Occupy L.A. Speaker: (note the accent) ‘Bourgeoisie Won’t Go Without Violent Means’

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The French Revolution devoured its own children, and led to Napoleon and his destructive wars of empire.

Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette may have not been such a bad bargain in retrospect.

I'm not sure the above quote concerning Gandhi is entirely justified. Gandhi defeated an empire without firing a shot. There was poverty in India during British domination, and there was poverty after the British left. There was poverty in India five hundred years before Christ, which was how Siddartha Gautama became the fount of Buddhism. I'm not so sure about Indian history since Gandhi, but the objective of early European imperialism was to enrich the home country by any means necessary - and looting of colonial resources was a part of it. Post colonial trade barriers are perfectly understandable.

I believe it's a little early to define the "occupy" movement, such as it is. I believe that far left wingers are trying to capitalize on general frustrated ignorance within the population. However, governmental pressure on lenders and over leveraged sheep among the general American populace bear equal responsibility with Wall Street opportunists for the melt down.

The old quote concerning the con man at his trial:

I never cheated an honest man. They wanted something for nothing, and I gave them nothing for something.