A Message to Occupy Wall Street

Dear Occupy Wall Street,

I completely understand your anger and commend you for having the courage to do something about it.

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company said nearly a century ago, "It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

And that was before the government financial system really got good at stealing from and impoverishing us.  Today, if we all really had any idea as to what has been done to us by the system there’d be 6.8 billion people involved in these protests. 

However, there is a very, very important piece of the puzzle that you have missed completely.

In order to understand why, you have to realize one thing.  You have been brainwashed.  Don’t feel too bad, we all have been.

Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."  And that is precisely what they have been doing for decades, using propaganda and indoctrination to confuse you as to the real source of the problems so that you never ask the right questions.

In a sound, honest world, you could do anything you want… you certainly would not have been forced into a minimum of 12 years of indoctrination (called public or private, state regulated schools) as a child.  As well, practically everything in mainstream media is meant to subtly, every day, push you in the direction of supporting the nation-state.

After 12-16 years of government controlled “education” and thousands of hours of television propaganda from mainstream media that is all but one-in-the-same with the government it can be very hard to see reality.

Here is the reality.  All of the problems you see are real.  But you’ve been misdirected as to their cause – on purpose.  Wall Street is, for the most part, corrupt and incredibly damaging to society as a whole.  But, they are a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE of the problem.

If you want to protest the real devils who have caused every major problem in the world, from wars to poverty to oppression, then you shouldn’t be in New York.  You should be in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) in front of the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve building.  That is the source of all of our problems today.

Sadly, because of all the propaganda and brainwashing you are actually asking for more government involvement in the economy as a solution to the problem CAUSED by the massive amount of government involvement in the economy.  You have to realize one thing.  There is a war on for your mind.  At the moment, the side of reality, truth, honesty and self-responsibility is losing.  The side of propaganda, corruption, theft (taxes), violence (laws against victimless crimes, wars and cages/jails or death if you do not submit to theft) and outright evil has been winning.

The tide is turning, however.  Slowly people are awakening to the truth.   We don’t need to fight violently, like them.  We just need to say no.  But this will only happen if you can see the true cause of all of the problems of today.   As the younger generations we have unfortunately been completely brainwashed and indoctrinated.

We’ve been told government is good and here to protect us when the only times most of us have been accosted, tased, put in cages (jail) or beaten has been at the hand of a “police officer”.

We’ve been told taxation isn’t theft, when that is exactly what it is.

We’ve been told that democracy is freedom, when in fact it is slavery.

We’ve been brainwashed our entire lives but we can snap out of it very easily.  Here are a few videos to get you started down the rabbit hole:

• The Story of Your Enslavement
• Statism Is Dead
• Statism’s Assembly Line
• The American Dream

Once you are done those videos then you can move on to the next stage.  Read these books:

• Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe's "Democracy: The God That Failed"
• Morris & Linda Tannehill's "The Market For Liberty"

You will feel a lot of emotions as you awaken.  You may feel, more than anything, fear.  Swallow it.  You are here on Earth once.  Don’t allow yourself to be scared out of freedom, love and peace.  Step past that feeling.  Once you can quell those feelings, then you may feel angry.  That is good and natural.  However, we shouldn’t need to get violent to stop this slavery.

All we need to do to stop it is to stop supporting the government and spread the word to others so that they do the same.  This is very easy.

Mahatma Gandhi said, "Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government."

Be warned, this process will not be easy… we will go through a few months and maybe even a few years of virtual chaos as the entire nation-state, political control system collapses.  The entire false, non-free market, thieving monetary system will collapse in the process.  Everything will change.  People will once again have to learn to support themselves and how to be productive.

But don’t worry.  As Bill Hicks said, it’s just a ride.  Once we can get rid of the devils amongst us who only can have power WHEN we CREATE that power for them to attain (governance) then they scurry like the cockroaches that they are.

Freedom is right in front of you.  Prosperity like you’ve never known lies at your fingertips.  All you have to do is awaken, educate yourself and follow one simple principle.  A principle that is so simple and obvious that they teach it to kindergarten children.  The Non-Aggression Principle.  Don’t hit… don’t steal… and only resort to violence when aggressed against.  And don’t allow any person, corporation or government to breach this principle.

When that stands as the center of your philosophy of being all else becomes simple.  The “authorities” hope you never figure this out.  Unluckily for them, but typical at the same time, they didn’t realize the internet would allow this message to get to the masses.  It is typical because these people aren’t especially smart.  They are scheming sociopaths and excellent conmen and women, but they aren’t especially smart.  If they were they would have realized the internet would be a major problem for them years ago and have done something to stop it.

Now they are beginning to realize that the internet will facilitate their fall.  People like Barack Obama speak often of the “internet kill switch” for this reason.  But we have a few months still to educate, communicate and to defeat them.  Act now to devour all of the real, honest information that is available to you through the internet.  Look to website such as LewRockwell.com, Mises.org and watch interviews with top anarchists at Anarchast.  Also, download all of this information... it will almost certainly be censored by the government very soon.

If we cannot spread the word prior to them shutting the internet down then we will lose.  We will all be enslaved except for the few of us who have found a way to escape to remote islands, live discretely off of un-policed waters on sailboats or ships, small seasteads or the few who may have even escaped to outer space… things like Virgin Galactic are just now making possible.

But it is my hope that we can use this moment as our time to awaken.  Pass along this post, its videos and articles to anyone and everyone you can.

Fight the power and stand up to the tyranny, but fight the root of the problem, not the symptom.  The root are the governments of the world.  They have created an entire, artificial financial system (which is not capitalism, it is corporatism/fascism) based on theft (taxation).  It is natural, then, for the financial edifice that grows up around that system to also be based on theft and corruption.

But you cannot defeat that financial system without defeating the system that created it.  Take your fight to Washington, D.C.  When ten million+ occupy Washington D.C. and call for the end to institutionalized force and theft then we have an opportunity to really change the world for the better.

Youth of America, occupy Washington.  Youth of the world, occupy the power centers of your own tax farms (countries).  They have stolen your futures from even before you were born.  Take it back.

Comments

[Jeff Berwick]

Here is one Occupy Wall Streeter who ISN'T brainwashed! If we can get them all to understand what he is saying then there is hope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tFz1VVXsWRU#!

[TNAR]

Great post and excellent videos (even considering the scientific inaccuracies). I find it truly amazing to listen to people practically violently oppose the non-aggression principle. When confronted with the awful truth, most people will demand that you are the aggressor and teller of lies rather than admit that the entire foundation of their life is built on lies and coercion.

The biggest difficulty I have is trying to determine the best way to counter violence without reverting to violence. It is certainly a difficult process...

Not even close to the class of books listed above but I would also add For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand since it gives a drastically different perspective on government involvement than most typical literature on Liberty.

[Caroline]

Great commentary--something I will be able to refer to other people who ask "What do you know that I don't know?", or "Where do I start?", or "What's really going on?" Really enjoying your emails. Thank you and Namaste!

[Ed Bugos]

Jeff: great post. You beat me to it! I wanted to go to town on those morons. They got the wrong address!! Lol. But therein lies a question, which occurred to me when you kept saying they should take their fight to DC. I wondered who is funding this, which led me to the following address accepting donations,

Alliance for Global Justice
1247 “E” Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

It looks like your typical misguided democratic socialist organization - no surprise there - but I had a hard time figuring out who funds them. They don't disclose it, at least not freely. But some of the likely candidates are probably in the sponsors and members list: http://www.clrlabor.org/afgj/members.html

I couldn't help but wonder if we could link any of the funding to Obama, and find it funny that their HQ are in DC. This is probably a dead end but if anyone has any leads reply to me at: edbugos.bugos@gmail.com.

Thank again Jeff. It is important for people to realize that a free market system is characterized not by greed and profit seeking activity, which exists under any system, but by voluntary exchanges; and that institutions like the Fed, the world bank, the BIS, the IMF, and so on, are statist...they have statist ends...and they have nothing to do with the system that is the principle engine of prosperity -capitalism. They are outgrowths of cronyism, corporatism, state capitalism and mercantilism -all ideas that America originally revolted against.

Wall Street has been organized. It is not a symbol of free market capitalism. It is full of vampires patronizing the state in exchange for their license...a license that restricts competition. Jeff, you are very right about the fact that these people have the wrong address. If only the rest of the world saw it just as clearly.

Ed Bugos

[Mike G]

Excellent post...I still cant believe how most people have no clue and what makes me even more infuriated, is listening to this one radio , 1 minute business analyst guy, who is so condecending calling these protesters; bums and no good anythings. Tells them to " go get a job and stop wasting your time "

Why doesn't he get it...? And he teaches to. You know what his sign off is..? " happy capitalism " he adds no value to the morning program

[Paris Texas Jim]

This Friday will be the kickoff of an "Occupy the Fed" movement starting with a speech by alt news radio icon Alex Jones. Alex will be speaking at the Dallas fed this Friday from 6-8pm. Everyone nearby, come on down! Alex will be at the other two sub-feds in San Antonio and Houston over the weekend. Everyone come out! Here is the link:

http://www.infowars.com/targeting-the-real-enemy-occupy-the-fed/

[Breck]

One word - WOW.

[Nalliah Thayabharan]

We essentially have had modern-day bank robbers -- except that they wore gray suits and not masks -- and there's been no accountability for it Every day we see energy speculators, war profiteers, managed health-care providers, media propagandists, and/or financiers of Wall Street given some unfair advantage over the average consumers and taxpayers, and the cumulative effect of the American people watching selfishness prevail over the public interest has been an undermining of the public's trust in government. There's no question the system is rigged against the little guy. The Wall Street interests have a lot more information. They jerry-rig the system so that they always win. Oligarchy is political power based on economic power. And it's the rise of the Wall Street in economic terms, that it'd turn into political power. And Wall Street then feed that back into more deregulation, more opportunities to go out and take reckless risks and-- and capture huge amounts of money. The American democracy was not given to us on a platter. It is not ours for all time, irrespective of our efforts. Either people organize and they find political leadership to take this on, or we are going to be in big trouble. That's absolutely the heart of the problem. I would also say and tell you, and emphasize, these Wall Street people will not come out and debate with us. The heads of Wall Street or their representatives, they will not come out. They're afraid. They don't have the substance. They don't have the arguments. We have the evidence. They have the lobbyists. And that's all they have. Wall Street Corporations don't make anything. They don't produce anything. They gamble and bet and speculate. And when they lose vast sums they raid the U.S. Treasury so they can go back and do it again. Never mind that $50 trillion in global wealth was erased between September 2007 and March 2009, including $7 trillion in the U.S. stock market and $6 trillion in the housing market. Never mind that the total amount of retirement and household wealth trashed was $7.5 trillion or that we saw $2 trillion in 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts evaporate. Never mind the $1.9 trillion in traditional defined-benefit plans and the $2.6 trillion in nonpension assets that went up in smoke. Never mind the job losses, the foreclosures and the 35 percent jump in personal and small-business bankruptcies. There are bundles of new money, taken again from us, to make deals and hand out outrageous bonuses. And when these trillions run out they will come back for more until our currency becomes junk
---Nalliah Thayabharan