How Revolutions Begin

Four decades and seven years ago, on May 2, 1964, a few hundred protesters in New York's Times Square were among the first who dared to challenge the war in Vietnam. It would take another few years for the nation to catch on, but it did -- and our government and our culture imploded.

Now we see the disenchanted engaged in New York City against an even greater foe: Corporate America. Their aims are not simple and certainly not easy, but profound: To break Wall Street's elitist rule of our economy.

As with the early protesters in the 1960's, these dissidents are maligned as freaks. But they're onto something. Public anger at corporate greed, and the politicians who nurture it, has reached a boiling point.

How many more cozy bailouts, gluttonous bonuses, exported jobs, premeditated pollution, poisoned food, heinous weapons, illegal foreclosures, ravenous layoffs and political bribes will it take before once again we do something to ensure that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments

[LibertyQuotient]

10:35 AM on 10/06/2011

Mr. Crawford, the last thing America needs are bloody riots over Wall Street. It is just a tiny piece of America's own worse enemy, her corpocracy, the Devil's marriage between powerful corporate interests of all industries and all three branches of our subservient government.

It will take two-fisted democracy power, a peaceful and lawful way to make sweeping government and economic reforms.
Gary Brumback
www.uschamberofdemocracy.com.

[Cleverboots]

07:54 AM on 10/06/2011

Time for another war protest, too.

[ken derow]

06:55 AM on 10/06/2011

No, the United States is not Greece (at least not yet), nor are we Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, but, our problems are real, they are large and, so far, they are intractable. Are we on the verge of actual blood in the streets,no, but, the blood of our family's savings, our pride, our confidence, is flowing at this time. Could we face actual bloody riots in the future (perhaps, the near future), maybe, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Unemployment and poverty, fueled by hopelessness and despair, are a recipe for explosive action. Do not think it cannot, ever, happen here. The colonies overthrew the shackles of the oppressive English during the Revolutionary War, the youth of America, may yet, "overthrow" the incompetence and ineptitude of our current Congress and chief executive, by minimally throwing the rascals out of office, and, worst case, through armed rebellion.

[JohnFromCensornati]

01:37 AM on 10/06/2011

The End is near.