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rhett o rick

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5. To understand why The Powers To Be favor the TPP is that they
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 08:52 PM
Dec 2013

think they have been ordained to rule on our behalf. The ruling class believe that since they are wealthy that means they know better than the poor peons. We need a new Declaration of Independence.

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people [the 99%] to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another [the 1%] 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 need to declare our separation from the ruling 1%.

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