Written by Brendan Maloney   

The Occupy Wall Street movement was somewhat effective, but not nearly as effective as it could have been, for one main reason: “Wall Street USA” is just too big, diverse, and scattered a target for a truly effective protest. This resulted in the many protests becoming diluted and diffused, with various factions working at odds, rather than in harmony, with each other.

In my earlier RSN examination of Daniel Shay's Rebellion of 1786-1787, I learned that the protesters encamped around or physically occupied the many courthouses in a large region of Massachusetts, knowing that they were where power-elite written laws were enforced. Laws are ineffectual unless they are enforced, right? Without bought-and-sold law firms and judges, Wall Street could not possibly be the juggernaut that it is.

And of course the police are much more likely to enforce laws protecting power elite pirates who donate money to them. So this is why I strongly believe the next Occupy movement should focus on federal, state, county, and municipal courthouses.

Participants in Shay's Rebellion and the later Whiskey Tax Rebellion came from a wide range of society, not just the poor. Also, many were former soldiers and officers in the Continental Army who knew that targeting an enemy's “command and control” centers made a lot of tactical and strategic sense.

Enough said here, I think.