Proposed: A March on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. to Peacefully Overthrow the Govt.

Peaceful Overthrow of the US Govt
by Spiderlegs

That title get your attention? I hope so. I usually post a lot of articles on my blog and every now and then post something of my own, and here is that every now and then. The bulk of those who read my blog are on Google Buzz, so shout out to the Buzzers.

This summer, I propose we the people make a march on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., like it's been done so many times before, as a protest to the govt budget cuts directed by the corporate interests which have obviously taken over the govt. Here's the deal:

The purpose of the march is a "Peaceful Overthrow of the Govt.," similar to what happened in Egypt. We demand that Congress steps down, the president steps down and that the armed forces don't step up. Ideally, we would set up new elections and such, but this is obviously a symbolic event to get corporate influence out of govt.

The point we'll make is that corporations no longer get to influence budgets, since they don't pay taxes, they are stripped of their corporate "personhood", they cannot fund election campaigns, and their lobbying status is removed. And this is where it gets hairy. We demand this while we are there and we won't leave until laws are written and passed that remove corporate influence from government completely.

That means corporate lobbyists no longer write our laws with loopholes that favor the corporations directly affected by those laws. It means that corporations cannot buy politicians to favor their interests at the expense of the people. Anyone remember "...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."Well, it has perished here in Corporate America. And it will only get worse until we finally man-up take responsibility for our country. 

Our budget deficits are rooted in 3 things, none of which are caused by the objects of deficit hawks with their pruning knives:

• Corporations don't pay their taxes and the IRS doesn't pursue them for it. Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office. This is a projected loss of a minimum of $100 billion a year in lost taxes--just in offshore tax havens. Oh, and they have outsourced many of our jobs overseas, in addition to not paying their taxes. Oh, and all the companies which received billions in federal bailout money? GM and the Wall Street banks--none of them have paid taxes in that period. Screw them!

• The Bush Tax Cuts don't do any of the things those who pushed for it say they did. No job creation, no trickle down, no re-investment, they are just sitting on it. Corporations made record profits in 2010. RECORD PROFITS, and we have the highest unemployment numbers since the Great Depression. What it HAS done is to widen the wealth disparity of this country to pre-Federal Reserve era numbers. The wealthiest 1% control 30% of the total wealth, while the top 20% control 85% of the total wealth, and pardon my language, that is FUCKED UP! Over the next 10 years (to 2020), total tax-cut costs will equal $3.9 trillion, reaching nearly $600 billion or 3.3% of the economy in 2014 alone. Over the 10-year period from 2005 through 2014, the direct costs of the enacted  tax cuts will total $2.8 trillion.  The cost equals 2.1 percent of the economy in 2014. From 2005 through 2014, the increased interest payments on the debt that result from the tax cuts would amount to $1.1 trillion.  The tax cuts increase deficits by nearly $4 trillion between 2005 and 2014. The cost of these tax cuts are more than the combined shortfall in the Social Security and Medicare Hospital Insurance trust funds, which are in danger of being cut--to afford the Bush Tax cuts.

• And of course, there are the two never-ending wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have cost $1 trillion since 2001 (according to the CBO). By the end of the decade, assuming the wars will still be going--and what has given any indication that they won't?--even with a drastic reduction in troops, just those wars will cost another $1 trillion. This doesn't even include the regular Pentagon budget which averages about $700 billion/yr, not including the black budget.

Do the math: by 2020, those 3 huge deficit whore programs will cost us:

Lost corporate tax revenue (2005-2020): $1.5 trillion
Bush Tax cuts (2005-2020):                       $4 trillion
Iraq/Afghan Wars:                                        $2 trillion
                                                                       $7.5 trillion

We can't bury ourselves in distractions anymore. Some of us won't be able to stay for long, and in fact, none of us can afford it, with costs being so high, but the cost of doing nothing is more than we can ever afford to pay. We have to do this. We have to demand our govt be free from the corporate agenda which has done everything to destroy the people of this country, and I want to tell you something personal about me: I'm a patriotic person. I don't care about the flag, about our history, good and bad, about our wars, about our politics (as such), but what I care about are the two things that make America great: it's people and their freedom.

This protest will let our govt know there will be a retribution at the polls in 2012. If you are a Republican, typically, vote in the primary for the opponent to your GOP representatives and senators. If there isn't one, vote libertarian. But for just this coming election in 2012, don't vote Republican or Democrat.

Democrats, you can vote green or libertarian or progressive, just don't vote for a Republican or Democrat. I wish more than anything (even more than I wish for a flying car and a laser gun), that it would just "click" with everyone to vote out the two party system, that is essentially a single harlequin wearing both his "happy" and "sad" masks on either side of his head. Their interests are not ours, and thus, our protest to "peacefully overthrow the govt" is based on that: we the people are not fairly represented by those we elect, and therefore, their service is rendered null and void by we, the electorate. The president sucks too. They all have since Eisenhower, and he wasn't "all that."

If the future of the corporate role in our government concerns you; if you look to the future and only see darkness; if you love the people and the freedom of this country, and take that love seriously, I'm going to ask that you please reshare this one post from me in order to cause a discussion about logistics (dates and locations and such). I wrote it, it's not spam (though, I admit to hoping it becomes a meme), and I will not ask for you to reshare anything else I post, unless it pertains to a specific protest in Washington against the corporate control of our govt. It is my burning issue. It is my bogeyman, my paranoid conspiracy theory come true. I don't believe in the Illuminati, I don't believe the Freemasons have much to do with much, I don't believe in UFOs or Bigfoot or Nessie or anything of the sort. I do believe that the people who run the global corporations are, to a man/woman, corrupted by greed so much they can't be saved--like pedophiles. No amount of therapy--of basic moral understanding--will convince them to abandon their control of the govt. They are a cancer that must be removed if we are ever going to experience the freedom we thought we had as described by the Constitution, a beautifully flawed document that was supposed to keep us from having to do what we must do in order to preserve it. We need to set a date really soon.

If no one cares, then that's my answer, and I thank you for reading this to the end of the post.

"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."--Abraham Lincoln

Peace and non-violence.

--jef