exclusionary
the Right of the People to alter or to ballot-access laws. Vast sums of
abolish it, and to institute new tax-extorted monies have been used to
Government, laying its foundation on create a Congressional Monopoly and
such principles and organizing its Imperial Presidency, which have crushed
powers in such form, as to them shall dissent and excluded any serious
seem most likely to effect their Safety challenge to their power.
and Happiness.
They have multiplied laws beyond reason
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that or humanity, subverting both the words
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and intent of our Constitution and Bill peace, Standing Armies. In direct
of Rights. There is not a single violation of the Constitution, U.S.
American who could not be arrested, troops have repeatedly invaded and
imprisoned and impoverished for reduced to ruin foreign countries
violating one of the millions of without declaration of war by Congress.
arbitrary and incomprehensible They have used force to compel our
government laws and edicts now in force. children to fight and die in foreign
wars far removed from their homes. In
They have instituted oppressive and the name of the War on Drugs they have
destructive taxes; stolen over half of declared open war on the people of the
our incomes year after year; compelled United States, invading farm and field,
us to testify against ourselves by village and home, and spreading terror
filling out endless compulsory reports; across the land.
made us into unpaid government spies and
tax collectors; and destroyed our peace, They have perverted our relations with
security, and freedom in order to other nations, using their power to
finance their oppressive bureaucracies, support foreign despotisms. They have
failed social programs, and wars of bribed other nations with foreign aid,
aggression. restricted foreign trade, and exported
massive quantities of weapons of death
They have seized control of our economy and destruction, fomenting discord,
and have dictated and controlled every repression and war throughout the world.
aspect of how our businesses must be
operated. They have issued edict upon
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regulation, instituted fine after fine, ----------------------------------------
treated us as common criminals,
imprisoned us and seized our property. WE SUBMIT that the government of the
United States of America has abrogated
They have destroyed our financial its sacred covenant to protect the life,
security. They have debauched the liberty and property of the people of
currency, substituting worthless paper this nation. With the collapse of major
for gold and silver. They have foreign threats, our own government has
clandestinely seized our banking system, emerged as the greatest menace to
inflating the currency and looting the freedom, prosperity and peace, both here
economy. They have burdened us with and throughout the world.
enormous deficits and waste which have
brought our nation to the brink of WE FURTHER SUBMIT that we, the people,
bankruptcy. They have destroyed jobs and have all but lost control of our
stifled initiative with suffocating political institutions and that
regulations and oppressive government has ceased to be our servant
bureaucracies. and instead has become a terrible and
tyrannical master. To restore the
They have hobbled and corrupted our freedom, peace and prosperity of the
system of justice by creating endless people, we therefore demand:
numbers of technical crimes against the
State, and crimes without victims,
making vices into crimes, dissent into That a new Constitutional Convention be
treason, and sensuality into perversion. called to restore and strengthen the
They have seized billions of dollars legal protection of each individual’s
worth of property without due process of inalienable right to life, liberty and
law, imprisoned countless thousands property.
without indictment or trial, and have
made equal justice under law impossible That a new, and stronger Bill of Rights
by manipulating courts and juries, be drafted which will guarantee the
terrorizing our attorneys, and seizing inalienable rights of the individual to
their fees. life, liberty and property. That all
laws be abolished which restrict freedom
They have kept among us, in times of of speech, press, religion, assembly and
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enterprise; the right to keep and bear domestic criminals, foreign aggression
arms and the right to own and dispose of and domestic tyranny.
property. That henceforth it shall be a
treasonable offense to pass any laws That due process of law and the
which violate the rights of the presumption of innocence be restored.
individual. That RICO statutes and other laws
enabling the government to confiscate
That a "Citizen Veto" be created at property without the owners being
federal, state and local levels, whereby convicted of any crime be abolished.
all citizens can veto any new That the 7th Amendment to the
legislation, including revenue acts. We Constitution, preserving the right to
also call for the establishment of a trial by jury in civil disputes be
universal citizen power of Recall so strengthened to include disputes between
that unscrupulous politicians may be Citizens and the State.
removed from power by citizen
initiative. That the Fully Informed Jury Amendment
be passed, and all juries henceforth be
That the Income Tax and the IRS be informed of their right to judge the
abolished and that all persons jailed propriety of laws as well as the facts
for tax evasion be freed. of cases.
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