All Protesting Is Good

ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE IN Kiev, the Ukraine, still protesting in the square? You hope so, if you believe in common people. If you believe in the right of all humans to be free, healthy, happy, and equal. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. The protest in Kiev is based on the people's desire to forge closer economic ties to western Europe, while the Ukrainian government, under pressure from Russia, is evidently still intent on forming close economic ties to Russia,a instead of western Europe. Other mass protests are more substantive; like the ones in America, for racial equality and women's rights. But all mass popular protests are good, no matter what they are protesting. Thousands of people do not go to the trouble to protest unless they have a worthy cause. Power to the People! May all protests everywhere succeed in bringing about real human progress, as they are intended to do! May the Occupy Wall Street protest return to America! The Ukrainians are arguing about whether to join western Europe, or Russia, economically. On the surface, that seems trivial, relatively. Why not join both? But why must the world be divided into economic spheres of influence? Better to unite the world around basic human values of prosperity for all, and equality, economically, politically, and socially, rather than international competition. The powerful wealthy elite few rulers of every country on earth are planning and plotting how to enhance their own prosperity, not the prosperity of the teeming masses. Whether Ukraine aligns with Russia or Russia is far less important than whether we the billions of powerless impoverished multitudes of the world unite and organize, for our own good. The oppressed masses of the world always make the same mistake of assuming that their rulers care about them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our rulers care only for their own power and wealth. We the teeming masses must advocate for ourselves, must unite to achieve our prosperity, along side that our our ruling elite. If we don't, who will?