Will They Mayday on May Day? Only if we march.

[Alex Colter]

If, on my Daily Walk, I was to witness a Driver beat his horse mercilessly
with his riding-crop on my own path... If Dixon were born under the Scales,
if Venus were the Star Presided o'er his Birth, as it was mine... why we
are not be so different... Red Coat and all...
There is in Motion a Mechanism far beyond our Power to control. Pray,
beyond the control of those in power.
Even now a 'Badass' walks among us unknown to most, His reason for coming
Ominous, Unreadable, in the Garb of Perfect Slavery...

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/occupy-may-day-8509332
>
> There is a strong feeling, and not merely on the right or from our
> gloriously apathetic Center, that the Occupy people have had their
> time on the stage, that it is time for another show to begin. Nobody's
> ready for a remix. Nobody's ready for a reboot. (Me? I'm still trying
> to figure out why in hell they're bringing back Dallas.) And nobody,
> certainly, is prepared to admit that what started in Zuccotti Park and
> a hundred other places might have permanently affected the way
> Americans looked at the connections between how the country does its
> business and how the country runs its government.
>
> [...]
>
> The governing elites, all of them, were complicit in massive fraud
> against the rest of us. Either they participated in it, which would be
> the bankers and (it appears) their lawyers, or they condoned and
> celebrated it, which would be the financial press and the elite media,
> or they shirked their duty to protect the political commonwealth from
> being hijacked, which would be the members of both parties in the
> government, and us, for letting so much of the country run on
> automatic pilot for so long.
>
> This was a banana republic. It was a failed state in everything except
> the fact that no tanks rolled in the streets. The terrorists were not
> hiding in Waziristan. They were having lunch at Cipriani's and sitting
> in luxury boxes at the Meadowlands. The government existed only to
> increase their profits and to provide a quasi-legal context for
> organized piracy. There was an extraordinary contempt for the law, for
> the institutions of government, and for the people the law and those
> institutions were supposed to serve. The country was cored out. It was
> a shell of a country and a shell corporation, and it has not recovered
> yet.
>
> From the start, I said that the best thing about the Occupy movement
> was that at least they were yelling at the right buildings.
>
> [...]
>
> If the Occupy people want to march, I say let them march. If they
> resist conventional politics, that may be because conventional
> politics are worth resisting. What I do know is that, if i weren't for
> the people in the streets last autumn, the Obama people would be
> running a very different campaign and Willard Romney wouldn't look
> half as ridiculous as he does. Somebody has to care enough not to
> care.
>
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