Predictably, the Wall Street billionaire who bought the NY mayoralty with spare change finally sent in the goon squad to disperse Occupy Wall Street's encampment in Zuccotti Park. RT has this excellent piece covering the madness of a collapsing empire, which has run out of enemies and is now turning its taxpayer-funded weapons against its own citizens. Really, the only surprise is that it took this long for the crackdown to happen.
But then something happened which the 1% did not expect -- precisely because they're so clueless, so corrupted by their overweening power, and completely devoid of the slightest drop of understanding of how we 99% live -- but which we, the people, knew would happen: WE CAME RIGHT BACK (live coverage is running here).
The live coverage is now showing something amazing: Americans are peacefully assembling, protesting the occupation of America by Wall Street in a public park open to all, while the police are occupying the center of Zucotti!
Look at the cold, empty pavement in between the officers, Americans. You see that emptiness?
That is the freedom Wall Street has given you.
It is the freedom to do nothing. It is the freedom to say nothing. It is the freedom to be nothing, because that's what Wall Street thinks of you: they own EVERYTHING and you are NOTHING to them.
You are seeing, in Heiner Müller's immortal phrase, the iron face of
Capital's freedom. It is the freedom of the 1% to take everything from the 99%.
Did the patriots of Bunker Hill die for this freedom?
Did the heroes of Gettysburg die for this freedom?
Did the soldiers of Iwo Jima die for this freedom?
Do we have less dignity and worth than the people of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, who struck down tyrants and plutocracies which oppressed them?
No. We have the same dignity. We have the same honor. And now we must bring justice back to our country.
The time is now, my fellow Americans.
It's time to take back our country.
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