This is absurd! The results you want will not be accomplished by chanting and passive resistance! Peace only works every once in a short while, and the level of corruption in this nation is not something that can be taken care of with peaceful protesting and holding up signs. Think of the great revolutions and revolutionaries of history. Think of Che Guevara, Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Was that revolution led by passive resistance and a peaceful state of mind? NO! The revolution was a massive revolt led by Che and his guerilla army, and it certainly wasn’t peaceful.
Think now, if you will, of Samuel Adams and the American Revolution. For years, the colonists in America tried time and time again to stick it to the British by boycotting British goods, writing appeals to the British government, even meeting in the First Congress to draw up a declaration of rights. Nothing, NOTHING made a serious impact until the Boston Massacre, and then the Boston Tea Party three years later.
People on Wall Street and in the government WILL NOT ACT upon your peaceful requests. They will act only out of fear of losing their precious jobs and houses and lives. We need to be forceful and violent. Obviously, the main message of the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting peacefully. I realize this. But, while I think nonviolence is a noble path to take, it is not the most effective, not by a long shot. People of the protest need to take action, and take it soon.
We need to be violent! We need to be extreme! We need to overrun Wall Street buildings with our collective rage and show them we mean business, and if the pigs interfere, we need to fight them. This will both let the Wall Street fat cats know that we’re not fucking around, and make international headlines. It will be much more newsworthy than the current headlines, which basically portray us as a bunch of protesting hippies with varied views and stands. If we can be brutal, if we can be destructive and loud, then we can get through to the people to whom we need to get through!!
If you all believe that passive resistance is the way to go, then God bless you. But, despite your best intentions, your goals will not be achieved by keeping calm and carrying on. We need to go insane and carry our leaders on our shoulders and scream and yell and break and change things for good. That’s all. Just think about it.
