[Peace-discuss] Occupy Wall Street is where the hope of America lies

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street is ‘where the hope of America lies’
	• Posted on 09.25.11
	• By Muriel Kane

Journalist Chris Hedges put in an appearance at the Occupy Wall Street  
protest on Sunday morning and engaged in a lengthy interview, during  
which he described the protest as “really where the hope of America  
lies.”
Hedges was particularly impressed by the significance of Saturday’s  
mass arrests on the part of the New York Police Department. He told  
the interviewer, “The real people who are scared are the power elite.  
Of course, they’re trying to make you scared and us scared. But I can  
tell you, having been a reporter for the New York Times, that on the  
inside they’re very, very frightened. They do not want movements like  
this to grow, and they understand on some level — whether it’s  
subconscious or, in other cases, even overt — that the criminal class  
in this country has seized power.”

Hedges went on to say that the protesters should be seen as  
“conservatives” because “they call for the restoration of the rule of  
law.”

“The real radicals have seized power,” he asserted, “and they are  
decimating all impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic  
corporate state, one in which there is a rapacious oligarchic class, a  
thin managerial elite, and two-thirds of this country live in  
conditions that increasingly push families to subsistence level.”

According to Hedges, the corporate state wants to “reduce the working  
class to a status equivalent to serfdom. … They want us to remain  
passive and to remain frightened. And as long as we remain passive and  
frightened, entranced with their electronic hallucinations, we are not  
a threat.”

“The moment people come out and do this [kind of protest],” Hedges  
concluded, “the corporate state is terrified — and if you doubt me,  
look around you at the huge numbers of cops, and not only that but the  
kind of brutality the cops have visited on peaceful protesters.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/
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