Sunday, October 16, 2011

OWS…What do they want ?




             "Know your role"        instructions for the working class.       by Wm.B. Nally 2011

OWS…What do they want ? 

Round 1:
Critics of the OWS protests are baffled.  The dumb questions they are asking is proof positive that they have no clue what is going on. A phrase bikers coined a few years back explains today’s situation.  “If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand”  Amen to that.  If you are so out of touch, so brainwashed or so stupid that you don’t know what the protests are about you have my sympathy.  I might add that you are going to hate the next part.

Round 2:

The bell for the second round rang when police began arresting protestors.  Charges range from disorderly conduct to arson and several other crimes designed to limit protesters rights are being dusted off and enforced.  The law enforcement action tells us that the protestors are starting to threaten business as usual.  Philadelphia protests have so far been orderly, peaceful and less than massive.  Even under these cupcake conditions the city claims the protests cost $15,000 a day in Police overtime. That bill will grow if the protests continue to grow.

Round 3:

The third round will be a test for the protestors.  Can they take the heat ?  Back in the day there were protests your parents and grandparents can tell you about.  They can tell you about snarling dogs, tear gas, formations of Police in riot gear, fire hoses and mass arrests.  It does not matter how peaceful and orderly the protests are, the more they disrupt daily life the more force will be used to control and end them. Nothing scares the powers that be the way people in the street can.

New weapons for modern times. The WWW, twitter, tweet, face book, blog, text, instant message, video, digital cameras, live feeds and cell phones allow for all manner of civil disobedience and social mischief.  Even Rupert Murdoch and his gang won’t be able deal with a few million pissed off people with smart phones.  Will the protesters take full advantage of these new weapons ?  And I wonder how the Tea Party crowd will react if  they ever discover they are being screwed just like everyone else.

Final Round:
How will this end?  Are the protesters tough enough and determined enough to really change anything. or are they just pissed off?  Time will tell.
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Herman Cain’s 999 plan.

Folks long for simple and easy solutions to complicated problems.  Herman’s 999 plan is simple but it is also stupid and won’t work.  But it does have the support of simple minded Republicans that can’t do arithmetic, and of course the support of well to do voters with  superior math skills looking for a tax cut they could only dream about before Herman came on the scene.