Polizeros Radio

    Last nights podcast with Keith Boyea and myself focused on the increasing obvious corruption and erosion of civil rights, as typified by Obama and Democratic congress members not loudly and strongly opposing Sen. McCain’s noxious attempt to allow the military to indefinitely detain citizens. Aren’t Democrats supposed to champion civil liberties?    If George Bush acted this the liberal blogosphere would be screaming. But apparently shredding of rights is ok if a Democrat is in power. I explained how this got taken to almost comical extremes when Crooks and Liars attacked Naomi Wolf‘s saying DHS (and by implication Obama) was behind the obviously concerted crackdown on OWS, that this was not only horribly wrong but that Wolf (oh the horror) “intentionally tried to stir the fires of anger and discontent and anti-government sentiment on an international level,” as if something was wrong with that. WTF?   This shows how tepid liberal protest can be and how locked into the Democratic Party it is.    Keith pondered the Republican race with its ever-changing array of candidates who pop up only to self-destruct. We both agreed Gingrich is a pompus gasbag with Keith thinking Republicans will start to line up behind Romney soon.

Talking with David Buccola, who was there all day yesterday for the massive Shutdown Wall Street protests.  Police craziness. Shutting down Zuccotti one day then kettling people in the next. But then tens of thousands came. This was far too manyy for them to control. The "99%" and other slogansprojected on the Verizon Building as marchers crossed the Brooklyn Bridge was inspirational, made even more so by it coming from an apartment in the projects. When the mom in the apartment saw what was being projec ted, she refused to take the agreed upon payment, saying this was for the people! At one point 30,000 were watching live streaming from theother99 on Ustream who had over 700,000 unique views. This shows the power of social media. he said cops backed off from him when they saw the live streaming.  Most important, this movement is everywhere now. Support it in your community or start one of your own.

David Buccola spoke eloquently about Occupy Wall Street while standing in the rain at Zuccotti Park. He says this is what we've been waiting for, a viral mass movement with no leaders.    OWS is still growing in NYC, with a really big protest planned for Nov. 17. On Tuesday night, several got arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience at Occupy Sotheby's in solidarity with locked-out Teamsters. In another event, OWS learned of a tenement in Harlem owned by a slumlord. It had a broken boiler. He refused to fix it. They occupied the building until the boiler was repaired. Homeless people are joining in, and sometimes getting off drugs and alcohol too. On Wednesday night, two people were arrested for dancing on the sidewalk (?). Last night, dozens danced on the sidewalks and streets as large contingents of police followed them.    If you want to do something at OWS, just do it. That's the message. And it really is run by genuine principles of democracy.   We talked about OWS for 45 minutes. Give a listen. This is from someone who is there and participating in it.   After David went to dry off, Keith and I concluded with discussion about the insanity of bombing Iran, penn State protecting the institution at all costs, and the continuing tragi-comedy in the Eurozone.

Plus Eurozone debt crisis and the 50% Greek bond haircut, 2012 elections, Libya asking NATO to stay until end of year.. With Bob Morris of Politics in the Zeros, Keith Boyea of keithboyea.wordpress.com, and Josh Mull at SmallWorldNews.tv