Tagged: life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

“What we are trying to do, I assume, is really to get back to the principles and aims and spirit of the Declaration of Independence. This spirit is resistance to illegitimate authority and to forces that deprive people of their life and liberty and right to pursue happiness, and therefore under these conditions, it urges the right to alter or abolish their current form of government — and the stress had been on ‘abolish.’ But to establish the principles of the Declaration of Independence, we are going to need to go outside the law, to stop obeying the laws that demand killing or that allocate wealth the way it has been done, or that put people in jail for petty technical offenses and keep other people out of jail for enormous crimes. My hope is that this kind of spirit will take place not just in this country, but in other countries because they all need it. People in all countries need the spirit of disobedience to the state, which is not a metaphysical thing but a thing of force and wealth. And we need a kind of declaration of interdependence among people in all countries of the world who are striving for the same thing.” — Howard Zinn

I heard this quote while watching Matt Damon give a speech [a couple years ago] where he read excerpts from a speech given in 1970 by Howard Zinn titled “The Problem is Civil Obedience.”

To read the full speech, click here: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/CivilObedience_ZR.html.

“[A]ffirmative action is predicated on the demonstrably true notion that in the absence of deliberate efforts to recruit, admit, hire, train and promote QUALIFIED people of color for college slots and professional opportunities, such persons will continue to be overlooked because of racial bias in the PRESENT. So too, it is premised on the idea that persons of color will continue to be denied full opportunity in the absence of race-conscious efforts at inclusion, thanks to systemic barriers like old boys’ networks for jobs and unequal resources in K-12 schooling. In the case of the latter, resource disparities produce students of color who appear less qualified on paper (in terms of past test scores) but who may have every bit as much potential as white students, who, given better opportunity, scored higher.”

Source: Tim Wise. Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat From Racial Equity. pg. 52. 2010.

ALL of our “God-given rights” include “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The Declaration of Independence states, in part:

We hold these truths to be self-evidence. That all men 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 men, 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 powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

The elite, white “Founders” who wrote this document knew how parasitic, evil and corrupt they were and knew that eventually, they would self-destruct, like Rome and other empires before them, if conditions were not set to alter or abolish  a destructive government unable to secure the basic, human and “unalienable rights” of its people. The group in power, including those that wrote the Declaration of Independence, cannot think that they are superior to “Negroes” because of their “race,” then simultaneously say that “all men are created equal.” That’s a clear contradiction…unless you factor in the fact that many whites, especially during that time, consider[ed] people of African descent to be sub-human, “three-fifths a person,” descendants of monkeys or other animals, savages, barbarians, niggers, etc. It is ridiculous to think that ANY government dominated by a group of people like this, can “secure the[ ] rights” of ALL MEN and create a society and institutions that promote principles such as truth, justice and democracy and ensure that they prevail, irregardless of one’s “race.”  They failed from the very beginning and it’s clear by this country’s (and the world’s) many problems today, due to their conspiracy to maintain the myth of white/”Jewish” superiority (racism), that we, “the people,” need to “alter or abolish” this “evil system” and “institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing power in such form, as to them shall seem likely to effect the[ ] safety and happiness” of ALL “HUE-MAN” BEINGS.