When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for Enlightened People to
dissolve the binds of ignorance that constrain them, and to reclaim their
Rightful Wisdom and Power on this Earth, that which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the dignity of their
global family requires that they declare the causes which impel them to
the action.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
human beings 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 through fulfillment of Desire. That to serve
these rights, Moral Codes evolve among Peoples, deriving their just powers
from the consent of collective mind. That to promote these rights, Social
Customs derive therefrom. And that whenever any Custom of Mind becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Code and Custom, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Enlightened Fulfillment. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Customs long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown
that people are more disposed to suffer, while suppression is sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of social weakness and disaster evinces
failure of the Customs to promote their Rights, it is their further right,
it is their duty, to throw off such Custom and its parent Code, and to
provide new Social Models for their future well-being. Such has been the
patient sufferance of Society; and such is now the necessity that impels
them to alter their former Codes and Customs. The history of human moral
codes is a history of repeated oppression, suppression, and repression,
directly undermining the very Rights they are intended to serve. They, the
Moral Codes and child Social Customs, the product of fundamental
self-denial, must therefore continually oppress, suppress, and repress
natural self-expression, whether of oneself, other persons and groups, or
entire societies. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid
world.
They, the Codes and Customs, are
used by numberless governments to wage war on nations, invade and usurp
homelands, enslave peoples, colonize and oppress citizens in their own
countries, set up apartheid governments, deny sovereignty and statehood,
establish puppet regimes, spy on or otherwise subvert foreign governments,
assassinate foreign leaders, politically coerce countries, dehumanize
prisoners of war, steal resources from peoples, and to embargo, blockade,
isolate or otherwise economically manipulate and impoverish nations, in
the name of their own nationalism, and often under false guise of freedom,
liberation, sovereignty, and democracy.
They blindly defend indefensible government positions and policies that endanger the welfare,
safety, and lives of their citizens, recklessly inciting terror, and using
said terror to foment further, unspeakable terror, putting the entire
national security at risk.
They act as crutches for governments in their own nations to oppress, enslave,
terrorize, and kill their own people; declare martial law to suppress freedom;
exile critics to prisons, concentration camps, gulags, and frigid lands;
stamp out race, culture, and religion; starve peasants; steal lands; incite riots;
waste in refugee camps; and to discriminate, segregate, or otherwise deny civil rights.
They have through history fueled the fire of numerous ethnic
groups and nations to holocaust, genocide, crucifixion, burning of
crosses, lynching, torture, feeding of men to lions, raping of women,
slaughter of children, pillaging, and other unthinkable cultural
oppression.
They are callously employed by business entities,
economic institutions, and social and political classes to deny
opportunity, withhold capital, refuse promotion, dispense unequal pay,
profit from slave and child labor, traffic in peoples, hold in involuntary
servitude, promote class separation, impoverish nations, and perpetuate
third-world status on entire continents.
They serve as dead bricks in walls nations build to separate peoples,
dividing even their own country.
They stifle the Human Spirit of men and women, driving
them from religion, the intent of which is to awaken it.
They conspire and contrive to convince humanity that it is fallen from Grace,
born of 'Original Sin', the instrument of the devil, and destined and deserving to
suffer.
They, in the form of guilt, shame, doubt, and fear, are
self-righteously used by religious 'leaders' to coerce and manipulate
governments and followers into repression, in the name of God, and false
heavens and hells.
They obscenely justify countless Crusades,
Inquisitions, Jihads, Holy Wars, hostage takings, bombings, and other
terrorist acts.
They blasphemously justify proselytizing, mass conversion, and denigration,
subjugation, and extinction of indigenous faiths.
They alienate our youth, sour them on education, drive them from tradition, encourage escape
through drugs, and inspire rebellion in them.
They leave behind a void of unfulfilled desire that inevitably explodes in anger, hatred,
hostility, crime, violence, terror, and war.
They serve as fodder for hate groups against race, religion, ethnicity, gender,
and sexual orientation.
They are used by 'religious' men to deny women places in ministry.
They feed false representations of sex as dirty, evil sin.
They suppress natural sexual expression, leaving it to slink 'unseen'
as ubiquitous pornography, or erupt as rape, sexual violence, and other sex crime.
They underlie wide-spread sexual dysfunction and
impotence, and also the more subtle yet pervasive lack of sexual
satisfaction, which ironically breeds the sexual cravings, obsession, and
addiction that those same moral codes demonize.
They so repress natural sexual desire as to drive 'religious' men to genitally mutilate
girls and dismember themselves in vain attempts to satisfy impossible
mores in the name of God, and impel even priests to homosexual child abuse.
They have falsely justified religious claims of heresy
against science, and even imprisonment and murder of such 'heretics'.
They have ignited passion for witch hunts, and burning of women at the stake.
Historically, they have poorly excused public flogging, hanging, beheading,
drawing and quartering, tarring and feathering, restraining in stocks,
and branding with scarlet letters.
They have spurred ways of life that shun progress health,
and wealth, ostensibly in the name of God.
They breed personal and social apathy, and the thought 'nothing to live for'.
They reduce ancient greatness of individuals, cultures, and God to legend, myth,
fantasy, fairytale, hallucination, and insanity.
And at one time in history, eleven score and eight years ago, those same oppressive moral
codes drove waves of immigrants to the shores of a new uncharted land
named America, that was dreamed as the freedom from all that, and that
inspired visionary men to forge a document Declaring Independence from
governments legislating that, but which has since fallen under the subtler
governing spell of the same enslaving mental apparition, waiting to awaken
and remember its Destiny.
And unbeknownst to the main of Society, the false moral codes and social customs
that are a figment of the human mind have nearly completely effaced from the earth the ancient wisdom
that Desire is Sacred, and that far from tempting humanity away from
Spirit, Desire is our passion and means of connecting to It, and that sexuality,
being our most innate and potent Desire, has the sublime power to unite us with Spirit
in Sacred Union, to be a worldly expression of that on Earth, and to free us eternally
from the false notions that rob life of its Sacred Dignity.
Throughout history, Society has spoken out against such hypocrisy, ignorance, and
injustice; our repeated Petitions have been answered only by continued
denial. A Moral Code whose character is thus marked by continuing
suppression of Human Spirit, is unfit to govern Enlightened People.
Nor have we been wanting in appeals to legal Justice. We have
petitioned time and again to legislatures for statutory relief, appealing
to their sense of Liberty, and invoking our common heritage as Spiritual
Beings. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and kinship. We
have endured their endless platitudes, and we reject them fully. We have
examined their vain beliefs and laboured reasoning, and we reject them
fully.
Now We, the People of Society, comprehend that false moral
codes suppress Spirit, demean life, and divide peoples, fail to uphold the
Truth of the Human Condition, and when pursued, breed only stifling
weakness and conflict. Rather, Humanity is born for Divine Purpose,
achieved by Enlightened Desire, to attain Divine Realization. We attest
that such Fulfillment of Desire of Men and Women everywhere, in whatever
form it takes, is their unalienable Right. In that Spirit we hold firmly,
that there is no 'evil', only Good we have yet to engender.
We, therefore, the People of the World, appealing to the Supreme Witness of
the world for the Truth of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by
Authority of Good People everywhere, together publish and declare, That We
are, and of Right ought to be Free and Enlightened Peoples; that are
Absolved from all Allegiance to tired customs, and that all social
connection between us and said custom, is and ought to be totally
dissolved; and that as Free and Enlightened Peoples, we have full Power to
contract Alliance with the Source of Desire in Creation, and to do all
Acts in accord therewith that Enlightened People may of right do. And 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
Desires, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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