Forum Post: I Owe OWS An Apology

Dear Occupiers,

I misunderstood. I thought that our hour had come at last; I thought that the American people had finally had enough of the evil of the owner class that assassinates US citizens, and has stripped the world of rights by helping itself to the power to throw anyone in the world into a hole to rot for the rest of their life through extradition and imperialist terrorism. I thought that plutocracy, corporate personhood, a bought congress, gerrymandering, and a lack of self-determination in our failed democracy had finally gone too far. I thought that the people were going to remove their consent to be governed by such forces of evil and form a viable alternative.

As a result, I tried to participate and have my voice heard. I tried to find a place for myself at the 99% table, only to find out that there wasn't one. I tried to make a place for myself with other left-libertarians, and I got banned and silenced repeatedly. It was selfish of me to try to think that this movement had any interest in radical fringes like me. This is a movement for Democrats, and I am sorry for being so negative these past weeks. I believed that it wasn't about party for a while. I naively believed the 70% left-independent statistic.

I have been pessimisstic and negative and for that I am sorry and wish you the best in re-electing Obama in 2012. It is your American right to support a platform that serves corporate interests, doesn't prosecute torture, starts wars without congress or the American people's approval, supports foreign interventionism, and prohibition wars on its own people. It is your right to support a government that gives 1.5 T to militarism per year in structural spending - more than the entire GDP of Canada. It is your right to support the corporate welfare of the military industrial complex, and push for more money and power to be given over to government hands rather than returned to the people. It is your right to wave signs in front of banks, and refuse to do anything that will actually strike fear into the hearts of the owner class. It is your right to oppose civil disobedience and non-violent sacrifice that will make them feel it. It is your right to shut down and shout down anyone from the 99% with different beliefs than yours. It is your right to ensure that The People will never be United and always be Defeated. It is your right to have these beliefs and to pursue them, and I would not dream of silencing you or repressing your beliefs; even if you have constantly silenced and repressed me and met me with hostility since I arrived -- I was out of place and over the line and I recognize that now.

I am very sorry. I know that 99% is just a slogan now. I'll go home and wait for real organization and building up of the organized left. It will happen soon, I pray god. It has to happen soon.

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