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When in the course of His life, any man achieves a clear underst
anding that the promotion of his happiness and the realization of his human pote
ntial is being severely restricted by the enforcement of the regulations of thos
e governing his life, and at the same time he appreciates that the achievement o
f that potential and the attainment of that happiness is solely his own responsi
bility, then it becomes necessary for Him to declare His refusal to sanction the
validity of such regulations over Him, to unilaterally dissolve those political
bands which have connected Him to His governors, and to assume His place among
other beings with the independence of thought and sovereignty of action which Hi
s and their nature entitles and requires of them. Since a reasonable person will
both respect the opinions of other thoughtful individuals, and also realize tha
t his optimal existence requires their individual cooperation in specialization
and division of labor and in mutual exchange to the best interests of all, such
a Declaration should thoroughly explain and justify the reasons that have caused
the Declarer, Basadar Qadar-Shar©, to take this action to no longer bind himself
with them in obedience to the state. Finally, in order to make it abundantly cle
ar that his Declaration of Independence is not merely a license to do as he plea
ses according to his whims, the Declarer’s respect for and need of the cooperation
of other adults necessitates that he also state his personal responsibilities t
o them in a contract form to which he unilaterally agrees, at the same time impl
oring each of them to make the same Declaration and to reciprocally contract wit
h him.
I, Basadar Qadar-Shar©, hereinafter (I, me, myself) the Declarer, a
man, do hold these truths to be self-evident:
I. that as a man, I am naturally Sovereign, essentially separate from every othe
r with a uniquely different mind, and a uniquely different set of physical and m
ental abilities.
II. that as a man, I have the potential for self-awareness, introspection, abstr
action, rational thought and volitional action directed toward my own survival a
nd happiness.
III. that although my Divine purpose, as a servant of YHWH (God) via YHWHSHI (Th
e Christ), is merely the survival of my genome, now that I have matured to adult
hood, as a man, this Divine purpose has been superceded by the maximizing of my
total lifetime happiness in accord with my individual abilities and the valuatio
ns directed by my rational thought.
VI. that such a “social contract” requires, at the least, that each executor:a) acce
pts the entitlement of each man/woman to be sovereign over him/herself;b) declar
es his/her desire that the person or property of no adult should be harmed, and
his/her intent not to be the effective cause of any such harm, with the harm bei
ng judged by the Sovereign; and c) will hold him/herself fully responsible for r
estoration of the lifetime integrated happiness of each man/woman for whom he/sh
e is the effective cause of harm, to the best of his ability and with such resti
tution being determined by the harmed Sovereign.
VII. that whenever any ‘person’ or group of ‘persons’, whether calling themselves a Gove
rnment or not, becomes destructive to my self-sovereignty, as a man, my individu
al purposes allow, and even require me to resist and to terminate this destructi
on by whatever means necessary, and, together with other people of like mind, to
mutually bind ourselves to a contractual relationship which shall seem to each
of us most likely to effect our individual safety and our individual potential f
or happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that social forms and arrangements
long established should not be abolished for light and transient causes; and acc
ordingly many people may consider it better to suffer an abusive government whil
e reduction of their ability to achieve their individual purposes is sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing a government to which they are accustome
d and potentially also terminating the social order concurrent with that governm
ent, however imperfect and incomplete that social order may be. But when a long
train of laws, regulations and abuses pursuing invariably the same object eviden
ces a design to reduce me under absolute State control, my individual purposes m
ake it my responsibility and my duty to myself to refuse to obey such laws and r
egulations as are not in accord with any of my individual purposes, and to contr
act with others of like mind for our joint security and interaction.
Having suffered (often impatiently) such government abuses of my self-sovereignt
y all my life, I now realize that the fullest enhancement of my life necessitate
s that I must reject all government rule to the best of my ability. The history
of all governments and their agencies is a history of repeated legislation and a
ctions against adults which violate their self-sovereignty, in particular which
violate their life, liberty and property, and even their voluntary interrelation
ships by replacing them with other, far less optimal arrangements. To prove this
, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
1. Government actions prevent or restrict each adult from making use of whatever
life forms, substances, natural or manufactured objects that he determines it i
s in his best interest to acquire and to use and which do not by themselves harm
any other person. Governments do this not only by forbidding or highly regulati
ng the importation, production, sale, distribution, possession and use of such i
tems, but also by their monopoly granting of patents, forbidding certain kinds o
f non-violative research and obstructing the free flow of information.
2. With respect to various services, government actions prevent or restrict each
adult from providing or using whichever of these he determines are in his best
interest and which do not by themselves harm any other person such as:
a. prostitution,
b. pornography,
c. abortion,
d. cloning,
e. sale of human organs, and
f. any services which require certification and licensing.
3. With respect to property, government agencies either confiscate, or strongly
control its usage by each adult by means of all forms of:
a. taxation,
b. price controls,
c. import and export controls and duties,
d. license fees,
e. zoning,
f. expropriation,
g. impounding of property both at the border and when under suspicion,
h. control of the money supply,
i. regulation of interest rates, and
j. lack of full restitution of all lost value resulting from unproven charges bo
th criminal and civil.
4. with respect to liberty, government laws restrict the non-aggressive actions
of adults by such laws as:
a. compulsory jury duty,
b. conscription,
c. subpoena power,
d. contempt of court penalties,
e. detention or arrest without charge or trial, and without full restitution to
the detainee upon release without charge or trial, or after a verdict of innocen
ce,
f. denying people the right of self-defense of person and property,
g. denying victims full restitution by the violator for their losses of time, li
berty and property caused by his violation,
h. heavily restricting the immigration or visits of persons living outside its j
urisdiction,
i. impeding the movement of all people across its borders,
j. forbidding many interpersonal voluntary activities,
k. prohibition of many solitary, non-aggressive actions in public, and
I. allowing criminals to escape prosecution through: • denying the validity of evi
dence “wrongfully” obtained, • violation of their “rights” during the investigation, arres
t or trial, and • plea bargaining (including the reduction/dismissal of charges ag
ainst those who provide information leading to the conviction of other criminals
B. that as a Sovereign, I no longer sanction, nor have any duty to obey the laws
, regulations or agents of any governments, and that all authority of government
agencies over me, is hereby, and ought to be totally dissolved;