“Occupy Wall Street”: Police brutality and media blackout in the land of freedom and opportunity

According to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

As mentioned by the American Civil Liberties Union,

Our nation’s founders declared their independence on July 4, 1776, to break free of the tyranny of a nation that denied them the civil liberties that they believed all people were granted as a birthright. They reaffirmed that faith in independence from governmental tyranny with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791. But Freedom cannot survive when those in power make exceptions to the First Amendment for speech they dislike or criticism they would rather not hear.

Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration opposing what participants view as negative corporate influence over U.S. politics and a lack of legal repercussions over the global financial crisis. It was inspired by the Arab Spring movement, particularly the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square which resulted in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. The aim of the demonstration is to begin a sustained occupation of Wall Street, the financial district of New York City, to draw attention to Wall Street’s misdeeds and call for structural economic reforms. Organizers intend for the occupation to last “as long as it takes to meet our demands.” Demands are in the process of being negotiated and developed. The protest was coordinated with similar though smaller events nationwide; as of September 27 the Occupy Wall Street site reported that “52 cities were occupied or organizing” including Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago, as coordinated on Occupytogether.org.

Senator Bernie Sanders also spoke in the protests, with the main points of his speech against corporatocracy being,

Through our Fed audit we found that the Fed loaned $16 trillion to banks and financial institutions all around the world.

3 out of the 4 largest financial institutions are bigger today than before the financial crisis began.

Today, 1 in 4 credit card holders are paying interest rates of more than 20%. That is usury.

K. Skolnick also added,

I think the main thing we’re doing is knocking on the walls of ignorance in this country so people wake up.

Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components, control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning (notwithstanding the “free market” label).

According to my own sources in the US, all of them say that the mainstream media (Judenpresse) is largely ignoring (censoring) the event, and people are being forced to resort to European media to learn what is happening in their own country, such as The Guardian UK.

While watching numerous videos of the police beating up its own citizens in New York, I could not stop wondering that if it was not for the internet, the images would never have gone out in the media, and the United States government and media would still be lying blank faced to everybody, including their own citizens, that the United States is the land of freedom and opportunity.

Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing event, and you can get up to date information at occupywallst.org, day-to-day reports at andnowtheweather.com, and a Live Video Stream of the event at http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution.