by Peter Payne

Created on: November 18, 2011   Last Updated: March 29, 2012

The OWS Protesters Are Fighting Organized Crime; so what are the police doing?

“I Can’t Afford to Buy a Politician So I Bought This Sign”

I would be proud to refer to the OWS protesters as “we,” but since I am working overseas I am not able to participate. Since I am not there participating, there is the danger that I am romanticizing the nature of the protesters; maybe they are not the intelligent, hard-working, peaceful people that I think and hope they are. When I see them on the Real News Network, being clubbed with batons by the police without fighting back, and their spokesmen say things like, “I’ll believe that corporations are people when the state executes one,” I think my impression of them is the correct one.

At any rate, that this movement has been instigated by excessive corruption in the U. S. political-military-corporate complex that amounts to nothing less than criminality, there can be no doubt. The last election demonstrated that nothing substantial can be achieved through the election process. I would like to be able to say that I am disappointed in Obama. Unfortunately, he has proven himself to be the sort of man that I was afraid he would be, namely the most brazen hypocrite to ever be president. I have entertained the fantasy that Obama might be willing to be a president if the people push him to it. Nobody will be a genuine president without being pushed to it. So this is one of the things the OWS people are trying to do.

One response to the protests that the corporate criminals who run the country have made, aside from hiring police thugs to beat the protesters with batons, has been to shower them with job application sheets from McDonalds. This embarrassingly immature attempt at an insult highlights the extent to which these morons have not got the faintest idea as to who the protesters actually are. It is not the jobless who are occupying Wall Street, but mature, intelligent people who are disgusted with the greed, corruption, and callousness that characterizes American industry and government. Michelle Bachmann advises the protesters, on the one hand, not to hold free enterprise responsible for their problems, and shows exactly why we should hold it responsible by saying: “If we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” Is it not wonderful

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