Coming Home

The feeling of being detached from life is the most haunting…You’re functioning as a machine, doing your daily tasks as a puppet, as if someone else is pulling the strings…

Let me explain – It’s a feeling I get when my kids try to ask me something and when I try to concentrate on the question and then answer them, and when I see the disappointment in their eyes, a look that is telling me that their mom is not really there… that’s the detachment I’m talking about.   The big masters of the financial mazes probably don’t struggle with that. They are never detached from their main goal – a profit under any circumstances… This time they went too far, as we can see by the people’s reactions all over the country… All of us currently protesting, or behind our screens supporting the protests, know that somebody must be finally held accountable for the situation we are all in.

Only two weeks ago, the Wall Street patrons were laughing at us from their balconies while sipping champagne.  Their ignorance is actually working out for us.  While they are making fun of people who gave everything to this country, who follow the rules; people who plead with the banks, with our government, with anyone who will listen, yes, these people are now stronger than ever before in our recent history. In only two weeks, this one idea became a movement that will unite this bleeding country. The movement that will not divide us by the left and the right, by religious and atheist, by gay and straight… No, we are all in this together and we all know that our current government is bought and paid by the Wall Street masters. Our government is not divided at all – it doesn’t matter what they are saying in front of the cameras… Behind the scenes they have their pockets wide open so money from the same masters can flow freely…

For all the Zombies – this is NOT a fight between rich and poor, between Wall St and Main St, between left and right…
NO, this is a fight against the biggest corruption ever, the Wall Street’s ponzi schemes that brought us and the entire world on the edge of an abyss; this is the fight against fraud, crime, and corrupt government which is owned by the banksters and Wall Street greedy masters; this is the fight for the country that our founding fathers fought for… This is the fight to take our money from OUR government and give that government back to We, the People… The rich can keep their money and bathe in it every day if they want, but they have to stop stealing OUR kids’ money, they have to stop gambling with our houses, pensions, lives – you know why? Because NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!

We don’t need them because we finally found our voice and realized that THEY need US, not the other way around. Someone on Twitter the other day said: “It doesn’t matter if you are a self-proclaimed Dem or Rep, because the people at the top aren’t any of these things. They are united by their overwhelming desire to make money, at the expense of others, and all differences are set aside to achieve this goal.”

It took Boston only a couple of days to organize their own “occupation.” Only a couple of days to bring together over 1000 people is a huge deal, but you know why it was easy? Because we are all fed up with lies, with false promises, with waiting for the promised change… While their bank accounts are getting fatter, we, the people that bailed them out, the people that are providing the salaries and the best health care coverage for Congress, the people who are still losing houses through fraudulent foreclosures by fraudulent paperwork; losing jobs, losing families, and the worst of it all, many are losing lives… Many can’t take it anymore and just want this all to end… Not now, please be strong and just look back and you will see that only a year ago we could never imagine that these types of protests would be taking place nationwide…

We had hope, I know, but to actually be seeing this movement means that something must change… and we can change it, starting with our attitudes and perspectives. That’s enough to send the most powerful message those Wall Street masters and their government buddies will ever receive, which is: We are here to stay, because no justice no peace!

Yes, We, the people are too big to ignore…we always have been… we waited patiently… we followed all the rules, just to be ignored even more… now, we don’t give a damn about THEIR media, because we are here, everywhere, to stay….

As we know, the Revolution will not be televised, but it definitely will be facebooked, tweeted, blogged… My friends, our strength is our unity; the information must be shared constantly, there is no other way to win or at least to start changing the machine!

Yes, the machine will send their puppets to arrest us, to provoke violence, to incite chaos. This happened in past protests in our country – the police will always try to separate huge groups and then arrest them hoping that this will discourage others to join; However, this time around everything is different, mostly due to social media; we, the people are stronger than ever. The only thing is that many of us still don’t realize it…

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WHY I WENT TO ZUCCOTTI now LIBERTY PARK ON SEPTEMBER 17TH

September 21, 2011

It’s been four days since I came back from New York so enthusiastic to write about my experience from Zuccotti Park.  My friends were probably thinking that I’m crazy taking my two kids to that trip.  I wanted them to see what a peaceful protest feels and looks like. They had to see that their mother is not the only soul writing and fighting the banks’ fraud and corporate greed…

However, since I’ve come back, every free minute has been spent watching updates from the OccupyWallStreet protest.

But when this

changed to this

What Went Wrong?

words just started pouring… The video shook me so much that I finally decided to write about the first day of the protest.  This young man was arrested with such force and disrespect – people didn’t expect to see that here…In the land of the free and the home of the brave, peaceful protestors should be protected, not assaulted, and not arrested.  This young man is a symbol of our country today, a symbol of the scary truth, which is – if the rest of us don’t wake up right now, the whole country will be dragged away and gone with the wind.  This is our last chance to demand justice.

This is not a protest against the system – the current system is against us! It’s an open secret that government takes $$ bribes (in a form of campaign donations for example) from corporations for exchange of laws passed to their liking.  And those people are still not ashamed to speak about our founding fathers, even though they must be rolling over in their graves seeing what has been done to their country.

Thomas Jefferson was not only a great leader, but probably the greatest visionary too. He said:

-I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. -

At times like this, we need people like you…yes, YOU, because you’re the only one who can change your life, your present and your future…Don’t wait for anyone else to make that first step. Now, when all the financial fraud is out in the open and all the biggest players in this game are still laughing at us…now is the time to stand up and say enough is enough.   Please come from your Zombieland into the land of free, to the land that not so long ago was the “promised land”. We still can have it if we unite and demand justice.

Don’t even dare to say “It’s too late!” No, it’s never too late if you really want something…It’s never too late to wake up and stop being a zombie…You owe it to yourself, you owe it to your kids…Face the truth…educate yourself about all this mess and please…fight back!

I’m sure that there are many of you out there who were forced to learn everything about mortgage securitization.  My head is spinning, jam-packed with unfamiliar words, financial phrases and securitizations’ labyrinth – MBA, TILA, MBS, MERS, RESPA… We were forced because we were left to fight the biggest mortgage/financial fraud in history on our own.  Our government did nothing to protect us from the bankers’ fraud, did nothing to stop them from fraudulently foreclosing on our houses, gambling away our pension plans, spending our kids’ future…Yes, our elected officials did nothing for us, but they closed their eyes while the mortgage securitization run wild and then bailed out those who brought this country to the edge of an abyss…Our government bailed them out with OUR money. What were they thinking?  They should know by now that sooner or later the zombies always wake up and face the world…

Many lives have been destroyed by the “too big to fail” and once they forced people into their greedy fraudulent world; they should have known how to deal with the consequences…Many families have been broken. We stopped hoping which means that we stopped living…Banks didn’t listen to our pleadings about negotiating our mortgages. If you contacted a government official, you probably got a form letter as an answer…and they thought their job was done – we should go back to sleep and accept that we are losers who don’t deserve better anyway.

Now, when institutional investors are asking questions, all of a sudden they are listening. They are even trying to find the answers to those questions… Do you know that Freddie Mac sent a letter to investors regarding bulk sales of foreclosed homes?! Yes, the same homes that they fraudulently sold to us, then fraudulently foreclosed upon…

Do you know that GSE offers investors the opportunity to purchase properties in bulk?! Yes, our properties, our memories, our lives…our hard earned money and time have been invested in those properties, but now this is only one more poker game for the “too big to fail”…

Well, for the all of the above reasons, I have decided to be a witness of this protest, to be a part of a time in history that will be remembered forever…Because, after September 17^th, neither we nor this country will ever be the same… I needed to give my voice for the cause that is bigger than anything before.  I had no idea how this would unfold.  I only knew that I needed to be there and show everyone that people are no longer silent.

My kids needed to see that there is a way to raise your voice if you don’t agree with something. To raise your voice if you see that “too big to fail” are spending and ruining your future… In our book, the people’s book, there are no rich and poor. There are no influential and voiceless, no too big to fail and too small to save….

When we got there, it was just a regular Sunday in NYC.  We didn’t expect Wall Street to be barricaded…that was such a funny scene…they  were protecting the rich from imaginary dangerous protesters…Tons of police were there, guarding the street that is responsible for their demise too…Tourists looked bewildered, taking pictures, not knowing what’s going on with the most powerful street in the world?  I asked police isn’t it a shame to block the People’s Street?! They looked at me like I was insane and decided on the spot that I’m not a treat   So, on my first encounter with the police, I just received a silent treatment.

Then we walked down to the famous bull and we couldn’t believe our eyes. As always, a picture is worth a thousand words:

The police presence was so intense that people who didn’t know about upcoming protest probably thought that there must be some immediate threat of a terror attack. The police was spending our money, tax payers’ money, to protect a bull from us, to protect buildings from us.  They didn’t understand that the truth can’t be hidden forever, and that we were there to stay.  If Wall Street masters don’t want to hear us, then they have to see us first.  Of course, in their eyes, we just provided cheap entertainment for one lazy, Sunday afternoon:

First they laugh at you…

Wall Street puppets are drinking champagne and once again are proving that the formula is working: First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you…then you win!  What has changed us as a society? Why is empathy a dirty word for some people? Aren’t we better than that as a country?

According to one police officer, we were just a bunch of young people (thank you though) angry at Wall Street for not being able to find a job!?  No, Mr. Police Officer, your brain has been washed, but that’s why we are here…This protest will be as nothing you saw or were trained for before.  This protest proved already on Saturday, that the Americans are in this together…all of us…all skin colors; all ages…

The general meeting place was suppose to be at Zuccotti park and we just sit there, maybe a hundred of us…I saw a kind of disappointment on my kids’ faces. They were probably expecting bigger crowd.  I told them that even if there were only twenty people, we were still making a change and standing up for what’s right.  However, right after 3:00 pm, masses started marching into the park. In a couple of minutes the whole area was full.  However, the heavy police presence was scary at first, but then, as with everything in life you just get used to it.  We stayed till late evening, talking with people around us, sharing our stories and concerns…

Yesterday, a woman, a scientist, an investor left a post on my facebook wall – it went like this:

Me: Please join Occupy Wall Street protest and ask for our money back,  for our country back
Her: Government is responsible for this situation.
Me: Wall Street = our current government
Her: No, I have stocks, I am Wall Street
Me: No, you are not…You are just one more puppet for Wall Street masters…they are using you, they are stealing from you too… they conditioned your brain so you will never ask them for any accountability and every sign of fraud or illegality will be excused as a part of business.. You are just one more accomplice.

After my last comment, she deleted her post and run away….Was I too harsh? Wasn’t I telling the truth? Why are these reach investors are still blind to the greed that is eating away everything around? Do we all have to lose everything before they take some action?

So, today is the fifth day of the protest… They were thinking that people will get tired and just go away.  Their media is silent. Their leaders are probably still stuck in that first phase – when they are laughing at you…But, we are not going anywhere…We, just as them, will never be the same…

No, we won’t go back to our “miserable lives” as some of you are describing our very existence…No, we are not going away and leaving a clean stage so you can poison our kids’ future with your new genius financial ideas…My kids won’t be your next victims, remember that…Enough is enough…