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DESCRIPTION:Discussion on Part 2 of the Declaration of Independence(and related 
 questions): Inventions and Distortions of Reality and History- In the 
 Service of Real and Repeated Atrocity\nFriday July 3rd 7pm\nRevolution 
 Books 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley\n\nPart 2: Rights Are Not "Endowed" by 
 "God," and "To Secure These Rights" Is Not the Reason Governments Are 
 Established, from the series:\n\nExcerpt from part 2:\n"The title of this 
 article is an echo—and refutation—of this famous passage from the 
 Declaration of Independence:\n\n"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.\n\n"As I will show in this article: Every major 
 part of this statement, and this statement as a whole, contains inventions 
 and distortions of reality and history, which have been utilized in the 
 service of real and repeated atrocity, on the part of those who have 
 “governed” this country, throughout its history.\n\n"On the most 
 obvious level, there is the striking hypocrisy of signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence, many of whom were slave-owners—including 
 Thomas Jefferson, the author of this Declaration. (The main author of the 
 U.S. Constitution, James Madison, was also a slave-owner, and the same is 
 true of four of the first five presidents of this country: Washington, 
 Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.) As further graphic illustrations of the 
 glaring hypocrisy of prominent people in the American Revolution, along 
 with Patrick Henry, who proclaimed “Give me liberty, or give me death,” 
 while he himself was a slave-owner, there is also the example of Richard 
 Henry Lee, who conducted a public parade in Virginia denouncing the 
 British-imposed Stamp Act’s “chains of slavery,” while he literally 
 used his slaves to hold the protest banners!1"\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Discussion:Pt 2 of Declaration of Independence:Inventions & Distortions of Reality&HIstory
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/01/18887120.php
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