freedom is always the enemy of power

the coordinated policy of violence against the occupy movement should not have been any surprise to anyone.  violence is always the favored tool of power against any citizens who attempt to exercise their rights beyond the limits delineated by ruling power.  true freedom is anathema to oligarchy.  the 1%, the elite power structure in the united states, are not at all interested in the exercise of freedom, constitutional or otherwise, beyond their own narrow interests and agenda.  any attempt to broaden the scope of the interests or agenda of the economy, as the 99% and occupy movement are doing, will be met with the most stringent resistance, up to and including deadly violence and the full weight of the corrupt criminal justice system.  as has been reported, the full force of every level of goverment will fight on behalf of the oligarchy.  no one can possibly be surprised.  this is the nature and the purpose of oligarchy.

the counterpunch piece by alan nasser presents an excellent background on the consolidation of oligarchical power and its projection.  it really is a short history of the development of the modern american state, diseased and corrupted as it is, and it illuminates the one possible path left that leads out of our current wilderness.  only if we break the oligarchy, the machine that is corrupting our entire planet, will we have any hope of repairing the hope of freedom and progress in our economy and our society and our planet.  the 99% and occupy movement understand that.  so do the bad guys.