Forum Post: Declaration of Independence and Occupation
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 4, 2011, 11:12 p.m. EST by sonofliberty
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Declaration of Independence and Occupation, October 3, 2011 Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Washington, Occupy Main Street, Occupy America!
When in the course of commercial events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political banks and corporations which have conned them and one another and to assume among the powers of the earth and purse, the separate and equal station of their body, minds, and purchasing power to which the Laws of Nature and Commerce and the gods of both entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the 99% requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to financial and political independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creators with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and Equality --- That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men and women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I like Pursuit of equality.
c'mon Unions! Show 'em what America is all about!
I can't wait to smack Rick Scott around in the streets...metaphorically, of course. Seriously though, I'd quit vegetarianism to eat him.
Clever edit. Its Pursuit of Happiness not Equality. Let me pursue MY happiness MY way and dont confiscate what i earn because you want it.
That whenever any form of government – and its lobbyists - becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, and new financial systems, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and equality.
Prudence, and frugality indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath 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 and financial tyranny, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and financial systems, and to provide new guards for their future security.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these 99 Percent of The People; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the past several presidents and many of our corporations, from at least the early 1970’s, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.