Forum Post: OWS = Delegates from 1776!!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 9:01 p.m. EST by mrsbblack
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OWS = delegates from 1776!! read here:
http://purpleblogspot.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-delegates-from-1776.html
Echoes of, "Taxation Without Representation!"
anyone else read history? It's amazing how our country was formed... I highly suggest doing some reading - it's very inspiring!
The first section of the Declaration of Independence expressed the highest ideals of the delegates of 1776:
-We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-
This speaks highly to what OWS is trying to accomplish. Our government is preventing our unalienable rights! Our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Too many people are poor, without health care, a proper education, food in their stomaches and a roof over their head! Our current government is too focused on providing themselves, and their friends, with money in their pockets, private jets to tour the world, multiple houses, and tax cuts (or no taxes) to those who are THE 1%
We are the 99% and it's time to take our government back!