My Declaration of Freedom

Through the accord of many I am but one voice, ready to impeach the conventions set with in the minds of my compatriots, and to ensure the safety, equality, and rights of this country.

Though our reality has thrived under tyranny as set forth by our forefathers, listed in our coveted declaration of independence, this tyranny, long thought to be gone, resides, still, deep in the hearts of those who wish to oppress.

Through fear we weep for our ideals, through injustice we bleed in foreign lands, and through courage, as our brothers and mothers did in the past, we lift ourselves above the hatred of yesteryears, to strive for a future of fair reprieve.

Yet my rights hang in the gallows so sought by the totalitarianism that still lives in the heart of this nation. Whose ideals have been misconstrued through conscious rhetoric of fear, and spewed forth under the guise of protected speech. For persuasion of hatred has many forms and many sources, but it has only one goal, to disenfranchise a people within a country built upon the sacrifice of the disenfranchised.

Here I remember the virtue that an injustice to one is a threat to justice for all and that none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who believe themselves to be free. Freedom of choice, so invaluable, founded in the words that all men are created equal, and have certain unalienable rights, now left to the tyranny that wishes only to disembody and dehumanize yet another group of people who are ready to hang in the distance.

As the ropes which have slew the necks of our rights in years past, for women and for men alike, enslaved by indignation of language and of culture, so to are my brethren, and my sisters. Yes, we may not be here because of slavery, yes we may not be here because of sexism, but we are here, at the crossroads seen before in this country, many times before and many times won.

We do not fight for the right to vote, or for the wage and simple quarter, or for the desegregation of peoples, we are already apart of these fights won in the past and remembered, heralded as some of the greatest achievements of our time. We are not a unified people demarked by color or race, gender or creed, as we are apart of all of these. Yet we are a people, besmirched our rights in the face of a time of enlightenment and liberty. We stand for the rights and privileges afforded to the majority, and denied us by virtue of misinformation and disregard of the very foundation of our country.

Here we make our stand, to fight for what is ours, from all creeds, colors, genders, and races. As a true picture of the American ideals and of its people, We stand in defiance of the modern Tyrants that rule with hearsay and dismissal in this country, and here I say we have had enough.

We have no need to be closeted and hidden any longer. We refuse to be "separate but equal" and we demand the rights and privileges shared by all others. This is not a begging, nor a plea; this is our stand and our usurpation against the wills of people who are so against us.

I say this to you as one voice for the concordance of many who struggle through the unrighteousness of the cultural ignorance, religious zealousness, and cool unrelenting hatred. Let this be the "Signal to arousing our country to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition" has ensnared their hearts, so they may finally accept all peoples as brothers and sisters.

Let all people, straight or gay, transgender or lesbian, bisexual or queer, stand up together in a unified country. Let us build a future where all people can thrive and live up to the ideals of our founding fathers; where we can strive for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in humble harmony and equality.