Independence

I am a small community anarchist by temperament and belief. This being said, I have often fantasized about seceding from the union, declaring my own little farm independent of the United State of America, creating an autonomous government-less dot on the map—like San Marino in Italy or Andorra between France and Spain. If a small community of people chose to do the same, why should they not be allowed to do so? Why should we—or rather, why should the government—stop them? Why shouldn’t a person or community of people be allowed to choose their own form of government—just as frustrated colonists did in 1776? What binds individual humans to one nation’s laws and property rights? Where is the contract? Where/when did I sign?
The binds of government—any government, no matter how enlightened or altruistic—are quintessentially despotic and tyrannic; the relationship of the governed to its government is that of slave and master. How can it be otherwise? The relationship is based upon control and force; even in the best of circumstances it involves an abdication of some personal power in return for (the illusion of) a feeling of relative safety; a hypothetical exchange of rights and privileges for protective services. Government makes a promise. In good faith, the governed trust their government to keep its promise—to keep them safe. (From what, I’m not sure. From one’s neighbor, perhaps?)
I understand that the morality of the elite wealthy puppetmasters who control the US government, court system, and economy (and they would like to think, masses) is pragmatic, that is, they see it as their right and obligation as socio-cultural leaders to choose the appropriate morality fit for the particular moment or situation (which translates into whichever morality allows them the advantage in a given moment or situation—which means that they are able to rationalize any morality).
Perhaps a popular revolt could be instigated among the sheep by a legal and Internet campaign to secede from the Union. Or perhaps it must be done individually, on at a time, as a microcosmic assertion of our natural born democratic rights. Like this:

WE THE PEOPLE, formerly of 1111 Cinterly Road, Mancelona, Michigan, USA, do solemnly declare our independence from the governments and agencies of those 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, by men, for men, and that these governments should derive 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, discard or 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 experience has shown that mankind is 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, it is their moral obligation, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
 Such has been the patient sufferance of this Couple; and such is now the necessity that compels us to cast off our former systems of government. The history of the present government of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over its inhabitants. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. The United States government and its agencies and cohorts have:
 Continuously created laws which favor and benefit unnatural persons, called “corporations,” over that of the natural persons it claims to serve and from whom it supposedly derives its authority;
 Increasingly chosen to interpret the United States and Michigan constitutions and their laws in ways which grant favor and lenience to the moneyed privileged and to unnatural persons, while at the same time ignoring or even denying the Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness of the working classes;
 Allowed the influence of representatives of the moneyed to become the dominant influences with regards to the writing of, passage of, and interpretation of law and policy;
 Closed its ears to the voices of the people, of the world;
 Chosen to prioritize foreign policy issues and spending over that of domestic needs;
 Chosen to pursue a policy of imperialistic perpetual war and now, as result, a state akin to martial law at home;
 Repeatedly and consistently chosen to favor capitalism over democracy;
 Repeatedly and consistently chosen to grant clemency or amnesty to the crimes and criminal acts of the rich and powerful;
 Turned a blind eye to, allowed, and even sanctioned criminal acts in domestic and foreign policy, especially in the areas of rights of privacy,
 Repeatedly and consistently chosen to not protect contract property as its laws and constitutions have promised to do;


We, therefore, Toril Narissa Fooker-Bisher and William Andrew Bisher, III, wife and husband and co-inhabitants of the Bisher Farm, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of, our selves, solemnly publish and declare, that this farm and its inhabitant are, and of Right ought be, a Free and Independent state, that we are absolved from all Allegiance to the U.S. governments, and that all political connection between us and the state of Michigan, the United States of America, and all other states, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent State, we have full Power to do all the acts and things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.