by Cliffy.. New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
My one personal association with the Occupy Movement was a sad one. A friend of my nephew (who'd also done some demonstrating), had camped out in the tent city in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery and died of heroin overdose in November of 2011.
She was a young drifter, i'm quite sure politically unsophisticated, whom my nephew had befriended while riding the rails (by breaking into unused locomotives attached to moving trains). For my nephew it was part of year or two of 'slumming around' and 'raging against the machine' before he returned to school to learn a trade. For her the Movement was simply a place to find some companionship and a sense of belonging.
The whole thing reminded me of the collapse of the Yorkville and Haight-Ashbury hippie meccas of 1966/67 into drug ridden, violent, crime infested flop houses by the end of the decade. They had started out with the same high idealism as the Occupy Movement and collapsed under the weight of the damaged people who flocked to them, for completely different motives.
I had hopes that Occupy would be a kernel that would sprout a viable political movement, specifically to curtail the power of the Global Banking and Trading apparatus. But within weeks it had devolved into a dog's breakfast.. with every half baked misanthrope and political malcontent demanding an equal say.. and absolutely no integrated or comprehensible political platform developing.
Frankly i wonder why the FBI bothered. Everyone could see this thing would fragment into Skid Row with a political slogan for a street sign.
