One man’s view of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
I was interested to hear a CBC news anchor today asking “what are the demands” and “who are the leaders” of the occupy movement.
The young lady (on wall street) interviewed on CBC did a remarkable job speaking. I cannot remember what she said specifically but she made some points that really got me thinking.
So here goes: I will soon be part of the “occupy” movement, and I will do so because it appears to be a movement designed to “listen” to the 99 percent of the population who are not usually listened to.
We are used to the top 1 percent in the form of wealthy corporations and politicians collaborating together to do what is in the better interests of the top 1 percent. Not the 99 percent.
It has become a world where “special interests” can buy politicians and do a pretty decent job or ruining the economy, ruining other countries, ruining your retirement savings, and ruining our democracy. They can make a darn good profit while doing so.
I call this bribery, cronyism and corruption and I hope our politicians (and their briber’s) will someday go to jail, but that is another story.
For now, the movement appears to be the very first time in my lifetime, where common people have come together to “share” their concerns. To test out their voices.
Even if we all came together with a different message (as we so often do), this is the first time I have ever seen us really come together, despite having different messages.
This is the public market, deciding what the public message will be. What is important to our society and what is not. It is not a private party where G8 leaders decide what is important and arrest everyone with a different idea. This is where the ideas are.
The private fences our leaders put up is where the secret dealings happen. Where power concentrates to gain more money and power.
Here is your chance. Perhaps your one chance in 50 to 100 years. It is here. It is now. Your chance to March with the 99% of the country, or the world, and tell our leaders that we are no longer interested in their power. WE ARE THEIR POWER. They lead because of us.
We are now deciding how we will accept their service going forward. We are now deciding how we may punish them going forward, for each time we catch them selling out the interests of the 99%. Some will call for jail. I even heard one source asking for the death penalty. Not my decision. It will be the decision that rises from the crowd of the 99% who stand and occupy. No one man or woman will decide the message, but rather the masses will decide what the message or messages will be.
No corporation will buy the message. No politician will sell out the public with his message. It will be a mass public experiment in asking millions of people, “what is wrong”? And listening to them speak, March, vent.
I applaud the first grassroots grasp on power, on destroying power, not in a violent way, but in a simple, “thank you, you have done quite enough for us” kind of way.
Join in and help destroy corrupt and inept power. Destroy the financial and political power that is stealing your freedoms, your financial health, and your children’s future. Join a movement that does not even care enough about power to have a leader. One will surely rise, but it will not be purchased. It will be the right one to represent the 99% of humanity.
When it happens please stand behind it. Please stand up for destroying drunken power people, and money addicted psychopaths. Empower humanity, freedom and honesty.
To take a phrase from a popular 12 step program which works without power drunken people, “our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not govern”. What a world that would be.
