Occupy (Fill In City Name Here)

What does all of this really mean? Well there are a few ways to look at it. From what I can tell from the stories I have read; most of the people going to the "Occupy whatever" protests are not really sure what they are for or against.

Take note of how those in the "movement" consider things. It seems to be more about anti structure more than anything else.

A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote:

The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel tactic exciting, is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each other in various physical gatherings and virtual people's assemblies … we zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, would propel us toward the radical democracy of the future … and then we go out and seize a square of singular symbolic significance and put our asses on the line to make it happen.

The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America.

On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices.

Tahrir succeeded in large part because the people of Egypt made a straightforward ultimatum – that Mubarak must go – over and over again until they won. Following this model, what is our equally uncomplicated demand?

The most exciting candidate that we've heard so far is one that gets at the core of why the American political establishment is currently unworthy of being called a democracy: we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we're doomed without it.

This demand seems to capture the current national mood because cleaning up corruption in Washington is something all Americans, right and left, yearn for and can stand behind. If we hang in there, 20,000-strong, week after week against every police and National Guard effort to expel us from Wall Street, it would be impossible for Obama to ignore us. Our government would be forced to choose publicly between the will of the people and the lucre of the corporations.

These people actually think that Obama is going to end corruption? Do they not realize that the Solyndra scandal has Obama's name all over it? There were Senators paid off with promises of federal money in order to get the Obama health care bill passed. The list goes on and on.

In reality I think the people behind this movement have their own best interest in mind. I'll explain. Once you take the wealth from those who have it, what's left? If you destroy the mechanism by which wealth is created, there will be only a finite and decreasing amount of wealth. The people who are behind this movement are already wealthy, otherwise they would be (like those at the protests) chopping themselves off at the knees. As I have said before, once public opinion is so against the wealthy; who will want to work their way up to the "hated class"?

This "movement" is not a movement at all because there are large financial backers namely unions. The protesters are nothing more than people who want something for nothing. Since when is a large grouping of misinformed people a "new tactic"? Obama was elected by a large group of misinformed people; did they get what they were after?

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