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Originally Posted by soopaman2
Good for them, it is entering it's 3rd week and the media can't ignore it anymore. It is our right to demand better governance.
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. ***8212; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ***8212; 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.
-Excerpt from the American Declaration of independance.
As of now corporations and banks hold too much sway over Americas political system, citizens are systematically ignored by our so called "representatives" in favor of moneyed interest.
More should stand up, I sent 5 pizzas down there yesterday, it's small but I'm sure quite a few were grateful.
Maybe the media will stop calling them dirty hippies like they did to the Vietnam protesters, they are college students, war veterans, blue collar workers who watched thier pensions evaporate. They are PEOPLE standing up for thier rights as human beings.
Edit:On a side note today they are marching to City hall to let Bloomberg (the same owners of Bloomberg news, and Wall street billionaire) know this isn't ending. And look up Anthony Bologna (Tony Boloney) on you tube, and see how a supervisor rushed to mace peaceful protesters.
Bought and paid for by Mayor Bloombergs Billions.
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There is no rights unless it is enforced. There's no law unless it is enforced. There is no state unless it is governed.
Thus the idea of liberty and rights will always be a struggle. A perpetual dynamic struggle of ideas in the people's mind and then in their practical day to day life.
It can be robbed, destroyed, denied or protected and ensured.
It's all up to the people consent whether they want to abdicate those rights and social contracts or they want to demand them to be held up.
In other words, constitution, rule of law, and rights all fall under the category of political ideas. They are intangible and not real. Of course they are the product of enlightened minds but they can be honored only by other enlightened minds as well. And that is a big ifs, generation in and generation out.