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Is Occupy Missoula now a shackled zombie?
“The next time” - the probability that occupiers will be greeted with violence or the threat of violence is A coin flip 50/50 odds.
I would like to say something about the occupy movement. Namely, I suspect that it is doomed to fail. The governments in the nations of the world where this occupy movement is unfolding are using the "Occupy" movement to tag and brand people who are prone to rebellion as future terrorists. They will use this movement against these people so that they may draft yet more laws against peaceful protests and entice the public to turn in said protesters. Government agencies have facial recognition programs that can identify who you are by sifting through revenue offices and departments attached to the issuance of driver's licenses where they can then find your home address and any other information they need in order to locate you, right down to the GPS in your cell phones. Now that’s something to think about!
Something more so over to think about is that the occupy movement has been called a new paradigm in activism, but that isn’t true. In a Common Dreams article [http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/11-12], Heather Gautney shows that Occupy Wall Street is based on the same organizational principles as the feminist, anti-globalization and gay rights movements. These movements all have two things in common. First, they are “leaderless” movements “without an official set of demands. There are no projected outcomes, no bottom lines and no talking heads.” Second, none of them have achieved their objectives. And the second point should be more obvious, since none of them ever had any clear objectives to achieve.The anti-globalization movement has been a manifest failure, so I will focus on feminism and gay rights, in whose cases my second point might seem controversial. Gautney claims, “Gay rights liberated our sexuality, and feminism fundamentally changed the way we relate to each other as men and women. All this, without a centralized leadership.” This conforms to a popular understanding of both movements, but it’s not accurate. Not by a long shot! Sexism and homophobia are as prevalent today as they were 50 plus years ago.While the social landscape has certainly changed in the last half century, women and homosexuals are still fiercely stigmatized.
The success of the pornography industry alone speaks to how deeply entrenched the objectification of women is in our culture. Even if sexism were removed from the public sphere — and it clearly isn’t — that would not prevent immense numbers of individuals from privately holding oppressive sexual attitudes and acting on them when they could get away with it. These are the kind of problems that not even a well-organized & well funded movement with inspired leadership can hope to ameliorate. The civil rights movement ended “Jim Crow” laws but it didn’t even put a dent into racism.
What about Occupy Harvard? It achieved some progress in promoting ethical investment, higher wages for Harvard workers, and scaring Goldman Sachs recruiters, but Occupy has utterly failed in a social movement’s most important goal: garnering public support. Far from it, students reacted to Occupy with general annoyance and disdain. Occupy never expanded beyond a small coterie of undergraduates, a larger contingent of graduate students, and some campus workers.
So back to the idea of governments profiling the occupiers of the movement. If governments are using the occupy movement to identify threats to them so that they may "cull the herd" forthright of disgruntled and dangerous citizens from those citizens whom are perfectly happy being ignorant slaves. Thats right, if you participate in any occupy movement your face ends up in the FBI/NSA/DHS (or the foreign counterpart) agency's database as potential threats. They are using Occupy to flush you all out of the bushes and into the open because it will be hard to foment rebellion when you all get incarcerated and sent to the FEMA death camps being built, and in which these so called CDC "mobile coroner's" can dispose of your corpses under the guise of some mysterious disease. Where none the wiser as to what happened to you! reduced to a tragic footnote. We may all one dark day end up in mass graves and disappear from the records. This is the dark side of the global village no one like to chat around the watter cooler about. Also this is public information we in the United States are the worlds biggest stockpiler of biological agents.
Date of post: Sunday, March 11, 2012
