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==Preamble==
When your <strike>so-called</strike> leadership begins the throw around emotionally and politically charged words like "terrorist" and "fundamentalist" and you realize that they are referring to you, it might just be time to sit down, sharpen your quill pen and write yourself a manifesto. If you are in Boston, you might also celebrate with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party tea party,] but not all acts of defiance need to be destructive, in fact many can be constructive or even Constructionist.
When your <strike>so-called</strike> leadership begins the throw around emotionally and politically charged words like "terrorist" and "fundamentalist" and you realize that they are referring to you, it might just be time to sit down, sharpen your quill pen and write yourself a manifesto. If you are in Boston, you might also celebrate with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party tea party,] but not all acts of defiance need to be destructive, in fact many can be constructive or even Constructionist.
And so with apologies to the author, please consider this rough first draft of a "Sugar Manifesto". Out of respect for the original, no words have been removed, although those not applicable are in <strike>strikeout</strike>, insertions appear in ''italics''.
And so with apologies to the author, please consider this rough first draft of a "Sugar Manifesto". Out of respect for the original, no words have been removed, although those not applicable are in <strike>strikeout</strike>, insertions appear in ''italics''.
==Sugar Manifesto==
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one ''group of'' people to dissolve the <strike>political</strike> ''institutional'' bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the <strike>powers</strike> ''friends'' of the earth ''and all of it's children'', the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God ''as well as applicable copyright law'' entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one ''group of'' people to dissolve the <strike>political</strike> ''institutional'' bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the <strike>powers</strike> ''friends'' of the earth ''and all of it's children'', the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God ''as well as applicable copyright law'' entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
List of grievances left as an exercise to the reader, for the original listing see [http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm here].
List of grievances left as an exercise to the reader, for the original listing see [http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm here].
==Postscript==
The intent of this wordplay is to be amusing and clever; however, it may well fail at being either of those, it is NOT intended to be inflammatory. I personally have the deepest respect for <u><b>ALL</b></u> OLPC contributors (I'm trying to be one myself) and I find certain recent events to be an unfortuante distraction from the important business at hand; however necessary they may have been. I harbor a deep and abiding hope that all parties can agree to disagree on certain means-to-ends and to cooperate wherever possible on the important task of improving the lives of children throughout the world.
[[Sugar_Labs]] contains a more serious treatment of this topic, but I was moved to draft this in response to the flurry of edits on [[Announcing_SugarLabs]].
[[Sugar_Labs]] contains a more serious treatment of this topic, but I was moved to draft this in response to the flurry of edits on [[Announcing_SugarLabs]].
[[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 20:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 20:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)