Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street is ‘where the hope of America lies’

[G_j]

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Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street is ‘where the hope of America lies’
Posted on 09.25.11

By Muriel Kane

Journalist Chris Hedges put in an appearance at the Occupy Wall Street protest on Sunday morning and engaged in a lengthy interview, during which he described the protest as “really where the hope of America lies.”

Hedges was particularly impressed by the significance of Saturday’s mass arrests on the part of the New York Police Department. He told the interviewer, “The real people who are scared are the power elite. Of course, they’re trying to make you scared and us scared. But I can tell you, having been a reporter for the New York Times, that on the inside they’re very, very frightened. They do not want movements like this to grow, and they understand on some level — whether it’s subconscious or, in other cases, even overt — that the criminal class in this country has seized power.”

Hedges went on to say that the protesters should be seen as “conservatives” because “they call for the restoration of the rule of law.”

“The real radicals have seized power,” he asserted, “and they are decimating all impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic corporate state, one in which there is a rapacious oligarchic class, a thin managerial elite, and two-thirds of this country live in conditions that increasingly push families to subsistence level.”

According to Hedges, the corporate state wants to “reduce the working class to a status equivalent to serfdom. … They want us to remain passive and to remain frightened. And as long as we remain passive and frightened, entranced with their electronic hallucinations, we are not a threat.”

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[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. There should be many unlikely groups out there in

solidarity. What about the people that were burned by Bernie Madoff and others like him?

This should also be an issue for tea baggers. There is no group of Americans that haven't

been negatively impacted by Wall Street except the 1-2% of elitists and their government

puppets.

[montanacowboy]

2. If you have not caught his new show

on Sat/Sun mornings, Up with Chris Hedges, please do so. It is one of the MOST informative discussion panels I have yet to see on air and even though Chris gives me breathing problems because he talks so fast and I am trying to catch up to him, it is a very well thought out and presented show. The guests are super informed and ones you don't necessarily see on regular pundit shit.

[OHdem10]

3. Are you referring to Chris Hayes, MSNBC SAT and Sun AA?

[montanacowboy]

5. Oh, damn, yes

sorry -

[Zorra]

4. Awesome! I love this:

"They want us to remain passive and to remain frightened. And as long as we remain passive and frightened, entranced with their electronic hallucinations, we are not a threat.”

[G_j]

6. Occupy Wall Street (FULL) Interview with Chris Hedges Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SKw2j3XOY0&feature=share

[EmeraldCityGrl]

7. +1000

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. If you have not yet seen this, I highly recommend it.

The interview is in 6 parts, I was totally absorbed.

[G_j]

12. agreed, it is well worth watching

in it's entirety.

[Tsiyu]

9. K&R n/t

:kick:

[ipaint]

10. Kick... excellent interview. nt

[WillyT]

11. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

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