A Declaration of Independence from the Current Regime
Your Ancestors Would Be Ready for a New Experiment by Now
When the Founding Fathers signed their names to the Declaration of Independence nearly two and a half centuries ago, they didn’t do so as a spur-of-the-moment reaction to a relatively small tax.1 It wasn’t a random occurrence, wasn’t for a trifling reason, and wasn’t easy. But they did it because they thought it was right and just, and that their many reasons for doing so justified breaking away from the mother country and risking being tortured and hanged for treason.
Those reasons enumerated in the Declaration of Independence might have been overblown at the time, as Curtis Yarvin argues in his excellent Unqualified Reservations.2 But, overblown or not, they were the reasons the first Americans gave for independence in a letter that they and many British Whigs thought justified the dramatic move.3
The sad fact of the matter is that, whatever the reality of the enumerated reasons for revolution at the time, they’re more real than ever now. Biden and nearly all those who preceded him in the White House, not to mention the petty tyrants that run the executive bureaucracies,4 are far worse than King George III and Parliament ever were.
Parliament was composed of gentlemen who just wanted to find a tax to pay for the army stationed in America so that they could go back to hunting and dining on their country estates; they weren’t tyrants. Similarly, King George III was a good man; he was a deeply religious Christian, he never took a mistress, unlike nearly everyone else of his station at the time, he attempted to teach his kids to live in the same moral manner, he ate plainly and sparingly despite being king, and he was insistent upon asserting royal authority, not being a tyrant.5
Reading through the Declaration of Independence and learning about the context of the time and details of the present, however, it becomes clear that while Parliament and King George III might have been imprudent in asserting their authority, but not necessarily tyrants, the current regime is tyrannical to the nth degree. It is a feminine sort of tyranny that relies on an HR-dominated, Kafkaesque bureaucracy6 in the private and public sector to implement hidden censorship, cancellation, debanking,7 etc., not a masculine tyranny involving death squads and the like. But it is a tyranny nonetheless, as reading through the Declaration of Independence’s enumerated grievances makes clear. This article will explore those grievances and how they relate to the present.
A Declaration of Independence from the Present: Reject Modernity Not Because It Is Modern, But Because It Is Evil
This section will go through the enumerated grievances of the Declaration of Independence and compare the alleged tyranny of King George III with the present American regime
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Has the current regime not done this? It refuses any attempt at a Fair Tax, flat tax, or any other sort of change to make the tax system more just.8 It, for years, rejected Trump’s reasonable laws, such as banning terrorists from immigrating here.9 It refuses to replace any restraint of note on the influence massive corporations exert over our lives.10 It refuses to address predatory gambling, drug, and consumer debt companies, and in fact often encourages such practices.11 It refuses to defend the border. It refuses to stop growing the national debt.
In short, every law or policy that reasonable people recommend for the common good is shot down. The regime, whether the president, legislature, or Deep State bureaucracy, refuses to assent to those common-sense changes. Instead, we have an inefficient system that squeezes the taxpayer lemon for all its worth while letting the non-productive half of society soak up the tax dollars of their hard-working peers.12 All the while, unrestrained intelligence agencies, and Megacorps make life worse abroad and at home.
Such issues could be solved with prudent legislation. But the regime refuses its assent.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
Is this not what the current regime did to Gov. Abbott?13 All he tried to do was defend a specific sector of the Texas-Mexico border from the tidal wave of illegal immigration crashing across it. Instead of congratulating him for doing the job it wouldn’t, the regime went on a no-holds-barred legal campaign against him.14 The same is true of others who tried to pass anti-illegal immigration bills giving their officers and courts the power to arrest and deport illegals; the regime has gone on the legal counter-offensive.15 Even California, when it tried to push back on illegal immigration decades ago, was attacked for its efforts and the statute deemed unconstitutional, much to its current woe.16
Much the same is true of other issues involving governors. The regime tried to destroy those who bucked its Covid “guidance.” It went berserk when North Carolina tried to protect young girls from predators by passing a bathroom bill.17 Looters remain free to loot because the regime would crack down on those who authorize the police or National Guard troopers to fire on looters and defend the property of law-abiding citizens. Ditto that for anti-affirmative action and the rest of the anti-white “Civil Rights” regime;18 states can’t push back because the regime will turn any screw necessary to keep it in effect.19
Other examples abound, but those show the point: governors of states can’t protect their citizens, passing the most basic of bills to stop crime, anti-white racism, and illegal immigration, all because the regime has forbidden it.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
This is less relevant now that no new states are forming, but is still somewhat true in that the regime, like all tyrants, wants its subjects (you) to relinquish what critical rights you have left, from Freedom of Speech to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, so it can expand its power and keep you in a servile state.
Further, it refuses to experiment with new forms of governance for groups of people who want to try something different. Why doesn’t America have city-states along its fringes or in territories like Puerto Rico and Guam? Groups like Praxis would love to invest in such places, and they could accommodate some of the best and brightest.20 Some of the same could be accomplished by allowing states to break apart and reform. But that would mean the regime devolving some of its powers and prerogatives back to the states, so it will never happen. Instead, the regime will keep sucking up what rights and powers its states and citizens have left.
He has 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.
This one is also less relevant now as it is written, as the legislature meets in the same place, at the same time, every year.
However, it is true of how the regime treats its legal opponents. From victims of criminal lawfare like Trump to people and companies who want a court to re-examine an agency action, the regime’s strategy is attrition.21 Like King George III calling the legislatures at uncomfortable places, it drags them into court in inconvenient places and drags out litigation as much as possible to waste away their resources and “fatiguing them into compliance.”22 That is tyranny,23 and it is what our regime, from prosecutors like Jack Smith to agencies like the EPA and IRS, do to beat subjects into submission through the same underhanded means as centuries ago.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
This hasn’t happened; even our regime doesn’t have the power to dissolve Congress.
However, it has more or less accomplished the same by getting Congress to abrogate its rights,24 handing them to the unaccountable and unelected executive agency bureaucrats. So, though Congress isn’t dissolved, the effect is more or less the same, with the same intent: drawing the hand out of elected bodies and into the hands of tyrants.
He has 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.
Again, Congress isn’t dissolved, so that is different. But, though not dissolved, its power is gone, and it is, as a result, largely powerless to protect those it theoretically represents. Thus, we are very much “exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.” Just look at the illegal immigration invasion and Floyd riots; Congress doesn’t have the power anymore to stop such things, so it doesn’t. Instead, a few representatives write letters complaining about the invasion and riots, and nothing changes.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Unlike King George III, the regime is currently flooding America with tens of millions of foreigners.25 So, that is another difference. However, it does want less population and prosperity; that is what the WEF’s “degrowth” agenda is about,26 why the regime is so hostile to children and family formation,27 why it encourages abortion,28 and why it demonizes population growth. The regime wants the population to shrink rather than grow so that it is older and smaller and thus easier to control, easier to keep an eye on, and generally more complaisant.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
The regime hasn’t refused to create judiciaries. However, it has otherwise “obstructed the Administration of Justice.”
Just look at cities like NYC, Chicago, and D.C., for example. Crime there is through the roof, and nothing is done to stop it.29 Rather, the law is used to punish those who stand up to it. Justice is obstructed by such policies; in fact, it’s never delivered in the first place, and when it is, much suffering has often been caused.
Similarly, what do the agencies exist to do except obstruct justice? The FBI faked the photos of classified evidence in Mar-a-Lago.30 It never held Epstein accountable; in fact, it or other agencies appear to have supported him.31 Many of the Jan 6 political prisoners were locked up for ages without an opportunity to defend themselves and now face obscene penalties for mere trespass while murderers and rioters that burned down cities get paid by the government for doing so.32
Justice isn’t delivered for anyone in modern America. The regime hates justice and has done everything possible to obstruct it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Again, this is somewhat different, as the executive branch doesn’t control the payment of judges. The judiciary is a separate branch and appropriations are handled by Congress. So, that aspect of it is irrelevant.
However, there is a distinct desire to make judges dependent on the regime's will alone. One way it aims to do that is by packing the court, something its lackeys in the media suggest every time a ruling goes differently than they desired.33 Similarly, it did nothing about the rioters outside the homes of conservative judges despite the attempts of those crowds to intimidate the justices, which was a clear criminal offense.34
By making judges afraid or filling courts with regime apparachiks, the regime’s will becomes the will of the courts.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
This is a clear parallel to today. What are the executive agencies except excuses to tyrannize the populace and “harrass” it with “swarms of Officers.” That’s what the Bureau of Land Management did to the Bundy family.35 It’s what the IRS under Obama did to conservative non-profits and donors.36 It’s what the FBI does to Trump supporters.37 It’s what the EPA does to companies that tend to employ conservatives, like coal and oil extraction companies. It’s what the Department of Labor does to companies that try to avoid rule by HR harridans.38 It’s what the DOJ does to those who want to ignore the anti-white racism of DEI policies, affirmative action, etc.39 It’s what the SEC is doing to shut down cryptocurrencies before they present a credible alternative to the fiat dollar.40
On and on it goes. The three-letter agencies are full of four-letter words who are nothing but tyrants who exist to tyrannize the populace by tiring it out with swarms of officers and Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
Unfortunately, the legislature not only consents to but is fully in favor of the military-industrial complex.41 Unlike then, we need something of a standing army and a powerful navy; citizen militias can’t be relied on anymore. However, the current size and cost of the military, particularly given its string of losses42 and commitment to wokeness,43 is obscene, and much in line with what the regime wants. That this is a time of peace, at least for America, never seems to have occurred to those who want to keep a massive military around and routinely threaten the populace with it while using the defense contractors to pour taxpayer dollars into its own pocket.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
In most respects, this is less relevant now. Though the military has its own judicial system and is strongly committed to that, it is firmly controlled by the civil power. If anything, it is too firmly in the grip of Swamp politicians who force it to accept the modern diversity pieties rather than tough-as-nails generals who train it to win wars. Further, as civil power is the regime power, civil control makes it as much an instrument of tyranny, such as when Biden threatens to bomb conservatives with F-15s,44 than if a competent military personality like Erik Prince was in charge.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
This is certainly true. Much of what the regime aims to do is weaken the Constitution and replace its provisions with the provisions of unelected bureaucrats. This can be seen in Civil Rights legislation and agency decisions requiring constitutionally unacceptable anti-white discrimination.45 It can be seen in agencies forcing companies to censor conservatives. It can be seen in the ATF coming up with ridiculous regulations to make the clear right to keep and bear arms much more difficult to exercise.46 It could be seen in the insane Covid regulations based on what Red China did rather than what the Constitution says.47
Examples are as common as grains of sand, but the point is clear from even a few examples: the Constitution is but a scrap of paper to be set on fire by the regime, which aims to subject Americans to tyrannical, often foreign laws.
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
This doesn’t happen now, so it is one of the few things that hasn’t gotten worse and the Constitutional provision for which has been respected.
However, though the regime doesn’t stick soldiers in homes now, it does something even worse: through the draft, it plucks citizens out of their homes, against their will, to fight in its pointless wars abroad.48 Until the War Between the States, a draft was rightly seen as an abomination. Now they want to draft our daughters.49
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
The military is generally not used against Americans, except when the National Guard is called in to quell riots.
However, though redcoats don’t aim their muskets at us, militarized federal law enforcement officers do, and they get away with murder. Ashli Babbitt was murdered in the Capitol by a thuggish agent of the regime.50 The Christian sect at Waco was murdered almost to the last man, woman, and child by the ATF and FBI, yet those responsible were congratulated for burning American citizens alive.51 Trump supporters are now routinely killed by unaccountable FBI teams.52
Never is there accountability. Never is their justice. Instead, the militarized agents of the regime are protected, without even a reverse kangaroo court, from murder charges.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
Now the regime is doing the opposite. Instead of cutting off trade to crush American businesses, it opened the country up to subsidized foreign trade. Predictably, as was the goal of the vulture capitalist, anti-American class that promoted disastrous free trade policies, heavily regulated American businesses couldn’t compete without companies abroad that rely on slave labor, have no environmental restrictions, and are often subsidized by their state governments. So, there was the “giant sucking sound,” and American industry was eviscerated by free trade, as the regime wanted.53
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
Is there any current tax with our consent? Theoretically, Congress represents us and only passes laws with the consent of and for the benefit of those it represents.
However, that’s obviously not the case. Were it the case, there’d be no obscene income tax, abominable capital gains tax, ridiculous death tax, or the rest of the painfully high tax regime. Instead, taxes would be garnered indirectly, as was always the case in America before the disastrous 20th Century, and without destroying the finances of ordinary Americans. But we are not represented, so it does not matter that we do not consent. Rather, obscenely high taxes are imposed upon the economy with nary a thought given to what the people want by the regime.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
Trial by jury is now a constitutional right and is generally available except in minor matters.
Or in edge cases, and those edge cases show the tyranny our forefathers complained about is still around. Take the J6 political prisoners, for example. Were they granted jury trials as they rotted in solitary confinement? No. They were locked up, for the minor crime of trespassing, in solitary confinement for months on end by a tyrannical government.54
Further, the regime has weaponized juries based on political polarization to “get” its enemies. Take the Trump “hush money” trial in New York. That was a ridiculous matter that any sane jury would have thrown out easily. So the regime didn’t choose a sane jury. It chose urbanite leftists from Manhattan with a deep and abiding hatred for anything to the right of Mao. Predictably, DA Bragg’s Red Guard of a jury convicted Trump.
Jury trials matter not in the mundane matters in which the regime has no reason to deny them, but in the edge cases where it matters. The J6ers should have had jury trials before they were locked up indefinitely. Trump should have had a fair and impartial jury. The fact that such was not the case shows that the tyranny is still around.
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
Fortunately, this doesn’t happen in the same way. Americans aren’t “transported beyond the seas” to face kangaroo court trials.
However, they are tried by foreigners and tried for pretended offenses. Take Trump’s hush money trial again. There, the judge wasn’t a real judge or a heritage American. He was a Columbian-born prosecutor acting temporarily as a judge55 and was chosen for the matter because he’s a leftist who hates Trump. The offense was pretend, and the judge was a foreigner.
The same applies to juries full of immigrants with a hatred of the native American population and for the offenses that most normal people face if dragged into court. The IRS regulations, the ATF rules, the EPA’s absurd environmental regulations, all of that is made up. It’s not a crime. It is a pretend offense made up by the regime to wield as a club against its enemies.
Presumably, Jefferson would have been as infuriated by a Spaniard traveling to Virginia to try his compatriots for a made-up offense as by a Columbian becoming a pretend judge to try a Virginian for a made-up crime. So, again, this point is met, though in a different and many ways worse manner than in 1776.
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
Rather than doing this in the Ohio territory, the regime has done it across America. The old system of English common law is out. Replacing it are arbitrary agency determinations that are far from liberty-loving and meant to oppress, not provide access to even-handed justice.56
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
As above, this is the case, though in a somewhat indirect way. The regime hasn’t badgered states into repealing laws it dislikes, at least frequently. Instead, it lets the unaccountable executive agencies make up whatever rules they want and then start enforcing them.57 In the process, the rules that used to govern are thrown out and replaced by the new, tyrannical rules. That has fundamentally altered the American government and replaced the common law system with arbitrary and capricious rule by bureaucrat fiat.
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
Once again, this isn’t done directly, as was the case in 1776. Rather, it is accomplished indirectly through the agencies. They make, enforce, and often adjudicate their own rules and regulations, in the process abrogating the responsibilities and rights of the duly elected legislatures.58 They pretend to have, across their entirety, the “power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever” and use it to act as tyrants.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
Is this not what the regime does every day? It arrests the J6ers for supporting Trump.59 It sent the ATF to Waco and Ruby Ridge to murder American citizens.60 Biden regularly threatens to bomb conservatives with F-15s.61 It aids and abets the invasion of America by keeping the southern border open, gloating about replacing the native-born with illegal immigrants.62 Meanwhile, it allows Antifa and BLM rioters to run rampant, burning cities and looting small businesses with no repercussions; in fact, it encouraged63 and aided them in doing so.64 Is that not “waging War” on the American people?
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
The regime rarely does this directly, but has done it through the illegal immigration crisis and by aiding and encouraging the BLM rioters.65 They inflict abominable crimes upon the populace,66 plunder cities and the businesses in them,67 burn down entire city blocks, and destroy the lives of those whom they are replacing in life and work or whose businesses or real estate they are destroying.
Throughout all that, they are aided financially, morally, and legally by the regime and its NGO allies.68
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Once again, is this not what the illegal immigration crisis is about? By keeping the border open since Reagan foolishly gave three million illegals amnesty,69 they’ve imported a vast army of regime allies that can complete the “works of death, desolation and tyranny” already begun. They replace American workers in jobs by working for slave wages. They commit horrific crimes and mobilize in gangs that terrorize communities,70 and are allowed to do so by a regime that refuses to control them. They’re becoming police officers,71 acting like the Scythians imported by the Athenian tyrants to keep a ruthless and unemotional boot on the neck of an oppressed native population.72
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
This doesn’t happen anymore; press-ganging on the high seas is a tactic of days past.
However, it does happen for the army. That’s what the draft is, a form of press-ganging73 given the veneer of legitimacy by the less violent means with which it is carried out. But, as shown by the experience in the Ukraine, that only lasts so long; once the recruits start running out, the old form of press-ganging begins again.74
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Returning to the issue of illegal immigration and BLM, is this not what the regime has done? In 2016 and 2020, it encouraged Antifa thugs to attack conservatives.75 In 2020 the BLM narrative was pushed into overdrive to encourage domestic warfare against the law-abiding, productive population for the benefit of marching, looting, and killing criminals. Since Reagan, illegal immigrants who committed crimes after crossing illegally, brought drugs and gang membership with them, and worked for miserable wages while being net tax burdens76 have been imported in their millions.
As a result of all those regime policies, “undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions” has occurred, and the regime couldn’t be happier.
What is To Be Done?
What is to be done in these troubled times is what the rest of the Declaration is about:
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 Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish 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 mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, 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 Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, 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.
See, The Last King of America by Andrew Roberts
See, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
See The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart by Jeremy Carl
See The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart by Jeremy Carl
See The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart by Jeremy Carl