It’s about time…right? I mean, how much shit do people have to take before they get pissed off enough to mount a serious protest? Of course, fellow tweeter/bloggers, shouting with the tips of our fingers, clacking away at a keyboard, hardly compares to getting all stinky and hoarse while marching around with a misspelled placard, nor does it come close to setting yourself on fire to spur the revolution. But the seeds of change through protest must be strewn in many places to take root.

The Tea Party, (the early third millenium arrivals at anarchic muscle flexing), were unfortunately organized by the very people they sought to rail against and their message was first diverted and then hi-jacked completely. (Note to Tea Party: It’s not big government that wiped out your pensions, foreclosed on your mortgages and opened a can of whoop-ass on your future…it was big, unregulated business…oh yeah, abetted by big government). However, I applaud their organization and hope that the similarity of purpose between their concerns and those of the growing ‘Occupiers’ will meld into a long-overdue socio/political upheaval.

The constant distractions of war, political instability, natural disaster and economic uncertainty and their instantaneous, (often erroneous), InterNet reporting have contributed to a long-suffering paralysis. We have been prepared to accept the unacceptable prospect of an austere future with a backward free-fall in education, environmental protection and productive innovation. We have been afraid to face the architects of this bleak scenario being warned that the repercussions of holding them accountable could lead to even greater hardships. Nonsense! Wall St. is the Evil Empire and the politics and politicians that dance to its self-aggrandizing beat whirl and twirl their butts around overly complex and unfair taxation, mythical monetary manipulation and an inequitable economic balance that makes feudal systems of the past look like a family picnic. We are a vibrant and hardworking society who should demand 100% employment at a fair wage, universal education and health care, and real socially secure retirement. Only in this way can we be incentivized to do what we do best, making quality goods and providing innovative services sought out by the rest of the world. This is what Tea Partiers want, (maybe not the hi-jacking mouthpieces, but the the angry masses), and this what the ‘Occupiers’, (though they seem to have trouble articulating it), want. Let’s do this!