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Re: Protesters to shut down all ports from California to Alaska today.
Author: Juppo
Date: 12-13-2011 - 19:37
Seriously? Wrote:
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> > This is another example of why this Protest
> > Without A Cause is rapidly losing traction.
>
> A protest without a cause? Not exactly. We're
> living in a corporatocracy that's stripping away
> our freedoms one by one and right now those
> protesters are all that's standing in their way.
> We Americans seem to have to endure terrible
> hardship every 75 or 80 years. First the
> Revolutionary War, then the Civil War, then the
> Depression and World War II. And here we are today
> with powerful corporations and CEO's forcing their
> will on a corrupt government and a corrupt
> Surpreme Court while the American middle class
> slides hopelessly into poverty with unpayable
> student loans, foreclosed homes, all the while our
> enbattled Constitution sinks a little deeper in
> the toliet and the ink lifts a little more off the
> parchment. Isn't it interesting how we all support
> the Libyan freedom fighters and the protesters in
> Syria and Saudi Arabia (even the protesters in
> Russia) but we ridicule our own even though we're
> all fighting against the same thing: Oppression -
> whatever flavor or color it happens to come in.
>
> The main difference between today and the
> aforementioned wars/depression is back then we
> were lucky enough to have an individual(s) stand
> up and fight for the country: George Washington,
> then Abraham Lincoln, then Franklin D. Roosevelt.
> Our problem today is we don't have a galvanizing
> person like Washington, Lincoln, or Roosevelt to
> save the country. We're on our own this time - the
> poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free vs.
> corporate giants that have already rolled our
> President, our Surpreme Court, and our Congress -
> and that's why people are taking it to the streets
> to save the country ourselves, while we still
> can,,, if we still can.
>
> A protest without a cause? Go try and take a
> picture on a public sidewalk of a UP train and see
> how long it takes for a UP cop to detain you,
> interrogate you, attempt to confiscate your camera
> equipment, and either threaten to arrest you or
> actually do it. A regular policeman is there to
> "serve and protect the community" but not a RR
> cop. Even though he drives around in a police car,
> wears a uniform, looks the part in every detail,,,
> his 'master' is a very, very powerful CEO. Where
> is it written in the Constitution that rich and
> powerful CEO's can have huge police forces to do
> their bidding? Force their will onto our
> Government, our President, our Surpreme Court,
> control what we eat, what we pay for food, gas,
> everything. What's next? Should Walmart create a
> huge armed police force that has power of arrest?
> There's a legal precedent for it. Who'd stop them?
> How does that fit into the American way?
>
> (((That's the cause.)))
Don't waste your time explaining why these people are protesting or what really goes on in this country. Most people here and else where are far too dense and have been bought off by iPhones and stupid gadgets to pay attention to whats really going on. I give up on trying to educate people about our Plutocratic Corporatocracy. Lets start with the fact that almost no one knows what a 'plutocracy' is. The fact that most people chastise and lambast these protesters, regardless of how backwards and counterproductive their tactics are, proves how @#$%& we are as a society. If you disagree with the message of this movement, you are stupid on an incomprehensible level and deserve whatever fate your corporate overlords hand out to your @#$%& ass.
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> > This is another example of why this Protest
> > Without A Cause is rapidly losing traction.
>
> A protest without a cause? Not exactly. We're
> living in a corporatocracy that's stripping away
> our freedoms one by one and right now those
> protesters are all that's standing in their way.
> We Americans seem to have to endure terrible
> hardship every 75 or 80 years. First the
> Revolutionary War, then the Civil War, then the
> Depression and World War II. And here we are today
> with powerful corporations and CEO's forcing their
> will on a corrupt government and a corrupt
> Surpreme Court while the American middle class
> slides hopelessly into poverty with unpayable
> student loans, foreclosed homes, all the while our
> enbattled Constitution sinks a little deeper in
> the toliet and the ink lifts a little more off the
> parchment. Isn't it interesting how we all support
> the Libyan freedom fighters and the protesters in
> Syria and Saudi Arabia (even the protesters in
> Russia) but we ridicule our own even though we're
> all fighting against the same thing: Oppression -
> whatever flavor or color it happens to come in.
>
> The main difference between today and the
> aforementioned wars/depression is back then we
> were lucky enough to have an individual(s) stand
> up and fight for the country: George Washington,
> then Abraham Lincoln, then Franklin D. Roosevelt.
> Our problem today is we don't have a galvanizing
> person like Washington, Lincoln, or Roosevelt to
> save the country. We're on our own this time - the
> poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free vs.
> corporate giants that have already rolled our
> President, our Surpreme Court, and our Congress -
> and that's why people are taking it to the streets
> to save the country ourselves, while we still
> can,,, if we still can.
>
> A protest without a cause? Go try and take a
> picture on a public sidewalk of a UP train and see
> how long it takes for a UP cop to detain you,
> interrogate you, attempt to confiscate your camera
> equipment, and either threaten to arrest you or
> actually do it. A regular policeman is there to
> "serve and protect the community" but not a RR
> cop. Even though he drives around in a police car,
> wears a uniform, looks the part in every detail,,,
> his 'master' is a very, very powerful CEO. Where
> is it written in the Constitution that rich and
> powerful CEO's can have huge police forces to do
> their bidding? Force their will onto our
> Government, our President, our Surpreme Court,
> control what we eat, what we pay for food, gas,
> everything. What's next? Should Walmart create a
> huge armed police force that has power of arrest?
> There's a legal precedent for it. Who'd stop them?
> How does that fit into the American way?
>
> (((That's the cause.)))
Don't waste your time explaining why these people are protesting or what really goes on in this country. Most people here and else where are far too dense and have been bought off by iPhones and stupid gadgets to pay attention to whats really going on. I give up on trying to educate people about our Plutocratic Corporatocracy. Lets start with the fact that almost no one knows what a 'plutocracy' is. The fact that most people chastise and lambast these protesters, regardless of how backwards and counterproductive their tactics are, proves how @#$%& we are as a society. If you disagree with the message of this movement, you are stupid on an incomprehensible level and deserve whatever fate your corporate overlords hand out to your @#$%& ass.
