Think of who have been the real enemies of Wall Street, the
real enemies of stock exchanges through the ages. They’ve got some pretty
dishonorable foes. During the Second World War, the city of London
was repeatedly targeted by the Nazis, because they understood that the
free-market system was part of what they saw as our degenerate system–in other
words, one based on free contract and personal liberty. The stock exchange was
repeatedly singled out by Luftwaffe bombs. When the Soviet Union expanded, the
first thing they would do taking over a new country would be to close down the Bourse. And
on September 11, the murderers struck at the heart of New York capitalism, well
understanding that the thing they most disliked and resented about the West,
the personal freedom, was represented in that building. Surely we are better
than to line up with those kinds of enemies.
So no, don’t Occupy Wall Street, don’t occupy the London
Stock Exchange, don’t even occupy St. Paul’s on the grounds that it’s on the
way. Occupy the central banks that have printed the money in order to get
around the failures of a handful of banksters. Occupy the houses of the
politicians who have voted to give your money to people who are
not prepared to live with the consequences of their own errors.
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