Pepper Spraying Cop of Davis California

DAVIS, Calif. -- To the west of Sacramento, CA sits a medium college community called Davis. It was here at Davis that the “Occupy” movement struck a chord on Friday when students at UC Davis felt the need to express their voice by staging a peaceful protest. It turned ugly when police showed up and decided to pepper spray the young offenders who were only guilty of gathering for a peaceful protest against the inequalites that have developed in America. After the spray was released, chants of “Shame on you” were expressed from the crowd and the police retreated.

Going through this experience will only galvanize the character of these young protesters and show them that what they are taking a stand for is the correct stand. This whole event gives not only gives purpose to the cause, but it also demonstrates that standing against the “Occupy” movement is definitely on the wrong side.

If you took a look all of the way back throughout our American history you will see that people in this country have stood up for what is right and just. Our ancestors took a stand when there was “Taxation Without Representation.” Our ancestors took a stand and had a civil war in order to free men, women and children from the bonds of slavery. The greatest generation took a stand and overcame their differences with each other to stand against Hitler’s Germany. Very recently in our American history, our fellow countrymen and countrywomen took a stand in the 1960s when there was an imbalance in the way her citizens were treated as individuals.

In some of the pictures from the 1960s protests, you can see the hatred on the faces of the people who stood in opposition to freedom for all. That was how you knew by siding with the radical realized Malcolm X, the presidential aspired Bobby Kennedy, and the peaceful Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that you were taking the correct stand for justice. If you were on the opposite side, then you were on the wrong side and took a stand for just about everything that is wrong in this country.

Now, today, there is a serious imbalance and our nation has MILLIONS of people up in arms about how the banking industry and corporate structure have poisoned our land of freedom. It no longer represents a free state, but rather a corporate plan. This is the type of plan that will slice and divide these United States to the highest bidder.

Congress recently passed many laws which favor corporations. One of these laws allows corporations to GIVE/DONATE any dollar amount to a political candidate. This will essentially buy political power to the highest bidder and the newly corrupted politician will have the corporation’s agenda in mind when voting on key issues of state, rather than the people’s agenda. This makes the corporation just like a person in many ways.

It does not take an economist or an accountant to see that this type of restructuring shows that there is no real distinction between this country and that country. It only points out the separation of this corporation and that corporation. Another concern to think about is, who is really held responsible when a corporation goes bad? What happens when an oil rig blows up in the middle of the gulf and kills 11 people and the resulting polution distroys an economy?

People run companies. Since people run companies, then if you are going to give corporations similar rights as people, then the heads of the corporations should be held responsible when the company does something wrong. If a person kills someone, then they usually go to jail, in Texas they go to death row for capital offenses. The same thing should happen to all of the corporate executives and board members. If politicians wish to give life to corporations, then give it to them and put them all under a microscope to see if they are an irresponsible company. All levels of executive positions should put their lives on the line and suffer true consequences when a company does wrong; not given a severance package and sent on their merry way to screw up another company. If they screw up, then they will go to jail, they will be fined, they will be put on trial for causing death, they will be held responsible for messing with the environment, they will have someone stand trial, not just one, but all of the executives and board members. Logically, this seems like one way that will help bring about some level of accountability, but for now, this is our time.

These kids, out in Davis California didn’t do anything wrong. The police however, well they are still Americans, but they took the wrong stand on this issue. If the police say they were doing their job, they were lying; their job is to protect people from others who might do wrong. Who is going to protect these college men and women from the police when they are standing up for the wrong side?

John Lewis said, “The revolution is at hand, and we must free ourselves of the chains of political and economic slavery… We cannot depend on any political party, for the Democrats and the Republicans have betrayed the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence.” These words were from a different time, 1963, and still they ring true. These words are not just for one race, religion, social class or period of time, but for all people of this land called America.