Check out this post by Chris Hedges at Truthdig. He, along with tonight's Special Comment by Keith Olbermann, not only point to the extremes that the country's "real owners" are willing to go to maintain control (tear gas, batons, sound cannons, mass arrests, arrests of journalists, etc.), but that the Bloombergs of the world might just be running out of ammunition.
The Occupy movement, with it's approach, is demonstrating just why, and how, non-violence is effective - it exposes the moral and social bankruptcy of the oppressing power. Those with the guns can evict people out of whatever park or building they want, but they can't evict an idea - no matter how hard their media outlets (especially Foxy Noise) try. They can intimidate, handcuff, and throw whatever books they want in either the trash or at the protesters, but ideas that speak to our survival as a people will live on in spite of their efforts.
If the economy gets any worse than it is now, then these protests (and the corresponding response) will seem like a Sunday stroll.
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