Dear Congressman Kucinich and Congressman Wexler:
I applaud the efforts by you and a small minority of U.S. Congressional members to direct attention of the citizens of our great nation to the implatitudes and self-righteous acts of the United States Congress. For:
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Congress which has disconnected them one from another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the voters requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that their Creator with certain unalienable Rights endows them, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among the educated citizenry, 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 men and women 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 Representatives for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their Representatives.
The history of the present leadership is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these people.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
The Congress has refused its Assent to Laws as demanded by the people, namely the impeachment of the most egregious in the history of our nation, of the sitting President and Vice-President of the United States and has refused to make laws demanded by the people to withdraw troops from an independent nation which the United States attacked under lies and false pretenses, and yet the Congress has condoned and allowed the passage of laws usurping the United States Constitution which permit, among other violations of the Constitution practiced by the Congress, spying on its citizens in a manner like that practiced by totalitarian regimes and dictatorships.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
The U.S. Congress has refused to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance and has utterly neglected to attend to them.
Congress has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; for depriving many of the benefits of Trial by Jury; For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences; For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province,
For acting as an Arbitrary government, for failing to take action to heal the injuries suffered by the residents of a major city ravaged by a terrible hurricane, while, at the same time, expending the people's money for Representatives to live extravagant lives while the people suffer.
The Congress has abdicated our Government, by declaring by its actions and inactions, the lives of its people unimportant and of no consequence, to be expended whenever and wherever they will be most conducive for the pleasure of the Congress.
The Congress is at this time transporting large Armies to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens to become the executioners of Innocent People and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A President whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We the people have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity of our Representatives, 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, therefore, the People of the United States of America, solemnly publish and declare, That we hold the right and urge our brethren to become free and independent, to totally dissolve the Congress, thereby electing new members of our representative bodies who shall declare their promise to humbly and righteously to represent us, the People, and not they, themselves.
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.
The People, the Voters of the United States of America for which this Nation stands, One Nation with Liberty and Justice for All
