Occupy Imitates Tea Party, Founding Fathers With ‘The 99% Declaration’
- Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:54pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Liberals may like to make fun of the Tea Party for wearing period dress, but their mass movement has apparently realized that playing as the Founders can bring results. NPR reports that a group affiliated with Occupy Wall Street is planning a “national convention” in Philadelphia this summer, and the setup may sound more than a little familiar:
According to the group, which is dubbed “The 99% Declaration,” an online election will decide on the 876 delegates — a man and woman from each Congressional district — who will gather in Philadelphia on July 4th. [...]
On the group’s website, they explain that the delegates will draft and ratify a “petition for a redress of grievances,” which will then be sent to all members of Congress, the president and Supreme Court justices.
And if that doesn’t give you Deja Vu, one of the group’s spokespeople has even said, “We feel that following the footsteps of our founding fathers is the right way to go.” They have made at least one step forward in that regard, in that this time the group has actually paid for a venue, rather than simply occupying it.
For those wondering what the group’s final petition for a redress of grievances might look like, they have helpfully listed a full 21 demands already on their website. The extended explanations of these demands are too long to reprint here, but the list of demands follows:
1. Elimination of the Corporate State/Ban on all “private political contributions”
2. Overturn the Citizens United case
3. Elimination of all private benefits to public servants
4. Term limits
5. A Fair Tax Code
6. Health Care for All/Medicare for all and/or adoption of a single-payer system
7. Protection of the Planet
8. Debt Reduction
9. Jobs for All Americans
10. Student Loan Debt Refinancing
11. Ending Perpetual War for Profit
12. Emergency Reform of Public Education
13. End Outsourcing and Currency Manipulation
14. Banking and Securities Reform
15. Foreclosure Moratorium, Mortgage Refinancing and Principle Write Downs
16. Review and Reform of the Federal Reserve Banking System
17. Ending the Electoral College and Enactment of Uniform Federal Election Rules in All of the States
18. Ending the War in Afghanistan and Care of Veterans
19. No Censorship of the Internet
20. Reinstitution of Civil Rights Including the Repeal of the NDAA
21. Curtailing the Private Prison Industrial Complex
This is only a preliminary list of demands, which may grow or shrink, depending on the convention. Are these protesters “following in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers?” Weigh in below.
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Comments (93)
SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:40pmIs this all that George Soros has asked for? You forgot he wants to legalize drugs.
Report Post »United_Ignited
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:22pmThey are trying to sound like the Teaparty so that when they turn violent the politicians/media can try and blame the Teaparty.
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:46pmThey made Time magazine, we didn’t, we will be erased unless we succeed.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:26pmOccupy movement – 99% are dependent on the government or want to be, the other 1% thought it was dumb and went home. A bunch of immature people with delusions of grandeur.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 4:07amThere is Treason afoot here! The Reason for Senators & a Senate was so that Special Representatives of States would cite the Will of the States… thereby never would have passed ObamaCare… unfortunately they are Now popularly elected, dependant upon Special Interest Money, thereby subject to Corruption. So, we lost A Check & Balance of Power.
Popular Election… of a President… without an Electoral College… would be the loss of another Check & Balance of Power. So, if “the people” (let’s say by Fraud) elected a Communist Dictator… the Electoral College stands as guard against INSANITY!
These topics were all discussed in detail by the Founders… and the States… in approval of the Constitution… and can be read! It is time to do some HomeWork!!!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:22amif they were following the founding fathers they would be hard at work producing wealth and not trying to destroy it.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:00amdon’t dismiss this-it’s looking like these people are starting to become more organized. Watch for Van Jones to emerge as a leader with his “new American dream”. Honestly, imho this is the year the radicals try to overthrow our Republic-with violence if need be.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:31pmDeclaration of Occupation item #7…Protection of the Planet.
Report Post »The Treebaggers cover a lot of ground with this one alone.
In fact they cover ALL the ground. Ridiculously unrealistically idealistic.
Ruler4You
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:46pmYou know, I wish I could say that history was open to interpretation, but it isn’t.
Facts are facts. Truth is truth. It isn’t subject to opinion or interpretation. It’s not subjective.
Don’t like history? Too bad. Change the future.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:42pm@ruler
Report Post »incase of liberals and socialists don’t like history just change it and indoctrinate the youth.
slowprop26
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:02pmWhat do you Yanks know about protecting planet. Protecting your rights to kill more like. Neo-liberalist imperialist ignoranuses- that ain’t a compliment. do you have a universal education system in the USA or do you just enlist to the Army for youre education. HA HA
Report Post »Joshua7
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:19pmThis is a joke. The Occupiers know nothing of the Founders and this list, if inacted as is, will only prove that.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:03pmWanna bet on that, I have more information on the founders than you will ever dream of. 26 members of my family fought in the Revolution. I had 3 generations at Bunker Hill.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 4:15am13 th gen
It sounds like your personal history was full of men of action, yet all you do is troll this site throwing up their accomplishments as a shield to your idiocy.
Report Post »robinakilt
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:50pmI think they should just form a circle hold hands and hold their breath until everyone gets free this and free that. There were a couple of things on their list that actually made me go hmmm and then I hit the freebies!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:06pmThese ignorant chimps seem unaware that our country was founded by the “1%” and nevertheless created a constitution that applies equally to everyone.
Report Post »Ridingforthebrand
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:58pmVery true. I didn’t have the patience or time to read all the descriptives of all 21 points but the first paragragh of some make good sense. If the self serving items were removed from the position of elected offices at all levels then we would actually end up with the best canidate for the job. I have tried very hard to locate a past nationally elected official who has lived their remaining days poor, and yet to find one. None of those bastards can truly say they are there for the good of the people of this country and really mean it.
Report Post »meeester
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:07pmoh no, what if they do! What will we do?!
Report Post »sixdogman
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 12:04pmthese ows bunch are either 60′s hippies, spoiled momma’s boys and girls, or just plain ignorant. i don’t care , arrest them all , and send them to a communist or socialist country.
Report Post »gpk
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:49pmWhat’s up with those masks they wear? Does that depict the image of the prophet? Problem solved.
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:43pmCan anyone say drug induced utopia, completely unatainable, unsutainable, and unrealistic, but that’s why liberalism is a mental disorder. The founding fathers would go to war to prevent these vermin from success.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:41pmIt’s kind of funny, here we have the parting of the waters in America and even the world. The causers of the problem are whipping up the left and the right, and other people will choose either the left or the right, and the causers of it will try to take their chariots into the middle ground and fail as their wheels get bogged down in the mud.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:45pmAnd then eventually God is going to bring the smack daddy down on your chariots.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:54pmHey I’ve got an idea, why don’t the people who know their the bad guy make a ship to go hang around in space while it happens? That’s a great idea.I‘m sure God doesn’t have a contingency plan for that.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:05pmWell there is just one tiny little problem to over-come, the whole matter of your soul being married to the dust of the earth. I‘m afraid it won’t be good on your body.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:34pmYeah I’m sure Congress will be all into voting themselves Term Limits.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:52pmright after they vote for a pay reduction
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:30pmWhat a sham of a scam!! Scam! Scam! Scam! Everytime I think they can’t go lower down beneath the earth….they just keep digging deeper…..They are shameless!!!!!
Report Post »Kiba
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:27pmWith a mask like that on I would be afraid they would scare someone driving a car so bad they could have a stroke or heart attack and pass out with their foot on the gas pedal or something. Some brave sould there ya know?
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:27pmI see a list of talking points, but not one of these over the solution to make these changes (and make them work). I can write a wishlist too. However, if you want to be taken serious, tell us how we do this. For Example:
A Fair Tax Code… What is fair? I think the fair tax is fair. What defines their version of fair? The more you make the more you owe? Tax corporations (which limits the amount of funds to hire labor)?
Jobs for everyone… But where do these jobs come from? Where is the capital going to come to create these jobs? What is someone does horrible work and gets fired? When everyone can afford items, how do we get enough resources to create these items? If you ended the taxation of corporations, then more jobs could be created (or prices could be reduced for the amount that they are no longer taxed (as taxes are built into the price).
End Outsourcing and Currency Manipulation… Tell that to China. Currency manipulation is partly necessary (IE raising and lowering interest rates). Inflation or deflation can spiral out of control, so currency manipulation is a must. Now manipulating currency to inflate prices and benefit corporations (like Bush did in the housing bubble), that should be prohibited. Many called for a raise in the interest rate in the mid 2000s, but the raise would have hurt the financial district because of them being given the ability to leverage 40 to 1 on their assets. This was Progressivism at its finest.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:29pmOffer* not over a solution.
Report Post »Theodwulf
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:26pmTerm limits?.. I believe we have them , they are called ELECTIONS!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:07pmyes, but some just don’t know when to quit. 9 to 30 years in Congress, do you really want stupid people voting for the same yahoo time and time again? I don’t.
Report Post »Dalady
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:24pmI agree, except we need an educated electorate. People vote on emotion (hopenchange), because they like the name or recognize it, the first person listed (ballots rotate names, the same one isn’t always first), vote for all the women candidates…I think the time has come for term limits. Or better yet, an education in civics and the electoral process.
Report Post »cripplecreek
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:19pmWhat a bunch of morons.
The declaration of independence wasn’t a list of demands, it was a declaration of independence. This sounds more like a declaration of dependence.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:25pmGood one, “Declaration of Dependence!”
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:00pmMany of the their point sound so familiar.. Hmmmm I cant remember his name but he is a old fart with a squeaky voice.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:19pmno good can come from this.
Report Post »RedSoloCup
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:19pmStay classy, Occutards.
Report Post »Tea-Party-Amercan
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:15pmIm insulted you would even compare the OWS to us in the Tea Party. We are never violent, threaten violence, RAPED, were racist or were paid to protest. Unlike the OWS.
Dont they know that Corperations are the life blood of America. You end citzen united, you kill America. Corperations, job creators and the constitution keep this country running.
The Millitary protects us too. With out the millitary the radical islamists will force Shira law on us.
I do belive in redoing the tax code. Poor people and minoritys dont pay ANY taxes. The Tax burden is all on the hardworking job creators.
And dont get me started on public schools. The OWS will fizzel out. They are no threat to us anymore. Come on!
Report Post »Kiba
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:24pmWell then they have you 99% whipped already then because insulting you is exactly what they want to do. I cant say what to do to these things because I dont want a couple alphabet agencies knocking on my door right now, I have other things to do but totally ignoring them would be a good first step for some people I guess. Dont give them the satisfaction of getting to you. And the reason they wear masks is probably because they are Democrat congresspeople and senators. They actually remind me of the Klan. Be kind to them, they might get thirsty so offer them a little something in a bottle, and stuff something in the top of it so it wont spill (its a shame to waste you know?) and if you dont want to get to close to them stand back a little and just kinda toss their beverage to them, see its so much fun to ‘be nice’ isnt it?
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:39pmsee its so much fun to ‘be nice’ isnt it?
Report Post »———————
I want to emulate the niceties General Washington did to the British Occupiers.
Kiba
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:32pmHey Booger71, read a little closer.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 2:32amDang these new glasses, I stand corrected, my apologies.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:13pmi agree with most of those claims…
a few to social friendly for me.
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:30pmThe vast majority of these expose rife naivete of these entitlement babies. I’ll give them these:
1. Term limits.
2. A Fair Tax Code
3. (Assuming “Government”) Debt Reduction
4. End Outsourcing and Currency Manipulation
5. Review and Reform of the Federal Reserve Banking System
6. No Censorship of the Internet
Any of the others demand special treatment and/or Government intervention/ redistribution of wealth which is no less unfair than the special treatment for the “rich” and elites that they get so upset about.
Individual liberty without personal responsibility leads to disaster, obviously.
Report Post »Joshua7
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:23pm@ Twinspeedr:
I agree with you. But you know what they mean by a ‘fair’ tax code and what I think you mean aren’t the same thing right?
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:32pmI know enough about Liberals to never trust anything that starts with the word “Fair.“ Their inability to define or put a solid number behind ”Fair” always makes me suspect.
Also, “18. Ending the War in Afghanistan and Care of Veterans.” Perhaps I am reading it wrong, but it reads like they want to end care to veterans. Based on what they have had to say about our veterans, you can see my point.
Report Post »Shenandoahvalleypatriot
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:12pmJobs for All Americans = COMMUNISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:23pmWhat they mean is collective slavery for all Amerikans.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:24pmHello! How stupid do you have to be to go along with those FLEABAGGERS! They are going about this in the wrong way. “Normal” Americans ( I do mean TAXPAYERS) want FREEDOM! Plain and simple……….FREEDOM…….. That’s all that matters!
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:28pmExactly…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:17pm@Shenandoahvalleypatriot
Report Post »What part of the Shenandoah Valley do you hail from? I’m very familiar with that area.
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:10pmThese people would be entertaining if they weren’t so destructive and wasteful. They will fade away someday.
glutamine.sr
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:15pmno they wont because the jew bankers will keep paying their worthless asses to continue on.
Tea-Party-Amercan
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:16pmThere all garbage as far as Im concerned.
Report Post »Dug2Dark
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:09pmJobs for all Americans. How many Americans want to work these days & how many jobs are illegals taking from those Americans that want to work??????
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:05pmOWS… Get off our side!
Report Post »glutamine.sr
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:16pmthis is how the jew upper eschelon betrays you.. they endorse similar values as a mimic and a mockery to fool the truly ignorant.
Vechorik
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:03pmHow in the heck do they think they can end the fed and have money for all those give-away programs? Don’t they realize the printing presses is what taxes Americans?
The Fed prints money, our money is worth less, and the Fed gives the money away.
Taxation without representation!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:58pmthe morons have no concept of reality
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:26pmI don’t even think reality recognizes these idiots.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:35pmI only hope your molotov cocktail has a premature eruption, still in your hot stupid hand.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:35pmGreece is in trouble for the very things the fleabagging Occupiers are rallying to get here.
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:59pmWHile some of your demands are a ripoff from the Tea Party, your ignorance of the Tea party shows through. You shouldn’t get your news from jenean garapalo. Your violent antaganizing of the police show your disregard of civilitiy, crapping on cop cars, raping and assaulting people, throwing molotovs and rocks at cops, sounds like a legitament movement. You are so outnumbered you have NO idea, ********* thats funny!, Idiot! Our movement is the movement that actually created movement. Occupiers, aren’t you lefties anti occupying anything. STFU! and get off this page smelly hippie!
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:07pmTea Bag Gers! they edit me but not the d-bag who said it first, come on Blaze!
Report Post »5061304072
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:23pmGive some examples. You libiots would have a much better argument if you could at least point to specifics. But the way your brains work you think that if you just throw out insults, yell, “George Bush!” and then run away to your mommy’s basement to blog to your pathetic friends how you just trashed the Tea Party, you make a valid point.
I have some news for you, Weirdman24: nobody cares what you think because you are just plain wrong about everything.
Including God.
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:09amThe reason the world is going to hell is because of so many on the government dime who contribute nothing only consume, and yet they ones who do nothing cry constantly. Instead of resolving the issues ows types add to it by irresponsible behavior, out of wedlock babies etc and then they expect someone to bail them out. The percentage of tax payers is decreasing every year yet the freeloaders are increasing every year furthering the destruction of the very safety net that these paople rely upon. Keep on drinking your koolaid wiredude.
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