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Saturday, October 8 Washington Square Park gathering of OccupyWallStreet so you can see what Peter King & Corporate PR pundits call Anti-American threat that merits more NYPD defense than a decade of Bin Laden threat protection!
As the movement that began on September 17th grows, so do the voices of the critics in politics and corporate media who seem to differentiate this citizen participation as a threat to our Nation, Democracy and Free Market Capitalism.
One example of that rhetoric comes from Congressman Peter King who is fairly representative of the "Anti-American" critics painting Occupy Wall Street as a collective of old hippies looking for anarchy. The article was seeded here at Newsvine by Carloz this morning.
Signs at Occupy Wall Street stretching along Liberty toward Ground Zero. The words are as diverse as the hands that hold them but share the single passion of a better way for the 99% unrepresented.
For the sake of argument let's assume for the moment that King is correct and the OccupyWallStreet voices are Anti-American and the target of their criticism embodies American Patriotism, what do the Peter King Patriots look like?
To start with they are immortal corporate persons who have no purpose but to produce profits. In fact the NYSE is a single corporate entity or one person in the eyes of the law. How nice it must be to have one vice do that and it beats the human microphone system forced on the protesters.
It only takes eyes to see the NYSE has greater protection than the White House, so what makes them so special that the free movement of millions of individuals passing through Lower Manhattan must be corralled like cattle and put at risk for evacuation disaster if in fact there were an emergency ?
If an individual were to demand the NYPD surround them and take away scarce, public open space and inconvenience millions of other citizens it would take a New York minute for that person to be told to relocate to a secure facility elsewhere and hire protection on their own dime.
Millions of pedestrians are corralled so the NYSE has the luxury of an open space buffer between them and the masses. Clearly no thought of the safety of mortal persons is taken into consideration even knowing what barricades would have done had they been in place on September 11, 2001
If life is too dangerous in NYC why put millions of us at risk as well? Why not move to a big sky, red state on 10,000 acres with a bunker and Blackwater Xe forces on the perimeter?
For over three weeks now, the "threat" articulated by the powers of Wall Street to the public service funded protection of the NYPD has been on par with a President visit and for what?
Why are the 99% who walk freely through the rest of the city, crawling through Cattle Guard paths that turn a potential emergency into an impassible maze of unimaginable chaos?
What is safer as the monument to George Washington's inauguration is barricaded so the symbol of corporate greed is protected from protests of taxation without representation?
If the #OccupyWallStreet voices are Un-American then what defines a Patriot in this country is the measure of corporate power.
If we accept that America is One Nation Under Corporate Rule and serving the interest of profits is the highest form of Patriotism then it does make sense.
What the NYSE fortress reflects is the muscle that corporatism has flexed to crush any questioning of their superior status in buying our representative government.
Like any shell game or house of cards it's only a matter of time until it implodes and it's corporate welfare not capitalism that's going to suffer when the other shoe drops.
Capitalism rewards production and compensates labor in a market balanced way. Instead a perverted corporatism of government regulatory protection has been turned to loophole legislation of profits.
The empty fortress surrounding the NYSE shows the utter disregard for public rights or safety and disdain for the ordinary working people who's deposits and retirement funds and mortgages supplied all the funds that gave NYSE the muscle to flex in our faces!
Luckily that system has reached obsolescence and the dinosaurs who have been the information gate keepers have been replaced by a human network that is livestreaming the passion of revolutionary equality.
One corporate person's public service protection, view from Nassau across Wall Street to NYSE on Broad Street. That's a lot of NYC real estate to be set aside for anyone in a Nation where each "person" is presumed to be equal!
Copies of the Occupied Wall Street Journal were available in English and Spanish at Washington Square Park as well as Camp Liberty. Word is they hope to be online soon so keep checking!
