Occupy Wall Street

Last night as I watched the live stream, Michael Moore, the liberal documentary filmmaker, dropped by to speak with the protesters.  I found it interesting that the protesters claim to be the 99% (those that aren't "rich"), but, yet they cheered for Michael Moore.  He IS part of the 1%.  Michael Moore is against Capitalism, but, yet he made his money because of Capitalism.

Today as I watched the protesters, it became really interesting on who stopped by to support them.  Susan Sarandon, the actress,  is also one of the 1%,  Again they cheered.  "Sarandon was a member and financial supporter of Not In Our Name (NION), the Revolutionary Communist Party-led project whose "Statement of Conscience" condemned not only the Bush administration's "stark new measures of repression," but also its "unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world." According to NION, it was the American government -- and not that of any other nation -- which posed the most "grave dangers to the people of the world."

Sarandon was also an endorser of World Can't Wait (WCW), the Revolutionary Communist Party-led group that sought to organize "people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration." Other celebrity endorsers of WCW included Harry Belafonte, Gloria Steinem, Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, Gore Vidal, Sean Penn, and Howard Zinn."  Find out more here.

Today members of the protesters were interviewed by Amy Goodman.  "Amy Goodman is co-host of Democracy Now!, a weekday newscast that can be heard on more than 225 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada and on the shortwave station Radio for Peace International."

"Goodman is a hardcore radical who detests both of the established major U.S. political parties. She perceives the politicians of both parties, as well as the dominant liberal media, as corrupted and controlled by a corporate ruling class, and from this perspective attacks them all (albeit from a place on the political spectrum much closer to leftwing Democrats than to Republicans). Because she commonly condemns the allegedly hidden capitalist conspiracies that rule Americans, Goodman is a very attractive figure to the far left."  Find out more here.

I think I am pretty sure what all this "support" is all about.  I think things are going to be getting more and more interesting each day.  It will be interesting to see who shows up next.  What other 1% will show up?

Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, and Amy Goodman all have this great country to thank for what they have accomplished.  They are the 1% that these protesters are against.  I get it.  I have little doubt on how this is going to turn out.  These events, like Occupy Wall Street are beginning to pop up all over our country.  It is already happening in Chicago.