Gordon LeCompte Bolmer
10-28-2011, 11:35 AM
The past 30 years—the course of five administrations, particularly the last two, those of "W." Bush, and Obama—have witnessed a precipitous decline in America's reputation, relative affluence, cultural level, and Constitutional order. Americans have specific grievances:
—Workers' rights to collective bargaining have been almost fatally compromised. Meanwhile, banks, trusts, and corporations continue to engage in collusion, combination, price-fixing, and insider trading based on privileged information, in their normal course of doing business.
—Loser banks and loser corporations have been bailed-out to the tune of trillions of dollars, while the average American taxpayer has been left to go hang.
—A Fascist course has been implemented both in our foreign policy, and in our own domestic security. Torture, assassination, warrantless domestic spying, offensive/undeclared war, and wars of outright conquest, have become established tools of American Imperial statecraft.
—NATO has been overly-extended into Eastern Europe, and even into western Asia, far exceeding the mandate of its "Atlanticist" Charter. In so doing it is destabilizing the region, and becoming strategically counterproductive. It is also increasing the tax burden on its member populations, while providing less in terms of relevant strategic value. NATO has grown well past the "point of diminishing returns."
In response, Americans are considering various "radical" courses of action. To begin with (but not to be limited to):
—Abolish trading in most forms of "derivatives."
—Revoke the monopoly status of the Federal Reserve Bank. Audit the Fed and Goldman Sachs.
—Reduce or abolish the President's ability to initiate military interventions, without the explicit consent or declaration by Congress.
—Reinforce the First and Fourth Amendment protections of Internet users and providers, and of political activists.
—Abolish the CIA and the NSA, and their institutional cultures, as they currently exist. Prosecute those agents caught engaging in extra-legal operations.
—Dissolve NATO, in favor of some other regional security arrangement.
For these reasons and others, people support and subscribe to:
OCCUPY COLUMBUS
and
OCCUPY TOLEDO,
in conjunction with:
OCCUPY WALL STREET.
http://www.occupycolumbus.org/
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyColumbus
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy...15263885207743
http://www.occupytoledo.org/
http://www.facebook.com/occupytoledo
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBG
http://www.occupyr.com/
http://occupywallst.org/
http://www.occupytogether.org/
[—Don Bolmer, Hyperboloid, 10 Oct. 2011]
The preceding represents the contents of a flyer that I distributed in Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay and Columbus, Ohio. It was universally well-received. Its purpose is to contribute elements towards the eventual common list of demands, of the Occupy Movement.
—Workers' rights to collective bargaining have been almost fatally compromised. Meanwhile, banks, trusts, and corporations continue to engage in collusion, combination, price-fixing, and insider trading based on privileged information, in their normal course of doing business.
—Loser banks and loser corporations have been bailed-out to the tune of trillions of dollars, while the average American taxpayer has been left to go hang.
—A Fascist course has been implemented both in our foreign policy, and in our own domestic security. Torture, assassination, warrantless domestic spying, offensive/undeclared war, and wars of outright conquest, have become established tools of American Imperial statecraft.
—NATO has been overly-extended into Eastern Europe, and even into western Asia, far exceeding the mandate of its "Atlanticist" Charter. In so doing it is destabilizing the region, and becoming strategically counterproductive. It is also increasing the tax burden on its member populations, while providing less in terms of relevant strategic value. NATO has grown well past the "point of diminishing returns."
In response, Americans are considering various "radical" courses of action. To begin with (but not to be limited to):
—Abolish trading in most forms of "derivatives."
—Revoke the monopoly status of the Federal Reserve Bank. Audit the Fed and Goldman Sachs.
—Reduce or abolish the President's ability to initiate military interventions, without the explicit consent or declaration by Congress.
—Reinforce the First and Fourth Amendment protections of Internet users and providers, and of political activists.
—Abolish the CIA and the NSA, and their institutional cultures, as they currently exist. Prosecute those agents caught engaging in extra-legal operations.
—Dissolve NATO, in favor of some other regional security arrangement.
For these reasons and others, people support and subscribe to:
OCCUPY COLUMBUS
and
OCCUPY TOLEDO,
in conjunction with:
OCCUPY WALL STREET.
http://www.occupycolumbus.org/
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyColumbus
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy...15263885207743
http://www.occupytoledo.org/
http://www.facebook.com/occupytoledo
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBG
http://www.occupyr.com/
http://occupywallst.org/
http://www.occupytogether.org/
[—Don Bolmer, Hyperboloid, 10 Oct. 2011]
The preceding represents the contents of a flyer that I distributed in Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay and Columbus, Ohio. It was universally well-received. Its purpose is to contribute elements towards the eventual common list of demands, of the Occupy Movement.