On Saturday I returned home at about midnight and watched the live news showing the police and protesters and the deadline for the occupy movement to empty the park by midnight. A lot of the people did leave, pack up and clean up. some tents remained, a group chained themselves to buckets of concrete or something. At about 2:30, something was thrown from the crowd, injuring a police man in the leg. Out of nowhere, mounted police came into the streets and protesters retreated to the sidewalks. Police in riot gear showed up also out of nowhere and threatened to use nonlethal weapons and chemicals against the protesers unless they cleared the streets. The crowd grew larger and stood their ground. The riot police eventually backed down. then in the early morning, the smaller crowd was forced out, using the big night sticks and being peaceful, they were pushed back and the remaining tents were destroyed and the park was blocked off.
Today is Thursday, November 17th. A massive march all over the world has been planned for this day, the two month anniversary of the movement. Watching the march live on the news and live on the internet, the march is again to bring attention to the corrupt banks and how their greedy actions have wrecked the economy, maybe past the point of repair. 7 people were arrested for being inside Wells Fargo and protesting the corrupt money as debt system.
Another thing planned by some people within the massive crowd was to switch the flag outside the bank upside down. Displaying the flag upside down is not disrespecting America, it is used "as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." we are in great danger, our property, our fake money that is over-inflated to the point it has almost no value. JFK was going to end the banking system that was slowly taking over but was assassinated. Ron Paul would've done it in 2008 and protected us from this looming problem, but the media almost totally ignored him, would ridicule and dismiss his success. Obama said he would work towards solving these problems, but has done the opposite.
The enemy we face, the super rich and powerful, are very intelligent. Even with most people understanding our economy is in real trouble, they keep the left fighting against the right. Republicans don't want Obama to get re-elected and are doing what they can to make him look bad instead of doing what is best for the 99%. we keep playing this game, where they can break or make the rules and the vast majority of us will fail. We need to recognize all the warnings about banks and established government that the Founding Fathers laid out. "Resist austerity. Rebuild the economy. Reclaim our democracy." that is the message of today's movement.
The 1960s saw the threat the military industrial complex was, the need to protect the environment, the need to end war, the need for equality and civil rights. they won many of their battles, but they didn't have much support from their elders. We need those ex-hippies, those revolutionaries to help guide us, to support us, to educate us and to stand with us. Too much government is a problem, the purpose of the Federal Government is to protect us. They were blinded with greed and failed to police the economy, letting the wealthy break the rules. Several of these bubbles burst at the same time and there is no growth in real industry in America, in fact there is a sharp decline as technology replaces jobs. the entire system is ready to burst. OWS is desperately seeking to change things for the better, to get the money back to the 99% and letting us all enjoy life and be free to pursue happiness.
Right now, more people are protesting at the Bank of America building. They dressed in suits and then revealed themselves as protesters. Why target Wells Fargo and Bank of America? if you have money in those banks, maybe you should do some internet research and see for yourselves. Fiat money, end the Fed, money as debt, inflation, the 1% owning 40% of the wealth, the 400 richest people and 400 richest corporations, money and lobbyists and politicians, tax breaks and loop holes for the super rich, corporations are legally people which is obviously not true...all of these things and even more are problems we face today that we can no longer push off until tomorrow. for at least 50 years that is the method used to solve problems, create massive debt and push it off to the future...but corrupt banking activities have ruined the value of our dollar, out of control government spending has erased our savings and created so much debt we will never be able to pay it off, the energy monopolies use their massive wealth to limit alternate fuels that would spread the wealth to a greater number of people. I could go on and on about this...but instead...
People have been talking about this for decades. Politicians have lied about how they will save us, telling groups what they want to hear but rarely following thru. It is up to us to force the change we need.
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