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A Declaration of Sovereignty
I walked into Chase Bank in Boulder, Colorado and stood in line, intending to cash a check. It was written by one of their own patrons who has a business account with Chase Bank; but when I got to the teller I was told I could not cash the check unless I paid them a service fee of $6... I looked at the teller, and politely informed him that this was their check written by their customer, which I was attempting to cash at their bank. He gave me the knowing teller’s smile, reserved for someone who is not a Chase Bank customer vainly trying to do business at Chase Bank.
I am a former Chase Bank customer, and I told him so. I didn’t bother telling him that I left them and took my money and my business elsewhere because of usurious service charges and other issues just like this. I was told that I had to have an account at Chase Bank or I could not cash their own check at their own bank, not without paying the service charge; even though the check was written by their own customer on their own paper; because I am not a Chase Bank customer. It’s no wonder I left Chase Bank.
I kept my cool and patiently told the teller that I would go to customer service and get this sorted out. Maybe the average customer would pay the fee just so they can get their check cashed; no matter the outrage; but I am a man of principle. I can handle this, I thought.
“They’ll tell you the same thing,” he said knowingly.
I stood in line again. This proved to be a waste of my time, as the teller predicted; because the customer service man told me the same thing the teller said. I do not have a Chase account, and could not therefore cash the check; not unless I paid them the $6 service fee for cashing their own check. I looked hard at the customer service man, and repeated that this was a check written by their customer, it was their paper, and I was attempting to cash their check at their bank. He looked at me with vacant eyes and repeated his mantra; and I wondered what sort of corporate banking brainwash had taken his common sense and his humanity and perhaps even his soul and squeezed it into a Chase Bank box with corporate monkey mind control.
Perhaps it has something to do with Homeland Security.
“You banks have forgotten that it is your privilege to use our money,” I said to the customer service man. My words were wasted on him. He was unmoved.
“I should not have to pay you to cash your check in your bank.”
“Have a nice day,” he said.
For quite some time now, a devoted number of us have been doggedly blogging about the controversial issues of universal health care, the loathsome banking and insurance industries, the auto bailout, the banking bailout, the hundreds of billions squandered and wasted, or is it trillions? …the enormous deception of the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and a government which no longer represents us. Over and over we have cited incontrovertible evidence of corporate and government collusion and corruption, gratuitous influence peddling, neocons and the wealthy elite running the country for their own gluttonous benefit; the erosion of human rights, the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on everything; and the emptiness of our votes no matter how passionately we cast them; no matter how passionately we believe. We talk and we blog, but we are wasting our breath, wasting our intellects, wasting our fingers on the keyboard, wasting our eyeballs staring at the computer screen, wasting our time thinking we might make a difference with our words and our loyalty for a nation under God we once believed in with all our hearts.
It’s no wonder we believed. It was a great country, then. When. If.
It’s no wonder we grieve and lament now. It’s no wonder we have our doubts and ask questions. We discuss. We debate. We argue. It’s no wonder we blog. None of us wants to take up arms against our own. None of us wants blood in the streets. None of us want the conflict. None of us espouses anarchy. But we know that the independent man, once our symbol of national integrity and individual freedom, is now an enemy of the state.
We know this is wrong. We wonder how we went so far astray from the fundamental principles and the Bill of Rights that shaped the genesis of our nation. Even those who can’t quite believe any of this are still wondering… What has happened to our great country; our core values, our famous freedom, our American dream; our hopes and our vision and our expectations. Our opportunity. Our potential. Life itself seems threatened. Half of us has the flu and the other half is trying to stay healthy enough to reject it. Some here in Boulder are calling it the swine flu. It’s not just another random bug. H1N1 is big news. The vaccine is out now. People are lining up to get it. They don’t want to be sick. They want to protect their children. Their elders.
Others are not so sure. Do we let them inoculate us? Do we really trust our government and the pharmaceutical giants; or is it all a ploy to spread the virus even farther and wider? This is a hideous thought. We wonder how the powers that be can think the way they do; how they can lay waste to the planet with war and empire building and environmental degradation when this is the only planet we have. This garden Earth. We know the world is becoming overpopulated, precious resources are depleted; the water tainted and the wells receding or fouled, our air despoiled. Even the weather seems out of whack; and God forbid they’d use a man made virus to thin the herd. Are they capable of such a thing? Most of us don’t even want to think about it.
God forbid. It’s no wonder we’re concerned; maybe even alarmed.
It’s no wonder we want to contribute to world wide universal change we can all trust and believe in and know it’s good, because the solutions we have in mind are organic and loving and humane. The cure is based not upon corporate greed and corruption and a government that no longer represents us. The changes we seek are a matter of spirituality and sustainability and social justice. It’s good because we are good, in our hearts. We are good.
We want to live peacefully and solve our problems with love and the same resolution and purity of spirit as Thomas Jefferson did when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self evident.
And in that spirit, we must declare our sovereignty as citizens not only of the United States of America; but as citizens of the Earth. We believe in sustainable agriculture and renewable energy sources. We believe in social justice and wealth for all. Plenty to go ‘round. We believe that all men and women and children are created equal. We believe that universal health care is our right and our due as human beings who work hard and pay taxes to a federal government that holds the welfare of her citizens as it’s first and foremost objective and responsibility.
We believe in justice. We believe in the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. We believe in love. We believe in harmony. We believe in community.
We believe in results and action, not empty speeches. We believe that corporate interests and the banking and insurance industries should not lead our government around by the nose; and we know that if big business was required to conduct themselves in a conscientious and accountable manner, they would never get away with the massacre they have committed on our economy and throughout our world.
We know that if we held our government and our corporations to the same basic human values we teach our children, everything on Earth would be different.
We believe all corporations should pay taxes in proportion to their wealth and income earned. We know the law itself is corrupt. It’s made to be crooked; even criminal. We know our Congress is an elegant pack of liars. We know there are some good men and women in Congress, but they are in the minority; and they are compromised by a system that fosters and promotes bribery and preys upon it’s own citizens. We suspect that some members of Congress would like to do the right thing, but cannot; or will not; and all their speeches are just vacuous theater for the public; like the evening news. And that’s the way it is…
We believe the IRS should collect an appropriate amount of taxes from anyone doing business in this country; whether their origin and address is domestic or foreign; and we know that if big business paid their fair share of income taxes, our private citizens wouldn’t have to. We know that whether they are based in the U.S. or foreign, two thirds of all corporations doing business in the USA don’t pay any taxes at all. We know all these corporations have a staff of accountants and attorneys who are rewarded handsomely for keeping their tax liability to absolute minimum; or zero. We know they cook the books. The law allows them to. It’s very convenient for corporate America, and quite a burden for the working poor and the middle class. We are aware that the personal income tax is voluntary, and not compulsory; and that by constitutional law, if we work for a salary or an hourly wage, we are not legally obligated to file with the IRS. Unless we make a profit, we aren’t liable for personal income taxes.
Most of us aren’t making a profit.
We know that instead of harassing the little man, if the IRS worked even half as hard at collecting revenue from every corporation doing business in the USA, there would be so much money collected we could achieve many if not all of our goals for the social reformation and the enlightened reconstruction of our nation.
We know our infrastructure is crumbling. We know our schools are underfunded. We know our children are not being properly educated, but only trained as worker bees and tax paying proles. We know the arts and music and sports programs are being cut. We know our teachers are under appreciated and under supported. We know that a college education is becoming so expensive that it is either out of reach for the common people, or it puts our children into such debt that they are indentured servants until they pay off their student loans. We know the wealthy elite can easily afford to send their own children to the best schools, so the price tag is not a hardship for them. Just us. U.S.
We know there’s plenty of money, but it’s going to Iraq. It’s going to Afghanistan. It’s going to Israel. It’s going to Egypt. Colombia. Jordan. Pakistan. Peru. Indonesia. Kenya. Bolivia. Ukraine. And that’s just the top ten. Our total foreign aid amounted to almost 23 billion dollars in 2006, and that doesn’t count the $651 billion Defense budget. One third of our foreign aid went to Israel and Egypt, and the vast majority of that money was spent on armaments, typically bought from U.S arms makers. We know that the USA is the biggest arms dealer in the world. We realize this doesn’t contribute to peace on Earth.
We know that GM is the 23rd largest economy in the world, and we are allowing them to go legally bankrupt so they can reorganize and manufacture more crummy cars, but leave their American workers in the dust and not honor their employee pensions or retirement packages. We know that GM recently made an extremely reliable and efficient electric car called the EV1 and then destroyed the car and buried the technology. We know that there were more electric cars on the road 100 years ago than there are now. Think about that. The technology was sabotaged, destroyed, bought out, and tied up in court by U.S. patent law. In 2006, Toyota and GM stopped research and development on hydrogen powered fuel cells because they could not agree to terms regarding the sharing of intellectual property rights on the technology.
100 years ago, Nicholai Tesla produced power from the troposphere and the ocean and transmitted it to London wirelessly across the Atlantic Ocean. Wireless power transmission in 1910. That technology was also sabotaged, destroyed, bought out, and tied up in court.
We know the speeches are empty. We know the politicians who make the speeches are as empty as the words they speech. We know that sending our children off to war in Iraq and Afghanistan or anywhere else is a thinly veiled pretext to the empire building and colonialism that is destroying the planet and the culture of humanity living upon our Earth. We know the world wide economy based upon oil and petrochemicals has made the planet sick. We know that all this destruction and degradation is killing us. We know there are a few who profit from this commerce, and we believe that their enrichment is not what the world should be about.
We know that the Federal Reserve presses crank out hundred dollar bills 24/7 and that it costs them three and a half cents apiece to print a hundred dollar bill; and we pay a hundred dollars for it, plus interest. Every day they print more dollars, and our currency is devalued further as a consequence. We know the dollar is a fiat currency backed by nothing, and a dollar is worth only pennies now. We know the banks have been lying and stealing from us for generations. The Federal Reserve Bank is a private bank controlled by some of the richest individuals in the world. The World Bank and the IMF is just another front for the Fed, and whomever controls a nation’s currency controls the nation.
It’s pretty evident they control our government too. We wouldn’t be giving hundreds of billions of dollars to a banking system that has been irresponsible and greedy and unaccountable if that wasn’t true. Why else would we pay hundreds of billions to the banks for their reckless and negligent behavior? They hold the purse strings of politics. They make the rules.
We hold these facts to be self evident.
We wouldn’t be invading other people’s countries for their oil and resources and our strategic advantage if we were truly a nation of peace. We know that peace is not won by killing more and stealing more and spreading deception and corruption and environmental suicide world wide. If we were peaceful, we would be at peace.
The powers that be know that we the people want peace. So what? There’s too much money to be made with war and weapons and conflict. They think we are lemmings. They know most of the population watches the network evening news, where the masses are fed precisely what we are supposed to know. The bodies come home, but we endure. Please get your inoculation. We go to work and pay our taxes and behave, because we don’t want to rock the boat. Maybe we are lemmings. We don’t want to break the law, even though the law is made to benefit the rich and enrich the powerful.
We know the ruling elite depends upon our own peaceful intent and purity of heart to keep us tamed and in line. We don’t want trouble. We know the ruling elite believes in the power of war and profit and money and greed. We know our government is compromised and corrupted by this cancer. Environmental degradation is acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Casualties on the field of battle are acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Deaths in the street or at a peaceful demonstration are acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Incarceration of the innocent is acceptable collateral damage in their world view. We know misinformation is their stock and trade. We know they strive to keep us separate and angry and resentful; alienated by gender, separated by color, estranged by sexual orientation, separated by class and income level, separated by religion, separated by diverse cultures. They want us to fight amongst ourselves rather than gain solidarity together, and sovereignty within.
I, for one, do not believe in the process or the system that supports such deception and degradation, and the ugly, selfish devaluation of the human spirit and our planet Earth. I do not believe in a government that exists and acts for the exclusive benefit of major banks and corporations; and serves the wealthy few. I do not believe in a government or a system that has had it’s conscience and principles usurped at the expense of the common man. I do not believe in a system that profits from the death and destruction of it’s citizens and our planet Earth.
I believe in tolerance. I believe in racial and cultural diversity, and no matter what a person’s background, ethnicity, religion, or skin color is, I believe in the inclusion of everyone in our evolving society. I believe in love. I believe in equality. I hope you do too.
We have too long lamented over our cultural and political and systemic failures. We have too long complained about everything that is wrong, but nothing gets fixed; and no one offers answers that will ever sustain us. We cite the incompetence of government, the Congress, the political process, the corporate mentality of greed and organized corruption, the failure of everything from the Savings & Loans to the stock market to the health care system. We argue and debate over everything; and everything we have is half truths and partial fixes and incomplete resolutions; if that. Our government will never serve us when they are enslaved by their own fraud and dishonesty. Corporate America will never serve us. The neocons and the ruling elite will never serve the people.
It’s no wonder I feel like I do. And there is only one solution. I offer it up for everyone to consider, and to choose for themselves.
I claim my sovereignty. I am free on the Earth. I am the independent man. I am dynomyte. Hear me roar. I honor each of you, and invite you all to roar individually and as a community, joined in a nation of equals, the beautiful and the damned; devoted to our commonality, our differences; our assorted colors; our personal spirituality; our kin and complete strangers; united by our humanity and the love we share in our evolving society. I honor you in a nation devoted to social justice and religious freedom and an entrepreneurial spirit and personal liberty.
I live in the State of Jefferson.
This is my tea party. This is my manifesto. I claim my sovereignty.
© W. Bruce Wright, Boulder, CO.
published on Open Salon, http://open.salon.com/blog/dynomyte
I am a former Chase Bank customer, and I told him so. I didn’t bother telling him that I left them and took my money and my business elsewhere because of usurious service charges and other issues just like this. I was told that I had to have an account at Chase Bank or I could not cash their own check at their own bank, not without paying the service charge; even though the check was written by their own customer on their own paper; because I am not a Chase Bank customer. It’s no wonder I left Chase Bank.
I kept my cool and patiently told the teller that I would go to customer service and get this sorted out. Maybe the average customer would pay the fee just so they can get their check cashed; no matter the outrage; but I am a man of principle. I can handle this, I thought.
“They’ll tell you the same thing,” he said knowingly.
I stood in line again. This proved to be a waste of my time, as the teller predicted; because the customer service man told me the same thing the teller said. I do not have a Chase account, and could not therefore cash the check; not unless I paid them the $6 service fee for cashing their own check. I looked hard at the customer service man, and repeated that this was a check written by their customer, it was their paper, and I was attempting to cash their check at their bank. He looked at me with vacant eyes and repeated his mantra; and I wondered what sort of corporate banking brainwash had taken his common sense and his humanity and perhaps even his soul and squeezed it into a Chase Bank box with corporate monkey mind control.
Perhaps it has something to do with Homeland Security.
“You banks have forgotten that it is your privilege to use our money,” I said to the customer service man. My words were wasted on him. He was unmoved.
“I should not have to pay you to cash your check in your bank.”
“Have a nice day,” he said.
For quite some time now, a devoted number of us have been doggedly blogging about the controversial issues of universal health care, the loathsome banking and insurance industries, the auto bailout, the banking bailout, the hundreds of billions squandered and wasted, or is it trillions? …the enormous deception of the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and a government which no longer represents us. Over and over we have cited incontrovertible evidence of corporate and government collusion and corruption, gratuitous influence peddling, neocons and the wealthy elite running the country for their own gluttonous benefit; the erosion of human rights, the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on everything; and the emptiness of our votes no matter how passionately we cast them; no matter how passionately we believe. We talk and we blog, but we are wasting our breath, wasting our intellects, wasting our fingers on the keyboard, wasting our eyeballs staring at the computer screen, wasting our time thinking we might make a difference with our words and our loyalty for a nation under God we once believed in with all our hearts.
It’s no wonder we believed. It was a great country, then. When. If.
It’s no wonder we grieve and lament now. It’s no wonder we have our doubts and ask questions. We discuss. We debate. We argue. It’s no wonder we blog. None of us wants to take up arms against our own. None of us wants blood in the streets. None of us want the conflict. None of us espouses anarchy. But we know that the independent man, once our symbol of national integrity and individual freedom, is now an enemy of the state.
We know this is wrong. We wonder how we went so far astray from the fundamental principles and the Bill of Rights that shaped the genesis of our nation. Even those who can’t quite believe any of this are still wondering… What has happened to our great country; our core values, our famous freedom, our American dream; our hopes and our vision and our expectations. Our opportunity. Our potential. Life itself seems threatened. Half of us has the flu and the other half is trying to stay healthy enough to reject it. Some here in Boulder are calling it the swine flu. It’s not just another random bug. H1N1 is big news. The vaccine is out now. People are lining up to get it. They don’t want to be sick. They want to protect their children. Their elders.
Others are not so sure. Do we let them inoculate us? Do we really trust our government and the pharmaceutical giants; or is it all a ploy to spread the virus even farther and wider? This is a hideous thought. We wonder how the powers that be can think the way they do; how they can lay waste to the planet with war and empire building and environmental degradation when this is the only planet we have. This garden Earth. We know the world is becoming overpopulated, precious resources are depleted; the water tainted and the wells receding or fouled, our air despoiled. Even the weather seems out of whack; and God forbid they’d use a man made virus to thin the herd. Are they capable of such a thing? Most of us don’t even want to think about it.
God forbid. It’s no wonder we’re concerned; maybe even alarmed.
It’s no wonder we want to contribute to world wide universal change we can all trust and believe in and know it’s good, because the solutions we have in mind are organic and loving and humane. The cure is based not upon corporate greed and corruption and a government that no longer represents us. The changes we seek are a matter of spirituality and sustainability and social justice. It’s good because we are good, in our hearts. We are good.
We want to live peacefully and solve our problems with love and the same resolution and purity of spirit as Thomas Jefferson did when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self evident.
And in that spirit, we must declare our sovereignty as citizens not only of the United States of America; but as citizens of the Earth. We believe in sustainable agriculture and renewable energy sources. We believe in social justice and wealth for all. Plenty to go ‘round. We believe that all men and women and children are created equal. We believe that universal health care is our right and our due as human beings who work hard and pay taxes to a federal government that holds the welfare of her citizens as it’s first and foremost objective and responsibility.
We believe in justice. We believe in the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. We believe in love. We believe in harmony. We believe in community.
We believe in results and action, not empty speeches. We believe that corporate interests and the banking and insurance industries should not lead our government around by the nose; and we know that if big business was required to conduct themselves in a conscientious and accountable manner, they would never get away with the massacre they have committed on our economy and throughout our world.
We know that if we held our government and our corporations to the same basic human values we teach our children, everything on Earth would be different.
We believe all corporations should pay taxes in proportion to their wealth and income earned. We know the law itself is corrupt. It’s made to be crooked; even criminal. We know our Congress is an elegant pack of liars. We know there are some good men and women in Congress, but they are in the minority; and they are compromised by a system that fosters and promotes bribery and preys upon it’s own citizens. We suspect that some members of Congress would like to do the right thing, but cannot; or will not; and all their speeches are just vacuous theater for the public; like the evening news. And that’s the way it is…
We believe the IRS should collect an appropriate amount of taxes from anyone doing business in this country; whether their origin and address is domestic or foreign; and we know that if big business paid their fair share of income taxes, our private citizens wouldn’t have to. We know that whether they are based in the U.S. or foreign, two thirds of all corporations doing business in the USA don’t pay any taxes at all. We know all these corporations have a staff of accountants and attorneys who are rewarded handsomely for keeping their tax liability to absolute minimum; or zero. We know they cook the books. The law allows them to. It’s very convenient for corporate America, and quite a burden for the working poor and the middle class. We are aware that the personal income tax is voluntary, and not compulsory; and that by constitutional law, if we work for a salary or an hourly wage, we are not legally obligated to file with the IRS. Unless we make a profit, we aren’t liable for personal income taxes.
Most of us aren’t making a profit.
We know that instead of harassing the little man, if the IRS worked even half as hard at collecting revenue from every corporation doing business in the USA, there would be so much money collected we could achieve many if not all of our goals for the social reformation and the enlightened reconstruction of our nation.
We know our infrastructure is crumbling. We know our schools are underfunded. We know our children are not being properly educated, but only trained as worker bees and tax paying proles. We know the arts and music and sports programs are being cut. We know our teachers are under appreciated and under supported. We know that a college education is becoming so expensive that it is either out of reach for the common people, or it puts our children into such debt that they are indentured servants until they pay off their student loans. We know the wealthy elite can easily afford to send their own children to the best schools, so the price tag is not a hardship for them. Just us. U.S.
We know there’s plenty of money, but it’s going to Iraq. It’s going to Afghanistan. It’s going to Israel. It’s going to Egypt. Colombia. Jordan. Pakistan. Peru. Indonesia. Kenya. Bolivia. Ukraine. And that’s just the top ten. Our total foreign aid amounted to almost 23 billion dollars in 2006, and that doesn’t count the $651 billion Defense budget. One third of our foreign aid went to Israel and Egypt, and the vast majority of that money was spent on armaments, typically bought from U.S arms makers. We know that the USA is the biggest arms dealer in the world. We realize this doesn’t contribute to peace on Earth.
We know that GM is the 23rd largest economy in the world, and we are allowing them to go legally bankrupt so they can reorganize and manufacture more crummy cars, but leave their American workers in the dust and not honor their employee pensions or retirement packages. We know that GM recently made an extremely reliable and efficient electric car called the EV1 and then destroyed the car and buried the technology. We know that there were more electric cars on the road 100 years ago than there are now. Think about that. The technology was sabotaged, destroyed, bought out, and tied up in court by U.S. patent law. In 2006, Toyota and GM stopped research and development on hydrogen powered fuel cells because they could not agree to terms regarding the sharing of intellectual property rights on the technology.
100 years ago, Nicholai Tesla produced power from the troposphere and the ocean and transmitted it to London wirelessly across the Atlantic Ocean. Wireless power transmission in 1910. That technology was also sabotaged, destroyed, bought out, and tied up in court.
We know the speeches are empty. We know the politicians who make the speeches are as empty as the words they speech. We know that sending our children off to war in Iraq and Afghanistan or anywhere else is a thinly veiled pretext to the empire building and colonialism that is destroying the planet and the culture of humanity living upon our Earth. We know the world wide economy based upon oil and petrochemicals has made the planet sick. We know that all this destruction and degradation is killing us. We know there are a few who profit from this commerce, and we believe that their enrichment is not what the world should be about.
We know that the Federal Reserve presses crank out hundred dollar bills 24/7 and that it costs them three and a half cents apiece to print a hundred dollar bill; and we pay a hundred dollars for it, plus interest. Every day they print more dollars, and our currency is devalued further as a consequence. We know the dollar is a fiat currency backed by nothing, and a dollar is worth only pennies now. We know the banks have been lying and stealing from us for generations. The Federal Reserve Bank is a private bank controlled by some of the richest individuals in the world. The World Bank and the IMF is just another front for the Fed, and whomever controls a nation’s currency controls the nation.
It’s pretty evident they control our government too. We wouldn’t be giving hundreds of billions of dollars to a banking system that has been irresponsible and greedy and unaccountable if that wasn’t true. Why else would we pay hundreds of billions to the banks for their reckless and negligent behavior? They hold the purse strings of politics. They make the rules.
We hold these facts to be self evident.
We wouldn’t be invading other people’s countries for their oil and resources and our strategic advantage if we were truly a nation of peace. We know that peace is not won by killing more and stealing more and spreading deception and corruption and environmental suicide world wide. If we were peaceful, we would be at peace.
The powers that be know that we the people want peace. So what? There’s too much money to be made with war and weapons and conflict. They think we are lemmings. They know most of the population watches the network evening news, where the masses are fed precisely what we are supposed to know. The bodies come home, but we endure. Please get your inoculation. We go to work and pay our taxes and behave, because we don’t want to rock the boat. Maybe we are lemmings. We don’t want to break the law, even though the law is made to benefit the rich and enrich the powerful.
We know the ruling elite depends upon our own peaceful intent and purity of heart to keep us tamed and in line. We don’t want trouble. We know the ruling elite believes in the power of war and profit and money and greed. We know our government is compromised and corrupted by this cancer. Environmental degradation is acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Casualties on the field of battle are acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Deaths in the street or at a peaceful demonstration are acceptable collateral damage in their world view. Incarceration of the innocent is acceptable collateral damage in their world view. We know misinformation is their stock and trade. We know they strive to keep us separate and angry and resentful; alienated by gender, separated by color, estranged by sexual orientation, separated by class and income level, separated by religion, separated by diverse cultures. They want us to fight amongst ourselves rather than gain solidarity together, and sovereignty within.
I, for one, do not believe in the process or the system that supports such deception and degradation, and the ugly, selfish devaluation of the human spirit and our planet Earth. I do not believe in a government that exists and acts for the exclusive benefit of major banks and corporations; and serves the wealthy few. I do not believe in a government or a system that has had it’s conscience and principles usurped at the expense of the common man. I do not believe in a system that profits from the death and destruction of it’s citizens and our planet Earth.
I believe in tolerance. I believe in racial and cultural diversity, and no matter what a person’s background, ethnicity, religion, or skin color is, I believe in the inclusion of everyone in our evolving society. I believe in love. I believe in equality. I hope you do too.
We have too long lamented over our cultural and political and systemic failures. We have too long complained about everything that is wrong, but nothing gets fixed; and no one offers answers that will ever sustain us. We cite the incompetence of government, the Congress, the political process, the corporate mentality of greed and organized corruption, the failure of everything from the Savings & Loans to the stock market to the health care system. We argue and debate over everything; and everything we have is half truths and partial fixes and incomplete resolutions; if that. Our government will never serve us when they are enslaved by their own fraud and dishonesty. Corporate America will never serve us. The neocons and the ruling elite will never serve the people.
It’s no wonder I feel like I do. And there is only one solution. I offer it up for everyone to consider, and to choose for themselves.
I claim my sovereignty. I am free on the Earth. I am the independent man. I am dynomyte. Hear me roar. I honor each of you, and invite you all to roar individually and as a community, joined in a nation of equals, the beautiful and the damned; devoted to our commonality, our differences; our assorted colors; our personal spirituality; our kin and complete strangers; united by our humanity and the love we share in our evolving society. I honor you in a nation devoted to social justice and religious freedom and an entrepreneurial spirit and personal liberty.
I live in the State of Jefferson.
This is my tea party. This is my manifesto. I claim my sovereignty.
© W. Bruce Wright, Boulder, CO.
published on Open Salon, http://open.salon.com/blog/dynomyte
Tags: all, and, common, consciousness, decency, environmental, equality, for, freedom, h1n1
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Comment by dynomyte on October 29, 2009 at 9:08pm - and thank you for reading and commenting, Tammy. ;-)
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Comment by Tammy Lee Glover on October 29, 2009 at 9:03pm - Much~N~Many thoughts of thanks!
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