[quote=no_such_reality]Actually, IMHO, if someone really simplified conveying the complexity of the CDO fiasco, bailout and beneficiaries so that the average, barely able to balance their checkbook American could understand, we’d have riots in the street.
The only problem is when you start drawing the lines the audacity of the fleecing, sheer ineptitude of all the checkpoints and brazen cronyism leaves any one explaining it looking two belt loops short of being as crazy as a tin foil hat Area-51 conspiracy whackjob.[/quote]
People did get it, and many tried to stir the masses to action. As the article notes, both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement began as the same thing: opposition to the bailouts and favors going to the elite at the expense of the masses.
Unfortunately, the counterintelligence community (yes, tin-foil-hat, but true) quickly mobilized and co-opted the Tea Party. They were aided and abetted by Obama who threw the Obamacare chum over the rails at a time when Tea Party anger was clearly directed at the bankers…thereby diverting attention from the original goals of the TP and turning it into an “anti-Obamacare” right-wing movement (it did not start out as anything close to being right-wing). Note that the insurance industry is what benefited most from Obamacare; the FIRE sector winning, once again.
The Occupy movement, started by many of the same people initially involved with the Tea Party, was co-opted, once again, but this time they used “left-wing” diversions. It went from being “Occupy Wall Street” with very clear goals about what they wanted to accomplish (contrary to other, later claims), and turned into some hippie anti-war, pro-immigration, anti-debt/favoring govt bailouts of deadbeats, pro-homesquatter nonsense that very few of the original members could get behind.
With both the Tea Party and the OWS movement, the FBI, DHS, CIA, and other intelligence agencies were on high alert. In the case of the Tea Party, they were preparing emergency procedures to deal with “domestic terrorism.” In both cases, people were brought in from the outside who were paid to disrupt the movements.
It is clear that our law enforcement agencies are NOT here to protect average American citizens. They work for the same bosses that most of our politicians do: the elite who seek to preserve and grow their control of the world’s resources and, as a result, their control over the people.
This is why police officers (and military personnel) are oddly left out of any anti-pension/anti-govt-worker bashing.
