During the days following 9/11, police officers and their brethren in the fire department along with EMT and other emergency personnel were celebrated as heroes. The American flag was draped on fire trucks, people were singing songs about their heroism and for a small period of time, we were one as a people. Ten years later on though, these same "heroes" stand as the anti-protectors of We the People and our nation has become separated by media's addiction to truth manipulation.
Occupy Wall Street has taken this country to the point of revolution. The people are finally standing up against an unjust, self-serving system of governance which has forgotten who put them in power to begin with. One can only hope these people and many like them suffering for the result of this blatant disregard for our personal and financial security will show the same passion in protesting the corporations not only on Wall Street but across this nation, which have taken our jobs through product and services boycotting.
Another target which would serve the American people as well is a protest against corporate, mass media. These people have en masse stuck to a formula which has served only to sell a product which enables their sponsors by selling their politically ideological brands. With the violent rhetoric of anti-Unionist slander, they have joined the deception by offering mellow tones of distraction rather than reporting on what America's war machine is really doing overseas; how Congress is producing nothing to help our economic struggles of the middle and lower class citizens and ignoring the blatant truths of the worst struggles in America since the early part of the 20th Century.
Funding for domestic programs and our services are being drastically cut to combat the debt accrued by a government which has grown too large to support itself. The doors of opportunity then have opened for those with money to come in, take control and profit as a result. In this manner, corporatists have been able to pay for a private security force paid for largely by taxpayers for pennies on the dollar. Many of the officers performing the arrests may have lost their jobs otherwise.
The days of American industry is over and with it millions of jobs. Unless these people of self-titled freedom support aim their protests at who is truly responsible for enabling the destruction of our nation and move toward stopping the madness of free trade and the corrupt government enabling corporations to control our nation, they will continue to lose their jobs, their rights will continue be arrested for protesting, suppressed from speaking their minds and yes, unemployed; more and more each day.
Wall Street presently represents Capitalist greed growing unchecked, it is because our government allows it to be that way and worst of all those people of valor and righteous disgruntlement who are protesting with certain belief that they are in the right and their arrests go against what they believe to be our freedom of speech. The unfair practices and procedures enveloped by a government controlled by special interests toward enacting laws programs to better serve business interests of profit. Though profit is the goal of business in a free market society, when it comes at the cost of the people, the Declaration of Independence's premise of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" given to all men and women within that society, quickly diminishes. The Seditions Acts, Patriot Act and other policies passed thought out our history which serve to keep free speech imprisoned, were brought to us by our government. Some of the more recent are sponsored by Corporate interests but it is still our "representatives" who enacted them.
To this humble writer, the issue is not so simple as to fit conveniently into the neat little image given by many media moguls and their talking heads of a protest filled with disgruntled employees, people who fell into the crevice of throw away middle management or neo-socialists and marxists with nothing better to do with their day since their unemployment compensation expired: It has to do with a society that has had enough with the status quo and are not going to keep their heads in the sand, anymore.
To the protestors on Wall Street I say, good show. I greatly admire your fortitude, your dedication to a cause and your decision that being arrested doesn't latter if you have no future. To the rest of you, I can only emphatically say; It is time to get off your ass and take back our country. It is time the people enact citizen's arrests by imprisoning the real criminals; those people who have taken the oath to Serve and Protect us; the Politicians and the Banksters who are taking this country into the Land of missed and forgotten opportunity. They should also protest those who will spread the lies of these corporatists and the policies of greed infecting our American Dream.
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