Forum Post: Revolution? or Protest?

Revolution is not a word to be used lightly...unless we are serious about revolution. A protest is not a revolution.

Our "power of the vote", is powerless - it makes no difference who we vote into Congress or the Presidency. So voting in new people changes nothing.

I believe in what John Adams wrote in 1776: "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 incontestable, 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."

But as I say in my video introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht1JirDPaw Our founders did NOT leave us a clause in the Constitution that gives us the right and method to "reform, alter, or totally change the same..."

The Constitution has Article 5, which is the right and procedure for States (legislature bodies of the States) to call for a Constitutional Convention. So there is a long shot at citizens being able to agitate their State Legislatures into calling for a CC - it would take 34 States to call for a CC and then 38 states to ratify whatever changes to the Constitution were proposed.

SOOOOOO, that's where my plan steps in. A "typical" revolution involves violence and when the revolutionaries win, they create a new government and write or edit a Constitution. My plan is to skip the messy part of violence, and go straight to reforming a government. But didn't I just say there is no MECHANISM to do so? There is a path. A President has to be elected the "old way" on a revolutionary platform. The newly elected and sworn in President then meets with the 9 Justices of the Supreme Court (like a victor saying "take me to your leader") with the plan for changes. Of course this will all be in the open, so there will be no surprises for the Justices. My "100 days" then will be filled with creating the transition to a new government, including electing a new President (or Presidents in my current plan) to start running the government on day 101.

What if the Supreme Court says "no"? Then as Commander in Chief I declare an insurrection...and that's when the fight begins...

Of course this too is a huge long-shot. My view is this "platform" should be available to citizens, and OWS, whether it be 2012, 2016, 2020, or 2024 and beyond. My personal opinion is citizens aren't yet ready for revolution - if they were, there would be at least 100,000 on the streets of Wall Street right now.

Two things I've learned - first, most voters are steeped in the beliefs of "...if only we elect the right politician in the next election...all will be well..." and second "...if we only shout loud enough...changes will be made...".

NOBODY really wants to take action directly - basically we want other humans to change the way they are doing things...and that will never happen....without a revolution...

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