The Wall Street Declaration

Occupy Wall Street Protests: A Manifesto for Renewing America's Promise

Tad Cronn
When in the turning of history it becomes self-evident that a system of governance has become so corrupt that it no longer serves the many but benefits only the few at the expense of great human misery inflicted upon the majority, it behooves those aware of such injustice to recall those common bonds which tie all humanity together in brotherhood, and end such a system for the purpose of installing another more equitable that will restore justice and guarantee life, liberty, opportunity and peace throughout the land.

The present government in all three branches, executive, legislative and judicial, has, through unlawful and meddlesome interference in the private enterprises and affairs of Americans, and unconstitutional usurpation of the just powers of the separate states, created a system of malevolent corruption whose sole aim is to benefit a few by stripping, impeding, eliminating and denying for the majority the God-given rights that are the inherent possession of all mankind.

The corruption extends from the capital houses to the corporate boardrooms and has engendered a perversion of free market economics that no longer serves to liberate, but rather enslave those who have no choice but to participate through the chains of onerous debt and credit, a system that is fed by the criminal practice of banks' private creation of digital money and the government's uncontrolled printing of paper notes and coins that have no backing by anything of actual value.

As is readily apparent from the current state of affairs, the ultimate end of such a dubious and rotten economics is the condemnation of the mass of Americans to lifetimes of servitude, poverty and crushing debt that destroys liberty, progress and the human spirit, and paves the way for the establishment of a totalitarian system by those in power.

This is a perilous moment in time as the downtrodden masses rise up in anger to strike back at the powers that have so wounded them, and there is a great temptation and danger that the body of honest Americans, particularly the young in their fervor for justice, at the urging of those who stand to benefit, will be seduced by yet another corrupt system, communism, that has led to the deaths of millions around the world, in the vain hope that the Marxist utopian vision might yet prove true.

We are on the eve of a long-overdue New Revolution, but it must be a uniquely American revolution that restores freedom, dignity, opportunity and justice, not merely changes players to establish a dictatorship with a smiling face.

We must reset our country and start afresh with a new beginning for all Americans by forgiving debts, ensuring families can remain in their homes, providing plentiful jobs by returning industry to our shores, supporting entrepreneurship and invention, creating a system of education that lets children truly learn rather than merely punishes them for nonconformity, build an economy that rewards integrity, and create a new money system that is based on real value.

Now is the time when we the people must stand together in renewing our commitment to virtue and to the once bright promise of America, put aside those differences that allow the present powers to manipulate and divide us, devote ourselves to the principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights of life, liberty, equality, opportunity and justice, and pursue a brighter day for all.

--Tad Cronn
Editor in Chief
thepatriotsalmanac.com

Published by Tad Cronn

Tad Cronn is a freelance writer and artist whose works have appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News, the Orange County Register and the Seattle Post Intelligencer.  View profile

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