By Pat Stacey
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement continues to increase in
popularity and there is even rumor of some activities here in east Texas but
the movement is seriously flawed. First
of all there are no true leaders, only a loose steering committee.
This alone will probably spell doom for the
group. Next, "Occupy Wall Street" has no
real agenda other than protesting the capitalist system and those that have
taken advantage of it.
Participants call
it greed and, no doubt, there is a full measure of that going around in many
businesses but that is at least partly what drives our system. The group's message seems to center around
economic inequalities but again we are not a socialist country. So the protests are full of energy and
obviously people that are in need but if they really want to be change agents,
voting on Election Day will be the way to do it.
We certainly have the right to assemble and
the right be vocal against our government and the "Occupy Wall Street" movement
even has some celebrity appeal as several millionaire celebrities including
Kanye West have joined the protest.
Which to me is ultimate in insult to this movement – Kanye West,
really? So the protests will continue
and their message will slowly evaporate along with their numbers, not because
the group was wrong in their mission but because they truly had no plan to make
their message stick.
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