Occupy

Reiteration
Our rights enumerated in the first amendment are more powerful than the right to vote.

We get to vote for our representatives every two years.
We want to vote for someone who will represent our interests.
We end up voting for the lesser of two evils
Sometimes the one we didn't vote for ends up representing us

In the meantime, we sit back and complain because they are not doing what they said they would do,
and they're definitely not doing what we want them to do.
In the meantime, there are people who send their representatives to government (lobby) and those people influence laws.
So, we wait
till the next election and we vote against them.

The first amendment is for the meantime.
There is no reason to sit back, complain, and wait.
We have the right to assemble peacefully,
The Freedom of speech,
The freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

We can do it everyday.

We should do it always

And if they don't listen,
then we'll govern ourselves.

Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...

Occupy Wall Street may be about some Americans finally realizing that America is not a democracy and how that fact has shaped our nation.

Our representatives in D.C. and in our state capital are not representing us.
We must represent ourselves.

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