CIA collaboration with New York Police Department was never legally approved, page 1

Wow, a government organization that oversteps its bounds! Who woulda thunk it? Government employees who think they are above the law? Naw, never happen in a million years.

Thomas Jefferson said it best-

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments 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 design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

While reading the DoI yet again, it occurs to me (yet again) that almost every grievance listed is occurring today.

One thing that has always bothered me is the concept of the "consent of the governed". I have never consented to be governed by anybody. You can go back to my school records and see that ever since 1st grade they would check the box that says "does not respect authority". I've never acknowledged that anybody has authority over me because I have never met anybody in a position of so-called "authority" who I felt deserved my respect. People in positions of authority tend to abuse that authority and I saw that when I was 5 years old- I was also consistently beating adults at chess when I was 5 years old, so take that for what it's worth.

The time for the revolution is here. I am ready to take back my rights, are you?