As I documented over a week ago, this was coming. The corporate elites have been gearing up to crush Occupy Wall Street. They wanted to take the battle right to the heart of the revolution, in Liberty Square. They launched a propaganda blitz, transformed Lower Manhattan into a sphere ruled by martial law, and then subverted the legal system to support their crimes. And their propaganda is so powerful that many people, even those who should know better, actually side with the state. Anyone who stands on the sidelines now is complicit. If you permit the corporate state to get away with destroying the First Amendment you deserve what you will get. And the big red white and blue dick is coming for your ass-hole too, if it hasn’t been penetrated already.
I wasn’t on Wall Street Monday night. I was out of the city and couldn’t return in time. My friend through Occupy Wall Street, Priya, was there. I read her text right before I went to sleep—“OWS raided now!!!!!” I called her first thing in the morning. She was hysterical. “It was horrible,” she said. “They just came in, destroyed all the tents, beat people up, sprayed people with pepper spray. They destroyed everyone’s property and threw the books from our library into dump trucks.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, even though I should have been prepared.
“Sorry,” sobbing, “but this is just very emotional for me. This was like home. This was a spiritual center, a community. And now everything’s gone. It’s all gone. So many people have nowhere to go"... Continue Reading