It started as most age-defining movements do, somewhere in the wind. Some unrest, some recognition of what is right and wrong. Some people willing to take a stand against rampant injustice. And then some more people join. And then some more. Next time we look it is in another city, then another country. Sweeping across the globe the civil unrest known as Occupy Wall Street has started to capture the attention of everyone, despite the attempts of the machine and their media conglomeration to pooh-pooh it, discredit it, and lie about it.
You have to realize that there is a cabal of ultra-powerful people that control the vast majority of wealth in this world and in particular this country. They have fed us fat on American Idol while they tampered with voting rights, stole elections, repealed sensible regulations designed to protect us, and enacted laws while shipping jobs overseas with a specific goal in mind. That goal is the redistribution of wealth and consolidation of power to the 1-2% elite while squeezing the once proud middle class into the new working poor caste. You can already hear the screams of "class warfare!" Absolutely but I didn't start the war, they did. You have to understand that the ones screaming class warfare the loudest are the ones who are waging the war. Their goal is not an even America. It is not a fair America. It is an America essentially of two classes. One George Bush once referred to as "his base" and the other is the rest of us -- which is now becoming known as the 99.
I think when the OWS movement first started it didn't register with the power elite. They probably misunderstood the outrage. In their arrogance, they could not imagine that people had caught on to the scheme. But as it has grown to pandemic levels, they are faced with a need to marginalize the movement until such a time that the people simply go home in frustration. They tried to ignore them at first and the movement grew. They tried to intimidate them by sending in their police squads in full riot gear with pepper spray but that backfired on them too as it only served to garner more sympathy for the cause. Next up was an attempt to mock the group and pretend they were somehow uneducated and clueless about why they were protesting at all. Armed with the talking points the fake media machine went into action only to find that in the age of the Internet, the truth is more difficult to contain. Turns out the group did know why they were protesting. If you want it simplified. They do not think that they should have to go into hock for $100,000 to get a Bachelors Degree only to be offered jobs that require a paper hat when they get out. They do not think that billionaires with golden parachutes should get bailed out while their parents get evicted. They do not think that 1% of the population should control 98% of the wealth in this country -- and they are right.
Much more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Would-Jesus-Protest-by-Reverend-Anthony-W-111021-263.html
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