Occupy Wall Street

“It’s not class warfare, it’s math.” – Obama

I realise I’m a little late to the party on this subject.

Just wanted to quickly go over what I think of it and give the protestors a shout out (a very quiet shout out albeit, considering how few people read this.)

I’m really quite impressed by the protestors, really quite disgusted with the police and the majority of the extremely wealthy’s reactions.

The protesters have been extremely peaceful, even co-operative. perhaps more than they should be considering they are trying to “occupy”. Moving to a different spot when asked seems a bit counter to that.

The police have been violent and abusive, I don’t really feel the need to cite that given the sheer vast amount of photographic and video proof, but here you go anyway: one and two.

The “1%” call the desire for what is in all rights, an empirically proven inequality and broken tax rate to be made fair, “class warfare”.

Despite how organised and how much protesting is going on with so many people, I don’t think it will lead to anything, it seems the USA isn’t a democracy anymore, it is a ‘kleptocracy’ I’m only surprised Obama agrees with the tax rates portion of Occupy Wall Street’s agenda.

But if there is any success and the protesters win their battle, I’d ask them to remember this:

Was contemplating leaving it on that note, breaking from tradition with no music embed, but then I remembered this:

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