Forum Post: Our Forefather's are with the 99%
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 9:18 a.m. EST by lyn123
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Thomas Jefferson
I agree. If you go back just a little farther and read Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", you will realize that we have perverted our founding father's vision of what a Democratic Republic is. It's time to change.
We live in a Feudalistic Capitalist society governed not by the elected officials but by the person who donates the most money to their cause. The top 1% controls the money and thus controls the laws, fixing them to better themselves rather than better the 99%. So we, the serfs, are rising up against our oppressors. We will fight for ourselves. We will not ignore the 1% mocking us while they sip champagne and wonder "Why do they starve when they can eat cake." Like the American and French Revolutions we will rise against the Monarchy and attain our freedom.
In a modern American society it is virtually impossible to violently fight a rebellion against the 1%. The military industrial complex has insured that the general populace can not compete in an arms race. The 2nd amendment was intended to keep the Government honest with the ability of the populace to rise up if it ever overstepped it's bounds. The forefathers did not envision a future of smart bombs, drone airplanes, and tomahawk missiles. So what weapons can we fight with to effect this Financial Revolution? What peaceful, civil, and responsible solutions is there? We have, our money.
We will cripple the banks by refusing to acknowledge their credit system. We will en mass refuse to pay our mortgages, car loans, student loans, credit cards, unpaid medical bills, insurance, etc. We will couple this with pulling our money out of their Banks. Unified, we will force the banks to relinquish their control on the Government so that the Government can do what they need to do to correct the system. Meanwhile, we will still go to work, buy groceries, pay our utilities, and live normal lives.
The 1% have to be accountable for their actions. They have to relinquish control. They can not live in their ivory towers and ignore us anymore. The 99% are here to fight for our country. We are American and we believe that the American Dream is still alive. We just have to work hard to wrest it from the iron grip of our oppressors.
In an attempt to keep Monticello from being taken away, Jefferson attempted to have a lottery to raise funds. This failed. Out of respect for Jefferson, the debt holders allowed him to stay at his beloved estate until death. Jefferson was attracted to a wealthy lifestyle that he could not maintain.
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." John Adams 1776 http://www.JeffBlock2012.com
It is going to "trickle up" instead of "trickle down". Keep up the Occupation!
it is time to reform and change the system
yes!
Ben Franklin preferred to be in Europe.
George Washington was willing to go to war as a result of the Whiskey Rebellion.
John Adams said that "true wealth comes from the ownership of land"
They are all dead. BTW, John Adams died and left vast wealth to his family and was conservative in leanings, where as Thomas Jefferson died and was terribly in debt, he was much more liberal than Adams. They both died on July 4 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independance.
OK, stay with me here....It is not a matter of who had or has wealth or what political party they were from. Individuals still want or hope for the possibilities inherent in capitalism. It can be great. I think it is more about the "strength" he referenced that distorts the laws of our country.
Except many of them were wealthy. Maybe they were statesmen, putting the best interest of the country ahead of what they want?
That is true but who better to understand the negative effects of inequality than the people who can make change. Also-Jefferson died a poor man and if it wasn't for his wealth he would not have had the time to educate himself.