The People

Two hundred and thirty seven years ago, our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence.They signed in the face of execution, invasion, and shame. They did so because they new what they were doing was right. This day has been retold differently every time. And each time to fit the tellers agenda. The right-wing and the left-wing share pride in this day. The day they talk about, varies in the details.

The truth. These men were radicals. The very idea of freedom, independence from the Divine Right of Kings, was revolutionary. This was the next of many revolutions, where the people rose above the exploitation, the separation, the inequality. They made better a system of governing man. In short, in 1776, the idea of private property, freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to petition and assemble were the most liberal, progressive forms of ideology of the time period. These men stood above the exploitation, taxes taken taken from them with no return from their government. They took a stand against the oppressors, and stood for freedom, advancing liberty's cause just a little bit further.

It has been nearly two hundred and fifty years since the day that natural right was signed into law. It has been nearly a quarter of a century, since men sought to rise up against injustice, oppression, and exploitation. It has been two hundred and fifty years since these men and women stood for freedom. It has been two hundred and fifty years...and the people of America are still not free.

Look to the American man. Look to his daily lifestyle. The man must leave his home in the morning and he must work all day to receive a mere fraction of what his labor is worth. He must come home, labor through the financial papers that demand his hard earned money. He must try to explain to his children why he must leave everyday so early and come home so late. He must explain to them that they too, some day, must make a family and leave for work every morning and come home late every night so that they might earn the wages to keep them alive. The tragedy of this situation does not arise from the fact that we as people must work. All labor is an honor. The injustice is the way that the system deems to distribute the product of this labor of the people, so that there is always someone who will have more. The very fact that a human being, one who we call our equal, is given an unequal share of the product of our labors, is an injustice, that we must tell our children that this is what they must do, so that their children, and their children, and theirs as well must be satisfied with this system.

The poverty of this nation will never amount to the terrible suffering that the people of the third world will experience. The injustices the oppressed people of the world must live under far outweigh the injustice we face here. The exploitation the masses of these countries are subjected to goes above and beyond that of which our people suffer. But I say this to you.

There is only one difference. The injustice, and the oppression and the exploitation of us, the people of the United States of America, exhibits only one difference from these poor, abused people of the Earth.

Here in American, it has been disguised better.

The reality is the the Kings of now still get our money. They still use it for their own means. They still have more influence over policy and politics than we do. they have their interests, one hundred and eighty degrees of ours. To me, international CEO carries only the infinitesimal difference from Kings. There are a lot more of them, and they wear no crown, disguising themselves as equal citizens, while oppressing and exploiting in ways King George couldn't have dreamed.