A Cancer on Occupy?.... Hedges misdiagnosis of Citizens who've had Enough

I'm a Blue-collar-middle-class-reared-single-parent-welfare-queen-reform-organizer-adult-student-college-educated-turned-unemployed-crisis-counselor-peace-seeking-protester, who won't hesitate to rise to any occasion that leads me to some peace in my life.

So, Mr. Hedges, you see my dilemma?

I can not support the nature of your wholesale 'rant' against citizens who you've mislabeled.

Oh, I know you have 'good intentions', grand even, I mean, I watched you on that first Sunday as you set out to support the embarkation of the U.S.S. Occupy, into battle against 'a corptocracy' well endowed an working in infested waters. It was all very Hu-Rah!... well, in that intellectual kind of way.

As an observer you make your points. As you apply the book learning to it, a worthwhile and lofty spray of past presidential grandiosity wets the crowd gathered around to ohh and ahh you. Those high ideals sound as good as they did when first uttered by men much like you. 

I hope you don't mind if I pause for a moment and take a gander at what hasn't been said? Don't mind if we ask some relevant questions, do you Mr. Hedges?

For instance, Black Bloc, and your categorization of citizens who are in full-out response mode. What is it that would send these once labeled 'apathetic' folk to their closets for black attire, and then out into a cop infested pepper spraying environment? To play a game of 'mother may I'?  How long have the communities you make editorial fodder of been waiting for some equal treatment, access and pay? How dark is the night that corporate polluters work in to leave behind contamination and decay? You wish to allude to a Black bloc 'lifestyle' but ignore the true nature of life in many neighborhood but your own.

Citizens wearing black each participate in this 'movement', 'revolution', 'rebellion' or plain old war, each for their own reason... lets talk about what motivates citizens. Let's for purposes you will find arguable, ignore the television screen you've been watching and focus for a moment on pain and violence... I mean, you started it.

We share an era, you and I. I mention that as I ask you to please explain the wondrous success of those tactics you find 'acceptable' and 'nonviolent'. Where is the success of these tactics you support, gotten us? After decades and decades many have been exposed to the elite machinations and all of its by products. By products that you allude to only in polite and grand language, things like;

Discrimination of all sorts, is painful and violent to those experiencing it, and have been for a century or more.

Profiling is painful and violent and has been for many decades.

Physical and environmental rape is painful and violent, and has been decade after decade.

Foreclosure by corruption, painful and violent and has been for a while now.

Eating in front of a guest is rude, eating in front of the hungry is painful and violent.

Seeing a 7 million dollar wedding on cable after standing in front of an officer of the court on one's lunch hour can feel painful and cause a violent reaction, just as reading about a presidents heart bypass surgery can feel painful and violent to someone who has lost a wife because the billion dollar insurance company stamped it 'rejected'.

Let's not forget the 40 million other citizens whose personal experience roils inside them in a painful and violent way being blamed for not living more stress free, as they are advised by still more little 'helpers' who make their living serving up this corporate standard of pain and violence and painting it a nice red, white an blue to hide it.

Some of us are quite interested in the translation of 'pain and violence' you have set up. As if to blame those who have had enough for not taking still more on the 'chin' in the name of a nicely wrapped and co-opted 'Occupy', an Occupy you can feel 'good' about. Does it leave your 'lifestyle' unharmed?

Face your privilege sir. Step out from behind it. I once viewed you here on the streets... with us. the picture has changed somewhat now. I can see the marble, and I can smell the ivy.

Fool me once, shame on me.

Fool me twice, .... not on your life.

Leave my rebellion free of your condescending assessment and observations. Get out from behind that 'career' and reach out a hand toward those you so willy nilly malign in the name of something grand and ancient. If you look around, it wasn't that grand was it... after all, we're mired in good intentions the like we may never be free of again.

as always this is my opinion

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