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Even Chris Hedges has circled his wagon in the name of all things peace and love. Well, I'm all for peace and love.. just so happens I can't get any of that peace and love to materialize in my unpeopled life. The most recent slant of the Occupy is in trouble voices calling right and left for the 'ousting' of all things 'violent', brings a new brick to the barriers that have kept the unpeople out of it thus far, even with a few of the voices calling to bring in the upeople getting a slight bit of the headlines. These, mostly white privileged once time middle classer, now ask you to believe that we unpeople are 'ruining' it. We're now solely responsible for the float or sink options they say face the 'movement'.
I recall Mr. Hedges referring to this Occupy, in its first days, as a much needed 'Rebellion'. It sure did scare the @!$%# out of the middle that's for certain. But the minute the truly powerless tried to get involved, having heard directly, or through the 'grapevine' that we unpeople use, another element of the now named 'Movement' became crystal clear. If you can't take your bullets with grace, stay home, or in your cardboard box..whichever the case may be. He fortified that concept with his recent call to vilify vandalism an those who vandalize. So, using the 'hearts and minds' old cliche is useful in whatever point he makes, even when he switches it up against those who have nothing but hope for relief, as the unpeople don't actually get any. We are asked to continue to die. Silently, now. As we may mess up their pretty middle class reputations. uh huh.
Be peacerful as you bleed out. He suggests that there is a 'we' in his use of powerlessness, the word. For those who suffer true powerlessness, as they do not have a nationally sindicated column with which to expose their wounded, they are no longer allowed in front of a livestream camera, Mr. Hedges seems to think he is one of us. I do not disallow anyone who sees the wholesale facist @!$%# coming our way, and has some ideas on how to impede it. I do however, have a problem with some white middle class guy doing an across the board presentation on why those who throw a rock must be thrown from the Occupy Train, when in fact, if its powerlessness that gets a first class ticket.... we've paid to ride... and we've been waiting to board for some time now. When the train called justice continues to pass you on buy, ticket in hand, it stirs the desire to defend oneself. I don't think he gets that about Americans. He gets it about El Salvadoreans, Soviets, Czech's, Spaniards and Greeks.. he seems to think however, that impoverished Americans who have had enough, are about to end his movement with unpoeple behaviors. He wants us to bleed peacefully. I kinda think that is what we've been doing. So, what? He wants more? Silent bleeding that is.
We must live within the truth, as he says, show the truth of the very weakest, whom he identified as the rightfully rebellious not so long ago... and as far as i can tell with this full on attack on Black Bloc and anyone who shows the slightest anger at their enslavement, ...he lives next door to the ugly truth, so to speak. I mean, when was that last time he had to ponder how to steal dinner, what he would say to the cop whose pulling him over in the 'wrong' neighborhood for his skin color, or where to strike his tent for the night. No, you don't have to be any of these things to be legitimate, but, you do have to stand knee deep in tolerance, even reach a hand out, to those who take this @!$%# decade after decade. You DON'T label them the 'problem' of the rebellion when they realize they, these unpeople, no longer wish to bleed for the middle class. Especially given the middle class left them out to dry for their last sacrifice. I remember. Welfare reform was a way to free up some space so the middle would have somewhere to go when the jobs went overseas. You didn't call the holders of this place you now take up fellow soldiers, you didn't apologize for politicians who called us frauds and theives, you didn't even apologize when you found out the truth! No, with the loss of your largess, you simply dislocated the poor who lived in the state of powerless. Yeah, much like the native people were first relocate so long ago. I guess it's in the white DNA.
Occupy would not know the truth, in its entirety, if it hit them in the face. Occupy is busy keeping this thing in some kind of 'deserving' clothing. Trying to keep the elite friendly at the same time they call for 'reforms', reforms that do little to nothing for those who die at the hands of the wealthy. Occupy works desperately to play by the rules set down so long ago. Occupy has hands down made their desires known through action, that the poor, the ticket holders, not only have to survive the elite, they have to navigate the kind liberals for their daily bread. The middle has functioned for years in the good standing of the elite. Silent agreements, unspoken contracts have been signed in the blood of those who live at the bottom. "You don't help them, and we'll help them, just keep them out of this." The middle has vilified the poor with greater success then the elite. An they do this with a hand out holding elite nonprofit funds with which to keep these unpeople mired in the quicksand of poverty. Hell, an entire population of middle classers make their living helping us to stay exactly were we are. Useful.
Our little Occupy exemplifies this condition. Not 48 hours ago, this elite band of middlers turned poor (symbolically in most cases) killed the persona of an anonymous soldier in this 'movement', and narry a head turned. They crucified him on the Occupy cross for all to see, and then called the police in a sham action of 'concern'. This young man was used in the worst possible way imaginable. An no one looked. On the following morning they moved on with a new website, some more humiliation, and started banning anyone who supported this young man. The frightened masses of the middle class have done nothing to bring the voice of the poor to the forefront, nothing to enable this unpeople community to defend themselves. They are to busy 'helping' them.
We have a problem Houston. The problem is ignoring the way the weak and poor are being used. Even by Mr. Hedges.
And now there are casualties, if you care.
