The Crackdown Should Come As No Surprise
As I documented over a week ago, this was coming. The corporate elites have been gearing up to crush Occupy Wall Street. They wanted to take the battle right to the heart of the revolution, in Liberty Square. They launched a propaganda blitz, transformed Lower Manhattan into a sphere ruled by martial law, and then subverted the legal system to support their crimes. And their propaganda is so powerful that many people, even those who should know better, actually side with the state. Anyone who stands on the sidelines now is complicit. If you permit the corporate state to get away with destroying the First Amendment you deserve what you will get. And the big red white and blue dick is coming for your ass-hole too, if it hasn’t been penetrated already.
I wasn’t on Wall Street Monday night. I was out of the city and couldn’t return in time. My friend through Occupy Wall Street, Priya, was there. I read her text right before I went to sleep—“OWS raided now!!!!!” I called her first thing in the morning. She was hysterical. “It was horrible,” she said. “They just came in, destroyed all the tents, beat people up, sprayed people with pepper spray. They destroyed everyone’s property and threw the books from our library into dump trucks.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, even though I should have been prepared.
“Sorry,” sobbing, “but this is just very emotional for me. This was like home. This was a spiritual center, a community. And now everything’s gone. It’s all gone. So many people have nowhere to go”… Continue Reading
Luke Rudkowski confronts Mayor Bloomberg on The John Gambling Show
Posted by Luke Rudkowski on Nov 4, 2011
10/28/11 Luke Rudkowski, A.K.A. “Robert”, calls into The John Gambling Show to ask Mayor Bloomberg a real question.
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A Land Where the Law Protects the Powerful
What a day. It started with a hearing at Liberty Square—the people vs. Goldman Sachs. Victims came to tell of the suffering they have endured at the hands of this criminal firm. And after the verdict was reached, the victims were arrested while the guilty were protected by the police. Hours later, I found that the New York Post is calling for further arrests and an end to free speech, part of a broader misinformation blitz launched by the mass media intended to set the stage for the state to break up Occupy Wall Street.
One woman came to the mock trial at Liberty Square to express her grievances over how Goldman Sachs has ruined her life. The organization she works for had invested money in Goldman, and most of it got wiped out by the sub-prime mortgage bubble. She has seen her paycheck, which had already been paltry, cut in half, and it will likely evaporate entirely in a few months because of Goldman’s fraud—the firm played both sides of the game by packaging worthless mortgages as collateralized debt obligations (CDO) and selling them to pension funds, banks and other institutions under the guise that they were secure all the while betting against these very securities through credit default swaps (CDS). As Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibi reports, they knew they were selling shit, and “Goldman’s mortgage department accounted for 54 percent of the bank’s risk.” The object was to maximize profits at everyone else’s expense. And they wiped out millions of people, from small investors to pensioners to ordinary workers… Continue Reading
WeAreChange and Immortal Technique on #ows, Obama, 2012 election, Ron Paul, Immigration, Bloomberg
Posted by Luke Rudkowski on Oct 21, 2011
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The Revolution Cannot Be Stopped
A Huge Victory for Occupy Wall Street:
When it was announced at 6 AM yesterday that the NYPD would not go through with evicting Occupy Wall Street I experienced one of those moments that make life transcendent. The crowd erupted in cheers. People hugged, high-fived, clapped, jumped up and down, pumped their fists in resistance, chanting “the people, united, will never be defeated.” Chills went down my spine. It was a significant victory, providing an acute sense of jubilation. The state desperately wants to crush Occupy Wall Street. They thought their opportunity had come. But they failed. We proved that strength does indeed lie in numbers.
The two thousand plus people who showed up at Liberty Square at 6:00 AM yesterday were determined. We all knew what we were up against. We were prepared to get arrested. We were willing to sacrifice for a supremely just cause. And we refused to surrender. The corporate state will not be able to silence us. Bloomberg and his cohorts in the NYPD didn’t call off the eviction because they value free speech. They abstained from their campaign of mass arrests and brutality because they knew it would be a disaster. The media would be all over it, and Occupy Wall Street would only double in size, judging by the public’s reaction to the mass arrests at Union Square and the Brooklyn Bridge… Continue Reading
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