The Declaration of Free Thought of the Twenty-Four Students
On SMOOTHSTOP, April 12, 2005
The unanimous Declaration of the twenty-four Students of Bosco Tech,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the burecratic bands which have connected them with asininity, 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 A Life, Free Thought and Intellectual Preservation. --That to secure these rights, Student Bodies are instituted among Bosco, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Students, --That whenever any Course becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Instruction, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Free Thought and Intellectual Preservation. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that a Course long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, 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 Instruction, and to provide new Guards for their future education. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Students; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Instruction. The history of the present Intructor of CS-19 [Kwong I] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Individuals. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused to accept that sickness is sickness, and cannot be predetermined. Instead, he has placed it on the same level as Truancy, blatantly disregarding Bosco policy in penalizing Students through Grading.
In Addition, he has Tripled Points taken Off one's grade for each Absence on the Last Day Of The Week The Class Meets.
He has committed the entire Student Body to burecratic labor through the period of the Second Quarter of each Semester, in stead of work related to Database.
He has imposed an overly harsh Grading System that disregards work unless Done By His Convoluted Methods.
He Micromanages -- a Mortal Sin.
As a result of these Circumstances, we, the Representatives of the Students of CS-19, in General Assembly, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the matter for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good Students of this Class, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Individuals are, and of Right ought to be Free-Thinking and Intellectually Preserved persons; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to Kwong, and that all political connection between them and this Incarnation of CS-19, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Individuals, they have full Power to levy Criticism, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Individuals 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 Minds and our sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:
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