독립선언문에 나타난 미국의 아이러니

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 여러분 모두 영국의 13 식민지의 독립선언문이 미합중국의 기초가 되었다는 사실을 아실겁니다. 하지만 그 내용은 아마 생소하시리라 생각합니다. 사실 원문은 A4 용지 두 장 분량의 매우 짧은 글입니다. (하단 첨부) 자유, 평등, 독재로부터의 해방, 행복 추구권 등의 다양한 꿀 같은 이념을 포함하고 있지만, 이는 식민지인들의 불만을 효과적으로 표출하기 위한 기법이었습니다.

중반부 본론에서 구체적으로 영국이 미국에 관하여 무엇이 부당했는지를 일일이 열거하고 있습니다. 자국 (미국) 법으로 재판을 하지 못하고 영국법에 종속되어 있을 뿐만 아니라, 때에 따라서는 범법자나 식민지 시민들이 영국으로 항행하여 재판을 받아야 하는 불합리한 절차 등을 비난합니다. 이는 주권을 가지기 못하여 일어난 부당한 일입니다. 또한 식민지 영토내 영국군의 주둔에 대하여 맹렬히 비난하고 있습니다. 결론에서는 이러한 이유로 독립을 선언하고 목숨이 다 할때까지 싸우겠다고 서약을 합니다.

이 문서를 읽어 내려오면서 느끼는 점이 많았습니다. 뛰어난 필체와 내용을 뒤로 하고 이 문서가 진정 무엇을 나타내느냐 하는것입니다. 영국의 비리와 오만함 입니까? 거기로부터 독립하고 자유를 찾겠다는 미 선구자들의 의지였단 말입니까? 바로 미국이란 나라의 기반이 되는 중추가 미국이 현대에 자행하는 만행을 나열하고 있습니다. 미국은 오만해져서 자신의 위치를 모르고 행포를 부리고 있습니다.

그것도 대한민국에게 대한민국의 영토에서 대한민국의 시민에게 대역을 저지르고 있습니다. 이는 언젠가 바로 잡아져야 할 것입니다. 저는 아직 젊습니다. 우리 친구들도 젊습니다. 우리가 바로 잡아야 합니다. Status of Forces Agreement 소파 협정에 의해서 주권을 행사하지 못하는 지역은 더 이상 자주 국가가 아닙니다. 식민지입니다. 대한민국이 식민지입니까? 대한민국이 자랑스러운 국가로써 우뚝 서기 위해서는 우리의 주권을 찾아야 합니다. 여러분 도와주십시오. 서로를 도우십시오. 여러분의 현명한 판단과 도움은 결코 헛되게 쓰이지 않을 것입니다.

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.

The next section, the famous preamble, includes the ideas and ideals that were principles of the Declaration. It is also an assertion of what is known as the "right of revolution": that is, people have certain rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to "alter or abolish" that government.^[57]

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.

The next section is a list of charges against King George which aim to demonstrate that he has violated the colonists' rights and is therefore unfit to be their ruler:

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Many Americans still felt a kinship with the people of Great Britain, and had appealed in vain to the prominent among them, as well as to Parliament, to convince the King to relax his more objectionable policies toward the colonies.^[58] The next section represents disappointment that these attempts had been unsuccessful.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish [sic] brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

In the final section, the signers assert that there exist conditions under which people must change their government, that the British have produced such conditions, and by necessity the colonies must throw off political ties with the British Crown and become independent states. The conclusion incorporates language from the resolution of independence that had been passed on July 2.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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현 대한미국 국민들이 가장 크게 착각하고 있는 것이 우리나라가 저 개양키양백돼지국의 식민지가 아닌 하나의 독립국가로 인지하고 있다는 것입니다. 차라리 현재를 식민지로 인정하고 독립을 위해 노력하고 준비하는게 현명한 선택인데 나라 헌법부터 사대주의 정치 관료,언론들까지 겉으로 드러나는 표면에만 모든것을 일반 국민들에게 자주독립국가로 인식하게 만들고선 그들 스스로의 친일충미하는 과거와 현재의 갖은 간첩질을 교활하게 눈속임하고 어쩌면 당연하다는 듯 인식시키고 있다는 점입니다. 미국 범죄인을 자주 국가라면서 우리나라 법으로 처벌하지 못하고 미국이라는 상전앞에 항상 뇌물을 상납하고 머리를 조아리는 현실...

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성性상납은 아주 일상화되어 있습니다. 하다못해 쌀버러지-쌀나라에서 진짜 버러지였어도 한국에만 오면 매일밤마다 최고의 한국미녀들과 밤을 보낼 수 있습니다. 물론 돈 한푼 들지 않고 재수좋게 한건 물면 돈 벌어 갑니다.