trambershall, the descriptor, “Serious People Who Have Been Wrong About Everything” had been changed to the single word definition, “Guessers” by the great black humorist and humanitarian, Kurt Vonnegut.

Best,
Alan

“This Week” would have been very interesting if Krugman could have been prepared with data to show how much would be saved on the deficit, and for investment, education, and job growth, if only the Empire were expunged.

In fact, Krugman’s sound advice might have been similar or more effective than the economic input of Reichsbank President, Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics, Walther Funk, and Price Commissioner, Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, calling for decreased military spending and other constructive (and morally correct) changes to the Nazi Empire before that empire precipitated global disaster.

Best luck to the “Occupy Empire” educational and revolutionary movement.

Liberty, democracy, equality, and justice
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire,

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

Talk about accomplishments?

This gutless poser claims, as his one achievement, that he stood up to Osama — and remotely had him assassinated.

But this gutless (and complicit) pawn of Empire never had the guts, on coming into office like FDR, to challenge the disguised global corporate/financial/militarist EMPIRE that was killing our country right under his nose — mainly because the Empire ‘owns him’.

In point of fact the two-party ‘Vichy Empire’ that placed this pawn in the office of faux-Emperor/president (after their previous stooge Bush got rolled) that camouflaged corporate/financial/militarist Empire, is the singular and ‘causal’ cancerous tumor that causes all of the ‘symptom problems’ like; increasing foreign imperialist oil wars, Wall Street ‘looting’, vast economic inequality, domestic spying, lying, and police-state tyranny, environmental destruction, and all the other issues that Occupy Empire bravely protests.

Best luck and love to Occupy Empire.

Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire,

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

PS. And don’t forget Obama’s ‘accomplishment’ of signing the Nazi “enabling acts” to allow fascist tyranny in America — oops, I meant the NDAA.

Bipartisan ‘Vichy Empire’ fools all the people, all the time. But can’t fool, Occupy Empire.

It’s very encouragin­g to see that the Occupy message of confrontin­g the Empire that has ‘captured’ and now ‘occupies’ our former country, by hiding behind a two-party ‘Vichy’ facade, has spread from Occupy Washington to Occupy Iowa — as the Des Moines protestors at faux-Emper­or Obama’s office demanded: “”To fulfill the Occupy Wall Street movement’s call to return our country’s economic and political life back to the 99%, we will need a president who will make the dismantlin­g of the U.S. military empire their number one foreign policy priority”.

This Occupying Empire is not merely the military Empire but the entire integrated corporate/­financial/­militarist Empire of cancer that is the seminal cause of all our ‘symptom problems’ such as; increasing imperialis­t wars abroad, vast economic inequality at home, domestic spying and lying, environmen­tal destructio­n, etc. etc.

As the fundamental message of the Occupy movement “Against Empire” spreads from Occupy Washington, to Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Des Moines, and all the Occupy elements in the US the focus will broaden from the economic ‘symptoms’ that started Occupy to the disguised Empire which is the causal cancer underlying all aspects of our lives which Empire infects — and the Empire itself will be first exposed from its “Vichy” government disguise, then confronted, and finally excised, like the cancerous tumor that Empire is!

Best luck and love to Occupy Empire.

Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire,

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

A “Crossing the Rubicon” and “Reichstag fire” moment if there ever was one.

America has been a disguised corporate/financial/militarist Empire for quite some time now, but this act by the actors of the Empire is the “Fonzi jumps the shark” ending for the series, “Happy Days in anything approaching a democratic Republic”.

And when the Empire turns inward on the homeland then the painful truth of Hannah Arendt’s prescient warning about all Empires starts to really sink-in, with the arrival of the tow-truck with the wire rope noose on your own block.

“Empire abroad entails tyranny at home.”

Best luck and love to Occupy Empire.

Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
over
violent/Vichy
empire,

Alan MacDonald

Jesse LaGreca, on the corporatist media’s reactionary “show”, ABC’s “This Week” did a good job of saying what the Occupy movement was for, which is real democracy, but this will not stop the endless red-herring question of our “demands” and what the movement is confronting.

We are 100% correct that the goal of the 99% has nothing to do with the shill Obama or the ‘Vichy’ and collaborator Democratic Party, BUT the fastest, easiest, and most compelling way to PROVE that Occupy is not and cannot be co-opted by the Obama shills, the Democratic Party shills, or any other shills is to state that the inclusive goal/demand/revolt of the Occupy movement is “Against Empire”!

The compelling advantages of this underlying goal and demand of being against Empire are:

First, being against the causal cancerous disease of Empire is the totally effective way in laying low Obama, The Democrats, and any other authoritarian or astroturf group of shills that might try to co-opt the Occupy movement —- because all of them, all counter-revolutionary and reactionary groups, are scared to death and will never say they support being “Against Empire” — In fact, they can never even whisper the very term ‘Empire’, because this 1% IS the EMPIRE!!!!

Second, and very important for the 99% of the Occupy movement/revolution, is the fact that being “Against Empire” is totally inclusive of all the important, and valid problems, issues, and reasons that Occupy has organically formed to address problems in our world like; vast economic inequality, Wall Street looting, foreign imperialist wars, domestic spying, oppression, and violence, environmental destruction, killing debt, lack of good jobs in a fair economy, etc. etc.

What the Occupy movement/revolution can learn, borrow, expand from the October 2011 movement is that the inclusive but non-specific answer to the corporatist media and other entrapment claptrapers question of what the goal/demand of Occupy is.

Kevin Zeese and others in the October 2011 movement have leveraged the realistic, attractive, inclusive, and non-constraining message of being against Empire — just as the first American Revolution was a broad and inclusive people’s confrontation against the empire that was oppressing them in all aspects of their lives; economic oppression, political oppression, military oppression, legal oppression, cultural, media, and social oppression by the British Empire.

By suggesting a goal/demand which is nominally focused on one simple and underlying (but never mentioned) cause of all our economic, political, war, environmental, social, legal, and other restraints by the un-mentioned, taboo, but deadly oppression(s) of Empire, the Occupy Together movement/revolution can describe a single goal/cause/demand of being “Against Empire” — and yet inclusively combine all the varied and valid symptom problems and indictments that we, the 99%, have against Empire and the deadly problems that the undiagnosed global Empire serving only the 1% is causing.

In the First American Revolution the visible and detested British Empire was causing all the political, economic, military, social, and legal oppressions to the freedom of the 99% of future Americans in forming their own democratic self-government.

Today the much more guileful, disguised, undiagnosed, and invisible global corporate/financial/militarist Empire — that is never mentioned by the corporatist media — hides like a cancerous tumor beneath the surface and is the proximate cause of the same political, economic, military, social and legal oppressions on we 99%, that the British Empire had caused before we broke free of Empire.

Alan MacDonald

Liberty & democracy
over
violent/’Vichy’
empire