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

[Alex Colter]

For fear that I was too Vague I do not intend to insinuate a 'Second
Coming' (Yeatsian or Christian), rather a Lineage of what may be called
Servitude...?

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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