Declaration of Something...

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the parimutuel 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 the Federal Interstate Horse Racing Act of 1978 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 bettors are created equal, that they are endowed by the Congress with certain unalienable rights, that among these are, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of the Pick Six carryover.

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 W2G.

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.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Bettors; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Racing Jurisdictions. The history of the present President of the NTRA is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Bettors. 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 betting public.
• He has plundered our Breeding stock, ravaged our ADW's, burnt our Bettors, and destroyed the ROI of our people.
• He has impeded the racing jurisdictions from passing 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 called together exploratory 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 obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing a racing Commissioner.
• He has affected to render the Chemist independent of and superior to the Trainer.
• He has combined with others to subject us to a myriad of racing jurisdictions foreign to each other, and unacknowledged by the same; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
  

1. For regulating race day medication.
2. For protecting trainers, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any and repeated violations which they should commit.
   
3. For neglecting, beyond any decency, the welfare and posterity of the racing stock and trackside employees.
4. For transporting horses beyond borders to be slaughtered.

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 Governor of a wagering people.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the wagering public, in General Cyberspace, Assembled, appealing to the Common Sense of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good Bettors, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Racing Fans are, and of Right ought to be heard; And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the parimutuel system, we mutually pledge to each other our Pick Three, our Superfecta and our two dollar ticket.