I watched the Stonehill College debate at The Enterprise News website.

One of the comments on that web page was:

Licking my chops, It will be amusing to watch them eat their own.

I wonder if Lizzy’s Occupier friends will show up with their neck tattoos, ear gauges and unbathed carcasses. The Occupods want to know ‘ Will free food be available?’

As we all know it is her that is responsible for them when she stated ‘I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do, she said in the interview. I support what they do.

If that is an intellectual foundation for anything, it is disaster. We as a nation are doomed!

My response to that comment was:

I am so glad someone asked about the intellectual foundation that Elizabeth Warren provided to the Occupy movement.

Elizabeth Warren wrote a book, “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”

If you really wanted an answer to the question, you would devote the time to listen to her invited lecture on what is the lesson from the book.
http://wp.me/peCeJ-172

I do not understand why the campaign doesn’t use this strong message to shoot down the Karl Rove meme. I suggested Warren acknowledge the OWS movement. The proviso was that there was going to be blowback, and you had to be prepared for it. Now that you have taken the bold step, you cannot retreat. You must use the blow back as a teachable moment.

The blowback will continue until you answer it forcefully. If some professional political advisor is holding Elizabeth back from making her case, that person ought to be fired.

If she is a bold person, and we like boldness, then you can’t retreat and be a wimp. Go for broke, or go home.

Please sign my petition by the end of the week before the United States government goes down this dark path.

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
veto the defense appropriations bill that allows the military to detain US citizens indefinitely.

The President has promised to veto the Defense Appropriations bill that would allow our military to pick up a US citizen on US soil and hold that person indefinitely without trial or right to counsel. This is the most important promise he has made. He should not negotiate with himself to talk himself out of keeping his promise.

If he keeps his promise I will vote for him in 2012. If he fails, I will not vote for him. As simple as that.

They don’t make it easy to sign a petition.  Perhaps these instructions still work, How To Sign a whitehouse.gov Petition.

Elizabeth Warren said:

I watched tonight’s 60 minutes. Another example why it’s past time we start demanding accountability for those who broke the economy.

She was referring to the 60 Minutes story, Prosecuting Wall Street – CBS News.

Do you know any people who think we shouldn’t tax the wealthy job creators and their great wealth because they earned their money through hard work?  Could you do me a favor?  Could you walk over to them, tap them on the head, and see if anybody is home?

If there is any sign of life there, could you drag them over to watch the CBS 60 Minutes video?  I’d love to hear about their reaction.

Are there any Obama supporters who still feel that he is doing everything that he can?  Maybe you can check for signs of life there, too.

I am frequently asked this sort of question.  It is hard to explain to people how much she gets it.

At an Elizabeth Warren campaign house party, I mentioned a video that I have previously posted.  I just reviewed that video, before sending the link to the person to whom I promised it.

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class.

After my review and after sending off the link,  I thought of sending this also to some key people in the Elizabeth Warren campaign.  Here is the explanation I sent along with the link:

This post shows the single most effective Elizabeth Warren video that I am aware of. I am totally surprised that this video is not featured on all of Warren’s web sites.

http://ssgreenberg.name/PoliticsBlog/2010/07/17/the-coming-collapse-of-the-middle-class/

After watching this video again, I can honestly say to any middle-class person who asks me, “Does Elizabeth Warren get it?”, “Not only does she get it, she can explain things about your predicament that you don’t even get. Watching this video will open your eyes to things that are going on in your life that you felt but couldn’t fully explain before.”

How many politicians come by in a lifetime for which you can say that?

For the context of the video below and my remarks, see my previous post, Ask Obama To Veto Indefinite Military Detention of AMERICAN CITIZENS

John McCain can obfuscate all he wants, but it would be nice if he could eventually just answer the question. The plain truth is that John McCain does support the indefinite detaining of American citizens with no trial and not even any formal charges brought before an impartial judge in a hearing that is open to the public. The open to the public is an essential feature of American jurisprudence so that we don’t have to just rely on the integrity of fallible judges. The public can see for themselves what is going on and can be their own judges as to whether justice is being done.

The irony of John McCain’s justification for his policy is that the policy in question played a major role in the release of terrorist suspects back into the wild so that they could commit more acts of violence against us. If there had been an actual case against these recidivists, then the ability to bring them to trial was ruined by the illegal methods used to capture and detain them. Our methods left us no choice but to release them because we could not face up to international scorn without our giving them a fair trial. Of course, even using the word recidivist presumes without proof that they were terrorists before they were captured and were not turned into terrorists by their experience in captivity.

Some people suffer through horrible experiences and take away the lesson that no human should have to go through that same experience. Others, like John McCain, seem to take the lesson that if it was done to me, I want to be able to do it to someone else that had nothing to do with the incident that involved me.

I pity poor John McCain, but why does he have to thrust his misery on the rest of us? Is this some sort of revenge for what he went through? I suppose I could actually understand, but not condone, that motivation. Understanding such a motive, I can feel guilty for being a citizen of a country that sent John McCain to his fate, and still reject the policy that would allow us to send other people to that same fate. See, lesson learned.

As for Rand Paul (and his father Ron Paul), they do have some philosophical points of view with which I can agree even though they also have points of view that I find to be poorly thought out and ultimately very destructive.

I discovered this video by seeing it on the Google+ page of Jos Duerinck.

I have created a handout that you can use to invite participants to join Sturbridge For Elizabeth Warren. It can either be emailed or it can be printed and handed out.

Here is the link to the stand-alone version to print or email.

This is what it looks like.

Mortage Lender GMAC Retaliates Against Massachusetts Lawsuit By Ending Most Lending In The State is a brief article on Think Progress.

GMAC Mortgage, the mortgage lender of Ally Financial Inc., is exiting the vast majority of its lending in Massachusetts a day after the state sued it over its foreclosure practices. The nation’s fifth-largest mortgage originator said it “has taken this action because recent developments have led mortgage lending in Massachusetts to no longer be viable,” ratcheting up the high-stakes mortgage fight there.

I guess this is to be expected. What else can GMAC do if it can only make money by cheating its customers? It has to get out because following the laws and paying for its crimes would make the business unprofitable. That should clear the way for honest mortgage lenders to fill the vacuum that GMAC has left. These are the lenders from whom GMAC stole market share by undercutting them through cheating.

It takes strong law enforcement to make it safe for honest business people.

The Truth Out article, Arundhati Roy: “The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution” brings a perspective from India on our Occupy movement and the conditions it is trying to fight. She also talked about what is going on in India of which I was not fully aware.

The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning.

AG: At the same, occupying public spaces did capture the public imagination. Why do you think that is?

AR: I think you had a whole subcutaneous discontent that these movements suddenly began to epitomise. The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it – and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

After watching this video, you wonder how blatant the crime has to be before it finally gets prosecuted.