AMERICA’S INCONVENIENT REVOLUTION: FALSE NARRATIVES | FAUX PATRIOTS

AMERICA’S INCONVENIENT REVOLUTION: FALSE NARRATIVES | FAUX PATRIOTS October 9

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FALSE NARRATIVES | FAUX PATRIOTS: The ’Occupy Wall Street’ Movement

“The people who [are] trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I ?” –Bob Marley

Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what’s theirs

Don’t you know
You better run, run, run, run, run,
run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
run, run, run, run, run

Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin’ bout a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin’ bout a revolution
Talkin’ bout a revolution

You are on your way to work and encounter crowds. Or maybe you cannot get to the Equinox Fitness Club or New York Sports Club on Wall Street to do a class or lift weights because of the combination of post 9/11 security around the NYSE and the Occupy Wall Street movement. What do you encounter? A seemingly incoherent, unkempt mob stationed in a park, filling the sidewalk and marching down the street. Many look disheveled. Quite a few are younger than you. Some have a trendy pair of blue jeans and hip t-shirts and have an Apple MacBook or an iPhone so you mistakenly conclude that they are all a bunch of trendy hipsters or trustafarian’s; and mutter to yourself, “as if there is a difference.” Those lazy kids should be looking for work you think to yourself. As reported in Reuters, One Wall Street banker described the protesters as “a bunch of whiny people who are lazy or incompetent and have nothing to do with their time” and even other smug bastards on Facebook laugh at the revolution. But then you remember, maybe they down sized some good folks at your company recently and your buddy down the street lost his home to foreclosure and you have not seen or heard from him since. You begin to wonder how many pay checks you could live without before you are down there on the street with them, maybe permanently. Am I right? And then there are those pesky Vietnam Veterans who maybe look to you like they need a shower or more because they stepped out of some 1960’s protest and landed in 2011.

How many times have you thought to yourself your countrymen had become misguided, apathetic, complacent and otherwise consumed with irrelevant and bad pop culture? Have you ever wondered why the people with their mixed messages seem confused, disorganized and incoherent to you? It is all by design. The Media is owned and controlled by the very same folks who created this unsustainable growing inequality in America. They created a “Culture of Distraction” to manipulate the minds of American citizens, turning them into mush. They have turned “the Sheeple” into consuming automatons, transfixed with the culture of celebrity and listening to music devoid of any value or soul. Today’s pop and hip-pop music is as barren as ever. What was once the hip-hop movement which spoke to elevating our culture and empowering the people and another wise positive forces for the course of humanity,was co-opted and bastardized into as hip-pop turning listeners away from righteous choices towards conspicuous consumption and crass materialism. People have turned away from holistic values or any appreciation we are all connected whether we like it or not on this planet. The godless have truly taken over. As you enable one way of life you collapse another. As stated by writer Katelyn Bald: “It is precisely this kind of apathetic complacency which gave way to the deconstruction of our middle class.” Consider the following rant by George Carlin:

The era of disenlightenment is upon us but let us hope nevertheless that the people who truly need to join this Occupy Wall Street movement are not too busy watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey, American Idol or reading celebrity news and Entertainment Television to recognize the revolution brewing in the land.

Still now you have those contributing to the creation of false narratives, ‘Fluffing’ for the Kleptocracy or at least the continuance thereof; folks like Rush Limbaugh, Eric Cantor, Herman Cain, Peter King and Rich Lowry. They stand in front of the cameras with their crisp blue suit and American flag pin prominently on display and like Benedict Arnold’s, all of them, they take positions against the best interests of their people and postulate that the protests are Un-American and an attack on Capitalism without any sort of acknowledgement that the ‘Social Contract’ is broken. The hypocrisy extends to Tea Party Republicans who argue that the protesters are ‘ growing mobs seeking to divide a country.’ New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg adds that what they are doing is “trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city.”

The foregoing folks argue, in effect, that any attack on the existing system which has taken a Democratic Capitalist Society and turned it into a rigged game serving the interests of a handful of gluttonous insiders feeding on America’s economic carcass like kleptocratic uber vultures dining at the Staten Island dump is somehow an attack on the foundation of Capitalism itself and anti-business. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is, however, an effective rubric for masking or insulating from critique the corrupted element within an otherwise legitimate system. Distrust of The Federal Reserve System also runs deep in America. One need only read the book End The Fed by Ron Paul or listen to this incredible rant by an Occupy Wall Street protester Chris Savvinidis. There is and shall always be a place in this world for responsible capitalism, one that does not rape and pillage humanity. They have in effect created a veritable or functioning Kleptocracy allowing this group to self deal themselves the nation’s wealth, using the U.S. Treasury as their personal piggy bank and your pension funds and retirement savings as a midnight snack. As stated by Chris Savvinidis in response to critics who argue that critique of the existing system is anti-capitalism:

“If you’re asking me if I want to end the current system, I do, because that’s crony capitalism. It’s not real capitalism. Government’s hiding behind the name capitalism. What we have in this country are corporations who lobby in millions and millions of dollars to politicians and buy their votes for the highest bids…and Washington no longer speaks for us, they speak for all the big corporations and whoever has the most money.”

As I have stated before and must continue to repeat until it is quoted on every blog in the land:

“A society which is efficient for a few but grossly inequitable for many is not sustainable. It is not anti-business or Un-American to be humanist. A fair society is one which does not penalize success but it is also one that does not impede the progress of a majority of its citizens to fortify the extreme gluttony of a few. Civility, equity and compassion for your fellow citizen are not Un-American ideals.”

Why have these so called defenders or Liberty fight for the Liberty of 1% at the expense of the other 99%? The existing social order with them as the guardians of the security of the Plutocracy has made them quite comfortable. In a truly new world order by the people, there is no role for them. You see this little revolution is inconvenient for the Plutocrats and those who safeguard their interests. In their world, it is inefficient to strive for greater equity in society. Well let me tell you, this needs to get worse before it will get better. The Plutocracy and its way of thinking must come to an end by any means necessary. Take a look at the following speech by Elizabeth Warren who is running to replace Koch-sucker Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate:

Some of you even decide in what they assume is a creative stylish play on words to pen “(un)Occupy Wall Street” blogs because they are inconvenienced getting to the gym on their lunch hour. The problem is that at least one in particular came across as a shallow attempt at intellectualism written by a frat boy who is still employed and could not get to the gym to do some curls on time on his lunch hour as his country was collapsing around him. Pobrecito! The real challenge is for the rest of us who are not occupying Wall Street daily is to use our voices to effect change wherever we can. We need to emphasize that it is not anti-business to be humanist. Capitalism is not what is under attack. This is the narrative that criminal element that took over the free market uses to discredit the merits of the protest and deflect criticism of a rigged system.

Many folks do not understand how we are all connected in this system until one of the links on the fence breaks in their own front yard. So how is your fence doing?

Don’t blame your countrymen for finally waking up from the nightmare of the obliterated middle class. The revolution may be inconvenient for many who are still employed, have a roof over their head, food in the fridge and some seemingly sound investments, but know that what is happening is necessary if America is to have any chance of surviving. We need this re-birth; A Cool Revolution and a new age of Wisdom. Know, accept and realize, in earnest, that America is simply not sustainable in its present form. Why the hell do you think the uber elite have been fortifying their positions in recent years? Why do you think that the politicians have been doing the same thing? They knew that this day was coming. They had to know. Are you kidding me? Do you really believe otherwise? They know what America’s balance sheet truly looks like. You cannot drain all the water from a pool (i.e., the American Dream) and expect people to dive in without breaking their necks. Too many already have. And for this reason and many others, this is ‘Why the Elites Are in Trouble.’

The middle class should not be reduced to begging for Philanthropy. As one who supports the charitable mission of those entities who provide vital services and those that support such entities, despite the importance of philanthropy, I do believe, sincerely that if you reduce a society to begging the 1% to trickle down on the rest of us the proverbial 99%, your society is essentially doomed.

WARNING: To those who disparage, undermine or malign this movement in an effort to insulate the criminal class, be forewarned, the defense of indefensible greed and corruption committed against the interests of the Citizens of the United States of America is not only criminal, but may in fact be treasonous.

HELPFUL LINKS

Occupy Wall Street Movement

-Occupy Wall Street
-Occupy Together
-Occupy Youtoube: Anonymous documents what the media blacks out.
-AnonOps Communicati0ns
-Anonymous Occupy Youtoube blog
-Global Revolution
-Adbusters
-OWS on Facebook
-OWS Livestream
-WaVe Movement (Facebook Page)
-Think Progress: The 99 Percent Movement
-Fair News & Opinion Portals: Truthout, Truthdig, Common Dreams, Think Progress, Mother Jones, The Nation, Media Watch, Media Matters, Countdown with Keith Olberman, The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur
-Paul Krugman: Panic of the Plutocrats, Fear the Oligarchs, not the Protesters, The Social Contract
-Cenk Uygur: “Washington is infested”
-Glenn Greenwald, “With Liberty & Justice for Some”

Key Editorial Perspective
-CBS News Coverage
-Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winning Economist with the NY Times
-Naomi Klein: ”This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the opposite: find ways to embrace it, support it and help it grow into its enormous potential. With so much at stake, cynicism is a luxury we simply cannot afford.” read more about what the author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” had to say at Moveon.org, Rachel Maddow Show and on Huffington Post
-NY Times, Protesters Against Wall Street: “It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the nation’s leaders, and if they had been doing it all along there might not be a need for these marches and rallies. Because they have not, the public airing of grievances is a legitimate and important end in itself. It is also the first line of defense against a return to the Wall Street ways that plunged the nation into an economic crisis from which it has yet to emerge.”
-‘A New Shift in Power’: Documentary entitled “Nobody Can Predict the Moment of Revolution”Offers an Intimate Look at Occupy Wall Street
-Elizabeth Warren: “The People on Wall Street Broke this Country”: Elizabeth Warren is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She is running for the U.S. Senate against Scott Brown. See also the Brad Blog for Elizabeth Warren’s commentary on ‘Debt Crisis’ & ‘Class Warfare’ and Vanity Fair: The Woman Who Knew Too Much.
-Chris Hedges, Truthdig: Why the Elites Are in Trouble / Truthout: Why the Elites are in Trouble
-Truthout News Analysis (Dean Baker): When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street
-New York Observer: Jesse LaGreca Continues to Destroy Media Bias of Occupy Wall Street on ABC’s This Week.
-Firedoglake, Kevin Gosztola: Why Establishment Media & Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street
-Raw Story (Kate Wickman): WATCH: ‘I Am Not Moving’ compares Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street
-The Guardian, Occupy Wall Street: if banks are too big to fail, are people too small to matter?