Occupy Wall St.?

Living in New York City it's pretty difficult to ignore the protests happening on Wall Street, not that anyone should be ignoring them as it is important that society exercises its freedom of speech and protests' what they see unjust. Right?

The name of the group that began the protest is called "Occupy Together" which has since been made more famous by the title of the Wall St. Protest--"Occupy Wall Street." I went down to Liberty Square a week ago to get a look for myself. I spoke to some extremely motivated, highly intelligent, and very well spoken individuals. In fact, you can see one here -->YouTube: OccupyFox. A few times I was approached by protesters soliciting me to join the movement. While I have given (and still continue to give) it some thought I decided to not protest at the time and here's why:
So far Occupy Wall Street has occupied...a public park, a public bridge, and the public space in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Liberty Square on any given non-protest day would be full of corporate elite, for the past couple of weeks it has been inhabited by angry Americans--the 99%--chanting, marching, and demanding that Wall St. moguls pay for their greed and give back to the people they stole from. Powerful message, no doubt. You know what else is a powerful message, the picture of those moguls sipping expensive champagne while they look down on the protesters. Sickening. Who has more power here? The protesters have the power of people, the filthy rich have just that--the power of money. Unfortunately in today's society money trumps all.

A second reason I won't protest--the NYPD. The public glorifies the NYPD mostly because of their actions on 9/11--and they deserve all that glory plus some. BUT, what they've shown during these protests is nothing less than disgusting. Using mace, beating and dragging protesters, and tricking protesters by leading them to traffic just to arrest them for doing so--is this really 'New York's Finest'?
As the protest grows everyday, I hope the protesters start giving the police a reason to use force. Occupying a public space is perfectly legal, occupying an area that would disrupt the financial system is on a whole different level--that's what this movement needs. The protest is gaining momentum, especially across the country, but at what point will they really start making their voice heard? I'm not so sure. I want to see this protest become a revolution. The people are angry enough, now the crowd just needs to get big enough and they need to cause damage. Grab the financial system by the balls and make your voice heard, that's the only way anything will change. Right now the wall street rich are looking down on the protesters who are shaving their hair into Mohawks and throwing spirit fingers in the air as a sign of agreement with a speaker, and they are laughing at the little people down below. And I can't blame them--what statement is a new hair style and cheer/dance movements making exactly?

Also, and this will be my loudest rant: where are the politicians!? If anyone thinks the government has nothing to do with this protest, then you need a reality check. Hey Mr. President--SNAP OUT OF IT!--Remember that hope and change we ordered that you have yet to deliver--HERE IT IS! Say something! Stop walking around with your tail between your legs like you have for the past two years. Bi-partisanship will not work with all these fools parading around Capitol Hill. Give their friends on Wall St a reason to stop laughing. The ideas that you campaigned on is the reason you were elected--so follow through on them! Use your resources to limit the Feds control! Fortunately, for us, we have Ron Paul as a voice of reason...wait, what?

Anne Coulter is still my favorite, recently she said that the Occupy Wall St protest is the beginning of 'totalitarianism'. That's interesting. Someone should inform her that totalitarianism is when the government has absolute and centralized control of everything--as far as I remember we lived in a democracy--you know, a system with equal and fair representation; no one is looking to overthrow Congress. I haven't heard one protestor chant for totalitarianism. I thought America was the place that people could come and obtain that American Dream. Well, maybe the term "American Dream" needs to be redefined for today's society. The American Dream today is for those who make it here--by 'make it' I mean more that $250,000/year; the rest of you are living the American fantasy--which just means you most likely won't be able to live a comfortable lifestyle and support your family; you'll live paycheck to paycheck and some months have to live with the embarrassment and stress of not paying your mortgage so you can pay your medical bills, or maybe you'll default on your student loans. Tough luck. Guess you picked the short straw.
We should also update our good ol' lady liberty; instead of, "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" maybe something more like, "Give me your tax money and I'll give it to the rich." That sounds about right. It's like the top 1% thought they got there on their own. Along the way they met the 99% and without us they would have never made it to the top. Enjoy the view from up there while you can, once you're at the top there's nowhere to go but down and it's a long fall...and when you're at the bottom there's no where to go but up, and that's exactly where we're headed.