Democracy Now! (7am), for October 4, 2011 - 7:00am
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Why are there people wanting to occupy San Jose? Is it because it has a Spanish name? Because it has a few engineers and tehcnologists who are trying to support and sustain democracy by giving people technology that can connect them, inform them, reveal lies by big businesses and believed in free fair business practice where minorities and immigrants can succeed on hard work, merit and ethical innovation?
Or, are you occupying San Jose because you are jealous that they did not just rely on financial institutions and financial hanky panky to sustain themselves?
Having said that I admit that San Jose area has had far too many clueless, insular, provincial professionals with narrow education, professional tribalism and social insularity that has made them totally clueless about what is going on ten miles outside their comfort and familiar zone. Now some of them will find themselves attacked for the right reasons and for the wrong reasons because they did not listen to people who knew more, knew differently and did not bother to look at feudalism and colonialism in their own communities and here.
The very technology that is supposed to help and liberate people, can sometimes limit them, suppress them and keep them in a world of false information.
Many of these countries that send their educated with selective narrow education, whose only focus is to stretch their smile, nod their head and follor orders for their economic survival or success, with few efforts to change the inequality and injustice in their own backyardsand elsewhere that made them international or global coolies in the first place.
But be aware of those who touch their nose by swinging their arm around their head...pretending to care for justice while sabotaging some minorties and immigrants.
I hope this protest, or whtever it is, is driven by "depth and understanding", and not just "jealousy and hatred" at the wrong people. It is like a young man who thought Yo-Yo Ma did not deserve his status as a great celliist but he, 25 and clueless about the protests going on in his own city of New York, was great and knew everything. When this level of cluelessness and arrogance exist among those who are starting out on life...one can see why America is divided. I am glad the protestors are crossing the Brooklyn bridge, but clearly the police with the support of some Brooklyn residents did not want the protestors to do so.
So, I appreciated the kind of daring investigative work some young journalists, on Democray Now!, are doing. This election manipulation, starting so soon and using legal means, is dangerous precedence...as voting rights are being suppresed legally without alternative options for justice. It is interesting how few States are able to come with more and more creative and cunning ways to suppress or prevent liberal, progressive and democratic voters. They are starting early, they are using footsoldiers from these communities (who are Black or gay) and slowly eroding their own community rights.
It is how colonialism used to be practiced...ro continues to be. Look for people in various communities who will become footsoldiers for the agenda of the elites, the powerful and the good ole boys.