RE: Only corporations are considered people with freedom in America.
November 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Tell that to the people in Wall Street, LA and SF that they're "fringe groups" and that they're not the 99% despite losing home, being crushed with debt and angry at Too-Big-To-Fail.
You'll be lucky not to come out drawn and quartered.
OWS is playing a dangerous game, as is the establishment. OWS hopes that eventually, the establishment will use police to do some truly monstrous things, ending in the deaths of several people. They're hoping that will galvanize others into demanding change.
The fascists, I mean establishment, hopes that if they can harass and drown out OWS, then people will become afraid and not join OWS.
It can go either way at this point.
And it causes me sadness to think that if OWS is to succeed, even at instituting anti-corruption and anti-lobbyist laws, then a bunch of people for OWS must die in some manner that enrages the fearful public to act.
Nothing more irksome than a fear culture, because it stagnates action in preference of inaction -- which chiefly characterizes the inconsistent and pathological responses to OWS.
The biggest joke of it all, is that if the civic leaders of said cities were to engage in a dialogue (talk is cheap), they'd be able to whittle away and while down the OWS protestors.
Instead, they hide behind police actions and then decry said actions.
Must feel schizophrenic to be a cop right now.
You'll be lucky not to come out drawn and quartered.
OWS is playing a dangerous game, as is the establishment. OWS hopes that eventually, the establishment will use police to do some truly monstrous things, ending in the deaths of several people. They're hoping that will galvanize others into demanding change.
The fascists, I mean establishment, hopes that if they can harass and drown out OWS, then people will become afraid and not join OWS.
It can go either way at this point.
And it causes me sadness to think that if OWS is to succeed, even at instituting anti-corruption and anti-lobbyist laws, then a bunch of people for OWS must die in some manner that enrages the fearful public to act.
Nothing more irksome than a fear culture, because it stagnates action in preference of inaction -- which chiefly characterizes the inconsistent and pathological responses to OWS.
The biggest joke of it all, is that if the civic leaders of said cities were to engage in a dialogue (talk is cheap), they'd be able to whittle away and while down the OWS protestors.
Instead, they hide behind police actions and then decry said actions.
Must feel schizophrenic to be a cop right now.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more