A New Birth of Freedom - Declaring Independence from Petrodictatorships

In 1776, America declared independence from foreign oppressors. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln reminisced upon that declaration in order to illuminate the power of our mighty country (in spite of her civil division), and our country's ability to endure any test of her liberty and dedication to right. In 2009, we face more severe oppression than this country has ever known. America’s dependence on foreign oil has tied the neuse around her neck with several knots: our economy, our national security, our livelihood are no longer our own. We are under the domination of foreign petro-dictatorships, all of whom are extremely vocal about their disdain for America and their disregard for our families.

While our nation suffers, our children go without money for education and we are forced out of our homes at an alarming rate, our oppressors profit. In 2006, members of the OPEC oil cartel earned 506 billion dollars from oil exports. In 2007, that number rose to 535 billion, and by 2008, OPEC reported having raised roughly over 600 billion dollars from the sale of oil.
Meanwhile, in America, high gas prices crushed American families so much so, that by the first quarter of 2008, our foreclosure rates were up 112% from the first quarter of 2007, according to the US Foreclosure Market Report. Approximately one in every one hundred ninety-four American families became suddenly homeless.

Of OPEC’s enormous 2008 profits, 200 billion dollars was earned by Saudi Arabia. The mass murder of September 11, 2001 – in which nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives - was perpetrated by nineteen men, fifteen of whom were Saudis. Our purchases fund conservative Islamic governments which have created charities to donate their wealth to anti-American terrorist groups, suicide bombers, and preachers. While we willingly pay our tax dollars to support the US Army, Navy, Air force and Marine Corps, with our energy purchases we are indirectly financing Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. While we pay for our own soldiers to fight the war against terror, our hard earned money is being taken from us to finance our assassins. Now more than ever, we must commit to American-made, sustainable, and renewable fuel

America is a land that was born of revolution, from the fatherhood of some of our world’s greatest pioneers. It takes courage and strength of spirit to inspire the reversal of a mindset, but we deserve to rise above the oppression and devastation we’ve experienced as we’ve watched our world grow hotter, our safety grow increasingly threatened, and our economy suffer. We must come together and declare that these United States are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States: They are absolved from all allegiance to foreign petrodictatorships, and that all economic connection between them and the Politics of Petroleum is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

We may not always vote the same way; may not always agree on major social issues. But we are all Americans. And as Americans, we hold as our responsibility the protection of ourselves, our children, and by our leadership, the rest of the world. America is where revolution begins: for we are the land of the free and the home of the brave.