To our men and women in blue;
We, your neighbors, stand before you and ask Why.
Why are we separated by a barricade that your ‘Masters’ have told you to erect?
Why are WE fighting amongst ourselves when we have the same cause - the tyranny of the 1% who have enslaved you to fight their battles?
Why are you dressed in battle gear posed to strike down your allies and neighbors while the enemy moves you as PAWNS in this debate without regard to your safety?
Every day YOU place your lives on the line to Protect and Serve the people of this fine city, not the bureaucrats that are currently in office. Tomorrow the bureaucrats will change, yet You will still be in the trenches risking your lives for whatever new policy They deem important for the day. Is this really the battle you wish to be remembered for? What honor is there in defending grass with force against unarmed neighbors?
Every day you expose yourself to the risk of getting injured and killed protecting this city against real crime. Crime that exists in part because of the insecurity, unemployment, and desperation of the many people in this city that have been displaced, rejected, robbed, and under-educated by the 1%. Your Masters cause the problem, and then instruct you to keep order and peace. You are being used.
We understand that you are NOT the problem, but when you stand before us in riot gear throwing weapons at us under the command of the 1% - we get angry. We get angry at the fact that the privileged few are using our neighbors against us. We are angry that YOU choose to stand up for the repressors when they affect your family and your way of life in ways that we can see – yet you refuse to acknowledge. Big corporations have bought the senators, governors, mayors and other people of influence in many states and cities, and those representatives now tell you that we are the enemy and we must be stopped – stopped from the evil crime of sitting on the grass at night … while they continue stealing your neighbors’ livelihoods, homes, and futures.
While you are in the front line, the executives are safely counting their money and devising new ways to control the population – including you and your family.
Are you exempt from paying fair taxes?
Does your family receive special schooling that is exempt from the low standards given to the public?
Are you exempt from foreclosures?
Do you receive sweetheart deals worth millions?
Or are you like us? Commodities that will be used, exploited, and then tossed aside. Do you know someone that has lost their homes or their jobs? Have you and your families not been outraged by the unfair taxation system and system of privilege that is currently in place? Have YOU been lied to and deceived with promises that you too are ‘Special’ and should not fear what we the 99% are facing?
We don’t think you are exempt. We believe that you are being deceived through years of ‘training’ that has dictated to you to follow the orders of your masters. What of tomorrow when your masters have fallen and you must stand alone to face your accusers.
We are the 99%, we Shall prevail. Tomorrow we shall choose new masters for you, and we will ask ourselves why. Why did you hide behind fake walls protecting those people that are causing harm to you, your family, your children, your friends? Today is today and tomorrow IS inevitable.
We ask you to cast down the wall and cast down the illusion that your dedication to the 1% will save you or is more important than your job to protect and serve the ‘People’. When the time is right, they will blame YOU for this mess so they don’t have to be accountable. The headlines will read “Police Investigated for Unprovoked Actions”, and they will say that you acted without authority. Are you going to idly stand by at that time wishing you would have made a better choice, or will you take the fall because you were told to?
The people are on THIS side of the barricade, and we invite you with open arms to join us in this JUST fight. We ask for your protection. We wish for you to serve the public and help us make the changes we must in order to remove the corruption that we unwittingly allowed to fester and grow in our fair city.
The trash in the park is not the ‘big picture’ – it’s the trash in the executive offices that we must work together to remove, then all the tents can be taken down and we can walk down the street together once again. Soon, we can go back to work and our children can once again start learning how to succeed. Soon, we can live without the lines that separate the people from the hired squads of the elite. Will you join us? If not, will you step aside so we can fulfill the oath that YOU took upon yourself – To Serve and Protect the People.
We, your neighbors, stand before you and ask Why.
Why are we separated by a barricade that your ‘Masters’ have told you to erect?
Why are WE fighting amongst ourselves when we have the same cause - the tyranny of the 1% who have enslaved you to fight their battles?
Why are you dressed in battle gear posed to strike down your allies and neighbors while the enemy moves you as PAWNS in this debate without regard to your safety?
Every day YOU place your lives on the line to Protect and Serve the people of this fine city, not the bureaucrats that are currently in office. Tomorrow the bureaucrats will change, yet You will still be in the trenches risking your lives for whatever new policy They deem important for the day. Is this really the battle you wish to be remembered for? What honor is there in defending grass with force against unarmed neighbors?
Every day you expose yourself to the risk of getting injured and killed protecting this city against real crime. Crime that exists in part because of the insecurity, unemployment, and desperation of the many people in this city that have been displaced, rejected, robbed, and under-educated by the 1%. Your Masters cause the problem, and then instruct you to keep order and peace. You are being used.
We understand that you are NOT the problem, but when you stand before us in riot gear throwing weapons at us under the command of the 1% - we get angry. We get angry at the fact that the privileged few are using our neighbors against us. We are angry that YOU choose to stand up for the repressors when they affect your family and your way of life in ways that we can see – yet you refuse to acknowledge. Big corporations have bought the senators, governors, mayors and other people of influence in many states and cities, and those representatives now tell you that we are the enemy and we must be stopped – stopped from the evil crime of sitting on the grass at night … while they continue stealing your neighbors’ livelihoods, homes, and futures.
While you are in the front line, the executives are safely counting their money and devising new ways to control the population – including you and your family.
Are you exempt from paying fair taxes?
Does your family receive special schooling that is exempt from the low standards given to the public?
Are you exempt from foreclosures?
Do you receive sweetheart deals worth millions?
Or are you like us? Commodities that will be used, exploited, and then tossed aside. Do you know someone that has lost their homes or their jobs? Have you and your families not been outraged by the unfair taxation system and system of privilege that is currently in place? Have YOU been lied to and deceived with promises that you too are ‘Special’ and should not fear what we the 99% are facing?
We don’t think you are exempt. We believe that you are being deceived through years of ‘training’ that has dictated to you to follow the orders of your masters. What of tomorrow when your masters have fallen and you must stand alone to face your accusers.
We are the 99%, we Shall prevail. Tomorrow we shall choose new masters for you, and we will ask ourselves why. Why did you hide behind fake walls protecting those people that are causing harm to you, your family, your children, your friends? Today is today and tomorrow IS inevitable.
We ask you to cast down the wall and cast down the illusion that your dedication to the 1% will save you or is more important than your job to protect and serve the ‘People’. When the time is right, they will blame YOU for this mess so they don’t have to be accountable. The headlines will read “Police Investigated for Unprovoked Actions”, and they will say that you acted without authority. Are you going to idly stand by at that time wishing you would have made a better choice, or will you take the fall because you were told to?
The people are on THIS side of the barricade, and we invite you with open arms to join us in this JUST fight. We ask for your protection. We wish for you to serve the public and help us make the changes we must in order to remove the corruption that we unwittingly allowed to fester and grow in our fair city.
The trash in the park is not the ‘big picture’ – it’s the trash in the executive offices that we must work together to remove, then all the tents can be taken down and we can walk down the street together once again. Soon, we can go back to work and our children can once again start learning how to succeed. Soon, we can live without the lines that separate the people from the hired squads of the elite. Will you join us? If not, will you step aside so we can fulfill the oath that YOU took upon yourself – To Serve and Protect the People.