Well. This is
what I'm talking about! Finally, my generation is doing something
worth it! I spoke in Week Seventeen about a paradigm shift, about my
realizing how lucky we, as Americans, are. I asked a question then,
as I worried about the general public not doing anything, and the
government regulations expanding continuously.
“When
will the rest of the choir speak up, unified, to make their song be
heard?”
Well!
I certainly got my answer didn't I! And it was as if the general
public rose up, and what started as a few become thousands.
Thousands protesting in the streets and millions agreeing with them.
I Am Proud. And yes, there is some violence, but there is some
violence no matter what.
Now
consider the size of the protests compared to the incidents of
violence, and think on that for a bit. These aren't a bunch of young
liberals either. There are teachers, soldiers, sailors, and yes,
even humble librarian are rising up.
The
biggest accusation that the media presents are that these are a bunch
of liberals who have no clear leadership and no clear demands. I
hate to tell the media this, but they have leadership that acts with
the consent of it's people and many protestors in the civil rights
era couldn't tell you what they protested for, only that they were
fighting something horrible.
And
I think the demands are pretty clear. The banks who didn't use the
bail out money how they were supposed to need to be punished.
Investigations need to be launched into big wig CEOs, especially the
ones that the Americans public suspects of inside trading. No more
lobbiers writing the bills that go through congress. No more FED.
A
revolution. The American people want an economic revolution, a
political revolution. They don't want corporations to be treated as
citizens, because frankly, corporations make horrible citizens.
One
of the accusations is that this protests is against capitalism.
Please don't be fooled. Open your eyes, look around. Using the
internet, these protestors are organizing themselves to protests in
more than just the North East. There are 'Occupy Meetups' in 1,360
cities at the time of this writing.
This
isn't a protest again capitalism. This is a protest against statism,
against misuse of government tn order to gain money.
“[...]
If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we
must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the
one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are
as different as day and night in their nature and
consequences. Free-market
capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which
producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products
of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State
capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive
apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital
for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and
violence [...]” -- Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 [1]
Imagine.
Corporations, no longer allowed to write laws to send to the
government. People able to trust the government once more. Imagine
a government that protected, not used, the people, and imagine how
different the world would be. It's not just in America now, it's
growing steadily, world wide. Take a look at the map on Occupy
Together. Not every protest is big. But they are happening.
Even
now, the Occupy Wall St is using the democratic process in order to
make a formal list of demands. Go to their website, look it up
yourself. Vote.
Think
you're alone? At the bottom of this post is a Google+ feed of
pictures of the protestors. There's an Occupy Wall St Tumbler. On
it are pictures and statements from the 99%. Let your voice be
heard, even if it's only the single vote, or a single picture. Be
proud. Be heard. And let the White House know that we won't stand
for this any more.
One
Final Byte: Freedom is worth only what you put in it.
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