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From Independence to Dependence

Today marks the founding moment for America – a moment which, despite its original imperfection and course corrections, remains a model of hope.

Unfortunately, in my lifetime America has gone from being a model for the world to a caricature of itself.

The electoral process is now an Olympic exercise packaging utterly corrupt politicians pandering to the system of bureaucratized special interests with mountains of taxpayer money. Congress’s greatest accomplishment is the emission of more toxic gas than any other source of world pollution. The smokescreens produced by clamoring actors hide what their feet are really doing.

In this lexicon, “Family Values” were the code-words for the electronic welfare state that has teased every state in the nation to entitle divorce and illegitimacy, and to maximize the numbers of good men ordered “absent” by a court working to maximize state revenue streams for criminal enforcement programs. [1]

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and the recent additions known as IMBRA (International Marriage Brokers Regulation Act), and the TVPA (Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000) do not serve their titular purposes. They are broad-brush radical feminist pogroms against any and all men designed to maximize federal revenue streams to corrupt lawyers and politicians working to destroy men and marriage.

America is being destroyed, one false allegation at a time. The Duke Rape case is perhaps the most infamous look inside perhaps the most powerful and evil Star Chamber on earth.

Radical feminism is the greatest risk America has ever faced. It is even more dangerous than radical Muslimism because you cannot see the bombs or who is planting them. The wreckage is everywhere – expressed silently in horrid social data on the poverty of broken families, illegitimacy, and declining marriage rates.

The conversion of roughly half of husbands to peonage demonstrates the reactions of men – who are often unwilling to participate in bondage. The blood we see daily in our streets is the downstream crime, murder, and social violence rising from our abject unwillingness to permit the average boy to grow up to be a father, husband, and a freely responsible man. We commonly take rights and responsibility from good men out of fear of what might happen if we let men be free to be responsible.

Radical feminism is everywhere right here on American soil. The hand that rocks the cradle is now dictating nearly all policy in Washington, and therefore the nation. It runs our educational systems and destroys church and religion. It has driven boys out of the educational systems. It has turned the legal profession into a mafia of licensed terrorists who do evil in feminist-controlled courtrooms, from which justice rarely emanates.

Both conservative and liberal politicians in Washington are massively guilty of this. Liberals tend to do their work from an openly radical feminist, socialist perspective. Conservatives do it speaking as village hyper-patriarchs.

Witness former Senator Kit Bond and former National Fatherhood Initiative president Wade Horn (who supported the most rancid anti-family federal legislation in American history) begging on street-corners for fathers to magically appear to raise millions of federally-created fatherless children. [2]

Bond and Horn hypocritically pretend that the recent National Fatherhood Initiative “attack” on Washington was a heroic event. The protest was a lie paid for with your tax dollars. Horn’s “Father’s Count” legislation entitled NFI to act as an entitled extension of the ACF child support collections machine – of which Horn became Undersecretary immediately after leaving N.F.I. As written, “Father’s Count” prevents the spending of even one dime making sure that fathers are not systemically disenfranchised by federal welfare, custody, and pro-divorce policies.

Washington is quite aware of the men’s movement, the marriage movement, and the many other pro-family organizations that have spent years petitioning Washington and the courts to stop destroying marriage and fatherhood. They have known better and have been intentionally ignoring us since 1992. And I have a great deal of evidence to prove it.

Thomas Jefferson would be horrified about the transmogrification of his Republic into deceptive, unprincipled, feminist “democracy”. Men once grew up expecting freedom and shouldering the responsibility that goes with it. Jefferson’s vision is now a mirrored cavern of words blaming common men for what Washington knowingly did to them.

The Declaration of Independence reminds us that freedom does not come easily. Given the events of the past forty-five years and the historic low ratings of President Bush and Congress (for many years), it appears that America may be entering an era of great political unrest if not open rebellion against peonage substituting for “responsible fatherhood”.

Too many American men and women know what Washington has wrought. The feminist war on marriage must be ended.

Now is the time to finally read and understand the Declaration of Independence. I have taken the liberty of highlighting points in the Declaration that speak to the situation faced by the good men of America:

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 and of Nature's God 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 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 to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn 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 these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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.

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.

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.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

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.

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.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

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:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

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.

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.

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.

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 British 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.

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David R. Usher is Senior Policy Analyst for the True Equality Network and President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition