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When
in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a
mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and
neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to
the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species
of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature
and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony of
species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared.
We hold these
truths to be self evident:
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That all
species are created different but equal;
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That they are
endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;
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That among
them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue
Happiness in their own style;
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That to
protect these God-given rights, social structures naturally
emerge, basing their authority on the principles of love of God
and respect for all forms of life;
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That whenever
any form of government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and
harmony, it is the organic duty of the young members of that
species to mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social
structure, laying its foundations on such principles and
organizing its power in such form as seems likely to produce the
safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient beings.
Genetic wisdom,
indeed, suggests that social structures long established should not
be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The ecstasy
of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all
experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms
to which they are accustomed.
But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the same
destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the
serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic
duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving
social structures.
Such has been the
patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this earth, and
such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems of
government.
The history of
the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet earth is
a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature,
all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the
materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young,
the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the judgement
of generations to come.
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These old,
white rulers have maintained a continuous war against other
species of life, enslaving and destroying at whim fowl, fish,
animals and spreading a lethal carpet of concrete and metal over
the soft body of earth.
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They have
maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and
against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the
young. Genocide is their habit.
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They have
instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the
natural inheritance of earth's abundance and God's endowment.
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They have
glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.
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They have
claimed private, personal ownership of God'd land, driving by
force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.
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In their
greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs
barriers, preventing the free movement of people.
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In their lust
for control they have set up systems of compulsory education to
coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and
innocence of the playful young.
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In their lust
for power they have controlled all means of communication to
prevent the free flow of ideas and to block loving exchanges
among the gentle.
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In their fear
they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon
the privacy of the pacific.
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In their
anger they have coerced the peaceful young against their will to
join their armies and to wage murderous wars against the young
and gentle of other countries.
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In their
greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the
basis of their economies.
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For profit
they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.
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In their
impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural
sex in their mass media.
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In their
aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age
over youth.
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They have in
every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush
variety, individuality, and independence of thought.
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In their
greed, they have instituted political systems which perpetuate
rule by the aging and force youth to choose between plastic
conformity or despairing alienation.
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They have
invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and
contemptuous harassment.
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They have
enlisted an army of informers.
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In their
greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly tars and sugars and
employ cruel and unusual punishment of the possession of
life-giving alkaloids and acids.
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They never
admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed
and war. In their advertising and in their manipulation of
information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity and pious
self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them to
greater error and noisier self-approval.
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They are
bores.
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They hate
beauty.
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They hate
sex.
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They hate
life.
We have warned
them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have
addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of
righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied
in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf
to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking
mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only
force and money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall
no longer talk in these grim tongues.
We must therefore
acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring
madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God's
creatures - in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to
life.
We, therefore,
God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving, fun-loving men and women,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of
our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority of all sentient
beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly publish
and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are
absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all
governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping
ourselves into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to
live and move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and
minds in the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all
Acts and Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right
do without infringing on the same rights of other species and groups
to do their own thing.
And for the
support of this Declaration of Evolution with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, and serenely confident of the
approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak, do we now
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our
Sacred Honor.
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