US Agencies Occupied the Occupy Movement
The Occupy movement was an international socio-political demonstration against social and economic inequality and a lack of democracy worldwide. It started on September 17, 2011, in New York City’s Zuccotti Park under the name Occupy Wall Street. The movement has called for solutions to society's problems. I contributed to the movement by offering new ideas for achieving social justice, and they were discussed online. But the movement has never succeeded in defining its goals or political demands. I will explain why here.
The changes the Occupy movement wanted were unacceptable to the government, which had an interest in preventing the movement from becoming independent. In 5 months, the government cleared all Occupy demonstration camps in the US, but the movement continued to operate. Then the US government sent trained agents to take control of the movement. They managed to control the movement through financial and organizational support. This was not difficult because the Occupy movement was open to everyone. Volunteers ran it. There was no hierarchy. Anyone could suggest ideas. As a result, the Occupy movement was vulnerable to the government’s destructive attack. Finally, the Occupy movement has become a tool of the government.
At the beginning of 2012, I joined the “Visions and Goals” group within the NYCGA of the Occupy movement in New York. I proposed a straightforward measure for achieving social justice. It was based on reducing work hours in proportion to the unemployment rate. Eliminating unemployment would increase demand for workers in the market, raising their salaries. I have defined it in the article Let’s remove unemployment. Higher workers’ salaries would boost trade in goods and services, which would grow the economy and improve social wellbeing. Such a measure would benefit everyone.
History has proved it. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed one-third of the European population, which suddenly increased demand for workers. The worker shortage increased wages. Michael Bennett confirmed it in the article The Impact of the Black Death on English Legal History, Australian Journal of Law and Society, 1995, page 197: “In Parliament, in 1351 the Commons petitioned Edward III for a more resolute and effective response. They complained that “servants completely disregard the said ordinance in the interests of their ease and greed and that they withhold their services to great men and others unless they have liveries and wages twice or three times as great as [prior to the plague] to the serious damage of the great men and impoverishment of all members of the said commons.””
According to this, if the Occupy movement adopted a goal of reducing the workweek to 5 hours per day, the lack of workers would increase workers’ hourly salaries 2-3 times in one year. Daily wages would rise 30-90% for a 5-hour shift. Workers would work shorter hours and earn much more. It has already happened, so if the idea were accepted, the Occupy movement would achieve a common goal of joint action.
The activist in the group “Visions and Goals,” Patrick Conway (Picture below), responded that my idea was interesting but that we first needed to reach consensus on fundamental issues. Patrick Conway insisted on a consensus on common actions among Democrats, Republicans, Marxists, liberals, anarchists, socialists, and followers of other political views, which is impossible to achieve. His higher education won the activists' confidence before I joined the group. He also attended all the meetings of the “Visions and Goals” group in New York, which I could not do at all because I lived in Toronto. As a result, my ideas were not discussed in the “Visions and Goals” group. It seems to me that Patrick Conway prevented any agreement in the group “Vision and Goals.” This was undoubtedly one reason the Occupy movement had not defined its vision clearly or its goals for joint action. This once-active group soon became deserted.
I tried to understand why Patrick Conway would sabotage the group. I couldn't find anything about him online besides what he put on his profile for the group. Here it is: Occupy Wall Street – New York City General Assembly, Vision & Goals, Name: Patrick Conway, What Brought You Here: “I see this movement as a chance to make this country and world a much better place.” Skills: “business management, accounting, computers, ideas.” The information about the group “Vision & Goals” no longer exist. Today, it is impossible not to find information about any activist on the Internet, so I strongly believe Patrick Conway was a state agent using a fake name that only the government could provide. But the picture he enclosed was real.
My article, “Let’s remove unemployment,” should have been welcomed on all Occupy movement websites because it advocates for social justice and offers a simple way to achieve it. It should have been published because it had good intentions. It could have opened the discussion to demonstrate the eligibility, credibility, and feasibility of my views. But the article was not welcomed by the Occupy movement. None of their websites published it. Not publishing the article clearly showed that the people who decide what gets published on the Occupy websites did not want to advance society. They had bad intentions.
I have managed to establish my independent hub in the Interoccupy group. As a hub holder, I believed I could actively participate in the movement's work. I published the action proposals, but have not received any response. Interoccupy was supposed to foster communication between individuals, working groups and local general assemblies across the movement, but it did not. In reality, it blocked all the progressive ideas of the Occupy members. Interoccupy published only one news article daily, which was often picked up by major media outlets. They generally published announcements and calls for numerous demonstrations of the Occupy movement. They told people to run across the country, scream as much as they could, and when they got tired, go home and sleep.
The government prevented progressive ideas from spreading in the Occupy movement. Instead, it imposed a view that all problems occur coincidentally and should be solved independently. In other words, the movement encouraged endless conversations and actions that never got close to the roots of the problems. The protestors did not have a solution, either an operational possibility that might reduce social injustice.
I believe that most of the Occupy movements were secretly financed by the government and by the rich, with whom the Occupy movement struggles. They made fools of the fighters for justice, who naively fell for their fraud. Some members of the Occupy movement have told me they are aware that the US government probably had agents among them, but they ignored it. They believed that they could achieve their goals anyway. In reality, the Occupy movement was blocked at its core, so it had no chance.
The main point of this article is that the US agencies do not have the right to interfere in the political life of US citizens. They would never interfere in big parties, but they do it in the political activities of poor Americans. US agencies are paid to protect American citizens and not to prevent their political activities. But they do protect the rich. I firmly believe that the US government’s interference in the political activities of US citizens is an organized crime committed in the interest of wealthy Americans.
The Occupy movement is still alive because it cannot compromise the wealthy conspirators, yet it groups dissatisfied people, making them easy targets for manipulation. Paradoxically, the rich keep it alive. The Occupy movement continues to be supported by the rich, even though it no longer holds any social power, because it has helped the rich divert dissatisfied people to useless paths. I hope this serves as a warning for future movements.
I learned how conspiracies originated twelve years earlier in the aggression against my homeland, Yugoslavia, and presented my findings in the article “My Debt to Yugoslavia.” Based on this experience, I performed an extended study which exposed the conspiracy in the Western world. I presented the conclusion of my work in the article Jacob Rothschild is guilty of the conspiracy against humankind.
I discovered that the Rothschilds are the people's greatest enemy. They have hidden their power so that nobody can accuse them of their wrongdoings. Also, they have cunningly taught people to call every criticism of them anti-Semitism because, in this way, they can hide their evil doings more. I have been accused of being an anti-Semite many times, even though I am not one. I had to reveal the truth about the Rothschilds because you can't defeat the enemy if they remain unknown.
Somehow, I managed to publish this article on one of the Occupy websites, but later found it had been removed. Conspiracies are a major social problem, and preventing articles from exposing them makes it impossible to solve it. It’s like forbidding doctors to recognize illnesses.