For about a year now whenever the response in an email to a high ranking administration official, politico, or corporate greeder allowed, I&#039;ve been including the following note which I think captures the spirit of the &quot;Occupy . . .&quot; movement rather succinctly:

Lately the words of Amos from the Hebrew Old Testament have been ringing clear: &quot;Woe to you who turn justice to vinegar and stomp righteousness into the mud. Do you realize where you are? . . . People hate this kind of talk. Raw truth is never popular. But here it is, bluntly spoken: Because you run roughshod over the poor and take the bread right out of their mouths, you&#039;re never going to move into the luxury homes you have built. You&#039;re never going to drink wine from the expensive vineyards you&#039;ve planted. . . . Justice is a lost cause. Evil is epidemic. Decent people throw up their hands. Protest and rebuke are useless, a waste of breath. . . . Hate evil and love good, then work it out in the public square. . . . Go out into the streets and lament loudly! Fill the malls and shops with cries of doom! Weep loudly, &#039;Not me! Not us! Not now!&#039; Empty offices, stores, factories, workplaces. Enlist everyone in the general lament. . . . I can&#039;t stand your religious meetings. I&#039;m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I&#039;m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. . . . Do you know what I want? I want justice oceans of it. I want fairness rivers of it. That&#039;s what I want. That&#039;s all I want.&quot;