According to this journalist, the federal government is very afraid of the Occupy movement, because their agenda is coalescing around 3 powerful points of reform:

1) Eliminate money in politics
2) Reform the banking system
3) Eliminate loopholes that allow congressmen to make exorbitant profits from their official positions.

They believe the police crackdown on peaceful protestors in cities all over the country over the last week was federally orchestrated by the Department of Homeland Security (which is technically illegal for the feds to intervene on a local level).

…And that this violence could be the foreshadowing of a new Civil War.

Heavy stuff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

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I believe the Occupy Movement is a natural response of the subtle macro-socio-economic immune system that is trying to notify us that our current paradigm of government is no longer adaptive for the globalized, technology driven information economy we now live in. Transformation is inevitable. It is “when” not “if”. We can choose to heed this early warning call and start engaging in the right kind of reform now in the United States, or we can ignore it at our peril, and there will be revolt and revolution on the way down. The United States economy has the potential to never recover, although the world will no doubtedly find a way to eventually rebound with a digitally informed government reimagined for the times. At best the US makes the necessary reforms to live out its last days as a world superpower with grace and style. At worst we have the effect of an asteroid hitting, wiping out a significant portion of life. Which will be eventually followed by a kind of Cambrian Explosion, as the old has been cleared out to make room for the new, with significant parts of science and technological infrastructure still intact, ready to pump the global macro socio-economic ecosystem with exponentially more diversity.

Exciting times we live in. Few people get to go through such transformational society changes in their lifetime and have a chance to do their best to positively affect it.

Bottom line: Government needs to evolve and will evolve. It’s just a question of how and when. I will be sharing more thoughts on this soon.