Declaration Of Dependence
I have my rights, I whimper. Please, physician. Help me to kill myself.
You do such a nice, sterile job in killing my children. I don't even see
why I have to be a part of this. Why should I have to pull this trigger
or take this pill? I think you ask too much of me. Why can't you just put
me out of my misery? Why do I have to be involved? The only thing that
is wrong with physician assisted suicide is that you help so little. Why
can't you just kill me? I have my rights, I whimper.
We are so sad. We would have our rights without obligations. The land
of the free and the brave. What a joke. What a sad joke. All we have are
rights. We are spoiled little children. We are babies who have not yet
learned to stand. We crawl and beg and whimper and whine. We have our rights.
To hell with our rights. I would rather be under the thumb of the most
tyrannical dictator, waging the good fight than to crawl on my belly like
a snake. Our rights mean nothing if we have no obligations. Oh, we pay
our taxes. Maybe that gives us the right to believe in nothing. If you
believe that one you are only kidding yourself.
The government will tell you at 18 that you owe your life to this country
and that they have the right to take it. They will tell you that you have
an obligation to pay for your rights. And you will not buy it with your
money but with your life.
And why would anyone pay such a price? For a road? For a television?
For a Ronald McDonald hamburger? We are worth nothing if this is all we
believe in. We slither and slide and crawl and disgust in the name of our
rights.
I want my dignity. And no government has the right to steal it from
me. I will go through my pain for you. And you will go through your pain
for me. Stand up you coward. Stand up. You are a man. You are not a dog.
Now stand and deliver. This is what we fought for in the first place. I
will not let you steal it from me because I am too expensive. This is my
right. This is my obligation. I owe my rights to you. You owe your rights
to me. Now fight for me as I fight for you.
Stand.
Brian J. McMahon
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