As the wall street movement goes global people are chanting "We are the 99%" What movements need are simple slogans that resonate and they have it now. The target of the protests are the one percent which in reality is .1 percent but who does math anyway. The spaces they have identified to protest are outside banks. Banks are easily identified because they are the bastions of the financial system, created investment instruments that caused the financial collapse, and after being bailed out they celebrated by taking huge bonuses and giving no relief to homeowners whom they are foreclosing as usual. So they can be demonized through slogans for arrogance and continued insensitivity.
One would think they have no defenders or their defenders come from the .1% itself but as usual their defenders come from all kinds of powerful quarters. First they can buy support if they choose. Second politicians are their defenders already bought and paid for and third the whole system of police and crime and punishment as in the total legal system was designed to support the .1%.
The defenders point out that most of the people working in banks earn less than $70000 a year. So protesters must not protest outside banks. They want to give the owners the protection of the serfs from the serfs.
They also point out that a protest against a bank is a protest against capitalism so the protesters must be communists. Another fear tactic of the Glen Beck ilk.
Of course the biggest protectors of the banks are the police and when they cannot arrest everyone they bring in the swat and riot control divisions and if they cannot silence the voice of the people they will bring in the national guard and the army. The .1% has the full 100% of the social structure supporting it's ideas and it's greed. The 99% were asleep while the social control structures were being set in place except maybe for the Oscar Wildes so they have a long haul ahead of them. Everyone in the world who has a job must be praying that the 99 percent will just go back to their homeless and hopeless roles of poverty designated to the lazy jobless ones in western social structures and leave the banks alone.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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