posted on Oct, 13 2011 @ 01:44 PM
The right had it's chance at a populist movement targeting the looters of the past decade. The Tea Party failed the moment they allowed the focus to
shift from economic issues into social issues. They were expertly co-opted by the GOP establishment. I wish the OWS crowd luck in avoiding being
co-opted by the the same establishment powers, this time on the left.
I would describe myself as a center-right Independent. I saw then the way the left leaning media attacked the Tea Party and see now the right leaning
media doing the same to the OWS. There is one point agreement that you have between the OWS folks and the Tea Party that I think would do the country
good. Prosecute the individuals and institutions on Wall Street that have defrauded and looted all of us over the past 3 decades.
I have heard members from both heads of the American Political Beast including the President and some of those that wish to replace him claim that the
things that happened were wrong but not illegal. That is a flat out lie.
It is illegal to submit forged documents to courts.----Robo Signing practiced by almost all of the TBTF
It is illegal to bribe public officials.-----See Jefferson County Alabama the politicians were prosecuted and convicted but no charges were ever
brought against the corporate entity that did the bribing
It is illegal to launder drug money.-----Which wachovia did paid a small fine and got no prosecute agreement which the MSM did not comment on until
the deferred prosecution agreement expired.
Those are just the first few unprosecuted crimes that I could think of on the fly that neither party has shown any interest in addressing. That's
without getting into nuances of REMICs, Trusts, and other nuances that have been documented in quite a few places by people creating a record of the
unprosecuted rape of a nation.
So I wish the OWS people well in avoiding being co-opted by establishment left forces like the Tea Party did by the establishment right. The Tea Party
had their chance and let it slip away. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is that the establishment left is just as successful as the right was
in co-opting a grass roots movement, with emergent leaders that have been just as successful holding their ideals as those swept into power by the Tea
Party have been. Let the establishment left and right have their ideologues. A disaffected cohort of center-left and center-right is exactly the type
of movement that at it's best could break the stranglehold the two headed best has on our political system or possible be large enough and passionate
enough "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "
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