Arab Spring comes to America

An article by Colleen Long of the Associated Press titled 700 arrested after protest on NY's Brooklyn Bridge, informs us that “Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan's Financial District Sunday even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense confrontation with police.  The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan's Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches, and had orchestrated an impromptu trek to Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon.”

How does this compare to the “Arab Spring”?  In Egypt, protestors took to the street without violence to protest their leaders and demand justice.  Occupy Wall Street should be doing the same thing.  The difference is they are not looking to over-throw the government but they are demanding justice because we all know where this economic collapse originated from and we do know where the money is being held to stop job creation.  We know where the puppet-masters of Washington go to do their business and how corrupt the system is which is designed to give us that justice.  We know where they are and we see them not ceasing to do “business as usual”.  What we don’t see is proper legal actions being taken by those hired to serve and protect.  Wall Street gambled with this economy and lost but Main Street is left holding the bag.  Occupy Wall Street is the catalyst needed to finally bring that to an end.  Main Street does not mind giving more to save their nation but when those who created this disaster are not being made to do their part or pay for their crimes, and then justice must be on a very long vacation.

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