responses to Occupy, this ain’t no new thing!

Mayor Art Reaume, who in 1945 in Windsor Ontario Canada refused to use police to break up strikers at the Ford plant there. How many mayors dealing with local citizens with legitimate grievances  would do that these days? Why the heavy handed approach and use of violence to disrupt non violent protestors? Simple answer, FEAR. The system (for lack of a better term) fears those who don’t “tow the line” and can’t understand why the peasants would revolt or try to exercise their Constitutional rights.


So what is the Occupy really about? Again pretty simple, people are pissed off. They don’t like the system pissing on their backs and telling them its rain. They don’t like that big corporations and banks fuck up and get a free pass when breaking the law and getting rewarded for it using the people’s money.
 
If you still don’t get it, let me break it down into crayon:

imagine a local business man get’s caught laundering money and losing the town’s savings through criminal neglect. Now imagine instead of going to jail that same person instead get’s a whole pile of money to cover those losses and and even more from the government and then gives himself a big bonus. Now imagine that the government comes to you and the people around you for more money to cover what they gave to the crooked businessman and on top of that the same businessman gets a government job and those same people in the government go into business for that businessman! Well that’s exactly what’s been going on! THAT is why people are pissed off and doing these protests!

Now back to the Ford Strike of 1945, it was a situation not dissimilar to what’s been going on the last while. We went from having allot of rights from roughly that time forward until the Reaganomics of the 1980’s where all of those rights were steadily eroded until we have the situation we find ourselves in today again at the tipping point of corporate greed and corruption. The elites are trying to wind back the clocks and have been doing a damned good job of it through public apathy. I’ve mentioned it many, many times in the past that these elites want to see a return to the good ole days of feudalism and serfdom just where the sheeple maybe have a bit more money to buy their crap. The only reason any of us today have a so called middle class was due to the Black Plague and their weren’t enough skilled workers around to do the work so were able to demand higher wages and freedom.

One of the reasons the Ford Strike of 1945 succeeded after 99 days on the line was that the local populace and other organized labor groups pitched in to keep food, clothing and money going for the strikers and their families. Also a few “elected officials” did the right thing and stuck by their constituents and not the corporations. Local police also did not interfere with the workers who were picketing as most folks recognized at that time it was not just about a local strike that it was something bigger that would change the labor movement as well as rights for everyone. As prior to that it was common practice for supervisors to “ask” workers to do extra work outside of the plant in order to keep their jobs as well as other abuses we would be horrified at today.

Is the occupy movement that much different? If it succeeds could things not change for the better for everyone, the so called 99%? Hell even some of the 1% is saying similar things. Again it’s a pretty simple thing and as old as time, the elite’s feel entrenched and will do everything they can to maintain their hold on power. Thus why the heavy handed response?
 
Which is ridiculous considering the “Occupiers” are hanging around in parks and doing protests peacefully? Why the reaction with tear gas and goons? It’s because of public opinion, the system needs fear to maintain itself in it’s current configuration. And a sort of proto Occupy started in Wisconsin right before the OWS took off-
 
Democracy has been highjacked by a small minority that has no interest in right’s and doing the right thing, it has an agenda to fulfill and strong willed people exercising their rights and freedoms does not equate with that agenda.

So if anything we should be supporting the Occupiers even if its just making a plate of sandwiches and bringing it to the park or some blankets and other things. This is something bigger than any of us and could lead to a better life for everyone. -EvS