Its protest time! Nerve ripping, screeching protest time! Faintly remindful of the halcyon days of Viet Nam. Earlier this year we enjoyed the "Arab Spring", featuring revolutions in Egypt, Lybia, the Arab Emirates,and Syria. These convulsions are not yet finished. Europe had protests this year,England and France in particular.

Now, at long last, the protest comes to our beloved America. And its about time.

On the nineteenth day of the protests young people filled Wall Street, and the streets of many other major American cities, protesting.......exactly what?

They themselves, the protesters, don't seem to know exactly. Each individual knows exactly what he or she is protesting, but.....they all seem to be protesting different things, and thus, the protest groups as a whole do not know what they are protesting. And this may be the first time in history, anywhere, that this has happened. Only in America...

Some of them are protesting corporate greed, and corporate political control. Others are protesting environmental destruction. Still others are protesting America's various current wars, all of them, or maybe just one war. The bad economy, joblessness, disparity of wealth....let's face it, we gotta passle
of things to protest, if protesting is your fancy.

And evidently it is, at least among our young modern hippies, and more power to 'em, its high time SOMEBODY  started. These people remind me of the Viet Nam protestors forty five years ago; maybe they're the grandchildren of the sixties hippies.

But whatever it is they're protesting - and I think they'll figure it out - I'm all for 'em. Protests are good for society. This'll end up being good for ours...