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A Personal Declaration of Independence Be it known that
I, Alfred A. Hambidge, Jr., hereby declare my independence from any and
all who dare claim dominion over me.
I will not be forced, coerced, stomped on, stamped, labeled,
numbered, filed, defiled, chained, hobbled, bought, sold, compromised,
or silenced. My life is my
own. Over my own mind and
body, I am Sovereign. I shall work to
plant the seeds of Liberty into fertile hearts, and nurture those where
it has taken root. I will strive to
thwart the plans of those who think of people only as expendable things
to be used, abused, and discarded. I will oppose
collectivism in all its forms and proclaim the supremacy of the
individual. I shall fight
every kind of tyranny over the minds, bodies, and property of men. I will be an
ally to all who love and understand Liberty, without regard to what they
look like, where they come from, how they choose to live, or how or if
they worship. I will not hate,
for hate clouds the mind, blackens the heart, and corrupts the soul,
until one becomes the evil he opposes. In all things, I
will conduct myself honorably, because Liberty without Honor, like
Freedom without Virtue, cannot be sustained. I will live as a
Free Man.
Al Hambidge, currently working as a chemist, is a curmudgeon-in-training who occasionally gets riled up enough to put it on paper. He still doesn't know what he wants to do if he grows up, but he does know that he just wants governments to leave him alone.
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