The Declaration of Indepenence Part II : Occupy America

[McCarter]

"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 humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people 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 them, 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 humankind 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."  The Declaration of Independence.

 

The history of the present democracy is a history of great triumphs and dismall failures with regards to justice, equality, and temperance.  It is most unfortunate, that at this time it has been clearly demonstrated the current government has lost the ability to govern by the following facts:

They allow unreasonable influence from corporations that strive to increase their fortune and power through political access.  Access that is not equal for the people.

 

They no longer are able to participate in civil democratic discourse which yields productive outcomes to the benefit of the people. 

 

They are creating higher levels of uncertainety in the world markets through un-productive partisan agendas.

 

They are not controlling the esculating divide between the highly compensated and working class people.

 

We the people therefore choose to occupy America each and every day we can with hearts filled with peace and the desire for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  To live the American dream and take back the power we have graciously given in order to right the balance needed in our democracy, so that our children will know a better tomorrow.

 

This American

[hclasalle]

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. This issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will
wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations which already dare to challenge our Government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country"

- Thomas Jefferson, 1791