A Declaration of Rights

Dear Mother and Father,

I am directing this at you because I know you are reading this via bugging my computer and/or stalking my personal websites, neither of which you have the constitutional authority to do. I, as a citizen or the United States of America, have the same natural rights as both of you: Life, liberty, property. As a citizen under the Constitution, I am also entitled to freedom of/to speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition according to the first amendment. I am also allowed the right to deny my parents to read my mail, which you have blatantly failed to observe. Minors are often denied the majority of these rights which is unconstitutional; It it not specified in the Constitution that minors are to be treated unequally. By denying one their natural and civil rights, the person in question is therefore going against the Constitution, and therefore the government of the United States of America.

There is also another right that I, even as a minor, am entitled to: emancipation. Although this isn't an option for me at the moment, it is still a consideration that you should think about before further invasion of privacy and violation of rights. I am sixteen and therefore have the legal right to emancipate myself though I strongly do not wish to do so because I would be uncovered by health insurance, etc. Therefore, you should take into consideration the extremity of your actions. To quote the Fourteen Points, a speech delivered by president Woodrow Wilson in a proposal to establish peace amongst the belligerent nations during World War One. The fourth point states, "Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety." The "protection" that you've placed on my privacy and my person should be "reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety." This would therefore reestablish a level of protection in accordance to protection that was enforced before the retroactive protection of the recent months.

I, therefore, should have full legal right to life, liberty, and property. As of late, you have given me one of my three natural rights. As for the other two rights, actions should be taken to ensure my privacy (mainly of my room, laptop, and phone calls); my right to freedom of expression, speech, press, assembly, and petition; and personal protection of property belonging solely to me.