a giant stirs to swat a fly that's lost its best defense

winning isn't easy.  and this is something that's not going to end well in the short term.  the occupy movement is going to face increased violence as it, along with the ideas it embodies, gains cultural significance.  the fear of the 1% was clear in the plaintive cries of the bill o'reillys and sean hannitys that the movement was finished.  their masters never believed it, even if their mascots were too shallow and incompetent to understand reality, so everyone can expect more beatings and tasers and pepper spray and mass arrests.  eventually, some idiot will kill a hippie or an old woman or a veteran or a retired cop, and then it's gonna get weird.  and whether that weird is gloriously transformative or violently destructive is something we can't know till it's happening, so...