Occupation

It is worthwhile to repeat the short story of a journalist who asked Gandhi once what he thought of Western Civilization. Gandhi responded: “It is a good idea!” Witnessing the sweep that NYPD made a few nights ago (early hours of the morning in fact) makes one wonder about the meaning of democracy every US leader boasts about so much. US occupation of other countries of the world such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, began with the intention of exporting democracy. However, when a group of people occupies a piece of public land in the US, they encounter armed riot police, evicting them from their encampments. So occupation has a double meaning, US government’s occupation is for expanding “democracy”, but people’s occupation is against “democracy”. Obviously, the meaning of democracy we hear from US officials and American media at least once a day is something other than one’s ability to occupy a public land! When US drones and military machine attacks people of Middle East, it applies its own brand of democracy without considering the will of those that are victimized. Or, maybe a free will is permitted to some people, i.e. high government officials and wealthy people, and not to the rest. For the same reason, free will is permitted outside of the US to those who observe American interest before the interest of their own people.