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In reply to the discussion: Read this, then ask yourself: Isn't it amazing the riots haven't started yet? [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)....and were brutally suppressed by Homeland Security Department working with the NSA and our militarized local Police Departments.
Our government sent a message to those who would gather peacefully to protest the Wealth Disparity,
and not enough of the Working Class & newly Poor were/are hungry enough to have given their support to the handful who actually turned out in the streets.
It is not over yet.
The Death Spiral for the Working Class continues while the 1% have never had it so good,
but some still cling to the "hope" that somebody in Washington still cares.
That veneer gets thinner every day.
It is going to be UGLY.
I'm too old to be of much help to OCCUPY beyond sending a few pennies.
My days of marching in the street are over, but my heart is with the Movements for Economic Fairness.
I hope I will live to see the People wrest the government from the hands of the 1%.
There is some hope.
Many Latin American countries have successfully taken their countries from the hand of their 1%
in near bloodless Ballot Box revolutions.
They did it by organizing locally.
Spread the WORD.
VIVA Democracy.
I pray we get some here soon!