Tracy Turner

The Reclamation of the Republic

When, in the Course of human events, it shall become absolutely necessary for the People to dissolve the political ties which have united them to a government that has betrayed its trust to obtain their liberties, a reverence for the sentiments of mankind demands that they should give the causes which compel them to reassert their natural rights.

It is the People who hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights—among these, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is the People who, to secure these rights, institute Governments, deriving their just powers solely from the consent of the governed. And it is the People who, when any Government becomes destructive of these ends, not only have the Right but also the Duty to alter or abolish it and to establish new safeguards for their future security.

We reaffirm these truths in the full knowledge that they have been trampled by those entrusted to uphold them—not merely through one administration but by a bipartisan legacy of lawlessness, betrayal, and indifference:

We came to inherit from Nixon the apparatus of secret manipulation—the normalizing of spying, institutionalized lying, and the weaponizing of the state against dissidence.

We received from George W. Bush lawless wars, blanket warrantless surveillance, the doctrine of preemptive war, and a torture regime hiding behind national security.

From Lyndon B. Johnson, we experienced betrayal of the working class by duplicitous promises, pervasive militarism, and cynical imperial building in the guise of progress.

From Bill Clinton, we learned corporate globalism in NAFTA, deregulation of finance, mass incarceration, and bipartisan entombment of the poor.

From Barack Obama, we experienced legalizing assassinations by drones without trial, prosecution of whistleblowers, and selling out hope to Goldman Sachs.

From Donald Trump, we endured the naked fascism of entertainment as cruelty, envinronmental sabotage, profiteering over pandemic disease, and the legalization of corruption.

Each of these administrations—Democratic and Republican alike—deepened the merger of capital and state, stripped the citizenry of agency, and fortified the rule of the unelected elite.

Therefore, we declare that a People are not free when governed by the inherited injustices of failed presidencies, codified into law, insulated by courts, and enforced at gunpoint. Yet, we stand resilient, ready to reclaim our freedom.

Grievances Against the Government

The Right of Peaceable Assembly has been violated by law enforcement, which demands permits for people to gather—a right explicitly secured by the First Amendment. Armed agents of the state now dictate where and how citizens may associate to petition their government—a power never granted them by the Constitution. The doctrine of "unlawful assembly" has become a blunt instrument, silencing protest and criminalizing dissent.

The paramilitary force has been deployed against peaceful protesters on American streets. In Portland (2020), unidentified federal agents from BORTAC abducted civilians without due process—cloaked in anonymity and armored in illegality. Local and federal police now act as a standing army, not beholden to the people but weaponized by executive decree.

The Federal Government has repeatedly shown a complete willingness to enact injustices to prove the people have no power:

Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890, South Dakota, U.S. Army vs. Lakota Sioux, ~300 Native Americans killed.

Bonus Army March, 1932, Washington D.C., U.S. Army vs. WWI veterans, protestors forcibly evicted with tanks and cavalry.

Kent State Shootings, 1970, Ohio, National Guard vs. student protesters, 4 students killed.

Attica Prison Uprising, 1971, New York, State Police and National Guard vs. inmates, 43 dead including 10 hostages.

MOVE Bombing, 1985, Philadelphia, Police vs. MOVE group, 11 killed, 60+ homes destroyed by fire.

Ruby Ridge, 1992, Idaho, U.S. Marshals and FBI vs. Weaver family, 3 dead including child and mother.

Waco Siege, 1993, Texas, ATF and FBI vs. Branch Davidians, 76 dead including children.

Seattle WTO Protests, 1999, Washington, Police vs. anti-globalization protesters, mass arrests and riot gear deployed.

Occupy Wall Street Crackdown, 2011, Nationwide, Local police with DHS coordination vs. economic justice protesters, tear gas and mass arrests.

Standing Rock Protests, 2016–2017, North Dakota, Militarized police and private contractors vs. Indigenous water protectors, rubber bullets and water cannons used.

George Floyd Protests, 2020, Nationwide, Police and National Guard vs. racial justice protesters, widespread use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and unmarked federal agents.

The Patriot Act gutted constitutional protections, institutionalizing mass surveillance and enabling government agents to bypass courts and label dissidence as terrorism—weaponizing the law itself against the People. 

The NDAA of 2012 authorized indefinite detention without trial, obliterating habeas corpus and reviving the machinery of state tyranny. The Citizens United Supreme Court ruling granted corporations the rights of persons and unleashed unlimited corporate money in politics—subjugating democratic self-rule to oligarchic power. These laws and rulings are not mere policies—they constitute acts of war by a government turned against its citizens.

The People have been deliberately targeted, beaten, and maimed by their government for exercising protected rights. Fascism is not order—it is occupation. Government agencies have been militarized against the citizenry, operating as domestic warfighting units—not for defense but for control. Private military contractors, shielded by immunity and unaccountable to public law, now operate as mercenaries of the corporatized state.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) now functions as a state-aligned surveillance partner—compiling dossiers, tracking speech, and silencing dissidents under the guise of combating "hate." In practice, it censors constitutionally protected speech, criminalizes protest, and smears political opposition as extremism. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) exerts foreign influence over U.S. lawmakers with impunity—funneling billions in policy-aligned aid, engineering smear campaigns against critics, and threatening elected officials who do not align with its geopolitical agenda. Both organizations conduct information warfare, speech suppression, and legislative coercion that undermine U.S. sovereignty, silence Americans, and erode democratic self-governance. 

We therefore declare both the ADL and AIPAC to be unconstitutional, unlawful, and un-American in their operation and purpose. Their status as legitimate civil or lobbying entities must be rescinded.

Surveillance contractors and intelligence agencies have built a panopticon—a digital prison of mass data collection, behavioral tracking, and predictive policing. The Fourth Amendment, which once shielded the private sphere, has been eviscerated in practice. In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled that digital tracking without a warrant is unconstitutional—a principle still widely ignored. Americans now live under 24/7/365 digital surveillance, where every movement, click, and conversation is monitored by algorithm, outsourced to corporations, and weaponized against dissent.

Whistleblowers, journalists, and protestors are subjected to stalking, blacklisting, IRS audits, denial of banking, and digital erasure. Government and corporate actors now engage in civil harassment campaigns to silence critics—destroying lives without trial. Dissent is no longer debated; it is digitally buried, deplatformed, and psychometrically punished.

Private platforms, in collusion with government entities, now censor constitutionally protected speech—functioning as state proxies in a war on public discourse. Silicon Valley monopolies act as enforcers of state narratives, punishing dissent algorithmically, without transparency or appeal. The First Amendment is not only under siege—it is being privatized.

The executive branch rules by decree, invoking unchecked "emergency powers" to sidestep the legislative process. The legislative branch has been neutered—reduced to a theater of symbolic resistance, bypassed by corporate lobbies and regulatory fiat. Congress has been hollowed, its primacy as a representative body replaced by think tanks, corporate lawyers, and executive czars.

Judicial independence has collapsed under the weight of partisan court-packing and dark-money confirmations. The Supreme Court has become an instrument of minority rule—shielding wealth, criminalizing protest, and eroding civil liberties. Corporate liability has been eroded, and justice has been subverted through rulings that prioritize property over people and profits over principles.

Asylum-seekers are denied protection; their pleas fall before bureaucratic cruelty. Birthright citizenship, long a cornerstone of equal belonging, is now politicized and threatened with executive annulment or judicial reinterpretation. The U.S. government now distinguishes between human and legal personhood—granting more rights to corporations than children at its border.

Let it be known: the corporatocracy now commands all branches of government as if they were divisions of a syndicate. The two Houses of Congress no longer represent the People but serve as a bicameral laundering operation for donor agendas, hedge fund legislation, and permanent war budgets. The Courts have abandoned jurisprudence in favor of judicial obedience—handpicked, life-tenured operatives interpreting the Constitution not as a covenant but as a contract of subjugation. 

Justice no longer flows from the law but is reverse-engineered to fit predetermined power structures. The Executive Branch functions not as leadership but as enforcement—a throne that rotates only to preserve the illusion of change. At the same time, every agency beneath it marches to the beat of asset protection, information control, and geopolitical conquest.

Even the press, once regarded as the Fourth Estate, has now become the propaganda arm of the syndicate. No longer adversarial, the corporate media now narrates the collapse with scripted euphemisms and deliberate omissions. It censors the inconvenient, launders state narratives, and criminalizes dissent by framing truth-tellers as threats to "order."

We reject the notion that bureaucracy equates to democracy. A government divided into departments, agencies, commissions, and courts still constitutes a monolith when every cell obeys the same master: profit without accountability, power without consent, and policy without people. The fragmentation of form is camouflage—a matrix of legalistic window dressing for a regime no less fascistic for its administrative complexity. The names of the offices have changed. The uniforms have changed. The methods are modern. But the system is ancient.

Our Demands

We, therefore, the People of the United States of America, solemnly publish and declare:

1. The Right of the peaceful assembly shall never be subject to a permit. No official can disperse an assembly except in cases where violence is currently occurring.

2. No protestor can be singled out, mutilated, or gassed for legal expression. To attack the unarmed is to destroy the Republic.

3. All state actors are to be counted and held accountable for their actions. Masked agents and unmarked vans have no place in a constitutional republic.

4. Warrantless surveillance is a war act. Lawful use of personal data without due process will become criminal.

5. Speech on the digital frontier is public speech. State-acting platforms are under the Constitution.

6. No president shall rule by emergency decree. Mandates will be screened through legislative and public scrutiny.

7. Congress will not be bypassed by executive privilege or private interest.

8. The courts shall be maintained independent of partisan manipulation or ideological stacking.

9. Asylum is a human right and birthright citizenship a constitutional guarantee.

10. Corporations will have no more rights than the People they are exploiting.

11. The Right to clean air, water, food, and a habitable environment is unalienable. Contamination by corporate agents is an act of war.

12. The government agencies that allow environmental devastation must be broken up and rebuilt for stewardship, not business.

13. A people without their biosphere are no longer free—they are occupied.

14. A body of a citizen does not belong to the state—forced medicalization, biometric identification, or digital fingerprinting without consent is tyranny in biological guise.

15. A people bound by debt are not free—they are indentured to a system that criminalizes living below a certain line and monetizes mere survival.

16. A code-driven nation, not a conscience-driven one—unmanned systems without control violates the very nature of due process.

17. A state-directed private-controlled digital commons is not free speech—it is privatized censorship masquerading as moderation.

18. A people with no local control over land, water, and health is a colony, not a democracy. Sovereignty begins where the people live.

19. A conscience outlawed is a republic lost. Civil resistance to illegal laws is not sedition—it is citizenship.

20. A power-laden science is not truth—it is dogma. The People have the right to inquiry free from profit, censorship, or political censorship.

21. The Right of a Free Press
Journalism shall be responsible to the People—and not to profit, party, or state. No monopoly in the media shall dominate the public mind.

22. The Right to Reject War
No citizen will be forced to kill, pay for, or fight in war without democratic consent.

23. The Right to Community Education
Curricula must be in service of liberation, not indoctrination. Communities will decide what is taught.

24. The Right to Transparent Code
Algorithmic rule requires open code. All civic software must be public, peer-reviewed, and modifiable.

25. The Right to Just Labor
They all have the right to unionize, strike, and get a living wage—without coercion or corporate domination.

26. The Right to Genetic Autonomy
Your DNA isn't theirs to own. No manipulation without complete, informed, willing consent.

27. The Right to Rest
Time isn't a commodity. Citizens have the right to rest, solitude, and relief from digital extraction.

28. The Right to the Commons
Air, water, code, seeds—silence: commons are not capable of being commodified. They are for all others, not the privileged elite.

Any fusion of government, capital, and partisan judiciary that acts against the People is illegitimate. Any government which militarizes itself against its citizens has forfeited the Right to rule.

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.

Signed this 5th day of July, in the year Two Thousand and Twenty-Five.

(Names of Representatives of the People to be affixed hereafter.)

John Adams

Samuel Adams

Benjamin Franklin

John Hancock

Thomas Jefferson

Richard Henry Lee

Robert Morris

Roger Sherman

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© 2025 Tracy Turner

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