NATO can kill with impunity

Now that the UN can punish governments who kill or might possibly kill their own citizens only NATO can kill with impunity as it has allegedly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Oligarchs of the world will now have to hire NATO instead the US military to do their bidding. This will have a negative impact on the US economy since it will have to share the spoils with NATO allies. Who would have imagined that terrorists targeting the world trade center could possibly bring down the western empire?

UN stop the violence

I think it would be cool if the UN slaps sanctions on the US for its violence against its citizens. France can lead a call for a No Fly zone over America too in case they use drones on the OWS. After all GW Bush initiated the concept of preemptive war so we might as well start a preemptive war against all countries that could possibly be a threat to its own unarmed nonviolent populations.

Naomi Wolf analysis

Naomi Wolf has written up her theory that the white house, and the Congress has authorized the Department of Homeland security to coordinate efforts with the mayors of cities to clamp down on the Occupy Wall Street movement with violence. This theory implies all kinds of lawbreaking and corruption in an Egypt like civil war scenario that will resonate with those disillusioned with the white house, and congress, suspicious of the DHS and the patriot act, and distrustful of mayors and police forces across the country. This kind of conspiracy theory will have long legs amongst a population who are suffering exploitation from corruption and can readily believe that the corrupt will resort to violence to protect themselves from any anti corruption citizenry movement.

Bush and Blair guilty of crimes against peace

Bush and Blair were found guilty of crimes against peace in a mock trial in Malaysia after a four-day hearing. Mock trials are one of Gene Sharp's 198 methods of nonviolent action.

Request national guard protection

The current situation is very much like that of the Eisenhower administration. We have a state and city government violating the rights of its citizens to protest peacefully. OWS should request Obama Administration protection to citizens rights of free speech and nonviolent protest. The violence of the city police is similar to the violation of local government barring students from entering schools. Students who have the right to enter a school building should have federal protection to exercise that right. Citizens who have a right to protected speech should have federal protection to exercise that right.
American citizens should set up a free speech camp and have federal troops surround them so they can occupy America. If we the people cannot occupy America then our very rights as US citizens have been violated and only the federal government can restore those rights. Refusal to protect US rights requires a removal of that government and may result in an appeal to the United Nations to declare America a no fly zone.

OWS strategies

It is obvious that OWS have devised a number of strategies to show their force. The preparations for suffering police brutality and arrest are all part of these strategies as well as providing the 1% the least opportunities to criticize and draw wedges in the movement. But now is the time to turn inward and to flex muscles that cannot be challenged by police as easily. No doubt the police will continue the war and in fact increase their inhumanity and brutality. Unions and past movements have turned inward to their muscle well. Two types of actions will soon appear. The first is active change on a personal level. Individuals can bring down a sector by using another. Or by changing lifestyle. Bus boycotts worked effectively by walking greater distances, getting up early and returning later with the satisfaction that personal willpower has an economic effect. Moving money from banks to credit unions is such an OWS tactic. Once thousands of accounts move it will have an impact. Changing consumer habits to replace one item on the diet will have such an impact. Choosing strategic 99% choices can change society. Police and FBI agents will always harass but they cannot win against 99% solidarity. The tactics are endless but the pointedness is the icing on the cake. All the strategic thinkers have to do is decide who is responsible and how an act can show up that responsibility as clear as day. Then they can invent a new activity or pastime that people will enjoy. Have people do the activity openly like wearing a ribbon and engage happily in support of a simple goal and the wheels will be set in motion. The mechanism will be invisible but the pointedness will become apparent and will bring results which will provide confidence for more pointed recreational activities that produce results.

Giving up humanity

An 84 year old woman, Dorli Rainey was doused with pepper spray by police. Jennifer who was two months pregnant suffered the same treatment. These are the inhumane incidents of war by police on unarmed civilians peacefully asserting their rights. The police may claim they are a public danger but they can only convince their superiors and those who have lost their humanity. They can spin that their public protection or public safety from the nonviolent public for only so many years before the inhumanity of their behavior will shine through. Police are the public enemy. Police are the protectors of the privileged few. Police have lost touch of their founding principles of protecting and serving the public good. They are protecting and serving the corruption and injustices perpetuated upon the public. In order to do this they sacrifice their humanity.

The simplicity of evil

The simplicity of evil is so self-evident when you see it you must wonder why nobody else sees it. The latest photo shows a police officer nonchalantly using pepper spray on a group of students sitting with arms interlocked on the university of California, Davis campus. Can nobody see the evil of nonchalant violence on peaceful students? Or are we so numbed by police violence that we provide them the carte Blanche authority to do what they please in defense of law and order, security and oppression.
Evil must be in the eye of the beholder because not too many people see the US as a police state. However, not too many can see a child molester as a child molester either if he is a respected coach. Our society sees "greed as good" and "good as evil" so what does it take for one person to see the simplicity of evil? Most of the citizenry are so dehumanized that they see dehumanizing acts as normal behavior. The hope of future generations lie with the few who can see the simplicity of evil.

NY is a militarized zone

New York is now officially a militarized zone. The police or paramilitary police deployed the LRAD sound cannon, the latest in weaponry against peaceful protest. Manufactured in the US and sold to the Israeli Defense Force, tested in the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar, it is portable and transmits 140 decibels of sound. 85 dB can damage hearing so this is an assault weapon that can leave innocent civilians maimed. For some reason the US military have no concern for collateral damage and when they claim that their weapons only harm enemy combatants somehow the citizenry believe that to be true. Maybe wall street bankers will happily suffer hearing loss so they really cannot hear about injustice. The most ironic point about this weapon is that it will harm the police officers too. After all they too are dispensable casualties of friendly fire. This war like every other pits the 99% against the 99% at the behest of the 1%.

Police Captain Ray Lewis arrested

Police Captain Ray Lewis was arrested in uniform and said, "All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited."

Strategies and circumstances

Predicting is not easy because of the number of factors involved in any event. However, predicting is possible considering some major factors. Two such factors are strategies and circumstances. Both sides of a conflict are strategizing. The OWS leadership must be considering actions to highlight their major concerns while the police and the government, including the army, must be considering how they can contain or destroy the movement. Containment might include infiltration and banishment. Waiting them out is not an option because the injustice will not disappear and the politicians won't address them. Circumstances will certainly change. Infiltrations and provocation will eventually be uncovered and people will change positions which will affect the outcomes.

Movements grow through opposition

Mass movements can only grow through direct public opposition. The more the police take to the streets to arrest citizens exercising their democratic rights the more the movement will grow. When injustice is ingrained through institutions then the only option for those institutions is force and violence to maintain their power. These actions are exactly what grows a movement.

OWS anniversary - riot police v. Civilians

This is the two month anniversary of OWS and the image is of riot police with face masks and outnumbering protestors asserting their strength in numbers and in violence. This is the language police have learned. They have lost touch with their civilian selves and have become dehumanized by the institutions they serve believing they are asserting law and order against the civilians who are the law and order citizens of the US. The police have bought into the idea that the country belongs to its institutions and the role of humans must be subjugated to the will of these institutions. The institutions have the shroud of law and order worn like a wolf in sheep's clothing trampling on the constitution and the citizens whom the institutions are supposed to serve. We live in a robotic world where the robot like institutions created to serve the citizens are firmly in control because these robotic institutions have been able to promote some people to gatekeeping positions and dehumanized them enough to become more like the robotic institutions than like the human flesh and bones they were born to be. I think every police officer will realize they will lose their onslaught against democratic peaceful expressions but they will go to the grave in denial believing they were doing what was right and proper and even Christian in their violence. Those police who set dogs on civil rights protestors of the sixties can only maintain their sanity by this illusion. They could not possibly come to terms with the fact that their actions were wrong or even evil in terms of its inhumanity and it's dehumanizing purposes. Today the cycle continues. Any institution can find those people who will dehumanize others with impunity. The purpose of mass movements is to humanize nonviolently even those who oppose.

Middle class lessons

Middle class are learning what oppressed people all over the world has known for generations. The political structure, the economic structure, the army, the police and every infrastructure is there to support the oligarchy of power. It is not there to serve the people but to serve the privileged few. The cycle is complete. Anybody who stands for justice just like Gandhi and king will be arrested and fined and the money to support their oppression will come from the oppressed tax payers. The middle class has funded this all the time but now the middle class are victims of their own systems so they are split between those who have and those who have not. Those who have a job. Those who have a house. Those who have a stake and those who have not. Those who have a hope and those who have not. It is the middle class police beating their own brothers and cousins who do not have a job. The workers are defending their sick system from these who are dispensable. Until more become dispensable. Soon the police who are unemployed will join the ranks of the OWS. Syria is seeing this very defection occurring. Syrian army are divided between supporting the government system or the opposition. One day American police officers will have to choose between defending an unjust system or defending the rights of American civilians. And no amount of rhetoric from politicians can hide these facts.

People or structures - which do you serve?

People or profits? People or things? People or power? People or structures? People or buildings? These have been choices of those who perform public service. The politician, the business person, the policeman, the soldier. Each is a person who serves and each must choose on a daily basis. Regularly each chooses to say one thing and do another. Police say they serve and protect people but they are really serving and protecting property. It's not too much of a conflict until the object of their violence becomes the subject of their purpose. Then the conflict is stark reality. But the years of saying one thing and doing another kicks in and the pattern rules supreme while the justifications kick in to cover the stark reality. Soldiers do not fight for anyone's freedom. They fight for everyone's oppression. They fight for their superiors' status quo. They are the hero when the powers deem it appropriate and they are the villains when the same power deems it appropriate. Have western powers who espouse individuality and capitalism ever thought it necessary to take care of soldiers after they are done soldiering? They may claim it and proclaim it but the reality is that more and more soldiers end up in poor houses, homelessness, and in paupers graves than in national cemeteries. Soldiers are dressed up and paraded off to war but must scrape and crawl coming back. Soldier, do you fight for the freedom of citizens to raise their voices for justice or do you serve the structures of injustice, in support of maintaining injustice for a little while longer? Because, like all unjust wars it cannot be won. Justice cannot be conquered, it can only be delayed. The voice of the people can be jailed and buried but it will never be silenced.

Raid on liberty park

The police took over liberty park. The war is clearly on. The police and the powers know about staking claims on property and real estate. But the movement is not diminished because the people own all the property and the war is not about which park is controlled by which force. The police and politicians only know violence and ownership. They do not know how to stop a movement. They don't yet know how to control people's wills. They can manage bodies in jails but they cannot manage wills. This is classic war of violence against nonviolence, property against principle. All the efforts are in vain. They just delay the inevitable justice that will ensue. Those politicians and these police will not know the shame of their actions because they will rewrite history to show how they spearheaded the moral victory that is sure to rain upon new York. They will write in the history books how they pursued justice while the rabble rousers they arrested tried to stand in the way of progress. But the people will know how the police and politicians were on the wrong side of history as they always are while those who bled in liberty park will be remembered for their sacrifice for justice. As I said before "Power cannot defeat justice."

Harassing phone calls

Banks are pulling out all the stops in this war of attrition. They must've made some strategic decisions based on their human relations research. They must know that people react in certain ways to harassing phone calls. Anyway the banks have been robo calling me. They want to inform me they have special deals, they want to inform me the bill payment date is coming up, they want to inform me how much I owe. Constantly. When I try to talk to a human I am given a number to call during weekday business hours while these robo calls are every 4 hours over the weekend. They are probably within the law but they must be playing a psychological war game of wearing down resistance or something like that.
Maybe they know that any name recognition is good whatever the reason. Humans are probably drawn to the bank that calls them the most. As in the case of celebrities, good publicity or bad publicity both provide the same name recognition. Of course since I am not an automaton I will clear my accounts and change my number but I am sure they will spend their billions to find my new number and harass me some more. This is the battlefield of wall street.

Concealed weapons

In Wisconsin on Nov. 2, 18 people were arrested for using cameras in the Wisconsin Assembly gallery. The event called concealed camera day coincided with the implementation of Wisconsin's new concealed carry law that allows residents to carry concealed firearms in even the Assembly gallery.
This is what the current war is about. Lethal weapons are legalized and transparency is illegalized. The authorities want to hide what they are doing from public view but encourage violence to defend the corruption. This is gearing up to be a violent war against nonviolence. It is a well armed law of injustice against unarmed justice. So what is new? People are waking up is what's new.

Good and evil

Today we have reached a confrontation that cannot be denied between good and evil. The powerful elite is as evil as any ancient powerful and corrupt elite. God has hardened Pharaohs heart. So that Moses can confront the issue of the day. We are today confronted with good and evil in pristine form. The government and it's wall street allies are as evil as can be. They follow policies of injustice. They have proudly assassinating whoever they wish in the name of the people and the people reveled when they should have rebelled. Wall street forecloses heartlessly. And the people stand by helplessly. The law is on the side of evil. Their god is on the side of evil. Never has god been invoked to support more evil than now. There is only one outcome. All the people can bow down to this evil and corruption and one day claim total ignorance. Or the people can bow down and claim they trusted. Or the people can bow down and claim they followed orders. Or as Gandhi, Mandela, and king has showed the people can refuse to bow down to tyranny. Now is the time to choose. Are you for people or for profits? Or are you a prophet?

Too big to fail, too big to jail

Yes, the western democratic economic system has finally been unveiled. We have been fooled into believing we do not have kings and lords, that we do not have a feudal system, a monarchy, or a dictatorship. But we have all of them in a new moneyed system. Some might say its an oligarchy of the rich. Call it a capitalist class system. Call it a competitive system where there are winners and losers. The inequity we can all see and are forced to accept is much like the untouchables of India have had to accept their lot for generations. Humans can accept dehumanizing treatment for only so long before a consciousness must set in. The current political and economic system is being laid bare for all who want to see. It is obvious to anyone that the public airwaves are filled with nonsense. Nonsense is all public officials and pundits have when the system they all believe in and cling to makes no more sense. It can only be defended and promulgated through nonsense. While people are confused by the nonsense the inequity and injustice goes on as business as usual.

Demonizing civilians

In order to foster violence against protesters the civilians must first be demonized. This began when the OWS was referred to as a mob. A mob is not a civilian term. It's a demonizing term. It is setting up the stage for violence. What is a response to a mob? Violence. You cannot expect the same dehumanizing treatment from a group of congressional lobbyists. Lobbyists are respected. They are not demonized. They are respected by the public media. Mobs are demonized and dehumanized. Police action. Arrests. And violence will follow as acceptable responses to a mob. A veteran in an army is a revered and respected individual but a veteran in a mob is just a dehumanized demon worthy of state violence.

Foot soldiers and obeying orders

There are a number of views about soldiers accountability and responsibility for their actions in war or under orders. Generally it is held that the war is decided at a higher rank and orders are given to be followed and not questioned. Soldiers are mere executioners who are automatons in the machinery of power with no ability to judge, question, or refuse any order. But it is the soldier who commits the atrocity at hand. The soldier kills. The soldier burns. The soldier destroys. The soldier dehumanizes. Soldiers have also been found liable. Soldiers have also been decorated in spite of not obeying orders.
Soldiers are pawns. But in reality the soldier is a human being with judgement and a conscience. And a soldier must act as a human being. If the police of the cities of the USA think of themselves as automaton soldiers following orders with no liability, accountability, or responsibility for the damage to civilian OWS protesters and no commitment to serve and protect civilians peaceful right of free expression and nonviolent protest then we are in a state of anarchy and dehumanization that is comparable to Syria, Egypt, Libya, and absolutely reflective of the worst of Vietnam and Nazi Germany. The stakes are the same. The price of blindly following orders is the same. The cost is our humanity. Are the soldiers and the police of the United States prepared to stand on the wrong side of humanity because it is a tradition that they serve government's and corporations and not civilians?

Bank of America blinked

Today BoA blinked. They announced they are no longer charging a $5.00 fee for debit card transactions. Too little too late. The OWS movement has requested people transfer from banks to credit unions by Nov 5, 2011. That campaign will continue since one act does not build trust. Even TV commentators who are no friend of OWS are warning consumers to watch their bills carefully for hidden fees that banks may add to make up for the ones they are pressured to cancel. The first volley has been fired. The violence of the mayors and their police has been countered by the mobilization of peaceful protest strategies. The Wall Street dominions have acted against the protestors and the protestors and their allies have reacted.