OWS/Florida

Some of the language on the 911 tapes of the Trayvon Martin murder speak to an underlying
frustration of injustice the killer has attributed to people who 'get away' with things.
In America, a great many people were intimately affected by the economic meltdown in this
country in 2008 and 2009, or they know someone who was.
The more sophisticated of those bitterly disappointed by that crash and the foreclosure crisis
went into 'Occupy' mode. For their peaceful troubles, their property was further compromised
and destroyed. Their heads were bashed in on a somewhat regular basis.
More unsophisticated persons may have taken all this to mean they do have to Stand Ground
against someone...anyone.
We saw people who destroyed incomes, pensions, savings, mortgages, businesses, and livelihoods
not getting one perp walk amongst them. Laws prohibited that. Those thieves and liars 'got
away with it.' OWS- Occupy Wall Street had no authority to meet out justice to those they held
reponsible for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' in the financial debacle afflicting the western world.
The guilty parties skirted and hid behind laws which gave them protection from prosecution.
Those who brought so much real destruction into the lives of so many people helped give the
impression that pain comes in a hoody, not a suit.
Even when our collective suffering is at extremes, we are led to believe white boys in suits don't commit crimes which cause pain and destruction in our homes, our neighborhoods. When you see one, on the street, and in Brooks Brothers, that isn't the time to get frustrated that your property may be at risk.
To illustrate: the year after the bottom drops out of our mortgages, Wall Street gets bigger bonuses than ever.
'They' got away with it. Six degrees of separation tells us everyone got hurt.
Somehow, ordinary people began to want to institute and test laws which would do the same
for them, and even for their baser instincts, which would let them 'get away with it'.
Kids on the phone with their girlfriends aren't the ones 'getting away'. Are killers 'getting away'?
Business laws were many times put into place against public interest as the noose was tightening around family necks, and way before the horse of our meltdown was about to get slapped.
People felt the pain of the economic recession long before 2008/9 when it made headlines.
We know the right wing money people have every reason to institute whatever will pit working
people against one another. That way, masses of the middle class will always be willing to hire themselves and their skills out for whatever; if employers will help segregate them from 'others'.
More of us need to begin to see through that, at least enough so that we are not using the distances
between us to cause us to attack one another.