The 1% grieved as per Jefferson (rating, Chicago, money, abuse)

[harborlady]

Separation of Powers: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 13, 120--21

All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body [in the Virginia Constitution of 1776]. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one...

The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished too by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument, as well as the object of acquisition. With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them. They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

[harborlady]

12 views, and all others herd onto sensationalist thread hurling false accusations around at one another.

Is this not why no one knows what OWS/ 99% is and ever was about? The audience decided the protest signs read something else. They've been conditioned to do so.