12.15.10
Comparisons
In Europe, when the people get hosed for reparations because of financial crisis brought on by bankers, you get this:
Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of the capital on Wednesday for a protest against a fresh wave of austerity measures which was marred by violence as a general strike brought international travel and public services to a standstill.
The walkout — Greece’s seventh general strike this year — grounded flights, kept ferries in ports, halted train services and shut down government offices and schools while leaving hospitals to operate on emergency staffing and causing a news blackout as journalists joined the action. Public transport was operating for most of the day to enable Athenians to attend demonstrations in the city center.
Here, social protest is the Tea Party — fucked up white people arguing for tax breaks for the wealthiest and who blame the economic mess on too many people of color getting mortgages they didn’t deserve.
I have a friend who thinks there’s still some type of social conscience in this country, like that which brought about the end of the Vietnam war.
He’s dead wrong.
Here we have one entire television network and a good part of the media focusing on what needs to be done about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. They want the government to be more secret. And to put a hit on him in England.
And, of course, there’s also the social protest movement on how corporate America needs more jacking off from the Obama administration.