We no longer have any real rights, only privileges at the whim of our corporate overlords.

[99th_Monkey]

And we never know how or when said privileges will be revoked;
they could ALL be revoked literally in the twinkling of an eye, (like
how suddenly 911 happened) ... or gradually as needed, modulated
so the whole enchelada doesn't blow up in the 1%'s face .. like was
starting to happen with Occupy Wall St..

Just sayin'. Happy Trails .. It's been nice to know you.

Peace out.

[Summer Hathaway]

1. The minute I see someone use the term

"our corporate overlords", I immediately realize I am dealing with someone who sees him/herself as a persecuted victim, and actually enjoys seeing themselves as such.

[99th_Monkey]

2. What "term" would you suggest using

to describe the slimy filthy-rich greedy cowardly assholes
who hate democracy so much that they have pulled out all
the stops to literally "buy" the country's political system lock,
stock & barrel, so as to continue doing their greedy bidding
at everyone else's expense, having paid-off their hired
"consensus fixers" & taken over our nation from "behind their
curtain" of illusion and glitter?

Do you prefer "The 1%"? or does that offend you delicate
sensitivities as well?

[Summer Hathaway]

5. My sensibilities,

'delicate' or otherwise, have nothing to do with it.

I recognize that there are those who do everything in their power to subvert democracy as it should be for their own personal gain.

I also recognize that there are those who do everything in their power to stop the aforesaid.

The minute you label yourself as a helpless victim, you become one.

[99th_Monkey]

10. I'm curious if you feel like Chris Hedges "playing the victim" as well? eom

[treestar]

3. Why do we still have the right to vote then?

The right to run for office? The right to freedom of speech and religion? The right to own weapons? How about the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments?

[99th_Monkey]

4. Just because you are using a privilege, doesn't make it a "right".

Just ask the Occupy peeps about that one.

... or try googling "NDAA, indefinite detention,
constitutional rights".

[Summer Hathaway]

6. And you labeling a right as a privilege

doesn't make it a reality.

Which "Occupy peeps" should we ask? The ones who were going to come back bigger and stronger than ever LAST spring, who never did? Or the ones who were going to take Philly by storm with their show of strength at their first national meet-up last July 4th - all two hundred of them who were motivated enough to actually show up?

[99th_Monkey]

9. T^R^A^S^H^E^S OCCUPY W^O^N'T G^O^O^G^L^E DNAA

and am I supposed to take this seriously?

[Summer Hathaway]

14. Am I supposed to take Occupy seriously?

The folks who showed up for their much-touted "NatGat" last July, and then complained that they had no access to water - in the middle of downtown Philadelphia?

Yes, the movement that was going to take over the world couldn't figure out how to get water in the downtown area of a major US city. All two hundred of them.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Here's what Occupy is doing in my city. Nothing to snark at, but you can if you like.

From this week's Eugene Weekly's cover story 'Occupy Medical-What free universal health care looks like'
"What do you do if you are homeless, uninsured or just plain broke and you’re sick? Where do you go if you do have a home but the waiting list is too long at the clinic or your insurance isn’t good enough to get you the care you need?

On Sundays from noon until 4 pm you can walk up to the former bloodmobile painted red and white and emblazoned “Occupy Medical Mobile Clinic,” that’s parked downtown at the Park Blocks and get anything from a Band-Aid to a prescription for heart medicine. You can also get food, a haircut and proof that someone cares."
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130411/lead-story/occupy-medical

[Trailrider1951]

7. The only answer to those fascists is this:

Nonviolent Noncooperation, as was taught to us by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. I would add one further point: Nonparticipation. Shop somewhere other than Walmart, Krogers, Home Depot, etc. Prepare your meals instead of relying on the drive-through. Starve the beast.

[99th_Monkey]

8. totally. ~nt

[avaistheone1]

11. Agree.

[cbrer]

12. As long as you know

That a substantial segment of the population will not roll over for those pricks.

Yes I realize that they have superior technology.

But HUGE sacrifices were made to give us what we have today. Not just materially. Many of us will again make sacrifices to preserve, or at least protest to the nth degree, the standards and ideals for which America once stood.

[99th_Monkey]

13. OWS looked like a classic death rattle to me

Or a "last gasp" of a swimmer who's come up from drowning
three times, but who is now going down for the last time.

OWS actually was a "protest to the nth degree" wasn't it?

What else was to be done? What more can "we" do, to
"protest"?

I think many are stuck in denial about this, which is why
I keep harping on it. I'm as vulnerable as the next guy to
doing this very thing, so I know.