Saturday, October 22, 2011

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

I have been pleased to see this Occupy Wall Street movement spread from New York to cities around the country. These protestors may not know exactly what they are protesting about, but they know something is wrong and they know they have the right to voice their dissatisfaction about it. I have said may times that if you don't know your rights you don't have any. And that goes for exercising them, too.

When I read that a group of malcontents had organized an Occupy Chicago movement I decided to nip downtown and check it out for myself.

It was a little disappointing compared to the footage of the crowded and boisterous Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York. The small crowd of maybe a hundred, concentrated on LaSalle Street close to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was subdued, but they seemed determined.

I spent a couple hours talking to the demonstrators and trying to get a feel for their reasons for being out there. Several people expressed a sort of unfocused and undefined frustration and anger toward what they saw as the establishment exploiting the little guy. And while they are basically right they did not know who or what to to direct their anger toward.

I did talk to one man who had a good grasp on the overall problem, that being the entire banking system from the top down, starting with the Federal Reserve. That and the rarefied worlds of super-big business and big government in collusion with each other to create a 'captive' consumer.

"It's no coincidence," he said to me, "that we're demonstrating outside of the Federal Reserve."

To those in the know marching in the "Occupy" demonstrations, the Federal Reserve is one of the arch criminals, where the worlds of big government and big business meet and where their hand reaches deepest and most subtly into the pockets of the little guy.

"If we get people to wake to the fact that their government has been bought and paid for, that will be the first step in fixing the problem."

I can only hope so.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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