Embracing Collective Punishment

An old line from my youth was ‘powerless people tend to obstruct’ to which we added in our journey from Nam to the Mall “until obstruction becomes power". I acquired a true education during those years. This is one of my lessons.

Two things cause the demand for rapid change. The first things are the social and economic problems that cause human suffering or pain. When defined poorly, the causes of these problems appear concealed. In this clouded condition, the fear of it (or them) expands. My enlightenment came when I discovered the source of the pain to be irrelevant. Whether from starvation or tear-gas it is the same.
For the first time since my journey, the smell of this freedom by others clears my despair. Once again, new expectations strip apathy from my heart.

Walk softly into those bright orange arrest nets and cordons, grand parks and plaza, and from street to screen. Bring us all onto the public record of dissent for within these cauldrons we are more likely to discover the truth and know it well.

This infantile display of chanting nursery rhymes and the media playing patty cake with the elitist, self appointed ringleaders of a menacing mob is quite a contrast to the life of Steve Jobs.
He used capitalism and innovation to make the world better and not Marxism, imitation and intimidation which is being foolishly being encouraged here by a clueless media which deliberately averts its eyes from the more disturbing and hateful displays of the protesting shock troops.
Rather than deny hypocrisy, the media is now wearing it as a garish badge of honor after three years of its vicious coverage of the law abiding Tea Party.
Usually these kind of demonstrations casts the current Presidential administration as the villain but that is not happening here which is interesting.
Anyone who fancies themselves a "journalist" care to do their job and see where the money is coming from as the malcontents parrot with monosyllables the same class warfare rhetoric our billion dollar campaigning President has been using to lecture the nation?

Who are we kidding?

An R.N. from one of the most expensive hospitals in the most expensive health care state in the country complaining about greed?

The medical industrial complex is 18% of GDP and snarfing an ever larger share as reflected in souring health care premiums. We spend $8000 per person per year for medical care almost double what other OECD industrial nations with universal health coverage spend.

BTW. I wonder how many of the protesters ankling around with their iPhones and iPads are tracking the price of their AAPL stock on Wall Street.