OTP

OTP declaration of Occupation.

Imagine a time in this country when you could say you were proud to be an American without it sounding ironic. A time when hard work was all it took to be a success. A time when your government was some benevolent guardian, rather than a pervert peeping in your windows. That is no fantasy. It existed. We are citizens who remember that America, and we would like it back.

We feel our future and our freedom are being taken from us. And we don't feel that's right or fair. We are set up to become a lost generation, and we will not sit back and let it happen. We have witnessed the bankers destroying the global economy, after making billions off their deceit. The tea party was formed partially due to the TARP bailouts, which they were told were 800 billion dollars. What they didn't know at the time was that the Federal Reserve had decided on another 16 *trillion* dollars without bothering to tell us. Trillions of which, they gave to themselves. Trillions of which, they gave to their friends in foreign banks. While America's economy collapsed.

Over 90% of our senate ratified the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Within that document are provisions that allow the capture, torture and imprisonment of American citizens without charge or trial. Those provisions were struck down as unconstitutional by Obama Appointee Judge Kathrine Forest. Obama himself is currently demanding those provisions be reinstated, and has filed an emergency injunction to overturn her decision.

Of further interest is the NDAA2013, legalizing and standardizing the use of propaganda on American citizens by the government. Because apparently even our thoughts can't be trusted without government intervention.

On this day, September 17th, 1787, in Philadelphia, our founding fathers ratified our constitution. They warned us that the greatest threat to this document was greed and corruption. That corruption has festered like a cancer, infecting the values we were built upon. And we have decided that it's high time it's stopped.

We, members of both occupy and the tea party have decided that we have far more in common than the media has led us to believe. We have decided that there are many problems members of both parties have recognized and that the time has come they were dealt with. To that end, many of us have decided to join forces and discuss these common problems. Having identified those problems we will demand that the government recognize and fix them immediately. So far, we have agreed on the following.

1. We demand an immediate end to government corruption. No more lobbyists, no exceptions. It's legalized bribery and we will no longer tolerate it. No more PACS, SUPERPACS or any other kind of money in involved in politics. If you wish to invest in a candidate you believe in, you may do so, but only anonymously. There has been a system attempted where large donations were broken up so it was impossible to know who donated and when. If anyone wanted to donate to a judicial candidate they could do so whenever and wherever they wanted. But they were distributed at random points to the candidate, in random amounts. No one donated when they realized it was impossible to buy influence.

2. We demand an immediate end to all government infringements on the bill of rights. No trapwire. No NDAA. No Stellar wind. No nothing. The bill of rights are the rules our government was bound to abide by. And they have been breaking them left and right. Quietly, but they have been breaking them. You can hear it in Obama's speech. "My job is to make America safe." No, No it is not Mr President. Your job is to keep America free. We will no longer tolerate you infringing on the rules we made for you. And no longer will we sit idle while you rewrite them.

3. An end to the federal reserve, which is a private bank. They stole 16 trillion dollars (Nearly two times everything America makes in a year.) and gave it to themselves and foreign banks. Please. Explain to us why they're not in jail. Is it the numbers? Steal a few hundred bucks go to jail, but steal a few trillion and there's just no penalty? Is it the bribes? It's the bribes, isn't it?

4. We will no longer tolerate banks gambling with our money. Or gambling at all. Therefor we demand the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall act. These people have destroyed the global economy, damaging the lives of billions because we all subscribe to the economic system they control. And their control has led to what has to be the largest robbery in the history of the planet.

5. We will tolerate no more propaganda, or a media run by the advertizing industry. Caring nothing for informing us; only interested in keeping us compliant while American jobs are shipped overseas. We demand, in accordance to the media's agreement with the government, that they require one hour of news a night with the added statement that they no longer be allowed to advertize in any form during that hour. We want the news. Not the commercials. The advertizing is driving the content as stuffed shirts and talking heads race to see who can come up with the best line of sensationalist BS. They only care about getting the viewers, and care nothing for actually informing them. They are every bit as much to blame for this mess as anyone.

These solutions will naturally cause some situations as many of these cancers are deeply integrated within our government. There is a lot of damage that will need to be repaired. This cancer will take chemo to cure, and it's going to suck. But it has to be done.

Ending the lobbying industry means putting out of work literally thousands of people who have been barely scraping by making seven figures. The prostitution and strip club industries will take a massive hit. (Not to imply that all lobbyists are corrupt, lying sycophants. It's 98%, 99% tops.) And frankly there's no way the used car industry or legal system can handle that many applicants at once. But we will persevere regardless. These people bribe our government officials professionally. And that's got to stop.

Ending the federal reserve and fixing the banks isn't as simple as popping down to Bank of America and telling the executive who bought a seventy *thousand* dollar desk with your taxpayer money to pack it. Or going down to Ben Bernanke's office and telling him that he's fired for jacking up inflation to the point where poor people can barely afford to survive, let alone get out of poverty. If you want to know why we're paying 4$ a gallon for gas, he's the reason why. Print 16 trillion dollars without telling anyone, inflation skyrockets, meaning the value of a dollar plummets. It's not that gas is more expensive. It's that the value of the dollar is being destroyed. And this is one of the men destroying it. Every time he prints money, his friends make a killing, and 99.9999% of the country has to pay more and more to survive. He's decided to print another 400 billion over the coming months, but don't tell anyone because that's a secret.

People, it *can* be fixed. By standing together once again as Americans, we feel that any upheavel is a small price to pay for restoring the ideals our nation was founded on. A corrupt system often never sees its own corruption.

Our intent is not to harm anyone. Our intent is to ensure that the economic system that these corrupt individuals outright destroyed is allowed to be restored. And that once again individuals can have pride in their jobs, knowing for certain that the only thing between them and a bright and hopeful future is a good and honest work. We want a nation with an educational system that once again produces the smartest people on earth. A world where soldiers are honored as heroes rather than enforcers of a dictatorship. A world with a police force that can be respected as protectors of the peace rather than shock troops for the people paying off our government.

We are forming something new here, and both the left and the right have been heavily inundated with propaganda for years. We are effectively speaking two different languages. Because of this we are going to demand open and honest communication, tolerance, and politeness of all those participating. Understand that we have all been *lied* to.

Our intent is to foster communication between the left and the right in America, (both on and off line) to find policies and practices that appeal to both sides, then to demand that both parties in our government act on those policies. We will attempt to field candidates, once this platform has been further refined. We will meet together and through openness and honesty, discuss what else we all feel needs to be done to fix our nation. We will ignore the media, and if we want to know the "other side's" opinion on something, we will freaking ask them. And if we don't understand why they would feel that way, we will have them explain their viewpoint until we do. Kind of like how the government is *supposed* to function.

Over the next weeks and months we will be building a communication network designed to encourage everyone to discuss their real and honest viewpoints. We also think it would be very nice to start seeing some joint occupations, or rallies; but that may have to wait until more of the misunderstandings between the left and right have been resolved. We are going to focus on ignoring the mainstream media, because the job they've done has been appalling. Instead we will focus on verified and accurate information from independent sources. When in doubt, ask each other. We all have some very hard truths we are going to have to recognize, as we have been being lied to for a very, very long time. We will stand together, as American citizens, regardless of politics, religion, race or creed. A melting pot. That's what America's always been best at. It's time we got that back.

We will have no violence, no bickering and no fighting. We will be peaceful, polite and obey the law, beyond the exciting new ones outlawing the first amendment. We will not rest and we will not stop until the US government once again respects the will of its citizens. We want our country and our planet back.

What can you do? Stop believing your media for a start. Question everything. Listen to each other regardless of your politics. There are dire signs and warnings we all need to be aware of. Share your ideas and stop letting them divide us along stupid party lines. You don't have to agree on everything, nor will you. But that's ok. If you don't agree on a topic, move on to something else. Politely. As we progress we will find more and more issues we agree on, slowly field candidates for office and put pressure on our elected representatives to remind them that they work for *us*, not the other way around. Organize a massive bi-partisan write in campaign. March outside the homes and offices of these people until they finally realize that we will no longer tolerate their greed and lies. Everyone deserves a voice, but we must make sure what's said is true and accurate. Do not let them divide you any longer. We are all Americans.

Therefor, we, citizens of America, conservatives, liberals, democrats and republicans are proud to stand together. We hereby announce the Occupy Tea Party. We cordially invite all members of both movements to participate, along with any individual concerned about retaining their freedom and the sovergnity of the Bill of Rights. However, we would ask that they do so politely and while conducting themselves with honor, tolerance and integrity. We are not socialists, we are not anarchists, we are not racists, we're not hippies or rednecks. We are concerned citizens who have had enough of the government we put in power ignoring our voices.

The people, united, will never be defeated. There is no problem this country has that we can not solve, provided we work together.


Expect us.