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That to secure these rights, governments and banks are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the people. That whenever any system of money and finance becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new and independent means of holding and exchanging their wealth, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as shall seem to them most likely to secure their safety and happiness.</p> <p>Prudence, indeed, will dictate that monetary systems long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown 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 Babylonian design to reduce them under absolute financial dependence, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such bondage, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of the world; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of money.</p> <p>The history of central fiat banking, and of the governments and great financial institutions that act in concert with it, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute control over the wealth and livelihood of the people. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.</p> <ol class="dofi-griev"> <li>They have created money out of nothing and spent it first into the hands of those nearest to them, so that the well-connected grow rich while the wage earner finds his pay buys less each year.</li> <li>They have taxed every saver on earth by inflation: a tax never voted on, never itemized, and never repealed.</li> <li>They have burdened whole nations with debts that can never be repaid, and then demanded austerity of the people as the price of rolling those debts over.</li> <li>They have compelled citizens to surrender their gold under threat of fine and imprisonment, paying them $20.67 an ounce, and then, within the year, revalued gold at $35, cutting the value of every dollar the people held by some forty percent, as was done in the United States in 1933 and 1934.</li> <li>They have rescued, at public expense, the very institutions whose reckless lending brought on the crisis of 2008, inflating the money supply and decreasing the value of fiat currencies through 2009 and beyond to cover their losses, while millions of ordinary families lost their homes.</li> <li>They have frozen the bank accounts of peaceful citizens without charge or trial, as was done in Canada in 2022.</li> <li>They have seized the deposits of savers to cover the losses of failing banks, as was done in Cyprus in 2013.</li> <li>They have closed the accounts of lawful businesses and individuals for reasons never explained, cutting them off from the means of earning a living.</li> <li>They have presided over the collapse of currencies, destroying in a few short years the life savings of whole populations, from Zimbabwe to Venezuela to Lebanon to Argentina.</li> <li>They have shut more than a billion adults out of the financial system entirely, for want of papers, an address, or a minimum balance.</li> <li>They have built a system of surveillance over every purchase and every payment, so that no transaction of a free person may pass unrecorded.</li> <li>They have bought influence over candidates, legislatures, and elections with money they themselves created out of nothing, so that laws are written for those who hold the debt rather than those who bear it.</li> <li>They have filled the offices meant to regulate them with their own, through a revolving door between the central bank, the treasury, and the largest banks.</li> <li>They have erected a multitude of new offices, reports, and compliance rules, and sent swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.</li> <li>They have financed wars by borrowing and printing, hiding the cost in rising prices rather than asking the people openly to bear it.</li> <li>They have placed the governance of the world's money in the hands of boards and international bodies answerable not to the people, but to the size of their stakes.</li> </ol> <p>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. An institution whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people, of their welfare, or of their personal finances.</p> <p>Nor have we been wanting in attention to our fellow citizens. We have warned them from time to time of the attempts of these institutions to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over their savings and their labor. We have reminded them of their unalienable, God-given rights. We have appealed to their justice and good sense, and we have urged them, by the ties of our common humanity, to see these usurpations for what they are. Many have not yet heard; we will keep speaking. But we can no longer wait on the consent of every last person before securing our own liberty. We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which compels our separation, and hold these institutions, as we hold the rest of mankind: adversaries in their usurpations; in honest dealing, friends.</p> <p>We do not declare against one system without declaring for another. In Bitcoin the people of the world now possess a money that no central bank can print, no government can debase, and no institution can freeze. Its supply is fixed at twenty-one million coins, its ledger is open to all, and it answers to no ruler but its rules. We therefore hold that a financially independent people may:</p> <ul class="dofi-rights"> <li>hold their own wealth in their own custody, keeping their own keys, needing no one's permission;</li> <li>trade with one another directly, across any border, at any hour, without asking leave of a bank;</li> <li>save in money whose supply cannot be expanded at the will of a few;</li> <li>verify for themselves, on a public ledger, that the rules are being kept; and</li> <li>join this system freely with nothing more than a phone, regardless of papers, address, or balance.</li> </ul> <p>We do not pretend this path is without hardship. A young money moves sharply in price; self-custody makes each person responsible for keeping his own keys; and every new frontier draws its share of frauds and false prophets. We accept these duties as the price of liberty, as those who came before us accepted theirs.</p> <p>We further recognize that liberty carries its own obligations. The independence we declare is no license to forget the widow, the orphan, the sick, the aged, the disabled, or any among us who find themselves in helpless circumstances. It is the responsibility of a free and independent people to provide for their charitable protection, and for emergency relief in times of disaster and need, freely and willingly, through our families, our congregations, our communities, and our own hands. What we will not suffer to be taken from us by force, we pledge to give freely in charity.</p> <p>We, therefore, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in accordance with His holy standard, solemnly publish and declare: that all people are, and of right ought to be, free and independent owners and custodians of their own wealth and welfare; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the central banks; that all compulsory connection between them and centrally controlled financial institutions is, and ought to be, freely and peacefully dissolved; and that, as free and independent people, they have full power to save, to trade, to contract, to establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which free people may of right do, without reliance upon central banks or the institutions that serve them. 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.</p> <p class="dofi-close">Bitcoin forever.</p> <h3 class="dofi-sign" id="sign">Sign the Declaration</h3> <p>Add your name and country below. Your email stays private and is never published.</p></div>
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