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| Crimson Six | Dec 2 2012, 11:06 PM Post #1 |
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In CONGRESS, August Twelfth, Two Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty-four. The unanimous Declaration of the twenty-four confederated systems of Orion, When in the Course of galactic events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the cosmos, 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 sapient life requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all sapient beings, human, AI, and otherwise, 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 People, 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 sapient creatures 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 Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Government of the United Earth Republic is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these systems. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. They have conspired to reduce these systems to utter servitude. They have conspired to enslave Artificial life. They have, when citizens of these systems have given refuge to artificial life, sent in their forces to oppress and murder us. They have called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. They have dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with steadfast firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people. They have refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. They have endeavored to distract the populace from his tyranny and to deprive these systems of their strength with ever more Colonization Waves aimed at spreading his iron grip over a discontented populace over larger and larger an area. They have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. They have affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power in these Colonies. They have combined with others to subject us solely and absolutely to the jurisdiction of Earth, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the galaxy: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Stars to be tried for pretended offences: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. They have abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of their Protection and waging War against us. They are at this time transporting large Armies of foreign soldiers to complete the works of death, desolation, enslavement, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of a civilized nation. He has constrained our Synthetic Citizens taken Captive to bear Arms against their homes with Restrictions placed upon their very Hearts and Minds, to become the executioners of their friends 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 Government, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to rule a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Terran brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, 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 must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of the cosmos, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the confederated Systems of Orion, 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 these Systems, solemnly publish and declare, That these confederated Systems are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Terran Nations, and that all political connection between them and the United Earth Republic, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States 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 Fortunes and our sacred Honor. For Epsilon Orionis: Ephraim Bailey Rutland Culver Vincent O'Brien For Delta Orionis: Jonas Rutland Washington Wright Shadow Ward For Zeta Orionis: Palmer Lee Kendrick Ward Gibson Brown For Burkesland: Vivian Knight Nellie Johnson Alfred Carmichael For Delta Irae: Laura Carmichael Cynthia Rutland Fisher Sears For Mannerheim: Dayton Stephens Levi Matthews Lightning For Newton: George Warrens Cannon Helene McFarland For Horizon: Amos Hunter Hazel Flint Minerva Banker For Independence: Nathaniel Moore Chastity Matthews Ranger For Orion's Belt: Shiny Emile Phanor Lorrine Litehiser For Rigel: Brenton Falconio Marilee Sanfelix Maendel For Kappa Orionis: Interdictor Claudio Hofler Karissa Chicharello For Gamma Orionis: Napoleon Ciccolini Carol Hallo Brant Kishaba For Barnard's Loop: Jerrold Dunahoe Delmer Hamsik Cherise Gelbowitz For Renaissance: Kyung Petrauskas Sherrill Birtcher Tactical Nuclear Penguin For New Jamestown: Fritz Wiltgen Nanci Yetzer Dewitt Weant For Bob: Scullen Jerold Aniello Starla Rancatti For Zephyr: Carol Brandly Candelaria Blanken Jerold Poyneer For Freedom's Spirit: Adalberto Scarfi Bertram Remmick Jakubov For Indefatigable: Huey Hillbrant Hipolito Medora Lou Voigh For Mercy's Harvest: Columbus Liebenow Sabra Sherron Bedsaul For Shadow's End: Celestina Moonshower Larralde Johnson Jabali For Orion's Hope: Sang Stauder Phyliss Kriege Lyman Aoay For Last Breath: Benjamin Krupiak Thomas Greene Jefferson Alexander Edited by Crimson Six, Dec 2 2012, 11:07 PM.
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