Forum Post: plan of action
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 28, 2011, 9:43 p.m. EST by 45lkprice
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Your movement is losing ground. You need to unify all cities and come up with a manifesto that people can understand. This is what it should be:
Gather enough signatures to force Congress to establish regulations that:
Make it illegal for any member of Congress and any Congressional staff member to accept a job with any lobbying organization for a minimum of six years after he or she leaves the Congressional position.
Make it illegal for any member of Congress and any Congressional staff member to use non-public information for personal financial gain, i.e., in the stock market, for himself or herself or for anyone else.
Make it illegal for any member of Congress to sign any document that he or she will never vote in a certain way in Congress such as the document provided by Grover Norquist where members of Congress swear never to raise taxes.
"Your movement is losing ground"
According to who - Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch?
This movement is growing by leaps and bounds every day, and it is scaring the living shit out of the establishment. Thus their attempt to insert language into the Defense Authorization Bill that would let the government imprison people without proof, indefinitely, merely on suspicion of criminality.
Senate wants to turn USA into battlefield, internment for Americans
Certainly a good start. Check out www.occupyagenda.org for my thoughts. I would like to add your point #1 as I think it's a great idea.
Everyone is coming up with ideas for laws, or new constitutions, or plans for the future of the planet. How about some actual hard work in the real world. Change can be accomplished by voting in good people that agree with your goals. It's a national movement, draft candidates from many different congressional districts and get started with the hard part of making change happen. Make primary runs and shake up tings for real.
These are nice ideas - I like them. But they do nothing about banking regulation, regulation of the media, or campaign finance.