"Occupy Wall Street"

Starting in the streets of New York on September 17,2011 and now spreading to different states in America, protesters are filling the cities of our country for the “Occupy Walls Street” protest.  What exactly does this mean? To the protesters this is a motion to raise awareness and as citizens be a leader in society. These protesters are pulling together as a community to be leaders in the public. “Occupy Wall Street” is a people powered movement where these protesters are saying enough is enough. These protesters are over this financial crisis they find themselves in. They feel failed by the government, thinking their greed, inconsistency, and unreliability is what demolished the economy.  They are protesting against major banks and multinational corporations in hope to achieve economic justice. Wall Street protesters are blaming Wall Street for the economy crumple and the great recession they have found themselves to be in. They feel that they were the ones who bailed these big businesses out and in return they are relying on these corporations to prevent America from a future crisis, by spending millions of dollars, which comes from us.

Since this is a protest is in major cities, now 1,500 cities globally, the cops are definitely a part of this. Cops are “watching” and “protecting” our communities during this protest, well this is what they are supposed to be doing. Instead, they are arresting innocent people, they are pepper spraying protesters for no reason other then for the signs they are holding, and they are violently taking people to the ground just because they are involved in the protest, this is all caught on camera. These cops aren’t protecting these protesters or their rights. This is freedom of speech and how these cops are interrogating these protesters is absolutely wrong and shouldn’t be allowed. It is even more wrong that these police officials actions are caught on camera and all over the news, and it still goes on, if something needs to be brought to the government’s attention it should be that.

The point to this protest makes sense; this is our future we are talking about and as of now our economy is awful. The number of unemployment is increasing, which scares me because I hear about people’s situations all the time, where college graduates cannot find jobs. Then again I completely disagree with this protest, these people want the government to take from those who work and give to those who don’t, this is defined as socialism, which the rest of the world has tried and failed! This protest is a lazy excuse for people to complain to the government why they don’t have money, they can protest 9-5, but cannot go work. I will not let these protesters “occupy” my mind.