Originally published on May 22, 2009 by Michael Lockheart

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the ideal of the individual that has allowed individuals to fail or succeed on their own merit and to become primarily devoted to the advancement of the collective and it’s agenda, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impelled them to the abolishment.

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men should be made to be the same, and are endowed by their government with certain inconstant rights that are to be changed as the government sees fit to protect man from himself, and swell the federal tax coffers.– That to administer these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from their good intentions and the ignorance of the governed, ,–That whenever any individual becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the government to jail it, shoot it, and to legislate and/or tax it into oblivion, and to institute new government programs, laying its foundation on safety, and the populace’s inability to discern. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long-established should not be changed. Ever.  But when a long train of individuals and their lamentations, questioning invariably their government being reduced to absolute despotism, it is their governments right, it is their governments duty, to become increasingly more rigid, and to provide new guards for Governments future security– Such has been the patient sufferance of this government; and such now the necessity which constrains it to alter its former Systems of Government. The history of the former Presidents of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny of the individual over the collective. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Some individuals have excess, while others have none.

Individuals have forbidden their Government to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless the government could reasonably show that the laws would not intrude on individual liberty.

Individuals have tried to stop their government from levying unnecessary taxes against them.

Some individuals have done harm to others.

In every stage of these Oppressions, the government has tried to circumvent these protestations through the judiciary. Still, the Tyranny of individual liberty protests.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the Government of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good people of this government, solemnly publish and declare, That these United government is, and of right ought to be free and Independent from the tyranny of individualism, and that all political protection of the individual from the government ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent Government, we have full power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things with no regard to the will of the individual.– And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of total prohibition on the individual to keep and bear arms, we pledge to destroy the individuals Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor.