The renewed vigor and focus of OWS comes as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges voices the opinion that, since the national security establishment such as the NSA and FBI actually lobbied against the newly-signed National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA,) allowing the indefinite military detention of American citizens, the true target of NDAA is Occupy Wall Street this summer. Last year showed that police could not be relied upon to suppress dissent, making the 1% nervous enough to bribe congressmen to give the Executive Branch the power to "call in the Army":
Hedges said in an interview with Democracy Now:
"And I think, without question, the corporate elites understand that things, certainly economically, are about to get much worse. I think they're worried about the Occupy movement expanding. And I think that, in the end--and this is a supposition--they don't trust the police to protect them, and they want to be able to call in the Army."
The costs of bailouts and continuing wars mounts daily, with Obama now asking for another trillion-plus hike in the debt ceiling, a move many economists warn that the dollar cannot sustain. One illustration shows the budget predicament as the equivalent of one wage earner making $35,000 per year who cannot pay his bills, must borrow money, and is already $135,000 in debt.
So society cuts corners in every other way. Trains and subway service are lousy because drivers and equipment maintenance are being cut back. Public libraries are closed on Sundays, leaving children motivated to transcend their home environments to the streets. Our children and grandchildren are saddled with yet more debt to pay for trillion-dollar bailouts. They only call it class war when we fight back.
Father of Iraq vet who committed suicide.
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