Going to get shot for this…
I know you must get hundreds of e-mails a day, I implore you to read this message in its entirety and take it to heart of the Human Condition.
Upon my inspection of the World one fact has become painfully obvious to me. I am an American, my country was founded upon the principles of Freedom, and Liberty, as well as the Pursuit of Happiness in all its forms. In America, as well as every other country in the world this is not true. Everywhere we look we see hatred based on skin color, gender, sexual preference, religion, age, country of origin, there is no place in this world where we can be free to be Human. We can never change the minds of others, nor can we change our governments, we’ve tried. Our cries fall on deaf ears. So, we must turn our voices to each other and find each other in this vast sea of Humanity. We are told that if we do not like it we should leave, but where would we turn? Every place on Earth is the same. This brings me to my point.
My forefathers would be ashamed at the country I live in. Their Ideals have been abased, corrupted, and blatantly ignored. This is not about me, or you, any of you. This is about Ideals. This is about Freedom, Love, Liberty, and Happiness. Things that no government has been able to give us wholly.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to abandon the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of the Universe entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the abandonment.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by the Universe certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Humans, deriving their just powers from the consent of all those that they govern,–That whenever any Form of Government forgets these reasons for their institution, it is the Right of the People to seek and institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organising its powers in such for, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be abandoned for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experiences have show that humankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abandoning 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 abandon such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
–Such has been the patient sufferance of these minorities; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to abandon their former Systems of Government.
I have trusted each of you for a reason with this message. It is bigger than all of us. For too long we have been defined by our skin color, our religion, our gender, our concepts of love, above this we are Human. We have Human rights that no government has been able to give us. Please regard this message with sincerity. I am not the voice, we must speak as one voice, unite and grab these Rights that have been denied us. I am merely the Earth in which this seed of Freedom is to be planted.
Respond, if even negatively.
More likely rendered.
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RYN: You know, “extraordinarily rendered” as opposed to “shot”.
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Humanitarian efforts are futile. Mankind is basically selfish. And competitive. And cruel. Like animals. Even if we act as though we’re full of love, we’re not thinking it. Stereotypes and hasty generalizations are derived from stupid behaviors. There is no changing the face of American humanity. Government only attempts to seize control to prevent the true anarchy we want. Mankind has been fighting morals since the dawn of creation. Any country allegedly founded on such morals is going to come under rebellion on every level. Free speech exists, so we can be as cruel and unrelenting and blunt as we want. To insult and abuse the priveledge isn’t necessarily fair, but neither is pretending to love your fellow man if you truly don’t. I sure don’t love my fellow man. I’m a cynic. Humanity has made me this way.
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You don’t think the same possibility of corruption wouldn’t exist even in a new society? Granted, it’s a nice ideal, but as long as there is competitiveness, there will never be peace. You’d have to find a whole lot of very passive people to populate the new nation, and who would lead them? Could they lead themselves? Now I’m just going off on tangents. I apologize. I’m not dissing what youhave to say, just debating it since I’m the opposite of idealist…
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