Forum Post: Can 99% of us rally around just one thing? Does even one thing exist?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 21, 2011, 1:55 p.m. EST by asauti
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from Port Orchard, WA
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Is there just one thing that 99% of the people on this website could and would rally around? Leaving the remaining 1% to dispel/dispute it? For that ONE thing, how about the following quote from Thomas Jefferson?
"No person has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain them."
No corporation, and no amount of MONEY, should have the right to commit aggression on the equal rights of the 99%.
We need to unify behind this and go official and public for ending political corruption and demanding campaign finance reform.
We need to go official and public to breakthrough to the next level of supporters.
1% buys their representation in government. 99% are left with the scraps. And the destruction caused by the 1%
Keep money out of politics. Campaign Finance Reform. Simple.
28th admendment set life terms for senators and congressmen,like the president, no more lobbist, reform the power in the goverment and take the 1 percent out, by not allowing them to operate behind the curtain in the senate and congress. for as long as they can rig the votes.
Yep, getting money out of politics. One person, one vote. Not one dollar, one vote.
Yes, there is a single thing. Stopping the 1% direct influence over Washington. Only the 1% benefit from this, at the expense of the rest of us. That's something we can all get behind.
if getting money out of goverment is the objective. then you need to think how...marching is great for the media...but acticon requires a direction.. in that you need to have a plan and follow it through. pushing for goverment reform, in lobbist and terms of service for goverment officials. is a start..but you can include workers rights, wich brings in unions, ect. and march for a collective of reforms, people need to start asking each group what their message is put them together in one conslidated admendment and push a petition on the streets for signatures, and then make it a bill put on the pressure. before the snow starts to fall....just my opinion...as many of you have theirs....
the only way to keep money out of goverment is limit the time people can serve and be corrupted. simple. no lobist, terms of service for politicians. never trust anyones, loyality that has a price!
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So, since there have not yet been any responses that declare support for that quote, maybe you think there is a more agreeable way to say it? How would you change it, so that you could then believe in it?
How about the following change?
"Some people have a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to empower them."
Better? Can you throw your support behind it now?
I was hoping to get at least one response, such as "Yes, I can lend my support to that quote". No, nobody so far?