On its website, the White House announces that “under the President’s leadership, the Salute to America 250 Task Force (“Task Force 250”) has commenced the planning of a full year of festivities to officially launch on Memorial Day, 2025 and continue through July 4th, 2026. The White House is engaging and encouraging the entire federal government, state and local governments, the private sector, non-profit and educational institutions, and every citizen across this country to join in this historic celebration.” [i]
The Right to abolish government
Well, …, the President and his entire federal government may be careful what they intend to celebrate. Per the wording of the Declaration of Independence, the Federal Government and, for that matter, all State and local Governments, will namely celebrate the right of the people to abolish the celebrants. While inviting “citizens to have a renewed love of American history, experience the beauty of our country, and ignite a spirit of adventure and innovation that will raise our nation to new heights over the next 250 years”, President Trump should be invited to read out loud this particular part of the Declaration:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men 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.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, 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.“
Under absolute Despotism
Wouldn’t it be great if, on the very day of the Declaration’s 250th anniversay, the President would also use the text of the Declaration to publicly acknowledge and confirm that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce all citizens residing in the various American States under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” [Long pause] “The history of the Federal Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States that, in 1776, declared their independence by signing the Declaration and then fought and won the ensuing War of Independence.”
America 250 ???
Celebrating and glorifying the Declaration of Independence as a document that concerns or hints at “the birth of a nation” and the establishment of “our country” is contrary to the facts, the wording of the Declaration and the stated intentions of its signatories. It is a carefully crafted falsehood that has been instrumental in the design to reduce the peoples of the American States under the despotism of the Federal Government that was to replace the “league of friendship” originally formed by the several independent States, when, in 1788, the Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution.
A Ulysses Pact
To be sure, the unalienable rights enshrined in the Declaration survived in so many words in the Bill of Rights that was added to the Constitution in 1791. It turned the Constitution into a Ulysses Pact by way of which “We the People of the United States” bound the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Powers to honour and respect the duty not to interfere and mess with the unalienable rights and the lives of its citizens. Taking the oath to uphold the Constitution means that the pledger unconditionally and voluntarily enters into this Ulysses Pact that binds him or her to the Mast of the Ship of State so that he or she can withstand the calls of the Sirens.
What if … ?
Still, where the Constitution’s Bil of Rights states what Government shall not do out of respect for its citizens’ rights, the Declaration provides that “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The Constitutional oath not to interfere and “let alone” categorically differs from the duty to faithfully execute the assigment to actively secure and protect the rights that shall not be interfered with. In this respect, it is noteworthy that breaking the Ulyssean oath by violating the Bill of Rights mostly remains without consequences because it merely opens the “holder of Office” who committed the breach to the Constitutional right of the United States Senate to impeach him/her and, if successful, the removal of him/her from office. On the other hand, per the words of the Declaration, the failure to secure Man’s unalienable rights exposes the “entire government” to the right of the people to abolish it and institute an entirely new Government that is most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The Fires
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written on sheets of parchment, on pieces of paper that, on a whim, can be shredded and turned to ashes when thrown into the fire of the Will to Power, the fire of Greed, the fires of Fraud and Deception, the fires burning in Ideologies and in the souls of Pneumapaths and Utopists, the fire that energizes those of us who seek the Powers of Office for the sole purpose of extinguishing the fire that burns in the heart of Man as the unalienable endowment received from his Creator. Yet, as long as the Declaration and the Constitution are celebrated on their anniversaries, they may serve as reminders, as notes of what was done and not done, when our holders of Office eventually meet their Creator.
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