Occupy Wall Street Update

A couple weeks ago, Sean Hannity told an OccupyWallStreet protester on his radio show “you don’t believe in liberty, you don’t believe in freedom.” When the woman explains that her father would've died from lack of medical attention under Hannity's utopia, Hannity ignores everything she says and calls her a Marxist. Here's the exchange if you can bear it.



This video was uploaded on the internet a couple days ago. Here's a couple Marines giving their thoughts about Sean Hannity calling them anti-freedom and anti-liberty.



The woman he interviewed said that "you can merge socialism together with capitalism" (a pretty courageous thing to say on Hannity's show, if you ask me). Hannity, without bothering to inquire what this system would entail, goes on to spew that she's calling for "an elite class, like under Marx." I've heard people like Taibbi and Chomsky say that they don't go after right wing idiots because it's just too easy. I respect them more for that, but this is therapeutic for me okay?

First of all, there wasn't anything "under Marx." Karl Marx was never the leader of a country. Marx was a philosopher who lived in Germany. He never called for an "elite class." He called for the destruction of the elite class (the bourgeoisie) which develops naturally under the capitalist system. In an attempt to bash Marxism, Sean Hannity uses the exact argument that Marxists use against capitalism. Welcome to the club, comrade.



Hannity tells this woman she doesn't believe in freedom or liberty. The definition of freedom is "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint." The definition of liberty is "the state of being free within a society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views."

People have much more freedom and liberty under socialism. Capitalism depends on a system called wage slavery. Many abolitionists and freed slaves felt that this was just as oppressive as actual slavery, and in fact, it's exactly what former slaveowners used to drive blacks back onto the plantations after the Civil War. In its most oppressive form, capitalism is literally slavery. All too often, this system gives you no choice but to endure backbreaking work for the bare essentials of survival. 77% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.



Under true socialism (not the totalitarian regimes that people claim are "socialist"), people decide for themselves how many hours they work. The amount of money you earn fluctuates depending on how many hours you choose to put in. There are no "bosses" because everyone is equal, as the Declaration of Independence states, and company decisions are made by democratic process through the workers. Workers control the means of production. This frees you from the "oppressive restrictions imposed by authority" and gives you control over your own life. The man who tells you this isn't liberty and freedom is trying to get you back onto the plantation and shut up.

Hannity isn't the only bourgeoisie trying to destroy democracy. Here's a quote from professional drug addict Rush Limbaugh:



Interesting words, coming from a fat fuck parasite whose life doesn't matter.

We all need to pay attention to Wall Street tomorrow. Tomorrow, as early as 6:00 am, Brookfield Properties will be sending in cleaning crews to Zuccotti Park. Zuccotti Park is where the protesters have been sleeping for the past month, and Brookfield Properties owns it. If the protesters aren't gone by the time the cleaning crews arrive, then the police will be sent in to forcibly remove them. Upon "being allowed to return," the protesters will no longer be able to bring equipment into the park, or tents, or water proof tarps, and there will be no lying down of any kind.

This is it. They're finally trying to break it up. The same thing is happening in Austin, and if I remember right, I think they also tried it in Wisconsin. Protesters are now in the process of cleaning up the park themselves before morning, so the crews will have no excuse to enter. This is very timely, considering there's a massive worldwide protest in solidarity with OccupyWallStreet scheduled for Saturday.

The New York chapter of the National Lawyers Guild sent Brookfield Properties a letter.

There is no basis in the law for your request for police intervention, nor have you cited any. Such police action without a prior court order would be unconstitutional and unlawful.

The opinions that make up the Occupy movement vary, but how incredibly fitting, that they send in the one entity that everyone there is unified against -- business and government intertwining to limit freedoms.

EDIT: Politico's reporting Brookfield is backing down!