Just thought you might all be interested to know that our buddy Orestes Brownson has gone ahead and pitched a tent at Occupy Boston. He wrote me this email explaining his motivation:
"So long as the government remains under the control of the Banks, so long it must be in the hands of the natural enemies of the laboring classes, and may be made, nay, will be made, an instrument of depressing them yet lower. ... Such is the subtle influence of credit, and such the power of capital, that a banking system like ours, if sustained, necessarily and inevitability becomes the real and efficient government of the country. ... Uncompromising hostility to the whole banking system should therefore be the motto of every working man, and of every friend of Humanity" [1].
I also just think he likes sleeping in a tent.
[1] Brownson 244-245
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