Protesting in response to the out-of-touch corporate, financial and political elite…
SO – what are they (the 1%) out-of-touch about and what are the protesters (99%) for?
At Least In My Opinion
Present day Orlando, Fl.
A down and out 43 year old man wanted to end his life. He took a bottle
of cheap beer and 31 of his mother’s painkillers (hydrocodone) to a
local park. A cop saw him drinking the beer and arrested him under
Florida’s prescription drug trafficking law. Huh!#@Z!?
So a man so despondent he wants to commit suicide ends up with (not the support and treatment for his condition) but a 15 year prison sentence for drug trafficking.!?
This is a terrible story through and through but really, who cares?
Couple this with the recent story of a man in Georgia, where any rationally sane person would see that this man, although convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed by the state, is at most, likely innocent and at least, with nearly every witness now recanting, has the defense certainly of reasonable doubt. Nonetheless the state killed him.
Again, who really cares and what do these stories have to do with “Occupy Wall Street” and 1%ers and 99%ers?
It might depend on one’s point of view. If you prefer to live under a governmental way of thinking based on fear then perhaps you say well it’s just tough.
You’d likely be of the mind that sees the building up and up and up of the military (spending) -positioning, manning, protecting and paying for military bases in over 150 countries around the world to expand and protect an empire (and regardless of history’s clear and unequivocal telling us that such a model is destructive and doomed to failure and at exorbitant costs as to being of a bankrupting nature) – as making perfect sense.
However if you base your thinking, planning and way of life on something other than an Us vs. Them philosophy but instead based on a foundation of community, cooperation, to say in a word, love, then maybe you do care.
(And) it seems that perhaps many do and are standing up to do something…
What do you think?