As noted in the New York Times article “
Wall Street Protest Begins, With Demonstrators Blocked”:
For months the protesters had planned to descend on Wall Street on a Saturday and occupy parts of it as an expression of anger over a financial system that they say favors the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary citizens.
As it turned out, the demonstrators found much of their target off limits on Saturday as the city shut down sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall well before their arrival.
I had been only dimly aware of the protest better documented at its
home site than I can do justice to. A brief except from their intent I do much agree with:
We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.
I've yet to see how the members of the protest make sense of what transpired today, but I think they were witness to an archetypal example of that which they are opposed to.
