Sent along by a friend who is a former Naval aviator and has shined light on some of my worst fears about how the military is used by politicians. By my experience, there are few people as committed and passionate as Marines and the Oakland cops would appear to have messed with the wrong guy.
Marines Storm Reddit After Occupy Oakland Shooting of Scott Olson
Marines have been flocking to the social networking/aggregator site Reddit to voice their anger at the life-threatening injury inflicted on 24-year-old Iraqi war veteran Scott Olsen by Oakland police during the recent Occupy protests. Video showed Olsen go down after taking a tear gas canister to the head. As fellow protesters tried to assist him, police lobbed a flash grenade into their midst–right next to Olsen’s already fractured skull.
The picture above, submitted by Reddit user aburger, has generated well over 1,000 comments on the site–many from fellow Marines who are absolutely livid at the injury to one of their own by police.
Here’s one from Reddit user 0311kilo33:
Me again... Just because I witnessed an unfocused hodgepodge at Occupy Boston last weekend, it does not mean that something historic and collective consciousness altering is not going to happen here. I have been expecting social discord for many years (hence the firearms and other measures I had not seen myself ever taking until my financial awakening early last decade) and it appears it has now started.
These are very solemn and sad times. On so many levels. Reading stories like the above, with our supposedly oh so revered service people now engaged, the "comfortable" people the Marine quoted above speaks about are getting their wake up call. What did the sign from OB say, 'America, this is your intervention'?
Watch the video at risk of ruining your whole weekend.
Edit (2:51) Here is Zero Hedge bringing even more to light. If this kid dies 'Four Dead in Ohio' is going to go on steriods here. Religious or not, pray (or meditate) for the kid... and for the country.
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Marines Storm Reddit After Occupy Oakland Shooting of Scott Olson
Marines have been flocking to the social networking/aggregator site Reddit to voice their anger at the life-threatening injury inflicted on 24-year-old Iraqi war veteran Scott Olsen by Oakland police during the recent Occupy protests. Video showed Olsen go down after taking a tear gas canister to the head. As fellow protesters tried to assist him, police lobbed a flash grenade into their midst–right next to Olsen’s already fractured skull.
The picture above, submitted by Reddit user aburger, has generated well over 1,000 comments on the site–many from fellow Marines who are absolutely livid at the injury to one of their own by police.
Here’s one from Reddit user 0311kilo33:
As God is my witness. I will fight tooth and nail to restore the decency this country was founded upon. The politicians, banks and large corporations have ruined this country. I find it difficult to notice any sense of politeness on the streets anymore. But it goes farther. As a Marine and a citizen I am outraged. I am sick to death of the world my children are being raised in.
So I ask all of you, can you too sense the tipping point? When will enough be enough? If not now, when? I feel the problem is that the average Joe citizen is ignorant and comfortable. These, in addition to selfishness have become the standard for the majority of the population. As long as people are comfortable they remain silent. Well, I’m really fucking uncomfortable and I’m sick of seeing this sort of shit happening. The Occupy protests that are going on are our first glimmer of hope. If we can take this and move it further, get every lazy ass off their rocker and open their eyes; then maybe, just maybe we have a chance.
Semper Fi brothers, and remember who you are. Protectors of a great nation, not politicians or wealthy money grubbing bankers and the like. When it comes time, I know we’ll stand strong.If online reaction is any indication, it’s not a stretch to think Olsen’s injury could be the start of something very big. We have a lot of military combat veterans in this country who haven’t been treated very well since they left the service. No job prospects. Inadequate medical coverage. If they take their anger offline and into the streets, the OWS movement will become an extremely potent, and WELL TRAINED force.
Me again... Just because I witnessed an unfocused hodgepodge at Occupy Boston last weekend, it does not mean that something historic and collective consciousness altering is not going to happen here. I have been expecting social discord for many years (hence the firearms and other measures I had not seen myself ever taking until my financial awakening early last decade) and it appears it has now started.
These are very solemn and sad times. On so many levels. Reading stories like the above, with our supposedly oh so revered service people now engaged, the "comfortable" people the Marine quoted above speaks about are getting their wake up call. What did the sign from OB say, 'America, this is your intervention'?
Watch the video at risk of ruining your whole weekend.
Edit (2:51) Here is Zero Hedge bringing even more to light. If this kid dies 'Four Dead in Ohio' is going to go on steriods here. Religious or not, pray (or meditate) for the kid... and for the country.
http://www.biiwii.blogspot.com
http://www.biiwii.com
Yabut for all the marines shoot their mouths off, they won't do anything.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know?
ReplyDeleteActions have consequences. He was given a legal order and disobeyed.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this. It is understandable that the people on the streets seem to be reacting out of anger, fear and envy. It's no secret that they are afraid for their futures and for the futures of those they care about. And many of them may not understand the forces bearing down on them. They are not financial professionals. Many do, though, and as this progresses many more will learn. Changing the financial system has to start somewhere. This #Occupy movement portends more possibility than anything else that has come along in the a long time. I'm optimistic and willing to give it a chance.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me 'Unknown'? He is American and he was exercising his right to stand in protest. Stand silently I might add. He wore fatigues and stood quietly along with the Naval vet. Is this what America has become? I hear right wing radio creating a cult of worship of our service people (I suspect more geared to keep war mongering in vogue than anything to do with the grunts) while at the same time shitting all over the people in the streets. Well, there are two grunts in the video and that does not add up for the right wing robots.
ReplyDeleteHoliday Darin, I think the OWS just got some imperative. I find it curious though that this has not gotten front page attention by the MSM. Why would the MSM not want this to get out of control? I wonder.
I'm finding OWS to be more complex than the MSM and tea party paints, just as the tea party was painted so poorly by the MSM and liberals when they had the soap box - no real surprise there. Goebbels is applauding in his grave..
ReplyDeleteIt is also no surprise that as the .gov/Fed raping and lack of representation continues, American protest will escalate along with their frustrations. How quickly we forget the concept of 'Republic', and Thomas Jefferson's,
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
The key here, is that this is peaceful protest and our 1st Amendment right and obligation as free men to take a stand.
@unknown - ever read Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipeligo'? At what point would the TP resist a rising Police State? Careful, you just might be a serf and not even know it.
@The Cat - never underestimate Semper fidelis..
Shell Game, I wonder if this thing, simply in its staying power, can become something that actually means something (again, by my impression of a visit last weekend, Occupy Boston did not mean much and some of what it did mean I found repugnant).
ReplyDeleteTo gain effective meaning, focused and intelligent people will need to come on board and shine the light where it needs to be shone (not that I have all the answers mind you, I am politically pretty aloof) which in my opinion begins with the creators of the funny munny that formerly comfortable people are now realizing is toast. I will not hold my breath on this becoming the main issue.
It's an impersonal systemic kind of thing, but still this OWS could get very personal. I think it will more likely remain all over the place though, thus limiting its ability to do much more than cause a lot of emotion and pain to get stirred up.