OCCUPY WALL STREET
The twin Towers at the World Trade Center collapsed and our
Commander-in-Chief finally got the Al Qaeda Leader, OSAMA BIN LADEN at
his palace of hiding in Pakistan. Recently, he also got the
second-in-command Al Alwaiki in Yemen. The brave ones of the NAVY SEAL
landed in Pakistan and accomplished the heroic job. The high-tech DRONE
did the job in Yemen.
Wall Street is a far different story. The marriage in our
capitalist free market economy between the Main Street and the WALL
STREET has come to a collapse, not by a velvet divorce, but by
inability of any power to stop our young men and women by application of
brutal force. Americans have marched many times before in Washington
for Civil Rights and for Peace, and now Wall Street for an end to
economic exploitation. The march on Wall Street has continued for more
than two weeks, and has resulted in the arrest of about one thousand
people whose only offence has been participation in a peaceful march at
a public place in the City of New York. The cry for war against the
exploitation of Wall Street has now reached scores of cities and
towns and suburbs) across the United States.
The rule of one percent for the one percent by the one percent
cannot continue, the Nobel-Laureate economist George Stieglitz has
loudly proclaimed. His voice echoed by voices of thousands of our men
and women, students, unemployed youth, homeless men and women, joined
by workers, teachers and so many others from the halls of education and
research, hospitals and medical institutions. How could denial of any
and all mechanical instrument stop the voice that was heard by the
world?
Let us recall ENRONISM how the leaders of capitalism
deliberately drove sharp nails into the heart of capitalism. Sub-prime
mortgages, creation of innovative financial products - junk bonds,
derivatives, hedge funds, added so much fuel to irrational exuberance of
Wall Street. They refused to accept any social control. To put Bernie
Madoff in prison has proved not to be a sufficient answer, even if it
was a necessary step.
The system merits a total overhaul. Wall Street and Main
Street together constitute the village, and the people of the
village must share the village's prosperity. All the people must be
heard. Our noble and ambitious commitment to democracy has been reduced
to our submissive adherence to plutocracy. Men and women in uniform have
been asked to give their lives to defend and ensure the democratic
values in all continents.
Let us listen to the Oracle of Omaha. The Buffet Rule must be
the rule of those who have made so much in Wall Street. They could
have made it only because the Main Street bought their products. The
Game has come to an end.
The haves in Wall Street and the have-nots on Main Streets
across the United States can and must come to accept the agenda
of shared prosperity. Marches on the streets by the young Americans
represent a power of the people from the bottom, which cannot be
contained by decrees of power. The march of the American agenda of
freedom. equality and prosperity cannot be stopped. Victories of the
glorious marches of the youth, be it in the Tiananmen Square in China,
and recently in the Tahrir Square in Egypt we must salute. If the ARAB
SPRING has been real; the AMERICAN AUTUMN is all too real.
The men and women of money in Wall Street are invited to offer to
surrender their one-year's earnings and the march to meet with
the people in the march on Main Street at the bottom of the STATUE
OF LIBERTY and sign an AGREEMENT of total commitment to the American
Dream. Will the PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES take the lead and join hands
with the millions of young marchers on Main Street to say prayers?
