The Marine, Scott Olsen, is actually out of the coma and doing well. He suffered from some speech impairment but he could communicate and was facing surgery. I've read some stories indicating his family could be facing major hospital bills, though. If there's any kind of concerted fundraiser for that I'll let you know.
The thing that made me cry hardest was the reaction of other Marines and vets to what happened to Olsen. Brigades of vets and active servicemembers on leave formed spontaneously and came to occupy protests, including the NYC one, to protect the protesters. And also this:
You can't get news from the news channels. MSNBC is owned by Universal, CNN is owned by Time Warner and Fox is, well, Fox. These large corporations have close ties to the banks in a lot of cases, and the people running these companies are the 1%. From their perch, everything is fine and the riff raff just need to work harder. The richest people own the corporations that own the media. They're going to ensure that the status quo gets upheld. Of course, they're all shitting in their pants because the status quo has become untenable and the rabble at the bottom of the food chain isn't being easily distracted by shiny objects anymore. When their media baubles can't divert our attention enough that's when things start to get ugly.
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Date: 2011-11-03 02:00 pm (UTC)The thing that made me cry hardest was the reaction of other Marines and vets to what happened to Olsen. Brigades of vets and active servicemembers on leave formed spontaneously and came to occupy protests, including the NYC one, to protect the protesters. And also this:
Two of the progressive blogs I follow have been posting daily news roundups about the Occupy movement:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/
You can't get news from the news channels. MSNBC is owned by Universal, CNN is owned by Time Warner and Fox is, well, Fox. These large corporations have close ties to the banks in a lot of cases, and the people running these companies are the 1%. From their perch, everything is fine and the riff raff just need to work harder. The richest people own the corporations that own the media. They're going to ensure that the status quo gets upheld. Of course, they're all shitting in their pants because the status quo has become untenable and the rabble at the bottom of the food chain isn't being easily distracted by shiny objects anymore. When their media baubles can't divert our attention enough that's when things start to get ugly.