Football, Politicians and Occupy Wall Street

Lets consider something, the head of the International Monetary Fund gets arrested for rape and nobody considers this a reason to end the IMF. Penn States assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of having assaulted numerous young boys and nobody calls for an end of college football. Why not? Oh right, because every organization has some jerks and we can't hold the innocent accountable for the bad ones; but, someone gets raped at a protest and we seek to remove all protesters. That is hypocrisy.

A recent article said that over 3,400 people had been arrested at Occupy events; but, it forgets to highlight the fact that almost all of them were arrested for protesting and not for committing crimes other than protesting. Would you like to hear some more stupid stuff, it is simple just follow the news media. Now there are articles across the United States about how the Occupy movement has displaced the homeless. Wait a second, it is okay for the homeless to sleep in these places but not regular people? Huh?

Consider Herman Cain, four different women have accused him of sexual harassment that we know of so far; but, that doesn't seem to be a problem except in the polls. There are other articles that claim that the Occupy movement has been "infiltrated" by some bad groups like Acorn. This is laughable, our whole political system has been infiltrated by bad groups, they are called lobbyists and big business. Perhaps the lobbyists and the political action committees should disband and go home.

When you read any article that uses one incident or even a limited number of incidents and then comes to the conclusion that the protesters must go home, then know that it is a lie. The problem is not the movement, it is not crime, it is not antisemitism and it is not their lack of leaders or their not calling for specific changes in the law. What is really annoying the people in charge is that the Occupy movement highlights what is wrong with this country and that is corruption and too much control by the government over personal freedom. The biggest statement of the movement is that they won't follow authority figures or the police.

In Washington D.C., over the weekend it has been reported that at least four protesters were struck by cars and the police let the drivers go. I guess the D.C. police only protect banks, politicians and businessmen. New York police of course are even worse. Police in New York have recently been indicted for ticket fixing (the union supports them for doing such), robberies and gun running to name just a few. Perhaps the police at Occupy Wall Street should be sent home because clearly some of them are crooked. Doesn't the same logic apply?

Now I cannot put tow good thoughts together at present because I am still upset over a recent passing; but, even I can see the shear outrageous corruption of the media and there approach to reporting on the Occupy movements. What is the message of the Occupy movement, well one of them is that they don't trust representative democracy because whenever you choose a representative they get bought off. What is the point in electing representatives if they are not going to represent you? Why is this so hard for the media to understand, are they really that retarded that they cannot understand the simple premise?

One Occupy movement recently chose a "leader", they elected a dog. The Tea Party elected many representatives and nothing has changed. NOTHING. How many people that you have voted for have actually done what they said they would do? Yeah, just like Obama and Bush, both made false promises. That is politics. I do not believe in direct democracy; but, I am not against true veto power being in the hands of the people. That can be a direct vote.

The real problems in this world are not capitalism or socialism or even communism. All of these systems have failed because we have become corrupt as a people, the real issue is of selfishness and corruption because any system goes bad when we the people care more about what we get out of the process than making sure that the process is fair and right.

In China recently a toddler fell into the street and was run over by two vehicles, neither of which stopped. Dozens of people walked by and nobody helped the child, it was all captured on video. While the Chinese believe in taking care of relatives, they have been trained to not help strangers. Their media has put on ridiculous presentations on why people should help others and was caught making up completely false stories of this occurring.

It is a known fact in standard philosophy that you cannot have an absolute morality if there is no God. Instead the highest you can hope from people is that they will look out for their own self interest and that is what we have taught in this country for the past 40 years. We are told that logic requires that we do a cost benefit analysis rather than consider if something is innately right or wrong. Remember the words of W.C. Fields, "You can't cheat an honest man".