Occupy Change

Posted to "Nation of Change" 11/4/11

I look at the Occupy Movement and remember the Japanese WWII general's comment about Pearl Harbor , "we have awakened the sleeping giant".  Recently one person said " Enough! " and we heard and echoed it softly as a butterfly wing and stirred the winds of change. We the People have had enough!  The prison of serfdom the rich have planned for us will be the prison they rot in, and we will  put them there using the rule of law and the ballot box.  We will be strong enough to do it soon, hopefully by the 2012 election. The rich and greedy will make a mistake to think they can steal the election with their ill-gotten gains and hacked machines.   They should not think that the military, which is not a rich dictator's army, will come down on the side of those they know do not care about them or their families except to use their bodies for cannon fodder to enrich the oil whores and war profiteers. 

I believe this will be a peaceful revolution demanded by the American voters but a revolution all the same.  I am the optimistic product of Depression Era, FDR loving, Eisenhower Republicans.  My father said before he died  a couple years ago at 92, "I don't recognize these Republicans anymore, they're mean now"   I don't recognize them either, they are not anything like my hardworking, kind, & decent WWII & Korean War Veteran father.  Most of these "barons" of Wall Street have never fought for this country and they stole it from those who shed their blood  in trumped up wars for oil whores and corporate war profiteers.  They made up fraudulent mortgages and created fraudulent financial derivatives to cheat those who worked hard everyday trying to provide for their families and dreaming of owning a home for their children.   To quote a Percy B. Shelley poem of the pacifist Peterloo rebellion in 1819 ,   "Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable numbers.  Shake your chains to earth like dew that in sleep had fallen on you.  Ye are many - They are few"   We the People are no longer asleep, you cannot distract us, you will not turn us against one another, and we will help one another.  By virtue of our hard work and service and shed blood, this is our country.  This is not your rich man's kingdom, and we are not your slaves.  We made you and we trusted you but you sold us out.  We let you become the money-changers in our country's temple and now we will put you out of the temple and heap on you the shame you deserve.