by RF Schatten
Fascinating things are happening in
America...and they are happening fast!!
For the first time since the 60s,
people have become inspired and motivated, in what's happening to
this Nation.
It started with a little movement,
called “Occupy Wall Street”...a little movement that has grown
tenfold. And continues to grow...not only in New York, but all over
the United States, and now...all over the World!! check out
occupytogether.org ...this is real, folks!!
A movement that symbolizes the agony
and frustrations of the common man. How it all began, with a minor
amount of people...and how it has grown, will make these events,
certainly, part of a new chapter, in US History.
What is remarkable, was that just a
very few, knew of these Demonstrations. The mainstream media, for
whatever absurd or sordid reason...kept it quiet from the
public...Fox News, obviously kept a tied lip. Only a few brave souls,
decided to report on it. Give the Internet, and Current TV's Keith
Olbermann, all the credit in the world.
Now, like most peaceful demonstrations,
if it's going to get the attention it deserves, something has to
happen...and in this case, it did. Why? Nobody really
knows...although, it would be in the interest of everybody, to ask
why, and who started it. But, living in an age of high technology and
communication...it didn't take long to see, when the NYPD started to
Pepper Spray some young women. No one caused any problems for this to
happen...it has remained extremely peaceful...but, the actions of the
Police, was enough to incite more people to join in. Since then, more
than 700 peaceful souls, have been arrested. Now, the Marchers are
using acts of Civil Disobedience, and like all Civil Disobedience,
its a means of non-violent resistance...but,
like the 60s, the Night Sticks of the Police have made their presence
felt...more beatings, more arrests!! They say, that if
you want a protest to stop, don't piss people off...you will just
make it bigger. In the case of New York...the NYPD, just made it
mushroom, larger than anyone have ever expected.
Why are so many people, so
infuriated...that they are willing to go out and march, to protest,
to demonstrate their fillings? In Wall Street, it was simply the fact
that people are fed up!!...fed up with not having enough money to buy
food for their children...not having enough to buy goods for their
family...not having enough to keep themselves, and their families
healthy...unable to afford Medical Care for their life threatening
diseases. Unable to afford good schooling, unable to afford to pay
their mortgages. 400 People in this Country today, have more wealth,
in combined Cash, Stock, and Property...than the assets of 155
Million Americans, combined!! The 99% are mad!! and want the 1% to
pay their share in taxes...and for Corporations to stop hiding behind
loopholes, and pay their Taxes, period. They want the Big Banks and
Big Money, to stop ripping the public off.
And the Movement has grown...to all the
other ills suffered by US Citizens...their Constitutional Rights,
whether those are Immigration Rights, Civil Rights, Women Rights, Gay
Rights, and every other Right under our Constitution. Factions in
this Country are trying to either remove or forbid others from
using...the removal of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
Unemployment Compensation, Union Rights, Child labor Laws, Labor
Rights to all Individuals, and the Disenfranchisement of the American
Voters.
People are tired! people are fed up!
people are seeing how the GOP and their fanatical puppets...the Tea
Party...have been all bought by the Giant Corporations, and the
Conservative Rich Elite, in order to place them in power and control
of the US Government, to take away “We, The People”...and replace
them with “We, The Corporations”. People are fed up of watching
how the Social Conservative Movement is trying to convert this nation
from a true Democracy, with a variety of Social Classes...into one
Ruling Class Society, run by a Theocratic Fascist Oligarchy!!
or even a Plutocracy!!
People are getting
tired, they are waking up to the fact, that the GOP doesn't really
care about the Middle Class, or the Poor Class...they are saying so,
everywhere! “Enough is Enough!!”...and in the words of Howard
Beale: “I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!”
Howard Beale, may
have been a fictional character made up by Paddy Chayefsky...years
ago, in 1976. But, what he said, could very well, be today! It's too
long to write down the entire speech of “MAD AS HELL”, but look
it up!! in the Internet...the complete speech is all there...and
sounds like America 2011.
Yes!!
this nation...Progressives, Liberals, Independents, Sensible Decent
Republicans...Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims,
Orientals...everybody! Men and Women alike, are Echoing Howard
Beale...as is, the rest of the world.
The problems in this Country, has had
serious ramifications throughout the world. Everyone is looking at
America...as their Lightning Rod, as we looked to the Arab Spring,
for inspiration. Remarkable, how a small group of people, have
mobilized, not just this Nation...but, the entire Planet.
