quarta-feira, março 18, 2009
Fear not
"What would it take [...] to get Americans to protest peacefully alongside neighbors, friends, fellow students, congregants, immigrants, the jobless and the gainfully employed (for now)?
Under what circumstances "would they take off their shoes (or bring along an older pair) and toss them as hard as they could at the buildings, skyscrapers, offices and entrances to the plutocratic symbols of growing inequality in the nation?"
Would some be willing to spray paint the letter "V" (yes, for vendetta, he said) "...on the Greenwich and Palm Beach mansions of executives who bankrupted entire companies, laid off thousands, took tax-payers money, gave themselves bonuses, and are now asking for billions and billions more of tax money in return?"
[...]
By comparison, based on reported calls, emails and on-line viewer comments [...] huge numbers of Americans were up in arms over the Octuplet Mom [or] demanding the heads of American Idol judges who shoved popular contestants out the door [or joining] several thousand volunteers [in] the right-wing vigilante "Minutemen" to "patrol" America's borders [against illegal immigrants].
As long as undocumented immigrants were reaping the scorn of ordinary Americans, rapacious lenders and companies engaged in questionable business practices needed not fear".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-martin/why-the-obama-administrat_b_176144.html
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Under what circumstances "would they take off their shoes (or bring along an older pair) and toss them as hard as they could at the buildings, skyscrapers, offices and entrances to the plutocratic symbols of growing inequality in the nation?"
Would some be willing to spray paint the letter "V" (yes, for vendetta, he said) "...on the Greenwich and Palm Beach mansions of executives who bankrupted entire companies, laid off thousands, took tax-payers money, gave themselves bonuses, and are now asking for billions and billions more of tax money in return?"
[...]
By comparison, based on reported calls, emails and on-line viewer comments [...] huge numbers of Americans were up in arms over the Octuplet Mom [or] demanding the heads of American Idol judges who shoved popular contestants out the door [or joining] several thousand volunteers [in] the right-wing vigilante "Minutemen" to "patrol" America's borders [against illegal immigrants].
As long as undocumented immigrants were reaping the scorn of ordinary Americans, rapacious lenders and companies engaged in questionable business practices needed not fear".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-martin/why-the-obama-administrat_b_176144.html
