I'll make this brief:

OWS is not angst with the 1% because they possess wealth.

No.

The 99% is engaged in this very real fight because of what the MAJORITY OF THE 1% do with the staggering and tremendous power their wealth gives them.

It is not about money - it is about the exercise of power.

Which brings me to the police.

They remove THEMSELVES from the 1% by the manner in which they exercise the staggering and tremendous power being a cop gives them.

OWS will never be able to convince the MAJORITY of police to join our side, so long as their exercise of all that power they possess remains abusive, and therefore, personally profitable.

The wealthy form exclusionary social circles, where the 99% are unwelcome, unsolicited, and kept outside.

So do cops.

Question: How many police actually hang out and post here at DU? I'd love to know, because after being on this site for more than 8 years, I have not personally encountered any OP written by a police officer.

They have their own hangouts, where they exclude the rest of us, where we are unwelcome, unsolicited, and kept outside (think "cop bars" - or try to go to a police board - those I have visited require being a cop to even read posts).

The majority of police keep themselves apart, and do so willfully, and with what seems to be snering contempt for the general public - it is a culture of contempt (good example here).

So please - know WHAT you are fighting.

It is not wealth.

It is the abusive exercise of power - wealth is merely the vehicle for this abuse, just as the uniform and badge are for police.

Please - stop trying to convince the cops of the righteousness of our cause, because to them, it is immaterial. Based on the MAJORITY'S actions, police care only about their own power, and having more and more and more and more and more of it - kind of like, I dunno, the wealthy's drive for more and more and more and more and more wealth.

Look at our own history, read what relatives of cops say , look at how they conduct themselves right now - and then try to believe they are really on our side and just don't know it yet...