Angry Druid? Might be time for that.

http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/peaceful...

The preceding is a link to fellow Druid Nimue Brown's blog entitled 'Peaceful Druid, Angry Druid'. She admits that peace is the ideal state, but not always is it the appropriate state. If there are situations that need remedy, wrath might be the needed medicine. 

And here is another fine link, to an interview with one of the dedicated Wall Street Occupiers. The title of that one is 'Why the Elites Are In Trouble'...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/10-1#.TpM...

Here is a little taste of the interview.

“People were worried we were going to get kicked out of the park at 10 p.m. This was a major concern. There were tons of cops. I’ve heard that it’s costing the city a ton of money to have constant surveillance on a bunch of peaceful protesters who aren’t hurting anyone. With the people’s mic, everything we do is completely transparent. We know there are undercover cops in the crowd. I think I was talking to one last night, but it’s like, what are you trying to accomplish? We don’t have any secrets.

“The undercover cops are the only ones who ask, ‘Who’s the leader?’ ” she said. “Presumably, if they know who our leaders are they can take them out. The fact is we have no leader. There’s no leader, so there’s nothing they can do.

“There was a woman [in the medics unit]. This guy was pretending to be a reporter. The first question he asks is, ‘Who’s the leader?’ She goes, ‘I’m the leader.’ And he says, ‘Oh yeah, what are you in charge of?’ She says, ‘I’m in a charge of everything.’ He says, ‘Oh yeah? What’s your title?’ She says ‘God.’ ”

... “We’re trying to make this a space that everyone can join. This is something the caucuses are trying to really work on. We are having workshops to get people to understand their privilege.”

But perhaps the most important rule adopted by the protesters is nonviolence and nonaggression against the police, no matter how brutal the police become.

“The cops, I think, maced those women in the face and expected the men and women around them to start a riot,” Ketchup said. “They want a riot. They can deal with a riot. They cannot deal with nonviolent protesters with cameras.”

Now, an angry Druid does not cause mayhem for its own sake. These occupiers are incomprehensible to the powers that they are tackling because these powers cannot conceive of a world which does not need their intervention. But that intervention is precisely the illness which needs remedy. A parasite needs to be detached because it is burdening its food source.

Chris Hedges, the interviewer, puts it thus:

The elites believe, and seek to make us believe, that globalization and unfettered capitalism are natural law, some kind of permanent and eternal dynamic that can never be altered. What the elites fail to realize is that rebellion will not stop until the corporate state is extinguished. It will not stop until there is an end to the corporate abuse of the poor, the working class, the elderly, the sick, children, those being slaughtered in our imperial wars and tortured in our black sites. It will not stop until foreclosures and bank repossessions stop. It will not stop until students no longer have to go into debt to be educated, and families no longer have to plunge into bankruptcy to pay medical bills. It will not stop until the corporate destruction of the ecosystem stops, and our relationships with each other and the planet are radically reconfigured.

Myself, I have always preferred to think of the human race as the parasite being shucked by our host, Nature. To that end, our killing each other off seems acceptable, including the status quo funded by constant wars. These people in Zucotti Park, New York City, are doing an end run around the present untenable status quo because they intend to live. One can't fault them for wanting to survive, even if the wealthy in their tall glass buildings do not care one way or the other.

Mainstream media is still woefully behind on how much protest is actually going on. It's more than six hundred satellite 'occupations' now, including state capitals and the headquarters of multinational conglomerates, and also other countries. It also includes several areas in Washington DC.

I think it's less 'angry' Druid, and more 'fed-up' Druid, me writing this. But it's harvest time, the crops are in and we can do battle with the encroaching dark, wresting our survival from its very jaws. Let the forces of decay have the remains after slaughter and smoking. And feed us all.