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Originally posted by HangTheTraitors
The Occupy movement has it right as far as 'leadership'. And the SNAKES are hating it tremendously!!
[color=gold]Who is the "leader" for the Occupy movement?? ANSWER: WE ARE THE LEADERS!!!!!!! We The [color=cyan]People!!!!!!
Perfect plan.edit on 23-11-2011 by HangTheTraitors because: (no reason given)
organic leaderless democracy is where the acual people decide what they want to see in the bills before congress.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by XPLodER
organic leaderless democracy is where the acual people decide what they want to see in the bills before congress.
Yep. There's the real problem. It is not as if this "organic leaderless democracy" has any concern at all that there are more than 600,000 acts of legislation on the books as it stands, they want more bills passed! Maybe with this leaderless democracy we can hit the million mark with bills passed. Yippie!
I haven't heard one single OWS supporter even discuss the idea that bills can be repealed.
Originally posted by HangTheTraitors
The Occupy movement has it right as far as 'leadership'. And the SNAKES are hating it tremendously!!
[color=gold]Who is the "leader" for the Occupy movement?? ANSWER: WE ARE THE LEADERS!!!!!!!
We The [color=cyan]People!!!!!!
We The People who have the interests of the PEOPLE and COUNTRY in mind. Its the perfect leadership plan.
edit on 23-11-2011 by HangTheTraitors because: (no reason given)
What the hell are you saying? Are you suggesting that first these leaderless protestors have to have the opportunity to pass legislation before they even consider repealing legislation?
Further, are you suggesting that OWS is hell bent on circumventing the Constitution for the United States of America and just going to simply begin authorizing themselves as some sort of new fiat legislature?
It is pretty damn clear you haven't thought this out.
You foolishly presume that most American's want this vaunted democracy you keep yammering on about, but I assure you, sport, there are plenty of American's who are adamant that this nation remain the republic it was created as, to make sure that nonsensical uneducated poorly thought out advocates of democracy do not use this advocacy to trample all over the rights of individuals.
The OWS can take their democracy and shove it where the sun don't shine! Out of democracy rises tyranny, and the OWS has gone out of their way to illustrate just how enamored they are with tyranny and how terribly much they desire a shot at being tyrants themselves.
this does not change the govenment republic (mecanism for debating and passing bills into law)
this does not change the govenment republic (mecanism for debating and passing bills into law)
This is precisely what I am talking about in terms of uneducated. The United States republic is not a "mechanism for debating and passing bills into law", it is a form of government that has placed great restraint on what the three branches of government can do.
It is the republic that protects the rights of individuals, not some hair brained democracy. It is the republic established that has empowered the courts to use judicial review to strike down any legislative act that denies or disparages individual rights. It is the republic that demands that all three branches treat the rights of the People as sacrosanct, not some hair brained democracy.
It is not democracy that establishes freedom. It is the rights of individuals and the solemn respect for those rights that establishes freedom.
Originally posted by kellerphoenix
reply to post by XPLodER
What scares me more than WWIII, an asteroid impact, a supervolcano or anything else is the idea of this movement. There needs to be structure in any leadership. There need to be laws, rules, control without it there is only anarchy.edit on 23-11-2011 by kellerphoenix because: (no reason given)
yet there are no prosicutions on wall street and joe corzine is walking around a free man at the moment, i love the idea of a republic form of govenment
it is the individual getting together with other people who defend the republic, you completly left out the fact that it is the duty of a member of a republic to defend that republic,
that means citizens must be involved even just in sociatial debates on policy
it is the people who demand freedom from opression that express those rights that make them free, you are not free because your govenment says so, in this sence if you cant tell the difference you are like the other speakers on RT you know nothing of an organic democractic leaderless movement.
Deflection does not make you appear any more intelligent. Wall Street has very little to do with the denial and disparagement of rights, and when it does, such as the Enron scandal, you can bet your sweet patatootie that people are prosecuted, but hey! Why not ignore that and pretend that somehow your individual rights have been denied and disparaged because of business.
You just vacillate.
United States republic you do not need to be a citizen in order to assert your unalienable rights, and if it did require citizenship to do so that would mean those rights were not unalienable but rather civil rights.
etending like you can just rely on your prepared talking points to reply to anyone who confronts you. Obviously you are not paying attention to my confront, nor do you have any idea who you are replying to. Your disingenuousness is beyond intolerable.
raight, sport. Unalienable rights are not granted by any human or artifice created by humans. I do not see anywhere where you have spoken in defense of inalienable rights, and in between your vacillation you just keep yammering on about democracy. Sigh.
Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.[1] Ideally, this includes equal (and more or less direct) participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law.[1] It can also encompass social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination.[citation needed