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Forum Post: Infiltration: Listen to your brain, follow your conscience

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 5, 2011, 10:15 p.m. EST by sassafrass (197)
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Apparently every kind of infiltrator there is is trying to hijack this movement. All kinds. Doesn't matter what your beliefs, you can bet there is a type of infiltrator that represents the wildly extreme version of the opposite. I'm not talking about the natural disagreements that will arise between reasonable adults with different opinions (evenly passionately different opinions). I'm talking about people who want to hijack this whole thing for one very extreme agenda or another and will resort to very deceptive and divisive tactics to do so in an attempt to make it appear that the movement is homogenously ALL their viewpoint. That is the giveaway. This "all or nothing", "get with the program", like there's ONE universally-decided course of action here. Anyone in this movement for the right reasons of wanting to rein in corporate greed and have social justice and peaceful coexistence recognizes that many viewpoints exist among us and doesn't try to push anything down the group's throat with a peer-pressure or sales-rush attitude. And it certainly doesn't insist that you go along with hasty decisions on immensely important issues and actions without extensive dialogue and questioning. Listen to your brain: if it seems hasty and/or a freaking pie-in-the-sky, keep questioning it until it gives you a good answer (which it likely won't) to your reasonable questions. The mark of bullshit is not having good answers to reasonable questions. And the mark of something even more insidious and scary than mere bullshit is not even wanting to answer questions at all. You do not have to be a victim of sales pressure, or peer pressure. Someone who is pushing you aggressively against your better judgment doesn't have your interest at heart. Whatever your particular interest even is. Follow your conscience.

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[-] 1 points by alfi (469) 13 years ago

Yes! Please have a look, the people should speak out and let their best ideas from the individuals that make up the Movement come forward and emerge: Demand your right to vote, not for the blue or the red puppet, but vote on what happens and what we should do at evey level: http://occupywallst.org/forum/i-demand-informed-direct-democracy-online-whos-wit/

It's already begun, you and I can go voice our opinions and ideas and then vote here: http://openassembly.org