The violence shown against them by the government shows that they are no side show.

The very nature of the OWS message is right at the heart of current politics.

Thats not a sideshow.


Don - I don't have a problem with you either.

Soros point of view would be of no significance to you and me if he wasn't a billionaire.

He wouldn't be any more of a useful ally than you or anyone else on here if he were not a billionaire.

So he is only useful to this conversation insofar as he has power and influence way way above and beyond the power and influence of the average citizen.

The position of OWS is that no private individual should have greater or lesser political power than any other whether they are a billionaire or homeless.

Rallying behind the billionaire to unseat the corporatocracy is therefore a contradiction.

If he wants to come and rally down on the street, let him come and be welcome - but using his financial clout to affect a favourable political outcome is doing exactly the thing that OWS is against.

If he then listens to the demands, and cleans up the act of the many business interests he has, and ensures all his employees are paid a fair wage, and that they receive proper health care, and if he then agrees to pay himself a wage that is comparable to that of his employees, (rather than 'selflessly' only paying himself billions until his death - at which point he will gladly sacrifice his wealth) then he can claim to be with us.

But you know what, I don't see that happening any time soon - I don't think he'd want to let go of his privilege.

He is the beneficiary of a corrupt system and he continues to be complicit in it even though it is plain that for every billionaire made, a million people fall into slavery.