Right to Pursuit of Happiness

Join US and Protect OUR Unalienable Rights - the Right to Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness; the Right to Protest and to Peaceful Assembly; the Right to Institute New Government; the Rights to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Belief, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Opinion, & Freedom of Thought!

Unalienable Rights are Rights which cannot be separated from Man, from all Human Beings. Unalienable Rights cannot be taken away from us - so states the Declaration of Independence and so guarantees the Constitution of the United States of America.

People, Government, Individuals, Philosophy, Religion, and Science all need the freedom and liberty to search for the Truth without fear of censorship or reprisal if the Truth does not fit with the ideological, political , economic, or religious beliefs of those who have and wield Power.

Remember that There is Nothing Higher than the Truth, and that We Must Use our Reason to Survive.

When I was a child and first went to school at the age of 5, some kids weren't always nice. Sometimes they teased kids, sometimes they even called them names. I was told by my grandparents that if this should happen to me that:

"Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you."  This means that mere words cannot harm a person, and a child who is teased or called names or insulted should learn to ignore it. So, I was taught to say to those who would insult and tease me:  "Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones but Names will Never Hurt Me"!

We are taught that we can judge a person by their actions AND by their words. So, if someone insults you - it does not reflect badly on you, but rather it reflects badly on the person doing the insulting, doing the name calling, and doing the teasing.

The Constitution of the United States of America guarantees Freedom of Speech. [ Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" ] Most other modern democracies as well as U.S. states have similar constitutional sections and laws protecting freedom of speech and of the press absolutely. Yet today, in 2021, we find speech and the press being censored on a daily basis: in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in France, in Germany, in Sweden and in almost every "western democracy".

We know that real monarchies (like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Thailand); dictatorships (like China, Russia, North Korea, Turkey and Afghanistan); religious states (like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel, and Iran); and communist countries ( like China, Russia, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam) all lie, censor and deny their citizens freedom of speech and freedom of the press. We take this for granted, understand this and know not to trust their words. Censorship can have devastating even lethal consequences - as we have seen with communist China's cover-up of the deadly Wuhan virus known as Covid-19 (see WuhanVirus.Info for more on this); Saudia Arabia's recent killing of its critic, Khossoggi, a journalist who had uncovered wrongdoing by the ruling royal family; Pakistan's abominal blasphemy laws that see it killing people for mere words; Iran's disgusting fatwas against author Rushdie and other authors who dare to criticize Islam; Israel's continuing killing of Palistinians (a genocide, in fact - shame on Jews for allowing this after what happened to so many of them during World War II) and continued theft of their lands, the lands they have been living on for millenia; Afghanistan's and other Islamic contries' killing, assaulting, raping and harming their own citizens because of their beliefs, words and opinions; even because of their way of dressing; Islamic Turkey's killing and imprisioning hundreds of thousands of its own citizens for their words and beliefs and desire to live in a democracy which used to have a separation of church and state, and has now sadly become an Islamic Dictatorship. The list is endless. 

We see that countries which censor have something to hide. Something bad. Something wrong. Censorship is always linked to something wrong and to corruption. The United States was founded by people who knew that the monarchies and religious dictatorships that were England and other countries in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, when America was being colonized and modern America was being formed, were doing something wrong; something unacceptable - namely censoring, thieving, unlawfully seizing property, etc., as well as forcing all people to have the same religious beliefs as the monarch, and to accept the monarch's absolute rule. To accept that the monarch had all the rights - even the right to decide who should live and who should die - and that individuals had no rights at all. The same situations - to varying degrees - exist today in all real monarchies, religious states, dictatorships and communist countries. For the same reasons, because they are doing something bad and wrong. Even "western democracies" censor thier own citizens more and more each year; refusing their own citizens freedom of speech by passing, and having a corrupt judiciary uphold, unconstitutional laws criminalizing speech, by making illegal criticism of certain powerful groups like jews, homosexuals, immigrants, women, feminists, etc., with their unconstitutional "hate speech" laws.

Groups were never meant to have and hold power. In the United States; the Constitution gives all rights and power to individuals - the people. Yet groups have become all-powerful in U.S. politics and in the judiciary, and in France and elsewhere. "Group rights" currently and sadly reign, when the very thought of such a thing would turn Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin and Washington over in their graves.

Historically censorship has been used by the very worst and most corrupt and harmful governments in history. Ancient Rome, Ghengis Khan, the Spanish Inquisition, Napoleon, the mass murderers Lenin and Stalin, the Turkish mass killings of Armenians, Nazi Germany, modern day Islamic State, the Taliban and such, horrible Putin and his radioactive poisoning of detractors and his invasion of Ukraine ... the list is endless. Censorship allowed them to consolidate and keep their hold on power. Just like it does for today's corrupt politicians, judges, and the groups which believe themselves to benefit from censorship (Dictators, Monarchs, Religions).

However, to have freedom of speech and freedom of the press abridged in the good old U.S. of A. and in other western democracies is simply intolerable. Yet it has been allowed to happen, and it is getting worse. This censorship and denial of our constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms to say and to publish what we think and believe has been going on for over three to four decades now. How has this been allowed to happen? Corruption. Political and Judicial corruption - is the sad answer. Laws that are unconstitutional have been made by corrupt politicians censoring speech and the press , and corrupt judges have refused to strike down these unconstitutional laws. 

The Solution: use, and demand that others use, freedom of speech and freedom of the press as a litmus test for all politicians and judges everywhere. Impeach those existing politicians and judges that do not uphold absolute freedom of speech and of the press; and refuse to elect anyone to any office, or allow any judgeship to be filled by anyone who does not support absolute freedom of speech and absolute freedom of the press, absolutely. It's as simple as that.

Support our challenge to all and any law abridging free speech or freedom of the press, which we hope to present shortly directly to the United States Supreme Court. This should not be necessary, but we find that it is. We should not have to add another amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press. These protections were the first rights and protections enumerated in the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution). We just need to get rid of the corrupt politicians and judges who do not uphold the Constitution. 

Furthermore, in order to help other countries facing the same problems to resolve their abridgements of constitutionally-guaranteed rights, let us boycott every country which does not allow absolute freedom of speech and absolute freedom of the press. Do not visit those countries, do not buy goods or services made in those countries, and do not do business with nationals of those countries or supporters of those countries, until such time that the country allows absolute freedom of speech and absolute freedom of the press. It's as simple as that. A boycott is an expression of free speech and is an excercise of free speech. Everyone has the Right-to-Boycott.com!

Proudly brought to you by

Matthew Edward Hooker

future POTUS - President of the United States, and what is more:

an American.

One of America's greatest and most beloved poets, Robert Frost, wrote a beautiful poem about freedom of speech that all should hear and consider how it applies to their own thoughts, lives, and reactions when they hear speech (bird talk or protestors) that they do not like:

A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

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We Must Use Our Reason To Survive .Faith

There Is Nothing Higher Than The Truth .Science

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Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me .com

ExtinctionOfSpecies.ORG

Right-to-Boycott.com

WuhanVirus.Info

ManifestDestiny.Space

The first national government of the United States was determined by the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The Confederation proved to be the wrong type of government for the thirteen states that then comprised the United States of America. The Articles of Confederation was drafted in 1777 and the last state ratified it in 1781. It went out of existence when the Constitution was adopted in 1789. This is one of the first examples of the people using their unalienable rights to alter or abolish government and institute a better one.

In 1887 a convention was called in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. Delegates came from all the states except Rhode Island. Instead of revising the Articles of Confederation, the delegates, under the leadership of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris and George Washington, decided to write a constitution setting up a federal government for the states – a bold idea that no other country had ever tried before in human history. The writing of the Constitution was difficult as there were so many opposing ideas as to what should be done. These ideas were mostly settled by compromise. The document was principally written by Gouverneur Morris, and by July 2, 1788, ten states had ratified the Constitution and it was adopted.

It wasn’t until March 4, 1789, 13 years after the Declaration of Independence, that the Constitution of the United States of America went into effect and became the supreme law of the nation; and it was not until 1790 that all thirteen states had accepted it.

The Constitution is a contract between the federal government and the people of the states. As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, it is a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Ours is a government by the consent of the people – a government agreed to by the people through a written contract called a constitution. A document of this kind, like any contract, is only as good as the people make it. It must be enforced or it becomes meaningless.

Some of the ways that we, as citizens, can make our Constitution effective are:

By being well informed as to what our government is doing;

By taking an interest in and voting in all elections;

By writing letters expressing our opinions to our elected officials;

By participating in the political debate publicly;

By taking court action against any law that we feel is not constitutional;

By signing petitions – written statements supported by signatures of citizens that are either for or against some action taken or about to be taken by our elected officials.

Ensuring that our government operates in the best interests of all the people of the United States is the responsibility of all citizens. We must accept this responsibility to remain a free people and to enjoy the type of government our Constitution enables us to have.

We are, by and large, willing to obey voluntarily decisions made according to the rules embodied in the written constitution, for instance, laws passed by Congress and signed by the President as prescribed by Articles I and II of the Constitution. This willingness to obey decisions reached by means of accepted procedures is called “legitimacy”. Governmental decisions that are reached according to rules we believe to have been established by the written constitution are vested with legitimacy. The written Constitution shapes and determines our beliefs about what government may legitimately do. Over two centuries of living with the Constitution have produced a “living Constitution”, shaped both by amendments to it, and by our court’s interpretation of it.

In America, we live in an indirect democracy – we elect representatives – people who speak and act for us – to make our wishes known in government. We believe our Constitution to be primary as regards the relationships between human beings and government.

Obviously, everyone cannot be satisfied with government all of the time. We live in an age which has only two powerful political parties, and many of the same powerful groups have a great deal of say in controlling what each major political party can say and do, and keep political power. Individuals, sadly have become lost in this group power dynamic.

Because we are one nation and one people, we have a constitution which guarantees all people, even those whose chosen candidate in an election loses, certain unalienable rights. Elected representatives represent all of the people in their districts, both democrats, republicans, independents, ecologists, and even those who do not vote. Because we believe in peaceful transition from one government to another, we learn to accept that a representative must represent us, even if we hold different beliefs. A person whose candidate loses must wait until the next election to have another chance to try to elect a candidate of his or her choice to public office.

Thus, it is all the more crucial that individual, unalienable rights are respected, whether or not one feels represented by the elected representatives.

First among these unalienable rights is Liberty, which the Constitution has defined as:

Freedom of Religious Belief,

Freedom of Speech,

Freedom of the Press,

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, and

Freedom to Criticize and Petition the government to set right or remedy our grievances or complaints.

By allowing these freedoms, and by enumerating them as unalienable rights, the Constitution sets forth a plan by which citizens can co-exist peacefully with one another, without violence, and without civil war. Thus, it is critical that these Freedoms never be denied to the people.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee submitted a resolution to the Continental Congress declaring the Independence of the United States. The resolution was referred to a committee consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingstone, who were directed to draft a declaration embodying this resolution.

The committee reported its draft on June 28; the declaration was adopted on July 2 and signed on July 4.

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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 of 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.

Here in this beautiful document, we have the enumeration of unalienable rights – rights which cannot be taken away or separated from man; namely:

 the right to life

the right to liberty

the right to the pursuit of happiness, and

the right to alter or abolish their government and institute new government