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Forum Post: This is the reason why these protests will suceed.

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 10 p.m. EST by DanB (7)
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If you have any desire what so ever for these protests to lead to actual change maybe this document will help. If the demands of this document are upheld by wall st protesters there will actually be change. The document is called The Reset Button.

Home/Intro Page for the Reset Button

Please share this website address (www.ResetButton2011.Org) and give it out as a link (URL) to family and friends, co-workers and neighbors, local and remote community members, respected activists and community leaders, so that they can either read the document on-line or (better yet) download and print a copy of The Reset Button document. A very brief synopsis:

Phase I of The Reset Button is true election reform, which puts the sovereignty over and control of elections into the hands of the citizen electorate – for the first time in the history of our nation. Phase I of The Reset Button calls for one US Constitutional amendment – Amendment XXVIII (Election Reform Amendment) – to be ratified immediately, and one law – the Election Reform Act of 2011 – to be passed immediately, in order for the citizens of the United States to gain sovereignty and democratic rule in the United States of America. Once Phase I is accomplished, Phase II of The Reset Button outlines major, simultaneous changes in governance, to steer the United States to a course of integrity and away from collusion, to real peace and away from imperialistic and militaristic and predatory behavior, to sovereignty over and control of healthful food, air, water, and health care, to a world-changing embracing of non-polluting energy technologies and the accompanying paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance, to a blended ideology of social democracy for our needs and restrained capitalism for our desires beyond our needs, to social, economic, and environmental harmony, benevolence, and justice for all.

Please read the entire The Reset Button document. You need to know the details, not just skim over it. You need to know the document well enough to literally "be the leader of the movement" at any point, because we are all the leaders of the movement. The Reset Button movement is headless - we are, each and every one of us, the leader, the head of the movement. Holding the concept, "rule by rules, not by rulers", we don't have, don't need, and don't want a singular powerful or charismatic leader, or a celebrity spokesperson. Instead, with The Reset Button, we have a strong document that defines our movement, a strong blueprint to build from, a strong plan and call to action for gaining sovereignty and self-governance - for the first time in our lives.

We each need to be resolute and brave, and support The Reset Button movement with our brains and our hearts and souls. Think how frightening the alternative future is if we are too afraid, and if we do nothing. We have been steadily losing any control whatsoever over our future, losing our rights, losing our freedoms, losing our sovereignty. The giant national and multinational corporations and the giant national and international banks now have everything they need to utterly dominate our lives, legally, through buying elections (with the decision in the Supreme Court case that sounds as if George Orwell wrote the title, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.) The corporations and banks are now poised to complete their takeover of the US government and its citizens. At this defining moment in history, we either immediately stiffen our backbones, stop them before the 2012 elections, change the rules, and hit the reset button - or quite likely, we will never again have a chance for sovereignty, self-determination, and self-governance.

Our strength is in numbers. We need everyone to pull together and, as the US Constitution says, "...to petition the Government for a redress of grievances", and make the changes outlined in The Reset Button happen. Millions of voices in unison demanding - and finally achieving - a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. We will succeed.

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[-] 2 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

not exactly a convincing argument or game plan here.

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

did you go to the url and read the entire document? it is 65 pages long, or else I would have posted the whole thing? I suppose maybe it isn't helpful but I thought it was thorough unlike every other protest that fell on deaf ears.

[-] 1 points by mace (2) 13 years ago

I’m not sure what your background is but I don’t believe you can write a better document then the one developed by the founding fathers and has stood the test of time for 235 years. I do agree that there needs to be term limits as part of our problem stems from politics becoming a profession. Some of the founding fathers were professional politicians but they still had professions back home that they needed to deal with which kept them connected to their communities and their neighbors. As for candidates with dual citizenship I’m not sure what difference that makes as long as they preside in the US. When it comes to candidates not being shareholders in any corporation I think you’re up in the night. Every adult with a 510K has shares in a corporation. I believe the true revolution has to start even closer to home, with our local representatives and then with congress. The problem is no one votes, I bet if you asked 100 people between 18 and 25 if they voted in the last election for anything other than president you would find that at least 60% haven't. If we don’t take back Washington by sending EVERYONE that is up for re-election home, and I mean Democrat’s as well as Republican’s, then there will be no change.

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

I actually didn't write the document. Just felt it had a good vision. Thank you for actually giving me some relevent feedback as to why it may not work. Unlike the idiots that just choose to criticize a genuine attempt to help.

[-] 1 points by mace (2) 13 years ago

I’m not sure what your background is but I don’t believe you can write a better document then the one developed by the founding fathers and has stood the test of time for 235 years. I do agree that there needs to be term limits as part of our problem stems from politics becoming a profession. Some of the founding fathers were professional politicians but they still had professions back home that they needed to deal with which kept them connected to their communities and their neighbors. As for candidates with dual citizenship I’m not sure what difference that makes as long as they preside in the US. When it comes to candidates not being shareholders in any corporation I think you’re up in the night. Every adult with a 510K has shares in a corporation. I believe the true revolution has to start even closer to home, with our local representatives and then with congress. The problem is no one votes, I bet if you asked 100 people between 18 and 25 if they voted in the last election for anything other than president you would find that at least 60% haven't. If we don’t take back Washington by sending EVERYONE that is up for re-election home, and I mean Democrat’s as well as Republican’s, then there will be no change.

[-] 1 points by bella (14) 13 years ago

We can succeed. Follow the blog Sky of Stars. Read this post: The RIght to Better Government http://theskyofstars.blogspot.com/2011/05/right-to-better-government.html

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

Thank you, I will read it

[-] 1 points by AN0NYM0US (640) 13 years ago

You know. Writting a document to introduce and promote a document isn't the best idea. Do a quick summary, then say why you think it is important then "For more info go here:"

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

again, im assuming you didn't read the document

[-] 1 points by AN0NYM0US (640) 13 years ago

Exactly. You didn't entice me to read it.

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

Then your eyes are not open

[-] 1 points by AN0NYM0US (640) 13 years ago

Or, I have better things to then read every website that someone puts on this site, especially when they don't even try to convince me to read it.

[-] 1 points by DanB (7) 13 years ago

im not trying to convince you, im asking you