New York City to California ... Tahrir Square ... The Empire Strikes Back

In New York the police are hemming in protesters with one of the several tools of repression that empire has always turned to ... military force in the form of police action.  Meanwhile at the University of California, Davis, similar exhibitions of empire's desperation were on display as peaceful student protesters were "pepper-sprayed" in shock video fashion.  Bloomberg in New York is claiming victory.  UC officials are claiming they are merely promoting order.  The order of empire is maintained by violence, whether it be the poverty of many so that the ruling elites may preserve "their share", or whether it be the economic system held on track in order to reward the few while disciplining the labor force  to expect less and less and in the process, teaching workers to blame themselves for their plight.   One candidate for President asserts boldly, "It is your fault if you do not have a job."  Don't believe the lies of empire.

Meanwhile the media owned and controlled by the ruling elites continues its mission of repression with characterizations of "Occupy" that are now going beyond ridicule to outright maligning with lies.  I visited Occupy DC.  I did not see, as Bill O'reilly reported, public masturbation, drug use and rape.  Rather, I witnessed a community coming together in order to meet the needs of the homeless and those in need of food.  The established community, maintained by violence, is not able to provide these basic needs.  There was a free library there too, similar to the one at Occupy Wall Street that Mayor Bloomberg incinerated.  And this bibilocide occurred after thirteen public libraries in New York were closed and 300 library personnel were liberated from employment by the Mayor.  The Occupy library stood as the only resource for books in the neighborhood available to parents who wanted materials for their children.  Moreover, the local Borders was no longer there.  Empire decided that the free library had to go ... another bonfire of the vanities.