I’ve been seeing some chatter on Twitter that has me a bit dismayed.
Typically, Someone will express disgust at the violence taking place against against Occupy Protesters.
Then Someone Else pipes up defending the intent of the Police action, if not always the severity. You see, Occupiers should know that being on private property, or even some public spaces under the right conditions, is a violation and Occupiers do not have the right to break the law.
Someone mentions the civil rights movement of the 60s and the fact that Black People were occupying spaces they’d been banned from. Someone’s point is that Black People had to break the law in order to prove their point.
Someone Else acknowledges the truth of that situation. But, today is different. The Students at UC Davis weren’t occupying in the same way the Black People took on the Lunch Counter Owners in the South. They occupied those counters in direct violation of an unjust law. That’s a different principal entirely.
I’d like to ask Someone Else if he sees the same injustices that today’s Occupiers see. I do. But there is no law we as Occupiers can break that demonstrates how unjust the current American System is. We’ve been put in a position of subservience to the System’s interests.
All we can do is raise awareness and get people talking and that’s what all this chatter is about. It’s all we can do and I hope it proves to be enough.
It’s almost like today’s Power Brokers learned from the mistakes of the Lunch Counter Owners and devised the System to destroy the Occupier’s power.
Originally posted on my new site.
