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We are The 99 The 99.99%
The Guardian and WaPo do the math, and really it’s more like everyone but the one in ten thousand that’s losing out.
Oh Frank…
FROM FRANK MILLER’S BLOG
The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.
And a Poop Snot Fart to you too, Mr. Miller…
Because it’s not just the hippies camping out in the park squares. They are like the breastplates. And because they have to be strong they’re also a bit slow, like a turtle, they like to juggle, some of them just don’t where else to go, for sure, and why not join a circus if there’s good food and you got nothing better to do? But reactionary commentary like the above by Frank Miller, for whose work I have great respect, serves no purpose. It reeks something tortuous of the spastic rite of cable television news. Bitter acid with no soul, just stirring up spite to poison the well. And for what reason?
Give us public health insurance, and we’ll start to quiet down, but not by much. Give us good schools, great retirement, a sound, well-funded university and trade school system that’s tightly intertwined with the business of getting you hired into good jobs, and give us fairness, and a system wherein those who have more contribute a bit more, not the other way around. And then maybe, just maybe, we’ll begin to quiet down.
FOLLOW UP: An excellent rebuttal to Miller’s Red Bull American Fascism coctail is to be found on Scott Wilson’s Scott’s Introspection Section blog, the entry titled: “Frank Miller Embraces His Inner Fascist, Declares War on The Occupy Movement”.
As long as we continue to #Occupy your attention, we continue to influence your opinion.
Photo reblogged from Cognitive Dissonance with 2,741 notes
![Cop in Cuffs
cognitivedissonance:
In this photo from The New York Observer, Former Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis, sits in zip cuffs after being arrested today in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Another photo of Lewis protesting can be found here.
Drew Grant of The Observer writes: “There is simply nothing more bizarre than looking at images of a man in police uniform arrested and handcuffed by people wearing lower-ranking NYPD garb.”
Lewis’ arrest was caputured on video:
Lewis knew his arrest was a possibility. In a rousing speech last night, Lewis criticized the NYPD and its use of force, along with New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. An excerpt:
“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured. If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation – continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that. This bullrush–what happened last night is totally uncalled for when they did not use negotiation long enough.
“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting.
[The NYPD], they’re trying to get me arrested and I may disappear OK? But as soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again. All the cops are, they’re just workers for the one percent and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited.”
Capt. Lewis truly understands what it means to protect and serve the people, and for that sir, I thank you.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luu7ymHROD1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg)
Cop in Cuffs
In this photo from The New York Observer, Former Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis, sits in zip cuffs after being arrested today in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Another photo of Lewis protesting can be found here.
Drew Grant of The Observer writes: “There is simply nothing more bizarre than looking at images of a man in police uniform arrested and handcuffed by people wearing lower-ranking NYPD garb.”
Lewis’ arrest was caputured on video:
Lewis knew his arrest was a possibility. In a rousing speech last night, Lewis criticized the NYPD and its use of force, along with New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. An excerpt:
“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured. If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation – continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that. This bullrush–what happened last night is totally uncalled for when they did not use negotiation long enough.
“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting.[The NYPD], they’re trying to get me arrested and I may disappear OK? But as soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again. All the cops are, they’re just workers for the one percent and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited.”Capt. Lewis truly understands what it means to protect and serve the people, and for that sir, I thank you.
Source: cognitivedissonance
Let us drink to this the rush of a brief moment in the pause of capitalism, and to the ecstasy that is the idea that we might next time try and quit for longer.
Another of my favorite shots from the Occupy Movement…
This occurred on Monday, Nov 15, 2011 in Downtown Oakland as police began to close the net around the encampment…
Hitting “GO” as I read about Zucotti being taken over only hours ago. Good night, America. What comes next?
Photo reblogged from We Are the 99 Percent with 7 notes
I know the guilt, the struggle, the story. I know it gets better once you go for years without health insurance and slowly learn that it’s not your fault and that you have to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and move on. I know that a mountain of debt like a giant standing wave tsunami really will just hang there above your head like some delicately perched rock formation, as you all the while make your home beneath it / use it to cover your encampment when the rain storms set in… BUT I KNOW IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS… I KNOW THAT I WASTED YEARS AND COUNTLESS GRAY HAIRS WORRYING… I am not terrified anymore. I am merely the 99%…
Source: wearethe99percent
