Corruption trumps political systems. In a corrupt democratic government, those with the most money tell the government what to do. In a corrupt socialist government, those with the most money tell the government what to do. If a government is corrupt, it matters not what particular system the corruption uses to express itself. Corruption IS the system. A corrupt dictatorship, in which the moneyed puppetmasters actually pull the strings, is no better than a corrupt Republic in which the moneyed puppetmasters actually pull the strings. When corruption permeates the system, it doesn't matter who's in charge because they're not in charge, they're just figureheads for corruption, like the Pope or the President, they only keep their jobs when the let the money river roll on, no matter how many drown.
So what do we do when all three branches of Federal Government, legislative, executive, and judicial, are undeniably, completely, and utterly corrupt? How do we use the system in place to root out the corruption when corruption specifically won't allow the system to work that way? Voting is meaningless when the voting system is corrupt. Suing is meaningless when you can't go any higher than a Supreme Court who are the active enemy of the public domain, appointed for life, who will only make pro-corporate decisions. Petitioning is meaningless because the puppetmasters behind the puppets can't be petitioned. Give me a choice between a corrupt Democrat and a corrupt Republican and I might as well cut my throat, they're both from the same party, the Corrupt Party, loyally in the hands of whoever's willing to pay. When corruption rules the day, money gets whatever it wants. Want to pollute the air, poison the groundwater, go to war to protect the bottom line of the fuel market? All it takes is money. And guess who rules the monetary system? Not you.
Our argument is not with democracy. A genuine democracy is a beautiful thing. But a corrupt democracy, in which money literally buys votes, is no better than corrupt monarchs or corrupt commies. The system is simply the method by which we all get screwed, even systems that were specifically designed to protect us.
They keep saying they don't know what we're for, only what we're against, as though being against corruption isn't enough to define us.
The movement has a flat structure. I can't claim to be speaking for the 99%, but I can claim to speak AS one of them.
I want it to be a felony for a candidate running for or in office to accept one single penny from anyone, RETROACTIVE to the year 2000. I want every one of those corrupt bastards who put Bush in office in jail. I want the entire Supreme Court fired with a new system in place in which they're not appointed for life but for ONE YEAR, then we get to vote on whether to keep them. I want everyone at Fox News to commit ritual hari-kari, live, on camera, at half-time during the Superbowl. I want Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump to dress like Vikings and fight each other to the death for the title of Douchebag of the Year. I want every debt erased. Period. Every one. After a certain reasonable amount for one's children, say a hundred thou, I want a 100% inheritance tax. I want everything a person owns, all their copyrights, patents, and art, to enter the public domain upon their demise. What do they care? They're dead. Now everything they made is ours. The public. I want more public bathrooms. I want Barack Obama to tell Ben Bernanke to go fuck himself. I want the responsibility for health care to be completely taken away from employers, insurance companies, and HMOs and be available for free, just like the police and fire departments, to anybody, as a human right. When they're not actively engaged in fighting the enemy, I want the US Navy to clean up the oceans, the US Army to clean up the land, and the US Air Force to clean up the air. I want everyone in jail for a victimless crime to be set free and restitution paid. I want the FDA to tell the pharmaceutical industry what to do instead of the other way around. I want the EPA to tell polluters what to do instead of the other way around. I want the FED eliminated. I want the DEA eliminated. I want Boeing to stop building killer drones and start building rapid transit. I want Seattle to expand the free bus zone to the entire city.
There. That's my position. I'm sure I'll think of more later, but it's a start. Let's start negotiating.
2 comments:
This is beyond naive and dumb -- it begs psychiatric evaluation and treatment. This kind of thinking is exactly why the country is where it is. Note there are NO other comments here because they were ALL like this and the author has deleted them.
Well I like it, except the bit that shows your support of Obama. I think all participation in any system or institution should be voluntary not mandatory, and I think until each of us gets an invoice listing where our tax money went to specifically we shouldn't have to pay taxes. Land should be owned and maintained by the individual. Taxes should only come into play when destruction or oppression is perpetrated. I think like Micheal Jackson said, we should turn our swords into plowshares. At the same time all of us civillians worldwide should remember that it is a god given right to bar arms and protect your families from lawmakers when they become corrupt.
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