The REAL heroes in the United States are NOT who the Government & the Government manipulated media claim they are: The Military, The FBI & CIA, and the Police. No, they are the women, men, & even children who are willing to publicly march and speak against the U.S. policies which oppress the poor, murder and maim thousands around the world every year, and systematically fuel HATE rather than LOVE.
Yet, Republican & Democratic politicians, news networks, talk show hosts, and the majority of TV shows and movies praise daily as heroes the above mentioned entities who actually are the oppressors and the forces that try to guarantee that there will never be any REAL change in the United States.
Meanwhile, those oppressors are always on the prowl for more critics to infiltrate; for more dissident leaders to frame for "terrorism" or some other set-up "crime." They are always using every means to COVER-UP their violation of human and civil rights, by such means as actually making it a "crime" to videotape their brutality, by destruction of documents; by shielding lawyers for dissidents from having access to what information remains because of "national security."
In the Occupy movement, we have heard about the 1% and the 99% percent
over the past year. For years before the Occupy movement and still now,
I have always believed that in the United States there was the 1% who were
those who controlled the wealth and the power & who oppressed those who
didn't have it; but ALSO just 1% who REALLY knew what that controlling 1%
was doing & publicly tried to change it ... the REAL heroes...
while the controlling 1% is fully aware of this and is daily trying to wipe out
that OTHER 1%, if not physically, then at least by destroying their lives, their
families, & their opportunities to speak and act! ...Then there are the other
98% of the population that are largely self-absorbed, that go along like sleep
with what the Government, the Government heroes, and the media tell them.
What is our task then? To support the REAL heroes in their quest for economic, social, and spiritual justice in what ways that we can, and to change any of those "sheep" into mindfully aware human beings.
Yet, Republican & Democratic politicians, news networks, talk show hosts, and the majority of TV shows and movies praise daily as heroes the above mentioned entities who actually are the oppressors and the forces that try to guarantee that there will never be any REAL change in the United States.
Meanwhile, those oppressors are always on the prowl for more critics to infiltrate; for more dissident leaders to frame for "terrorism" or some other set-up "crime." They are always using every means to COVER-UP their violation of human and civil rights, by such means as actually making it a "crime" to videotape their brutality, by destruction of documents; by shielding lawyers for dissidents from having access to what information remains because of "national security."
In the Occupy movement, we have heard about the 1% and the 99% percent
over the past year. For years before the Occupy movement and still now,
I have always believed that in the United States there was the 1% who were
those who controlled the wealth and the power & who oppressed those who
didn't have it; but ALSO just 1% who REALLY knew what that controlling 1%
was doing & publicly tried to change it ... the REAL heroes...
while the controlling 1% is fully aware of this and is daily trying to wipe out
that OTHER 1%, if not physically, then at least by destroying their lives, their
families, & their opportunities to speak and act! ...Then there are the other
98% of the population that are largely self-absorbed, that go along like sleep
with what the Government, the Government heroes, and the media tell them.
What is our task then? To support the REAL heroes in their quest for economic, social, and spiritual justice in what ways that we can, and to change any of those "sheep" into mindfully aware human beings.
I agree with you totally. Those 1%ers have a unique way of trying to destroy our lives by bullying information (thru the MSM)by not focusing on the ISSUES of the 99%. Oh yes, occasionally they mention the lack of jobs - but never interview those "job creators"...never seek out stories that would put many of those high-rolling Wall Streeters in the clink!...and never focus on those promised jobs thru the Internet (do you know of anyone whose making ends meet thru those promised scams we've all heard of?)
ReplyDeleteYes, there are some of us trying, with whatever might has been left us, to grapple up enough strength to forge ahead and look, look, look for those ads that will pay our mundane bills. But we all have our breaking points - and little by little our moral fortitude is being corroded....en masse. And that's what the 1% seems to be counting on. Our "free marketeers" haven't gotten it into their moneyed heads YET that it is the Poor to Middle classes that have ALWAYS been the thermometer for a rich and prosperous nation.
Long live the ONE PERCENTERS !!!