Forum Post: Occupy needs to go into the right direction..beyond just the greedy!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 8:29 a.m. EST by Neo
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Several generations of my family have lived here, 2 generations fought for it in several wars, and died defending you! This movement needs to go beyond the greedy and take back what our for-fathers started over 2 centuries ago. Those scared in the government call it Anarchy..It is simply called GOVERNMENT CLEANSING..what the hell happened to the piece of paper that said BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE huh? Stuffed in a glass case and forgotten by those greedy bitches in every capital office in the country. I cry every time I read that copy..tears for every person who died to make that paper ring true! And we now do nothing and let the rich pricks keep running OUR lives instead of us running THEIRS! Why is it only the RICH can run and get voted in (supposedly voted in..I still think it ALL RIGGED) and not any commoner who works for an HONEST paycheck??
The government needs to be structurally changed at the core to prevent this from happening again. It's called a Direct Democracy!
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
Many, of late, have come to view Patriotism and 'being a responsible citizen' of sitting on their hands and doing as the establishment says must. Many have given up their rights in the face of terrorism, for the betterment for the security of us all. Many people have become so focused on meeting the proverbial 'American Dream', that they have allowed our country to be sidetracked and the tenets of democracy to be railroaded into the pocketbooks of the elitist. Consider a country where Congressmen and women, Senators and other officials, get elected or appointed, using whatever lies and promises they can. However, we find that they merely use their positions to ensure their specific projects get through the governmental red tape, that they get higher pay and more vacations, that the will and cries of the people are ignored and legislation 'for their own good' is rammed down their throats, so-to-speak. This country has fallen into a rut that borders closely upon the rut that led to WW1 and WW2, namely Fascism.
On the other hand, we find that the US Government is so easily led astray, deceived and even toyed with by multi-billion dollar corporations, there is little wonder that most of the free world sees us as bumbling idiots. Our troops die for other countries security;, our troops die in policing actions for other countries; our troops are forced, by these selfish government officials to repeatedly serve in combat actions, possibly leading to the Ultimate sacrifice, instead of allowing them to return to their families. Our troops are denied jobs by the corporations whose profits they protected, for the freedoms the CEO's and bankers have come to casually bend to their own desires. We are a democracy which is supposed to be run by the views, votes, hearts and minds of the people. Our country seems to be run by the wallets of the corporations and the slimy hands of the lobbyists. What happened to the responsibilities that theses bankers and their ilk were required to follow to ensure fair trade and investments? They were removed by the Bush Administration to foment strong economic growth. When the regulations were removed, many saw a means to make massive wealth, illegally or nearly legal... Many of us got sucked into the dream of being rich, foolishly, letting our lives be swayed by the words of the greedy. Shame on us ALL! The true meaning of this movement is the responsibility of the elitists, the bankers, investors and the public administrations, that allowed this financial fracas to develop in the first place. Arresting, sending to court and jailing a handful of sacrificial lambs will not sate our need for Justice. No less than the complete overhaul of the system will suffice. This starts within each of us. This starts with people willing to see each of us for who we are - American, humans, family... We aren't numbers, here for the rich to line their pockets. I'd like to ask one question of the rich and those raping and pillaging the earth and her peoples for their riches; Just where are you planning to retire? What planet do you hope to go to in retirement, to spend your ill-gotten wealth. The people will all hate you here... and the Earth will be a wasteland and you'll have gotten very, very rich; but where are you going? I want to go to!
What do you think we're trying to do? How do you recommend we "get the laws changed"? I don't have billions of dollars lying around to buy tailor-made legislation. And I shouldn't have to.
Then leave. Go live in a honest country. I hear Cuba is nice.
You miss the point. I'm asking where the rich hope to go once they've had a hand in destroying this planet they and we live on. They don't. My question was a means of making them think further than their pocketbooks and investment accounts! Being a Wall Street personage also means having a brain. We are all walks of American life!
So are they and they have a job that is important to our way of life. Let them live theirs and you live yours. So you call them fascists. You have no idea the horrors you are are comparing this country to. NO IDEA!
Go crack open a history book for once in your life and see what it is that you so lightly type about. I wish there was you could experience what it was actually like in Nazi Germany. I truly believe people who call other Nazis or Fascist can't even fathom what those words mean.
So use maybe use your brain and look around at what you have. Appreciate the fact that you can even write your thoughts down in a public place without fear of death or worse.
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