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Dustlawyer

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25. So true! OWS caught them off guard and they decided to prepare for next time!

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 09:08 PM

Aug 2014

The next time needs to be everyone who is tired of the corruption of our government. Politicians nakedly represent Donors instead of us now. We need to end all campaign contributions to return our Democracy.
Our media conglomerates and Wall Street banks need to be broken up. Our compromised Federal Regulatory Agencies need retooling like the FCC, SEC, EPA, DOJ, which do whatever the industries they regulate want do to the revolving doors. The DOJ will not enforce the laws by sending white collar criminals to jail and the settlements still allow the crime to be very profitable.
It will take millions of committed, peaceful demonstrators demanding an end to the legal purchase of our politicians and judges. The corporations and the 1% will not relinquish the power willingly! but it is the test of our time. If we don't try, it's "1984" for us!

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Ferguson shows why elite should be worried about a revolution [View all] yurbud Aug 2014 OP

But that's what the TeaParty was created for, YurBud... villager Aug 2014 #1

It is the story of history. Trillo Aug 2014 #2

I realize cautious optimism is required here. Rod Beauvex Aug 2014 #3

I think your last sentence is quite correct and the noose is tightening. Also, the militarization of RKP5637 Aug 2014 #8

. Rod Beauvex Aug 2014 #13

Yep! It's all part of the plan IMO. Control of the populace. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2014 #14

So true! OWS caught them off guard and they decided to prepare for next time! Dustlawyer Aug 2014 #25

I seriously often wonder how many in the population really get what is going on, and how RKP5637 Aug 2014 #27

Watching Shark Week I will use the analogy that we are a school of Tuna surrounded by Great a Whites Dustlawyer Aug 2014 #33

Excellent visual! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2014 #34

the internet made a huge difference during Bush years and probably saved us indirectly yurbud Aug 2014 #17

I truely shudder to think.. Rod Beauvex Aug 2014 #23

Definitely, and hence the quest to stifle and control the internet. Governments do not like it when RKP5637 Aug 2014 #28

Nice point of view and I agree with it. out of chaos and darkness comes beauty and order. Voice for Peace Aug 2014 #20

i don't think this is true JI7 Aug 2014 #4

Well you realize I hope, that it's not all going to happen at once....... socialist_n_TN Aug 2014 #5

i don't think it was a large portion and again they object to local cops having military JI7 Aug 2014 #6

What is your source for this? leftstreet Aug 2014 #7

media whores, internet , the usual crap, even on DU JI7 Aug 2014 #9

You have no actual statements or anecdotes to submit? leftstreet Aug 2014 #10

there are threads on DU where people still do the "we don't really know what happened" JI7 Aug 2014 #11

But even those are in a minority......... socialist_n_TN Aug 2014 #12

Where is the evidence on the other side? former9thward Aug 2014 #24

and my point wasn't even primarily about racism--just ENOUGH white people agreed with blacks yurbud Aug 2014 #18

I think you are right Trayvon Martin was the start (among many others prior and subsequent). gordianot Aug 2014 #16

I've had a feeling through all of this that the protests in Ferguson LuvNewcastle Aug 2014 #15

The likely police response would be epic in its brutality. Drones would fill the skies. kairos12 Aug 2014 #19

Not likely, certain. But it wouldn't all be drones. Just an escalation in the use of enough Aug 2014 #21

that would incite wider rebellion yurbud Aug 2014 #41

Thomas Jefferson.... ReRe Aug 2014 #22

Yep, there is a lot of truth in that statement. I've always felt Thomas Jefferson had the right idea RKP5637 Aug 2014 #29

I've often thought politics is the root of all evil. ReRe Aug 2014 #36

... RKP5637 Aug 2014 #38

I like to hope that this will be the thing that brings the lower/working class people logosoco Aug 2014 #26

I'd like to reiterate something I said above in a sub-thread...... socialist_n_TN Aug 2014 #30

This is the silliest thread I've seen today (although the day's not over yet) brooklynite Aug 2014 #31

Its coming if things don't change madokie Aug 2014 #32

We shall see, if the Ferguson reaction sadoldgirl Aug 2014 #35

After the historic protests in Wisconsin that were channeled into a recall election with the usual yurbud Aug 2014 #44

Why do some think that the possibility of a "revolution" scares the aristocracy? rhett o rick Aug 2014 #37

It's worse than that. Their money is overseas, folks that believe in no taxes have most of the guns stevenleser Aug 2014 #40

they do fear a situation when cops and military think twice about following their orders yurbud Aug 2014 #45

What I think will happen is that the gun happy rednecks will fight for the aristocracy along rhett o rick Aug 2014 #46

Maybe it shows moondust Aug 2014 #39

No it does not quaker bill Aug 2014 #42

My point was not that the riots work but different groups seeing common ingests whet they usually yurbud Aug 2014 #43

do not read too much into it quaker bill Aug 2014 #47

It's not the people who showed up that was different. It was the audience across the country yurbud Aug 2014 #49

I am sure the second ammendment crowd quaker bill Aug 2014 #50

Pragmatically, im not sure their reasoning matters yurbud Aug 2014 #51

Very hard to imagine Doctor_J Aug 2014 #48

Fox Nation will lose its audience to senility and death, given their average age! LongTomH Aug 2014 #53

K&R I've been thinking that Ferguson marks some sort of turning point in this country. LongTomH Aug 2014 #52

and a lot of people are looking at the black experience and realizing "that could be me" yurbud Aug 2014 #55

Maybe time will heal us all in a different way fadedrose Aug 2014 #54

Do you think the ferguson situation is even on the average 0.01%er's radar? Taitertots Aug 2014 #56

not Ferguson by itself, but the piece of it that is white people across the country agreeing yurbud Aug 2014 #57