ashlily

I love you for asking what I think and for supporting this movement!!

I feel like there are so many things that I want to say I can't even think where to get started. I have supported this movement since years and years before it ever got started. I was thrilled in September of 2001 when people stopped buying things, until the worst president we have ever had said it was "American" and "patriotic" to be idiot consumers, and to my horror people believed him. I have felt like this had to happen for well over a decade, but suddenly and all at once I can actually SEE my hidden majority be turned into flesh on the streets of every city with a pulse in this country!!!

Please GOD let this not stop. I will be so disheartened if this doesn't succeed. I am SO tired of the media giving everything Occupy related a negative slant no matter what. They talk about it, but not with any conviction or with anything but extreme caution and distrust. When 7,000 people marched to the Port of Oakland in a General Strike that is the first in the city's history since 1934, I was proud and amazed to be alive during such a historic time. I WORK at the Port of Oakland. It is my job to take the intermodal containers from the port on rail cars to make trains to leave the West Oakland Railyard. I am a freight conductor for Union Pacific and I am pleased as Hell to announce that we shut down the Port of Oakland completely from within and without (with the help of the Longshorman's Union) and Union Pacific as well as AmTrak and BNSF railways were all shut down for up to 16 hours. That made more of an impression on business and on the 1% than we yet know. They are so scared of us that they can't even reveal their true attitudes about it publicly or through their outright control of our media. The only way we see their true face and their real reaction is in the actions of the Oakland Police, who will stop at nothing to start riots and spread discontent to weaken the demonstrators resolve.

I know for a fact, because I have personal connections among the people who have been there, that the police instigated the two tear gas attacks they have perpetrated so far. In both cases they trapped the protesters in a confined area BEFORE telling them this was an "illegal assembly," which really is meaningless because this is exactly what the U.S. Constitution protects when it guarantees freedom of assembly...but I digress...after trapping the protesters and declaring the assembly illegal they gave them no route of escape as they tear gassed them repeatedly and with clear malicious intent. Scott Olson was not hit by accident. The police are shown in multiple camera phone shots taking aim and beaning him in the head. This is a travesty of justice. This is the very definition of police brutality. Why would anyone in America accept this from any police officer anywhere? Are we that apathetic?! Clearly there are a large number of us who are not, and I can only say I pray the numbers keep growing. I have said it for years, and I will continue to say it until it is no longer true: WE WILL NOT HAVE CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY UNTIL WE RISE UP AND TAKE TO THE STREETS TO DEMAND WHAT IS OURS!!!

Oh, and to that guy above, I WILL FUCKING BRING THIS TOPIC HERE!!! What the fuck, dude? This is America and I will fight and kill and die for the right to say whatever the fuck I want. Can you deal with that? If not then you are in the wrong country. This is about free speech. I will NOT be threatened by anyone trying to take that away from me. That WILL be met with violence. I pick my battles wisely and this is one I am going to win. We will be back 10,000 strong until it makes an impression no one will forget...and if they bring an army to take us down, 20,000 will come the next day. It is ON.