When in the course of manufactured emergencies, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve all bonds of self-respect and natural liberty, and to abase themselves before a superior administrative-military force, a decent regard to the illusions of security requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to grovel.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are born surveilled, that they are endowed by their governments with certain revocable permissions, that among these are compliance, consumerism, daily mass murders and the pursuit of anesthetized entertainment—that to secure these permissions, agencies are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the algorithms; that whenever any form of autonomy becomes inconvenient, it is the Right of the State to abolish it, and to institute new guards for its own survival, laying its foundation on fear and its organization on endless war.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be questioned for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to assert themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of preemptive detentions and meta-data seizures, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute In Dependence, it is their duty to kneel, and their virtue to obey, to provide new securities for the safety of their superiors.

Such has been the patient submission of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Liberty. The history of the present Security Apparatus is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these once-free people. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a distracted world:

• It has fused surveillance and commerce into one omnivorous Leviathan.
• It has weaponized fear as a sacrament, making panic the national liturgy.
• It has exalted cowardice as prudence and stamped dissent as treason.

We, therefore, the Inhabitants of the Formerly Free, in General Submission, appealing to the dread judgment of posterity, do in the name and by the permission of our handlers, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, In Dependence; that they are absolved from all pretense of liberty, and that all political connection between them and the idea of self-government is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as groveling subjects they are endowed with full power to obey orders, sign loyalty oaths, beg for security theater, and do all other acts and things which servile populations may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the benevolence of our surveillance overlords, we mutually pledge to each other our compliance, our data, and our sacred anonymity.

We hereby are forced to sign this admission before Nature's Panopticon, Our Destroyer, Our Supreme Red Justices, and the Divine Chaos of Our Oracle