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OWS Is For Real – America Has Lost Its Moral Bearings
by Allen L Roland
America has lost its moral bearings! Recent polls indicate that if Occupy Wall Street (OWS) were a candidate for President, it would decisively beat any candidate from either party. 86% of Americans think that Wall Street and its lobbyists have far too much power in Washington and those Americans are taking to the streets demanding real moral change.
As I have mentioned before ~ there are evolutionary moral juices flowing through the Occupy Wall Street movement and they are social cooperation and altruism versus isolation and greed. A true shift in global consciousness is upon us for the OWS Movement is touching deeply felt evolutionary chords which will eventually break down the global walls of greed, separateness and war and will replace them with altruism, social cooperation and peace ~ the true driving forces of evolution. See my article ~
According to a recent CNN/ORC International poll, only 15% of Americans asked said that they trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time ~ and that is because Washington is out of sync with America’s grass roots moral values.
In a Press TV Interview this week I stress that the “Occupy” movements are seeking moral changes ~ both economic and political ~ which focus on social cooperation and altruism, not greed. I also stress that America has obviously lost its moral bearings / six minute video
I also mention the three stages of Occupy Wall Street;
- Occupy and establish a visible presence and present a moral vision.
- Demand the truth, including 9/11 truth, Fed Reserve transparency, full disclosure of Wall Street fraud and derivative indebtedness.
- Strike, revolt and demand real change
The first step in regaining our moral bearings is the truth ~ which has yet to be fully revealed to Americans and which accounts for the deep mistrust of not only Wall Street but politicians in general ~ including President Obama. All of whom are obviously in bed with Wall Street and the corporate banking elite.
Have we forgotten the words of Carl Sandburg?
” For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or civilization perishes, one condition may always be found ~ they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.”
No where is this loss of moral bearings more evident than our illegal preemptive attack and occupation of Iraq, where we set up and implemented a U.S. controlled coalition government, where we stage managed a flawed election and judicial system and where we condoned the brutal hanging of Iraq’s sovereign leader after a mock U.S. managed monkey trial. The recent brutal assassination of Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi, by US backed NATO forces and rebels, is yet another example of our flawed moral vision.
Here’s the collective human cost of this flawed moral vision ~
- Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq 1,455,590
- Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,798
- Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan: 2,776
Here’s the financial Cost of War and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,268,965,662,411
Please Note the wars will cost Americans between $3.2 and $4 trillion, including medical care and disability for current and future war veterans, according to a new report by the Eisenhower Research Project based at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
Obviously, we have lost our moral bearings and focus and that is what’s driving the Occupy Wall Street movement ~ and many others acknowledge this driving collective moral force of a country that wants to redeem itself from its past and continuing moral transgressions.
George Lakoff correctly writes in AlterNet ( How Occupy Wall Street’s Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative Worldview ) that OWS has a progressive moral vision and that they’re protesting the disastrous effects that have come from operating with a conservative moral, economic, and political worldview.
Excerpt: “It seems to me that the OWS movement is moral in nature, that occupiers want the country to change its moral focus. It is easy to find useful policies; hundreds have been suggested. It is harder to find a moral focus and stick to it. If the movement is to frame itself, it should be on the basis of its moral focus, not a particular agenda or list of policy demands. If the moral focus of America changes, new people will be elected and the policies will follow. Without a change of moral focus, the conservative worldview that has brought us to the present disastrous and dangerous moment will continue to prevail…. Remember: The Tea Party sees itself as stressing only individual responsibility. The Occupation Movement is stressing both individual and social responsibility.” See article ~
Former four star general and NATO commander Wesley Clark talks about that disastrous conservative world view and the resultant neocon plan to invade seven countries in five years ~ including an attack on Libya and eventually Iran. He calls it the neocon policy coup of the United States led by Dick Cheney and many others. Remember, there’s nothing moral or humanitarian about dropping bombs under the guise of a humanitarian intervention ~ Video: Eight minute Commonwealth Club Interview / 2007
In summary, OWS is a people’s movement with the moral power to change the world ~ because the need to unite and co-operate is a soul based moral need whereas the need to separate, control and destroy is an ego based immoral need and contrary to human evolution.
As I predicted several months ago, a grassroots people’s freedom movement that started in Egypt will end in America in 2012 when the people demand the moral change they voted for in 2008 and never got with Obama ~ but this time, we will get it by ourselves!
About the Author: Allen L Roland is a Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist. He is also a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web site at AllenRoland.com. He also guest hosts a Truthtalk, a national radio show that airs monthly. He is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations via email at allen@allenroland.com.
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In one month the Wall Street protests have effectively shifted the the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to finally a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street. See . http://www.alternet.org/story/152860/the_stunning_victory_that_occupy_wall_street_has_already_achieved?akid=7775.199767.wBQPCA&rd=1&t=5
In just one month, the protesters have shifted the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to finally a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street.
See http://www.alternet.org/story/152860/the_stunning_victory_that_occupy_wall_street_has_already_achieved?akid=7775.199767.wBQPCA&rd=1&t=6
Oakland: In the last video a policeman threw a flash grenade into a crowd trying to help an injured protester.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/egyptian-brutality-comes-america-police-fire-rubber-bullets-peaceful-protesters
After Marine Corps Corporal Scott Olsen served two tours of duty in Iraq, he came home and joined the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now thanks to a police projectile, he’s lying in the hospital with a fractured skull.
The ongoing police crackdowns on Occupy encampments — in Oakland and across the country — are morally reprehensible. Hundreds of nonviolent protesters have been arrested for the sole crime of witnessing against corporate greed and economic injustice.
That’s why over 7,000 people of faith have signed a petition calling for an end to the violence and repression targeting this peaceful movement for economic justice.
Click here to join us in sending a message to local authorities: Stop the attack and arrests.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2518/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8542&tag=taf
The protests will only have meaning if they move from the streets to the courts with both civil and criminal indictments. Use both the class action against the Federal Reserve Bank to get the money back that has been looted and use the R.I.C.O. ACT , to put them all in jail.
For the plan, follow the link here;
http://www.zerohedge.com/print/365866
The videos and photographs coming out of the police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland protesters does not look like anything you’d expect to in the United States.
Quite simply, the police turned it into a battle zone with rubber bullets, flash grenades, and teargas on one side, and unarmed protesters on the other.
An Iraq war veteran has been critically injured by the police in Oakland and video evidence shows that the actions of the police were deliberate…
Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5531.html
“…does not look like anything you’d expect to in the United States.”
That all depends how naive your expectations happen to be. Just as with those who continue to cling to and regurgitate these bogus indoctrinated memes of “patriotic duty” and “service to the USA”, those who refuse to educate themselves as to the real history of the nation and its governing system simply demonstrate their preference for illusion over factual historic reality.
The shame of it is for all to bear, both the victimizers and the victimized.
OWS is not a grass roots people movement, and neither is the Arab Spring: it’s USG/CIA OTPOR/CANVAS. America has lost its moral compass: natural law. And it’s time to get it back. See: http://ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/occupy-wall-street-the-tea-party-the-illegitimacy-the-us-government-and-what-we-must-do/
I admit I’m not very familiar with these “OWS” protests, but doesn’t it seem that the majority of the people involved are motivated by a narrow self-interest?
I could be wrong (and I hope I am), but I’d bet that many if not most of the people involved don’t or wouldn’t have a problem with the U.S. government’s bloody Zionist crusades, for example, as long as they don’t see it affecting them personally.
My two cents > occupy wall street which hasn’t occupied wall street yet is a staged event > like egypt, the people and anger are real > the goal is to get “greece” going in the streets of america so the elite can crack down > the police have been militarized > the global fractional reserve banking ponzi scheme is generating debt numbers to big to comprehend > restart is necessary > big diversions planned > possibly ww3
Anything is possible, but it doesn’t make sense for the bankers to secretly encourage people to march in the street and point out their crimes. Also, if they wanted to encourage the protests, they wouldn’t have had their controlled media block it out for as long as possible.
I agree with you, RJ. I kept complaining about the media blackout of Occupy Wall Street in the San Francisco media until our local ABC TV affiliate finally began informing viewers of what was going on. And on that same broadcast I first learned that an Occupy San Francisco movement had been started 10 days before! In other words, I knew more about what was going on in New York through alternative media than I knew about what was happening in my own city 3 or 4 miles from my home. The Powers That Be were really hoping the whole OWS thing would just blow over. But it’s gone too far, I’m happy to say, for that to happen.
We will either get
change,
revolution,
or massive repression.
The potential for infiltration into the protest by stooges and goons hired by the authoritarian, super wealthy, and corrupted politicians and DOD folks is very high right now. And some of the media tend to zero in on the negative aspects of these protests, like the homeless urinating in the public areas or a fight or a drug incident or whatever. The folks who are protesting need to be ever alert and disciplined for this to work. Otherwise it will be co-opted by some of the same folks that co-opted the early tea party movement into some bizarro extremist conservative anti-government trick. After I came home from Vietnam the Vienam Veterans Against the War, then The Vietnam Veterans of America and the the Vet Center program were all infiltrated by gov. provocators to discredit them. We all have bad apples and need to have some discipline to make it in the long run with these movements. Don’t let this Acorn discrediting fraud type thing happen here. This is too important. Politicians are starting to respond to this because of polling showing that the majority of American people are backing the ideas and proposals from the AWS folks more then anything any politician is proposing for our people. This has to remain non-violent from our side of the street even in the face of police losing it. It has to have a good cross section of races, gender, ages, classes and veterans. This may take the rest of this year and most of next to actually move into real changes in our violent and controling, unfair, immoral and imperialistic culture. Lets not become like those who are being protested against by being too angry, too comtemptous, and too narrow minded. The 60s movements live on. They never were gone, just somewhat underground waiting for the right moments in timing to re-emerge more mature and compassionately wrathful.
well bareing any pollution tax, mostly to blame of the synthetic manufacture that rationalises it self and at such great lenghths, the 9 things aka eight, waiting for the datum to ” co-elisscee to some discernable pattern’ exsploitable r we’ hmm
Ralph Nader on OSW ~ “Make no mistake; support for the power shift espoused by the 99 percent movement is now only a breeze but a windstorm is coming … each new protest gives the protesters new insights. The protestors are learning how to challenge controlling processes. They are assembling and using their little libraries on site. They are learning the techniques of open, non-violent civil disobedience and building personal stamina. They are learning not to be provoked and thereby win the moral authority struggle which encourages more and more people to join their ranks.”
OSW is gathering strength every day ~ storm warnings are already waving.
America has not lost anything it didn’t have in the first place. It was NEVER a moral country – not a single minute of its entire history. There were no “good old days” (when blacks, indians, mexicans & women knew their place). It was ALWAYS a moral house of horrors many demographic groups.
Absolutely!
Many who chose to colonize the new world were misfits, criminals, shysters and social rejects. From pig thieves to religious outcasts and all points in between. Some came for freedom from tyranny and persecution but it was those same people who nearly annihilated the first nations. After all, even Jefferson considered the “Indians” to be a pain in the ass and had no qualms about neutralizing them. So had every president on down to modern times.
I would say that America has to find its moral bearing first, then it can begin to develop into a moral nation.
You are mostly right NR in terms of our history. From Columbus on there has been genocide, slavery, enthnocentricism, imperialism, classism, racism, sexism, involuntary inservitude to the military, unequal justice, etc. The protest is an eruption of a continuing effort to bring some moral authority to a country that is good at writing documents of freedom and rights but is more like a good unethical car salesman selling a beautiful looking used car which has a cracked engine block. We have an opportunity to have a non-violent revolution now and it may take awhile but Mr. Nader is right in his statement. And we still have the death penalty and have more people in prison then anyother modern country and for petty non-violent crimes like a bag of pot. And yet you here all the politicians say things like ” America is exceptional”, “God bless America”, “We are # 1 in the world” etc. This is propaganda to keep the people from non-violently but wrathfully bringing moral authority into our cultural institutions for the first time.
Video of US Marine Vet Scott Olsen Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland and definitive proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25.
3 minute video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29543.htm
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