If they get us to give up and go home, all you'll have left is the bank-owned demopublican show (seven-plus months of utter silence from the democratic party and white house while we are being brutalized...quite telling, yes?) and things will go back to normal (meaning, no more taking back the power, no more people-driven movement, no more telling off the powers that be for robbing us blind and then telling us they have to cut social services to pay for their robbery, no more unity, no more passion for making the bastards pay.
We can never give up no matter the odds.
I believe Martin Luther King, Jr. planned marches in an area with a notably hot-headed police chief, knowing the resulting photos would win support and compassion. Although Occupy has never planned such, it appears to be a similar effect.
Occupy is a people-powered movement. If everyone shows up, if everyone supports it, things will change in an instant. And the opposite. Standing and never backing down from false authority and unConstitutional abuses are required or the idea that is the Constitution will simply fade away (as they fill our skies with killer drones, which they are working on doing right now).
Saying NO! is essential. No matter the possible or actual outcome. That IS a strategy. Enough people need to side with us in saying NO! that the powers that be run away squealing just as Rush Limbaugh has recently. It's that simple. Thank you for your compassion; please channel it into saying NO! along with us, and everything will change for the better!
(Also, Occupy is uniting nation-wide and world-wide. We are meeting each other and seeing ourselves in each other and this unity shall never be broken. Join us at Wall Street on September 17 for our one-year birthday party! Eventually there will be too many people for the cops to take on, then we win!)
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