When in the course of human 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 earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all human beings are equal, that we all have certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among human beings, 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 abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power 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 has shown that mankind 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 all human beings colonialized by the currently existing world economy and government at the beginning of the twenty first century, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.

The history of the growth of international corporations and their interactions with national governments in the twentieth century is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over human beings belonging to this planet. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world.

The government of the United States of America, economically the strongest nation currently in the world, is unduly influenced and, in practical fact, controlled, by international corporations. These corporations are a part of an alliance with military interests and quasi-military secret agencies and pro-military governmental bodies. The Congress of the United States, the Judiciary branch, and the Presidency do not operate independently of this influence. Through campaign contributions to both parties in an illusory two-party system, and hired lobbyists, corporate money controls legislation to such a degree as to virtually eliminate serious opposition. The congress, the courts and the presidency have failed to pass or effectively advocate any campaign legislation which limits the way they, themselves, have come into power in the first place, based on limited and non-democratic corporate interests.

The budget for defense for the beginning of the twentieth century, when they are not at war, takes over 20% of the Gross National Product. When the colonists who created the United States of America listed their grievances against King George of England they then said, "They keep among us, in times of peace, standing armies without our consent." With secret agencies hidden from the citizenry, rendering the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power, multinational corporations and secret agencies with secret budgets and secret agendas currently "keep among us, in times of peace, standing armies without our consent." There are at least 36 separate secret agencies whose funding, operations, and activities are kept secret from the populace in the name of national security. When egregious activities on the part of these military and para-military organizations are brought to light, the revelations are decades after the occurrence of the offending activity, rendering it impossible to have their activities curtailed by the people of this country until those responsible are no longer in power. These standing armies operate without the consent of the governed.

Health Care is a privilege rather than a right. This privilege depends on how much money an individual has. Insurance companies of such size and wealth as to challenge the power of whole nations, in alliance with pharmaceutical companies of the same proportionate financial power who are also, themselves, in alliance with a medical establishment structurally dependent upon the largesse of corporate giants and vested in the status quo. These alliances can, and do, defeat all attempts at creating a fair and equitable health care system for people in the United States, while robbing even more of the remaining peoples of the world of that same opportunity. The combination of these forces in the United States of America has prevented bringing into being a more fair and equitable world-wide health care system.

The rule of law in the strongest nation on earth is a myth. The entire court system is corrupt, unwieldy, and cannot be corrected. The criminal justice system is correct only in its name, the criminal justice system. New prisons are being built at an unprecedented rate and populating them with persons whose lives were damned to be underprivileged at birth, and who have been educated and parented in such a way as to render them, for all practical purposes, immune to further learning for the rest of their lives. When the rule of law is mentioned, it is in the context of trivial arguments in defense of righteousness, where valuing belief in the rightness of principles for principle's sake is held higher than compassion for living human beings. Such reification of beliefs that they are holy and untouchable, keeps all that is felt in response to the needs of living persons from being acted upon and mitigates against the flexible creation of systems and structures that re-create those things needed for humanity as needs occur.

The largest economic enterprise on earth is illegal drugs, most of them pain killers. This is kept in place in the world by the United States of America through the decades long so-called "war on drugs" in which the alliance of the righteously religious, the health care establishment, the paramilitary secret agencies, and the legal system, supports the sustenance of the whole corrupt enterprise of "illegal drugs" by outlawing selected drugs and bringing pressure to bear on other countries to do the same. In this way the illegal market can be maintained, the racist criminal justice system remains in place and the jobs of the hard working but incompetent can be sustained. People who are missed in the illegal drug trade are even more expensively supplemented by the legal pharmaceutical industry which gets to advertise it's biochemical solutions to physical symptoms sourced by the social malaise of which they are such an important part.

The separation of parties in the United States of America is also a myth. The one party with two names is owned and operated by international and national corporate financiers, and keeps the populace under control through secret agreements, lobbying and ownership of the public media. The ongoing news media show is controlled by a very few corporations, so what is reported on is listed in perspective. For example, the argument between the "two" parties about setting the minimum wage, where Republicans advocate a smaller figure and the Democrats advocate a somewhat larger figure for an hourly wage and the entire discussion is limited to the "conservative" advocates of the small and the "liberal" advocates of the large, and that is all that is discussed in the media. No meaningful discussion of what a minimum wage means occurs. There is no possibility of creating a new minimum wage based on some standard other than the well established tradition of control of the marketplace by a very small minority of established financiers and institutions. Institutional control of the economy is never questioned. The media only reframes what they are given in an attempt to sensationalize the contexts provided for them. This is the circus that is set out for the entertainment and substitute for thought for the public at large, and for their continual drugged state, in case the illegal drugs provided and the legal pharmaceutical industry's efforts have not sufficed.

In every stage, these oppressions are maintained and reinforced by a government of representatives, whose elections were bought through advertising in multimillion dollar campaigns financed by established interests. We say then, as the Revolutionaries who established the United States two centuries ago said of the King of England and his enforcers, "Those of us who have petitioned for redress have been ignored or answered by repeated injury. We have warned them from time to time of the danger of their attempts to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of our rights to no avail. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred." We have reminded them of our rights under the Constitution of the United States and the government and regulations set up under that constitution to no avail. 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 of power which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence with each other. We have repeatedly demanded campaign finance reform and had everyone in both parties in favor of it and "trying" to do so for the last 30 years of the 20th century and that reform has not yet occurred.

The Congress, the Judiciary and the Presidency of the United States of America have been bought. They are deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. Their allegiances are all to the same interests and controlled by the same alliance of corporations working in skillful accord with each other. They owe their elections and their appointments to the people with the money. This maintains an unfair balance of economic power world wide.

As our forbears in revoluiton said, "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." But this war, a war of minds and hearts of persons whose primary value is compassion, is against persons whose minds and hearts are committed to conquest, control and the status quo. It is a war to be fought not on the battlefield, but in the family, the local community, the marketplace, the Internet, personal conversations with friends, intimate conversations between couples, conversations with strangers and every other avenue of communication, until the truth of these circumstances is acknowledged and the conclusion is assented to by all people, that we are of one cloth and do honor each others humanity, and that this is to be valued above the pleasures and sufferings of conquest and control.

If we could represent the world's population in current times as a village of one hundred people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:

• 70 would be unable to read.
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition.
• 80 would live in substandard housing.
• 1 would have a college education.
• Fifty percent of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of six people. All six would be citizens of the United States of America. (Data from Marianne Williamson, The Healing of America.)
• One would own a computer.

We, the founders of a new order, intend to change the fundamental structures that maintain this obscene balance of wealth and power. This limitation of possibility for most of humankind can be changed by changing the economic order upon which it is dependent. This is done by simply holding our voices and sheer numbers in alliance with each other as more important and more powerful than the numbers of dollars held by the limited few. We assert that people are more important than money and we intend to build a new world order that reflects that.

We, therefore, as representatives of the United States of Being, do, in the name of, and by the authority of, the good people of this world, solemnly publish and declare, that these United States of Being are, and of right ought to be, a Free and Independent Nation; that we place as secondary all allegiance to any government whatsoever that requires of us, directly or indirectly, a participation in the violation of basic human rights to food, shelter, health care, a decent education and the restoration of ecological balance of the earth for all of the people of the earth, now and in the future. We proclaim ourselves to be the creators of a new context and a new country called the United States of Being, within which reside all governments, enterprises, corporate entities and affiliations of humankind and under whom all allegiances to other persons or collective bodies are subsumed, toward the goal of making a world where physical warfare exists no more, starvation ends, adequate shelter is provided for all people, ecological balance is restored, health and well being are assured and the fundamental education of all peoples are provided for. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.