have a march on the banks, and, I'm told, in solidarity with Egypt on November 17.
Many groups will attend, including flag waving anarchists (not a typo; they'll wave the Anarchist flag, which seems, you know, contradictory), sidearm-wearing Second Amendment types (open carry is legal in Oregon...it's that hidden, non-permitted gun that'll get you in trouble) as well as the regular Occupy campers, day-trippers, curious college kids (some on field trips with uber-hip sociology profs who would have had a class that included, say, touring with the Dead 20 years ago), some folks committed to getting arrested by chaining themselves to the bank doors, thereby shutting them down, and, I hope, a whole mess o' lawyers to deal with them.
We shall see. They've gotten us all revved up before, for naught.
Oh yeah, and that prediction I had yesterday about various governments' lawyers coordinating their attack on Occupy? Turns out I was right.
And another thing...I off-handedly mentioned Russ Feingold was in town last week, and wondered if he'd get heckled.
He did not.
For some reason, he hammered on the need to get corporate control out of government.
Feingold's big idea to accomplish this? Re-elect Obama, so he can appoint a Supreme Court Justice who will overturn the Citizens United case.
There is no need to belabor the obvious point that Corporations now have sufficient control of the entirety of government that no matter who sits in what position, the people will Not Be Served.
What can we expect? To admit that the protesters deem him and his brethren (I lump in gluttonous hags like Feinstein and Pelosi with brethren, so as not to insult real women, my sisters) irrelevant is to invite the torch and pitchfork crowd to form, and they may not wait to be invited anyway--
Put another way, even the cloistered house-slaves, mere millionaires who serve the truly elite hear the drumbeat of OWS, though they don't understand it yet.
Oh yeah, and that prediction I had yesterday about various governments' lawyers coordinating their attack on Occupy? Turns out I was right.
And another thing...I off-handedly mentioned Russ Feingold was in town last week, and wondered if he'd get heckled.
He did not.
For some reason, he hammered on the need to get corporate control out of government.
Feingold's big idea to accomplish this? Re-elect Obama, so he can appoint a Supreme Court Justice who will overturn the Citizens United case.
There is no need to belabor the obvious point that Corporations now have sufficient control of the entirety of government that no matter who sits in what position, the people will Not Be Served.
What can we expect? To admit that the protesters deem him and his brethren (I lump in gluttonous hags like Feinstein and Pelosi with brethren, so as not to insult real women, my sisters) irrelevant is to invite the torch and pitchfork crowd to form, and they may not wait to be invited anyway--
Put another way, even the cloistered house-slaves, mere millionaires who serve the truly elite hear the drumbeat of OWS, though they don't understand it yet.
Click to enlarge this video, a real eye-popping, never-to-be-forgotten explanation of what true wealth means in this ol' USA.
Promise.
More, soon--including previously promised bits and one called "Why Joe Paterno Ain't So Bad."
Peace.
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