Don Quixokie

Just like I detailed in Pepper Spray Nation 7: Occupy Oakland and just like I told Frank Miller in the Open Letter. I was right! So let's think long and hard about the esteemed place we hold Ronald Reagan and Bush the Elder as Respected Statesmen, and just how much we can trust the CIA when it comes to foreign policy! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/30/ron-paul-conspiracy-theory-cia-drug-traffickers_n_1176103.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Posted: 12/30/11 02:13 PM ET  

The following is based on an excerpt from Pepperspray Nation Chapter 7: Occupy Oakland.  http://donquixokie.blogspot.com/2011/12/pepperspray-nation-chapter-7-occupy.html There was an idea I had expressed there that I felt needed special attention and perhaps elaboration. Call it the "Parable of Reaganomics and the Dinosaurs." (P)eople are not content or inclined to quietly starve to death. There could be a parallel found in the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and the effect of Reagan economic and social policies...especially in what became the Inner City.

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Why We Hold Hands There was once a time when we were not yet people. We were aquatic apes. We had lost most of our body hair. We gained subcutaneous fat more commonly seen in other aquatic mammals like cetaceans and seals than in any other great ape. Our posture straightened along the vertical, more appropriate to bobbing head and shoulders at the water surface, floating on our backs, or swimming at speed. Our females' breasts grew buoyant, women's hair grew long and strong on their heads and our newborns - plump at birth, unique among apes - had gripping strength in their tiny hands strong enough to carry their own weight. Strong enough to hold on to their mother's hair in the water. Even now when some children are submerged in deep cold water, they do not drown. They enter a state of suspended animation which allows them to recover unharmed when they should have succumbed to hypoxic brain injury. Diving Reflex it is called.

Occupy Oakland: The Indictment Of Reagan Economic and Social Policy I want to say this in opening. What I am about to say will be considered highly controversial by many and downright inflammatory by a few. So DON'T take my word for it. And don't take the word of anyone on Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, or right wing talk radio. Instead, throw down some money on a college or University level American History Textbook that covers everything up to Clinton, and learn the truth for yourself. Ronald Reagan was a false prophet who's words and ideology are leading this nation to perdition and have been since the day he took office over 30 years ago. Educate yourselves children; for if you do not, we will never survive. Most egregious is the history and law enforcement response to Occupy Oakland. Where the Occupy Movement in New York is an ideological siege against the Temple of Mammon to which the entire nation's economy was almost sacrificed, and the Occupy Seatt...

Pepper Spray Nation Occupy UC-DAVIS: The Hypocrisy of Violence College students protesting were a common theme during the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement. With the loss of prospects for employment and grave doubts about the system as well as social and economic justice, students are protesting again. This was the backdrop for one of the most singular excesses of the authorities against the Occupy Movement. Passive protesters seated on the ground were pepper sprayed as a form of chemical coercion by the police. http://gizmodo.com/5861446/this-is-the-pepper-spray-police-used-on-uc-davis-protesters This is in direct and absolutely ghoulish contrast to the behavior of students rioting on behalf of a coach who was caught on the wrong side of a child-raping scandal in Penn State. Nowhere have Occupiers by guilty of flipping over news trucks or light poles. Presumably, Occupiers would have been shot. http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/State-Police-prepared-to-make-ar...

Occupy Seattle: The Past is the Future We are one nation, but we are not a homogeneous nation. The response by authorities to the Occupy Movement is conditioned by its local history and factors "on the ground." History is prologue indeed. Over a decade ago protests were held in Seattle against the neo-colonialism of World Trade Organizations and their deleterious effect on third world nations and the environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Oranization_Ministerial_Conference_of_1999_protest_activity   Activists of the successful 1998 campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) were convinced that the WTO would be used by transnational corporate influencers [ clarification needed ] as a forum in which to advance the global corporate agenda to the detriment of worldwide civil society and especially the interests of third-world countries. Not an issue at the time, but what has been discovered to be a profound evil of Trade A...

                      Welcome to Pepper Spray Nation We are one nation, but we are not a homogeneous nation. The response by authorities to the Occupy Movement is conditioned by its local history and factors "on the ground." Occupy Wall Street: Laying Siege to the Temple of Mammon Hunter S.Thompson was referring to Los Vegas and its casinos when he observed that concentrations of wealth creates its own armies. But there is no casino on earth larger that the Stock Market on Wall Street. As speculation and investment are now the prime engines of our economy, supplanting manufacturing decades ago - which, not coincidentally, nearly destroyed our economy at the close of the Bush/Cheney Administration. It is no surprise that while the Wall Street Meltdown was a tale of fraud and malfeasance from top to bottom, not a single bad actor has been investigated or charged ...

The jet liner that is the United States sucked an elephant into its engine by the end of the Bush/Cheney Administration. President Obama is keeping the plane in the air, but just barely. And it would be lovely to throw the obstructionists out. But corporations who are represented by the obstructionists claim to own the plane and want nothing more that to cash in the insurance on it when it crashes. Moral: If it is anti-business to tax the wealthy, then it's alright. Business has been anti-America since Reagan. And that's the state of the union.

The Tea Party Vs. The Occupy Movement The Tea Parties are a movement which are Astro-turfed; that is underwritten by: wealthy individuals such as The Koch Bros of whom Americans for Prosperity is a subsidy; Conservative political lobbyists such as Dick Armey and his own group Freedomworks; and by private industries such as the Oil and Insurance lobby. These individuals and organizations paid off all of the licenses and fees and all of the the appropriate public officials which insured that they would not be interfered with by the the police or other law enforcement organization - despite the fact that they often openly carried weapons and advocated the assassination of elected officials (" The Tree of Liberty Must Periodically be Watered with the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants," "We Came Unarmed THIS Time") and lynched some politicians in effigy

                                     Why We Occupy The Occupy Movement has its roots in the Arab Spring which swept through the nations of the Middle East and Northern Africa, beginning most notably in Tunisia and Egypt and resulting, most recently in the regime change in Libya and Yemen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring . We are the brothers of the indignados in Spain. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/spain-election-indignant-idUSL5E7MH2F020111118 The protests also began in Wisconsin in response to the union-rights stripping attempt by Koch brothers' backed Scott Walker and his threats in bring in the National Guard. And, unlike the Tea Party movement - we have spawned Occupy Movements all over the world. The midterm elections of 2010 saw a flood of Republicans elected to Con...

                         Policy is Prologue 1-1. In these modern times, demonstrations, civil unrest, public disorder, and riots happen for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons are economic hardships, social injustices, ethnic differences (leading to oppression), objections to world organizations or certain governments, political grievances, and terrorist acts. An event can be triggered by a single cause or a combination of causes. For example, operations in the Balkans involving civil unrest and riots were the result of ethnic hatred, a lack of civil authority, food shortages, a revolution, and religious-based fighting factions. 1-2. Demonstrations may range from simple, nonviolent protests that address specific issues, to events that turn into full-scale riots. Gatherings in protest are recognized rights of any p...