Rebel of the Week: The Occupy Wall Street Protester Who Took Aim at the Fed
October 5th, 2011After finally capturing the nation’s attention, pundits and politicians have been asking over and over again: “What do the Occupy Wall Street protesters want?” It seems that many of the protesters are trying to figure that out for themselves. Like the Tea Party movement that raged in early 2009 shortly after the wildly unpopular 2008 Wall Street bailout, this spontaneous, grassroots, Internet-driven phenomenon began in order to give vent to an emotion– or really– a set of emotions.
Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry, discontent, concerned, afraid for the future of this country, and compassionate for those who are hurting in these difficult economic times. Like the Tea Party protests, the Occupy Wall Street demonstration began by recognizing and denouncing a problem, which as news reporters say “begs the question” –what is the solution?
Our Rebel of the Week is a young man who answered that question in the most clear, effective, articulate, and passionate way while speaking at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Fortunately for the rest of us, his impassioned speech was captured for posterity in high-definition and the YouTube upload has gone viral among advocates of sound money policies and major reform to the establishment complex of federal agencies and corporations run amok.
Unlike other “solutions” offered by Occupy Wall Street activists, which so often ignore or misdiagnose the root causes of corporate corruption and call for a confused, haphazard list of reforms, this Rebel of the Week named the precise causes and offered their most effective remedies:
1) Localism – The centralization of political power is inevitably wielded in favor of “the 1%” elite and should be devolved to local communities where the people have more of a voice and influence.
2) No more bailouts – Bailouts for big corporations only reward and encourage their malfeasance and should come to an end.
3) Stop the wars – The open-ended wars overseas are a sad symptom of a country that has nothing left to export but fiat money and bombs; it’s time to make stuff, not war paid for with printed dollars.
4) End the Fed – Finally, and above all, the Federal Reserve Bank, which stands at the apex of our unjust economic system, should be abolished.
