Saturday, January 11, 2014
Hot Coffee " What do you mean Occupy America, and with hoody's"
Its funny, but when anyone sees the words occupy and America in the same text they automatically become nervous. My blog title in no way is intended to offend or put anyone off. My idea for this blog began to develop during the occupy movement. That was when students, mostly college aged, pacifists, concerned citizens and the disenfranchised all came together to protest Wall Street, big business, local governments and the rich over the disparate distribution of wealth in this country. These individuals all got together and city by city decided to occupy some public park or other community space and to stay there, until there was some relevant conversation about the issues they were concerned about. They had the right idea. Especially when one reads that in 2013 the greatest transfer of wealth in history had occurred. Now I don't know, but I don't think that this transfer of wealth occurred from the rich to the poor. From the rich to the rich, maybe. More than likely this transfer occurred from the coffers of government to the pockets of the rich, so I would surmise that because of the fact that the majority of money the governments of the world holds comes from taxation, and that the middle classes and poor of this planet are the ones who pay the majority of the taxes, the wealth transfer occurred from the poor and middle class to the coffers of the rich. Right idea? yes organizationally correct? maybe not.Like any good idea, from the environmental movement beginning in the seventies to the Million Man March of the nineties, momentum was begun, change was imagined, then functionality evaporation occurs. Back to the present. Garnishing that idea, I supposed, why not an occupy America movement? Instead of a fractionalized movement separated by state borders, lets have a similar idea and plan of action that encompasses the entire country. Now I am in no way suggesting that those many thousands of wonderful people who endured countless hardships and constant harassment by law enforcement, the law abiding citizency and by those that prey on the righteous were in any way wrong. And neither am I alluding to this being the beginning the middle or the mesh of that great movement. I am only stating that any idea that has in its roots the sincere expression of what one or many believe to be right, and may have the ability to breathe a soft breath on an ember of righteousness, ought to encompass the entire country or the entire world. No such lofty goals here, but lets see. Then there is the hoodys part. That grew out of the death of Trevon. If the appearance one exudes triggers some inane fear or hatred. Or worse yet, if wearing a hoody in America is enough to get one killed, then we should all wear them morning noon and night until the hatred, fear or risk of being killed, no longer exists.
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