While visiting my son Zak and his wife Kimberly in NYC to
celebrate his 33rd birthday, my wife decided that we needed to visit
the encampment on Wall Street called the OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT.
She is very sympathetic with what the so called movement is
trying to do which is hard to actually figure out but she feels they are
sending a message that something is wrong in this country and something needs
to be done to especially help bridge the gap of inequality between the haves
and have-nots…sounds like Communism to me.
Anyway, she probably has a point somewhere but off we went
to see for ourselves.
Well it was a bloody mess with tourists and on-lookers
circling the encampment trying to figure out what was going on. Saw many
entrepreneurs selling all sorts of stuff as you would see at any “spectacle”
that draws large crowds.
The “occupiers” were of all ages and looks. Many had signs
promoting all sorts of causes (no unified message). Many had buckets for
collecting donations (for what?). I spied a sign with a “wish lists” of things
desired by the occupiers and on the list I saw “cigars” as items they needed or
wanted.
One sign somehow compared Fluoridation of our water with
HITLER…interesting?
I think that originally there was a “reason” and a “goal” to
the protest but I feel at this point, it has been taken over by a bunch of
loonies that either are mooching the free food and other donated stuff,
homeless people or frustrated hippies trying to re-live the 60s.
I know this is costing the city a bunch in police overtime
and hopefully the approaching winter weather will send the occupiers to warmer
shelter. If that does not do the trick, throw them all in a bus, hose down the
area and post guards to prevent anyone from homesteading there again.
My wife would obviously have a different opinion as to what
should be done with the gentle and dedicated protesters who are protesting for
us all so we all can be equal?
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