Occupy Wall Street

It has been going on for over three weeks now and I have been watching with much interest. It has grown and spread, not only through the states but now internationally. A real organic movement from the ground up with no leader but a clear objective, to put an end to the social injustice that our country hasn't seen the like of since the gilded age. I support this movement, I long to see the winds of change blow through our country, a country that has stagnated, collapsing into its own greedy corruption. The 1% who feel that too much is never enough. Who will never be satisfied until they have consumed the world and relegate all us regular folks to living like serfs. That goal is so close now as so many are uneducated wage slaves. We need to shake off the parasites who drain us of our riches, watch our suffering, then they sit back and blame us for our failure. Call us weak and lazy, when the 99% are the victims of the laws and policies that are stacked against us. Personally, the failure of our economy has affected my family peripherally. We lost our home and spent a combined 3 years unemployed. We managed to get back on our feet but I don't blame those who didn't for their failure. I am lucky. So many others aren't. Cruelty has become so rampant, we look at our neighbors as they go hungry or live on the streets and spit in their eye. Just go to any news article and read the comments and you'll see what I mean. The hatefulness is breathtaking, it is like taking a walk through the mind of demons. At this point the movement is still fragile. I am waiting for the violence. It could come from provocateurs or the police or eventually like the 60s, we could see our own troops move against our citizens. But I think this movement is stronger than the sum of its parts, the genie is out of the bottle. The disenfranchised us are finally realizing our one strength. The strength that can never be taken away from us, they can only make us forget. Our strength is our numbers, there are more of us then them. The lessons of history are being repeated. Will it be peaceful change like with the election of FDR or will it come with a guillotine? Only time will tell but I am glad to see it. I haven't felt this much hope in a long time.

Some interesting reading from those who write much better than I:
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now/1318340232
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-myths-of-occupy-wall-street-2011-10-11
http://www.sunjournal.com/columns-analysis/story/1100426
http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-taibbi-has-some-advice-for-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-10#ixzz1amJdDXyV
http://www.theprovocation.net/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-movement-poised-at.html