U.S. Marine Sergeant defends Occupy Wall Street protestors

U.S. Marine Sergeant defends Occupy Wall Street protestors

We should not be "thanking" them for not brutalizing and arresting us or "thanking" them for being courteous, but we should be challenging them for what they are there for. Isn't this what we should be doing to the police?

"Then, in an epic scene, [US Marine Sargent] Thomas approached the line of NYPD officers who held their batons.

While many Occupy Wall Street demonstrators had been arrested for merely crossing the street, he exclaimed, "These are U.S. citizens peacefully protesting! These are the people you are supposed to protect!" The 10-15 NYPD officers he addressed dared not to touch him.

Sergeant Thomas continued denouncing the NYPD's actions shouting, "This isn't a war zone! I've served overseas, that's a war zone! Get rid of your batons and helmets!"

NICE SURF MUSIC

Very great surf song that I've listened to while writing poetry over the last year.

The Pro-Hunger Lobby - GOP Frontrunners Fight Aid for Starving Americans | Truthout

What is inhumane is that the Grand Old Tea Party faithful believe that it all a matter of individual responsibility. It is the fault of the individual to starve. It is the fault of the child to starve. It is the fault of the individual alone.

What is psychopathic is that the Grand Old Tea Party faithful is that government can never help the individual in dire need.

The Pro-Hunger Lobby - GOP Frontrunners Fight Aid for Starving Americans | Truthout

It is way beyond time for both the SEC and Congress to rein in the Wall Street banksters. It is time for the DoJ both at the federal level and state level to thoroughly investigat

­e the shenanigan­s by the Wall Street banksters and begin, finally, prosecutio­ns of those responsibl­e at the national and internatio­nal levels.

While the Wall Street banksters are getting fat again because they have not reformed their practices of fleecing their rubes.

The corruption of Wall Street has been aided and abetted by the corporate "ratings" agencies. Why else would Standard & Poors rate new subprime mortgage bonds get AAA while the USA gets downgraded­? This is clearly a war by the financial rulers against any rules to rein in their amoral behavior that has harmed millions of people in innumerabl­e ways (e.g., pension funds have been decimated through their investment­s on Wall Street).

Why not declare that the financial markets poise a clear and present danger to America and nationaliz­e Wall Street financial firms in order to really get at their "books" to see the amoral wizardry that has mired the world in a recession?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/sec-plan-would-ban-underwriters-taking-profits-investors_n_969687.html

Over 100,000 Protest in Israel! Calling for Netanyahu to step down! (RT)

Norway attacker was a political Terminator

Norway attacker was a political Terminator

The acts of political terrorism by the right wing is international in scope. This should be the clarion call for the U.S. F.B.I. to act decisively on the threat by conservatives to our government. As Dave Neiwert has tirelessly chronicled that there were over twenty acts of political terrorism by the home grown militia/"sovereign" citizen movements in our nation over the last year or so. This has not been covered by the corporate media because of the overt political nature of the ownership of said media that are conservatives/free marketeers.