Forum Post: Dear OWS,
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 4:15 p.m. EST by malaprops
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You are not being taken seriously because you have many concerns instead of a unified voice, because you have not shown your frustration at the major corporations for welcoming government bailouts with open hands but protest against taxing the rich; at a President who was elected on the basis of Change, but who sits quiet in the Oval Office when the nation cries out for it; at previous leaders of this nation who incited fear into the heart of America and used it to start a war for their personal gains, costing not only trillions of dollars in debt, but also lives of young men and women numbering in the thousands; at members of Congress who would take the very nation hostage during the debt ceiling crisis to implement their own legislation; at media outlets that you look to for the unbiased truth, but who now seek to tarnish your agenda by keeping you in the dark and ridiculing your concerns; at a government controlled by lobbyists and the corporations they represent, instead of the nation that they are supposed to govern; at those 1% who seek to cut education, healthcare and welfare so they can have bonuses policies that encourage the type of "risk taking" behavior that crashed the stock market in the first place; at the Wall Street that destroyed your economy, your jobs, your lives and your futures, but have yet to be held accountable for it; at your decisions not mattering in a democracy, because both parties cater to the 1% instead of the 99% who helped elect them; at a Federal Reserve who has run the value of the dollar into the ground; at a nation that has fallen from grace due to greed.
You have many concerns, but it is not because you are not unified; it is because you see many flaws.
You protest in peace, but you are far from timid. You are frustrated. You are angry.
Show them.
DEAR INDIVIDUAL READING THIS, What must we as people do to fight this grave injustice inflicted upon us, by the ones who lust for power? How can we end the reign of the wicked and immoral and mete JUSTICE upon the oppressors as we have suffered from their hands-their blood stained hands... An idea of REVOLUTION-no, the act of revolution enacted by the proletarians! Must we as individuals ,as is always done, remain pawns to these people, these monoliths that we alone as individuals cannot surmounted...I surmise that we are not ignorant to the woes inflicted upon us by their enormities? We must UNIFY! Unity will be the way in which we assert ourselves!...While I realize all are not are not without income or funds and many cannot unify with this growing movement do to reasons of possible opposition and they being the people I'm question who we oppose (Wall Street), and many have responsibility they must tend to that take precedence. We must rise and vanquish this behemothto restore the equilibrium, for when disturbed it causes much chaos and strife in the hearts of man( man being neutral to represent all genders) in his mind and when mans mind and soul are in chaos as many are they rise to vanquish the pestiferous wealthy. However we should not just target these individuals, each of us individually must confront the corruption in our hearts, how can we judge the corrupt and deem them so when we cannot be amenable for ourselves we will surely be deemed hypocrites as we will be.....I am not meaning to say that this protest is in any way unjust, for far too long have we suffered, I mean that we are expected to expiate our sins -assume our parts in the problems we face and how we may have caused it. Yes, the Bankers on Wall Street are corrupt in ways we don't have evidence of without an investigation. But as we suffer soshall they, for we will make it so. But what of our government I say, my fellow citizens do not neglect to Confront the complicit in this affair for the roots of corruption are deeply seated, we have silent enemies amongst us-be warned that although succession in our goals will happen we may face a greater threat to our rights granted unto us from birth be prudent and circumspect. Another issue I wish to address is the idea of mans continual corruption as all things will be permeated with this darkness Inside our hearts.......when a system is created it always deviates from the righteous path, for nations we have learnt of in our education are littered with tales of nations that became corrupt and faded Into the ruin of collapse, we know that a society without corruption is utterly inconceivable, impossible in ways each and everyone of us know...for as long as men exist so shall our inner evil....but I digress from my original Intent of this passage and I ask forgiveness as we must forgive all in all eventual....the rising potentiality of this movement is quite an astonishment, I thought we were not capable of such things and thus I admit I had less faith in my fellow man. I see that we have all come to the realization of the need to bring the greedy to justice, although the reasons for your protesting may be unique to you, you share many goal, I had prognostications, inklings seems more appropriate of a term, that one day man would wake to realize the greater truth outside of his/her reality, and break the cycles of obsession with superficial base needs and trite motives, a dull and predictable lot we were but we've surpassed that I hope....for if not we will founder and fall Into the patterns we had grown so accustomed to, living such prosaic pedestrian lives stultified by the elite and of our own ignorance we always have the means to educate ourselves in this age, we have no limits to what we may learn based on our status in society, the powerful can no longer succeed in keeping us stupefied we have freewill to reason and learn and form our own ideas, ideas that would otherwise have died by the hands of the bigots! Our endeavours shall be crowned with fruition of our goals for our will allows it, we have broken free from the will of the oppressors.... part...now it is your turn...as Desmond Tutu stated "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." YOURS TRULY- Aaron Thomas Bridge
OWS needs to more emphatically propound the rational, non-sophomoric and respectable ideas around which the majority of Americans can coalesce and support and which are detailed on http://www.sophocracy.com.
Not being taken seriously? I see many in that 1% bracket visibly shaken. They are taking this VERY seriously. They have much to atone for,. .
The strength OWS has right now is its so-called "incohesiveness."
With a concrete list of demands, the existing party system could make a snap judgement on OWS. Maybe the demands are "too much," and the elite get to fold their arms and sneer while the "sympathetic" opposition get to whine about obstructionism. Or, maybe they're somewhere in the middle, so the easy things can get passed and the rest can be endlessly waffled upon, and we get told, "Go home, we'll work out the rest."
OWS must stay strong until actual results appear. Not promises, not pledges, not even bills passed -- actual results, an actually revitalized economy, actual punishment for corrupt financiers, actual paying jobs for those who can't find them. We're sick of being paid in endless empty campaign pledges and vapid platitudes. OWS's unified goal is nothing less than the American Dream itself. We want it back, and we aren't going to wait another generation to get it.
You don't call out his name yet you support much of his ideas of a new way . We call out in defiance of everything and nothing at the same time. He has stood alone for so long, ignored, laughed at yet everything he said would happen has happened and yet most of us still ignore him. lobbyist don't even try to talk to him cause they know he can not be bought and he stands on his principles when no other has. Ron Paul unifies all of us even those who don't even realize it.
This is correct! The movement needs cohesion. This is what Sophocracy provides. Visit http://www.sophocracy.com and you'll find rational, non-sophomoric and respectable ideas that the majority would support. THEN, will we be able to to have MEANINGFUL CHANGE in this country.
There were the T-900 trolls, now there are T-1000 trolls.
unify your voice here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&pli=1&formkey=dFlNNHJTRlZwMWs5ZjlhTWN0NlZReHc6MQ#gid=0