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In reply to the discussion: Some things as to why shit is happening in American cities [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)34. A new Declaration of Independence? Let's look at the old one.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
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Of course, instead of ranting against the King, we need to rant against our new kings, the multi-national corporations that are driving our government and legislatures. Police brutality and rioting by the oppressed are symptoms of a nation being ruled for the benefit of an elitist, business class to the detriment of everyone else.
Most notably:
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.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Of course, instead of ranting against the King, we need to rant against our new kings, the multi-national corporations that are driving our government and legislatures. Police brutality and rioting by the oppressed are symptoms of a nation being ruled for the benefit of an elitist, business class to the detriment of everyone else.
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Generally, oppression of the many by the few, including rich globalist presidential aspirants.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#33
The failure of the recovery to "trickle down" to the middle and lower classes
amandabeech
Apr 2015
#27