"Thank you for standing up"

[Karma]

Thank you for standing up

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This, I thought, was a VERY telling piece written by someone who is @ the front of the Occupy protests against the courts, specificly the "Citizen's United" ruling by the Supreme Court, which imo, was one of the most outrageous moves that body has ever made & really called into question the integrity & credibility of it.

one of the most damning parts of this article:

Voting will not alter the corporate systems of power. Voting is an act of political theater. Voting in the United States is as futile and sterile as in the elections I covered as a reporter in dictatorships like Syria, Iran and Iraq. There were always opposition candidates offered up by these dictatorships. Give the people the illusion of choice. Throw up the pretense of debate. Let the power elite hold public celebrations to exalt the triumph of popular will. We can vote for Romney or Obama, but Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and Bank of America and the defense contractors always win