GREAT SPIRITS HAVE ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED VIOLENT OPPOSITION FROM MEDIOCRE MINDS/Albert Einstein

THE SQUARE ROOT OF ANGER IS FEAR/ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Someone then got the idea of exercising his rights in a Democracy and started a peaceful protest.  After everybody didn’t go home after a couple of days and the protest movement spread, it scared the bejesus out of The Powers That Be.

The first tactic was for the media to demonize the people who were protesting.  When that didn’t work and when they were gaining support among the proletariat the next action was to print nothing.  What protest?  It just isn’t there.  It doesn’t exist.  There was news when something negative happened.  When the encampment was destroyed.  When hizzonor was rudely heckled speaking at a memorial service, one that I do not remember any Mayor of Mountain City ever attending until it became a media event.

Now let me present something for your consideration.  Was it a coincidence that the Occupy was violently and suddenly invaded in the middle of the night hours after the Mayor was shouted down?  In an operation that, by the size and scope of it, had involved a good bit of prior planning.  And after much uproar in the press over the disrespect to a man who reportedly has not stood in the way of allowing homeless people to sleep on the mall. 

The military and Civilian Information gathering Agencies are experts at infiltrating spies and creating embarrassing disruptions.  The police department is a paramilitary organization.  It is a sure bet that they work together.  A heckler can be bought and infiltrated, or frankly, was there from the start.  Someone like that is a mini Reichstag Fire creating an excuse for action.  Incited by a newspaper that has a lot to lose and that has never lost its taste for yellow journalism. 

This may or may not have been the case.  It was an embarrassing moment but Occupy's website acknowledged her and did not throw her under the bus.  (The RTD seems to do a fine job of that without outside help.)

Has it ever occurred to T.P.T.B. to seriously listen and negotiate and compromise with the protest?  Instead they react with force.  Just like we do in those countries that we bring democracy and human rights to.........

if they have oil.

But what do I know?  I’m just a cynical old man who has seen far too much for far too long.

 The Shadow