By Andrew Hastings, CKReview columnist
Since the beginning of this movement a disturbing trend seems to be persisting in the mainstream media. The regurgitating of the phrase “anti-capitalist” has been splashed on every headline covering the occupy movement, and from my personal experience this does not line up with the conservative views that comes from the occupy movement.
The movement seems to instead take various stances on a plethora of issues that for ions of time have always been deemed conservative. The main issue however is to stop the corporatocracy that has taken over society’s progression. It has turned governments world-wide into nothing but representatives of this very same “blood sucking octopus”. When corporations discussed we are not talking about your mom and pop shop on the corner. We are not even talking about factories that employ a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand people. What we are talking about is these bloodthirsty banks that have manipulated everything from pension funds to our utilities. We are talking about these short sellers, these inside dealers, these white-collar criminals that seem to never be punished, other than for a fine that amounts to a sliver of their wealth. These giants have not gained their wealth through a fair trade capitalist model. These men have gained their wealth in a way that would even make the oligarchs of Russia drool with envy. These investment bankers must have the power of manipulation removed from the market or we will never ever see any type of true capitalism. Derivative trading and accumulation of society’s infrastructure is not a way forward, and it is sure not capitalism. This is no more than a continued replay of the robber barons of the 19th century. At times it’s the same family’s that robbed the members of the public during that time. We’ll just name families like the Rothschild’s and Rockefeller’s as a couple good examples.
In today’s financing of political campaigns a huge opportunity arose for corporations all over the world that when exposed has allowed this corporatocracy to turn into the monster that we see today. With their need to fund expensive advertising campaigns, politicians have had to take money from these corporations and in turn these corporations get legislation that is generally geared to their benefit. In Canada however, the only real difference is we elect these leaders of private industries, Harper (Big Oil), Chretien (Bombardier), Martin (international shipping) and these are just a few. No wonder these guys love taring down tariffs and promoting such agendas as free trade and globalization.
Regardless of how the coup was able to take place country to country, the endgame is: amass as much wealth as possible. The reforms that the occupy movement are asking for, are as fiscally conservative as possible. Would it not be conservative to end the war and end military spending? Would it not be conservative to think about the re-nationalization of certain industries that have been sold to the banking elite for pennies on the dollar? Would it not be conservative to stop environmental destruction? At every chance we get we should be questioning our mainstream media. We cannot continue to believe this propaganda, or the octopus will continue to strangle the throats of this countries progression.
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