Forum Post: I need help to Occupy Online MSM and get the message out
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 6:45 p.m. EST by JusticeNine
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from Denver, CO
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For the past couple of days I've been taking the fight to online MSM sites like CNN. Basically I'll look for a story on the Occupy Movement and go to the comment section and start refuting all the propaganda being posted by bots as well as getting the message out. I usually start with the following post:
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage. They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses. They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization. They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions. They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right. They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay. They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility. They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance. They have sold our privacy as a commodity. They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit. They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce. They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them. They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil. They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit. They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit. They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media. They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt. They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas. They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. To the people of the world, We, urge you to assert your power.
From there I start doing battle (with strictly logic and facts versus namecalling) with commenters who are not aware of the movement or what it is about. Most people back off when you start spitting out facts about inflation, false flags, etc.
I could use some help. You'll find me on CNN as "TaketheRdPil."
A PROPOSAL FOR A REAL ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY An Amendment to the Federal Constitution: by Mark Walter Evans @ PaleoProgressives.org AMENDMENT XXVIII: Money and Credit - Congress Asserts Power to Coin Money, and Emit Bills of Credit • [SECTION 1.] The Congress hereby asserts the power granted in this Constitution, to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof. - And further, to emit non-interest-bearing bills of credit directly through the Treasury Department (on the Credit, and in the Name of the People). • [SECTION 2.] The Congress hereby authorizes the Treasury to issue a sufficient quantity of "dollars" to purchase back the capital stock of the Federal Reserve Bank from the private owners, by eminent domain. • [SECTION 3.] The Federal Reserve Bank shall henceforth be subsumed into the Treasury, and function as a Sub-Treasury Central Bank of issue. Henceforth they shall be one institution, and be called, formally, the Treasury of the Common-wealth of the United States of America, or commonly, "The Treasury of Common-wealth." • [SECTION 4.] The Treasury of Common-wealth, as the fountainhead of Credit-Creation in the nation shall henceforth issue as Money only non-interest- bearing Notes, and Mint coins of pure Specie, stamped with their weight and fineness. The books, accounts and records of the Treasury shall continually be open to public scrutiny. • [SECTION 5.] The Treasury of Common-wealth shall honor, and continue to pay (by means of non-interest-bearing notes, and checks) the interest on all out-standing U. S. Treasury Securities, as they come due. There shall be no further issues of Treasury Securities, or Bonds. • [SECTION 6.] The State Treasury departments, of each of the fifty States, are also hereby empowered, by the same creative principle [formerly given by charter to banks] to create Credit within their own jurisdictions, in the form of checks, signed by the State comptrollers, in accordance with appropriations made by the State legislatures, for the purpose of maintaining State institutions, infrastructure, and salaries. • [SECTION 7.] In accordance with the provisions of this Article, all banks and financial institutions in America shall receive new charters from the Treasury. The Treasury shall henceforth have the unique and sole power within the nation to create Credit - a function formerly granted by the government (and thus erroneously delegated) only to Banks. Henceforth private banks may charge interest, to service accounts. • [SECTION 8.] In Sum, this Article defines, and enhances the powers granted to Congress and the Treasury, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 5, of this Constitution. Furthermore, it amends and modifies Article II, Section 10, Clause 1, to empower State Treasuries to create (a limited amount of) non-inflationary Credit, in the form of check book money in order to meet the pressing needs of the states. “So often, our desire to take action gets derailed by our uncertainty over exactly what action to take, and how to make a difference. I want to try to help bridge the gap between intention and involvement, and inspire each of us to do the things we need to do to make sure we never find ourselves living in Third World America.” — Arianna Huffington Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
The vital resources we rely on for life are being systematically destroyed in the name of profit. • For our survival it becomes necessary to replace this wasteful of government with a sharing method of maintenance that respects the environment and rewards all of humankind for its co-operation. • Those entrusted with the preservation of our resources have refused their Assent to Laws, which are most wholesome and necessary for the public good, in favor of laws which protect corporations while they destroy nature in the name of profit. • They have failed to properly enforce laws which are of immediate and pressing importance to the survival of life on our planet. • They have refused to pass other laws which would prohibit the wholesale destruction of oxygen producing trees and forests and as a result the tearing out of the earth’s lungs carries on without any threat of prosecution. • They have failed to provide any protection against the global weather changes occurring as a result of their severe mismanagement of resources and unchecked pollution of the environment. • They have used taxpayers money to produce and maintain weapons of mass destruction, the use of which would be abhorrent to any decent thinking person. • They have plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, polluted our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. • They at this time continue transporting large Armies to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny against other fellow human beings, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the attitude of a civilised people. • In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms with peaceful protests which have spanned the World over several decades. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. • We, the People are interdependent beings on this planet. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these irresponsible destructive actions which threaten human survival. They have been deaf to the voice of justice and reason. • We must, therefore, out of necessity, proclaim our Separation, and hold them, incapable and bent on their own destruction at the risk of all life on this planet. We claim back the authority which we vested in them and declare ourselves free to establish real democracy for everyone concentrating on the use and development of technology which can allow everyone to take part in decision making on issues which concern their welfare and everyday life. • We establish our right to a people's bank and the creation of a currency based on the principals of colonial script, to provide in controlled proportion the social services of the people, eliminating the need for taxation and borrowing from central banks. • We the peace and life loving people of the Earth, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of This World, solemnly publish and declare, that the People of the Earth ought to be Free and Independent and that all political connection between them and the established government institutions formerly entrusted to maintaining the resources of our planet, is and ought to be totally dissolved. • And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
THE PEOPLE'S DECLARATION OF FREEDOM - xat.org When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to cut themselves off from systems which are denying them a proper and fair share of the world they have been born in and is their inherited right, in order to claim an equal portion in the earth and an equal right in the gifts of nature and of the sharing Spirit of Life, they should declare what has led them to this decision so that any who agree in a fairer way can join them. We hold these truths to be self-evident: • That all human beings are created equal and that all persons are entitled to certain rights, among these being the right to live freely to pursue the fulfilling of dreams which can bring happiness, while not preventing others from doing likewise. • That to secure these basic rights, governments are set up which rely on the consent of the governed for their power. • That whenever a government becomes destructive to these ends and fails to bring about a happy and fair state of affairs, it is the right and duty of the people, whose support makes it possible, to abolish it and to replace it with a method they believe will provide safety and happiness for all concerned. • When governments become exclusive clubs and propaganda to disguise their corruption and domination, producing illusions of democracy which in reality only serve the rich while enslaving the poor; and when power is repeatedly abused, robbing people of their natural rights, reducing them to choosing between what are essentially dictatorships which share the same restrictive policies, it is the people's right and duty to free themselves from such governments and provide a fair alternative solution for the management of their future World. •