Forum Post: The 1% don't need to worry (at least as of today) about being dragged out of a storm sewer.
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 5, 2011, 2:46 p.m. EST by DKAtoday
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from Coon Rapids, MN
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This is a call to the 1% to wake-up and smell the coffee. Join the 99% and accept that things are going to change. Lets try to do it amicably. Change is happening lets not make it be ugly.
This will end in one of two ways...(1) tyranny in full gear (2) total change of the system. No matter what the 1% do it cannot kill an idea. One thing I know for certain: those who like the current situation are not going to like either (1) or (2).
The 1% have authorized me to tell you, sarcastically, that they are shaking with fear.
Yes. It is very scary knowing that people are sleeping in tents and raping each other.
CancelCurrency 1 points 34 minutes ago
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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 new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. July 4, 1776.
Yeah -- the thing is, we already have a free, democratic republic. Any rebellion against it is illegitimate and ridiculous.
It is a living document, please read fully (the above ) and give full consideration.
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 new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
If it is living then it has no foundation. If it can be changed at any time and the actual Rule of Law is not upheld then no one is safe. If it is living it has no meaning
Wrong thinking there. It is exactly our Foundation. It is our truth, it is our offense and defense.
It is only our foundation if it can not be changed by the capricious whims of the mob. If one thinks the Constitution is a living document then that person claims, without even understanding that they have, that the document is meaningless. If it can not be held to firmly like the foundation that it is and shall always be, then it is meaningless
OK. So I maybe should have said it is our living spirit. The foundation that gave birth to our nation. Is that now OK with you?
Do we?
Yep. In 2008, people didn't like the Republicans, so we got a lot of Democrats who passed some big laws. In 2010, people decided they didn't like the laws, so they elected a heap of Republicans. Liberal democracy isn't pretty, but it's better than all of the alternatives.
You see though. We have never fully used our rights. We should have long ago started proceedings to recall those in office who are working against us or are just trying to maintain status quo.
Is it?
Yep.
Why? I love America and I Strongly support the constitution but to be honest, I do not feel represented by this government. And Im not saying we need another revolution, but that is why it happened originally. People were taxed without representation. Our government needs to step it up. No more of the party spouts. The fight between the president and Congress is just embarrassing, regardless of who is right. Its just gotta end. The country needs something radical to happen.
Ok, I lol'd. XD
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