Forum Post: Demand #2 - All Protester take a bath so you stop smelling like #2
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 19, 2011, 9:11 a.m. EST by happybanker
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Oh, and Occupy My Ball Sack when you are done!
If this movement is truly successful, it will represent a major change in the economic and political systems of the US.
One major factor in keeping the population under control are the artificial class and race barriers that have been erected by the ruling class. (Howard Zinn's A Peoples History of the US has the best explanation of this.) By the way, I include union leadership in the 1% ruling class.
OWS tries to be a classless, raceless movement. This frightens the ruling class to no end.
Thus, one of their major social control mechanisms has failed.
To counter this in the short term, they have encouraged hatemongers to post on this forum, and to express sympathy with OWS. The racist right has been insistent on denying Obama any cooperation. These forces of hate have felt threatened since Obama's election, anyway, and they sense the power of this movement. Without an artificial racial and economic divide, these groups would have no reason to exist.
Many poor whites make up the bulk of these hate groups, but others, specifically immigrants (East Indians, Russians, etc.), belong, too. The poor whites have been more negatively impacted by the financial crisis than most, so the risk to the ruling class is two fold:
If the ruling class can paint this movement as racist and antisemitic, they can lower the attractiveness of OWS to the bulk of Americans, who believe in fair play above all else.
I suggest occupiers remain peaceful and positive.
These guys are dangerous I live in poverty and want them out
Truly the scum of our great country. If the USA had a butthole, it would be in that park.
Ps there is no farmers union
It is in the park I live in VT they bring down our monetary system the cops won't have to arrest them we won't feed them.