After reading several articles earlier this morning that have emphasized even more to me just how abusive and corrupt the current government of Turkey is and left no about that the current direction of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is toward an Islamic Republic of Turkey, I felt moved to post this part of the American Declaration of Independence and dedicate it to the freedom movement in Turkey. Well, not just dedicate it, but offer it as a suggestion. Under a Parliamentary system in which a vote a no confidence can be called at any time, the suggestion cannot even really be called "sedition", despite what the wannabe sultan Erdogan might think.
"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. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, 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."
See also:
The Myth of Autocracy
by Nuray Mert
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-myth-of-autocracy.aspx?pageID=449&nID=37487&NewsCatID=406
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