Thank you, Thomas Jefferson and Keith Olberman

[marano35]

When The Path to 9/11 was due to air everyone on here was in an uproar. Everyone was wanting to Boycott ABC and Disney. I stated in a post that these things would not do any good and I stated as my reason that it was the equivilant of asking a bear that had beaten you to the ground not to eat you. I kinda got some negative comments because of that. I was called a defeatest. I stated that I was not saying we should not fight but that we would have to fight more effectively. I did not realize until I saw a clip on truthout of Keith Olberman how bad things had gotten. I wanted to say the following but I was afraid that it was too inflamatory or that I would get a visit from the government for making such comments so I just took the critisism from the people who posted. I want to thank Keith Olberman for quoting Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence for the following:

"Governments are instituted among men deriving thier 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 abolish it and to institute new government."
Thomas Jefferson

As I said I was afraid to say just that, but if Thomas Jefferson said it it must be o.k., so here goes. Our government has been hijacked by the super rich and our, the American people as a whole, intrests put behind thier desire to become even richer and more powerful. I think most people on here will agree that we have not had a president ELECTED in the last two elections, due to the enormous amount of power that wealth holds in our current form of government. I think that most on here will agree that the MEDIA, which is the number one supplier of information to our people is the number one accomplice which allowed this to happen. I think that most on here will agree that with the money and power to control election results and the complicity of the MEDIA who are bought and paid for by the same rich and powerful people, our government, our Democracy that we loved has failed to live up to the promise as stated by Thomas Jefferson that "governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" and further that the people in control of our government have "become destructive of these ends" (democracy). It is therefore "the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government."


So I now say with confidence that our system has failed due to the corruption of the system by the rich, replacing democracy with capitalism, which is an ecomomic system, not our form of goverment. It is our duty to take our future as Americans by any means necessary from the control of the ruling elite, the rich, the people who have bought our national rights. We have to de-Privatize America.

[William769]

1. Majority rules in America.

And the majority of Americans are stupid.

[marano35]

2. Agreed.

[Serial Mom]

3. it may be so, but it is wrong

our government was set up to protect the minority - the Supreme Court was set up to give the minority a voice!

[William769]

5. When I say majority rules

I was referring to voting.

[marano35]

6. Agree, Agree

but back to my post....it has failed due to corruption by the rich. They have turned capitalism, which in and of itself is not bad, but it is an ecomomic system and not a government, into THE GOVERNMENT.

[datasuspect]

4. one of the key issues the framers were concerned with was

the tyranny of faction. especially the wrongheadedness of the majority opinion.

they argue about this a lot in the federalist papers.

it's been quite a few years since i studied those, so i won't go into it any further.

[marano35]

7. Kick

on edit.