Forum Post: HERE COMES THE SUN: Why OCCUPY WALL STREET IS ABOUT TO WIN and a prediction about how the 1% will react during their final days of rule as non-violent direct action slowly usurps their power

We Americans have been asleep but are slowly awakening. As a result of this awakening, the era of the 1% appropriating the American dream will most certainly come to an end. After all, "Truth crushed to earth rises up" as MLK Jr.said so eloquently.

However, we must bear in mind that, as our nonviolent movement rises and the reign of the 1% ends, those that represent the interests of the 1% will begin to flail and it won't be pretty. This will manifest itself in all sorts of ways: flat out violence and heavy-handedness by police (encouraged by 1%), agent provocateurs creating the illusion of violence etc.. . . anything to discredit the movement.

Yes, we've been asleep for too long. But read the second half of the Occupy DC response to the Stste of the Union address below. It's always darkest before the dawn. Here comes the sun my friends. Here comes the sun.

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"When our courts tell us corporations have more right to speak than we the people do That’s not democracy.

When pepper spray and midnight raids make a joke of the 1st Amendment right to assemble. That’s not democracy.

When defrauding clients, blowing up our economy, forging thousands of documents and seizing people’s homes illegally is not a crime but protesting all that is a crime That’s not democracy. Our America is not a democracy, not yet. We all know why: Wall street owns Washington. Bribery is legal, and the laws we live by are for sale to the highest bidder

That is why our government serves the very rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us

It protects the bonuses of bankers and Wall Street executives, while failing to keep hard-working families in their homes; It shields offshore tax havens for the very wealthy, while letting our bridges, schools, and infrastructure fall apart;

There have been dark periods in our nation’s history, when corruption became the norm when grave injustices stood in the way of America living up to its best ideals. But time and time again, Americans stepped up to take back their government and correct our course. Today Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement step into this proud American tradition.

But fear not, one percent! We are not here just to help the 99% at your expense. We are here to help you too. For when you’ve begun to think rigging the game is fair game

When you regard hard-working Americans as undeserving of a middle-class life and unworthy of the profit their own work creates

When you treat the people who build your buildings and serve your food and raise your children and patrol your streets without respect

You have not only lost touch with our humanity You have lost touch with your own humanity

You need to find it again, for everyone’s sake Real democracy will do you good

We are the 99% We are here to create the democracy we have all been promised. We are the 99%. Our finances are weak, but our spirit is strong. We are the 99%. Our spring is coming."

Here comes the sun my friends. Here comes the sun. As Breyton Breytonbach said in in a South African courtroom shortly before being sentenced to prison for protesting apartheid: "Whether we win, or whether we die, freedom will rise like the sun through the morning clouds."

Bongo Jerry, the great Rastafarian poet put it like this:

"Sooner or later but mus' the dam going to bus' And every person will break out Who will stop them? The force? What force can stop a river of people who know their course?"

Occupy everywhere. The people are rising. Humanity is rising. Viva la non-violent revolution.