Wall Street Prosecutions

Here's the updated list of Wall Street CEOs and others, serving time for their actions leading to the crash of the world marketplace.

Although the stage was set and the players were on the field by the turn of the century, it was in 2007 that they went far enough to crush the world.

A Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas analysis of the 2007-09 financial crisis and its aftermath estimates the cost in the range of $15 trillion-$30 trillion, or $50,000 to $100,000 per American household. One to two years of output produced by 310 million U.S. citizens is down the drain.

Hank Paulson – former CEO of Goldman 

Sachs; later as Treasury Secretary, he led the

bailout solution.   

In the documentary film Inside Job, Paulson   

is cited as one of the persons responsible for 

the Economic Meltdown of 2008 and named

in Time Magazine as one of the "25 People to

Blame for the Financial Crisis".

Investigations uncovered specific decisions by Wall Street executives to defraud and misinform clients, and to artificially manipulate the national and world markets so they could bet against it and extract wealth from the induced downturns.  Goldman Sachs executives perjured themselves before Congress, knowing full well they had done specifically what they denied.

Wall Street:
Arrests:  0
Currently or previously in jail:  0
Currently awaiting sentencing:  0
Currently awaiting trial:  0
Currently constrained from marketplace participation:  0
Total arrested and/or prosecuted for marketplace fraud and related actions:  0
Currently continuing precisely the same activities without restraint:  165,200

Bonuses:  According to the New York State Comptroller’s office, Wall Street firms handed out $26.7 billion in bonuses to their 165,200 employees last year (2013).  Average salary (not including the bonuses) for the financial sector, $360,700/yr plus immunity from criminal prosecution, apparently.

Protesters arrested: 7,775

Deaths:
Wall Street suicides:   0
Elsewhere:   900,000+  died in eastern and western Africa alone due to starvation specifically caused by the market upheaval.  See here and here and here.

Thanks and a hat tip to Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the White House.  At the behest of the banking industry, they obligingly repealed the laws that had protected us from such deadly practices. 

The arrests, in case you're interested...

Note: Only confirmed arrests specific to Occupy events are included. Please send questions to info@occupyarrests.com.

Date	Occupy City	Number Arrested	Description	Source
6/24/2014	Mountain View	10	10 Occupy Google protesters arrested	Link
9/17/2013	New York	3	3 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested	Link
6/15/2013	San Francisco	2	Two protesters arrested outside former Hayes Valley farm site	Link
6/13/2013	San Francisco	7	San Francisco Police Arrest Seven in Occupy Protest	Link
5/21/2013	Washington, DC	17	Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested Protesting U.S. Refusal To Prosecute Big Banks	Link
5/13/2013	Albany, CA	4	Police Raid Removes Occupy Protesters from UC Tract in Albany; Four Arrests	Link
2/28/2013	Minneapolis	13	13 Occupy Homes protestors arrested at "Week of Action" rally	Link
12/12/2012	Atlanta	4	Occupy Atlanta members arrested at foreclosed home	Link
11/16/2012	Pasadena	6	Occupy protesters arrested at speech by Mexico leader	Link
11/13/2012	Century City	6	Occupy Protest Outside Century City Deutsche Bank Blocks Traffic; 6 Arrested	Link
11/12/2012	Milwaukee	4	March to protest death in police custody ends in 4 arrests	Link
11/11/2012	Portland	1	Police arrest second Nov. 3 Occupy protester	Link
10/25/2012	Oakland	2	2 Arrested In Occupy Oakland Anniversary March	Link
10/17/2012	Des Moines	5	Occupy activists arrested at World Food Prize event	Link
10/9/2012	Charlotte	1	Occupy Charlotte protester arrested for camping in uptown	Link
10/6/2012	San Francisco	22	SF police defend use of excessive force during Occupy protest	Link
	Austin	3	3 arrests following Occupy Austin march	Link
9/27/2012	San Francisco	39	Downtown S.F. says adios to Occupy camp	Link
9/17/2012	New York	185	185 Arrested on Occupy Wall St. Anniversary	Link
9/16/2012	New York	2	Two Women Wrongfully Arrested for Standing on Sidewalk Holding Pink Bras	Link
9/15/2012	New York	25	NYPD Arrest 25 in Re-Occupy Protests	Link
9/14/2012	Sebastopol	1	Occupy Sebastopol leader arrested on threat charges	Link
9/12/2012	Oxnard	9	Nine arrested during 'Occupy Monsanto' protest in Oxnard	Link
9/5/2012	Kalamazoo	4	Police: 4 arrests made at Occupy Kalamazoo camp	Link
8/9/2012	Austin	2	Arrested for Chalking? Occupy Austin Members Face Misdemeanor Charges	Link
8/2/2012	Philadelphia	5	Pres. candidate Jill Stein arrested In Philadelphia during bank sit-in	Link
8/1/2012	Portland	1	Portland demonstrators leave City Hall, 1 arrest	Link
7/21/2012	Rochester	18	Occupy Rochester protest ends in 18 arrests	Link
7/15/2012	Monte Rio	1	75-Year-Old Arrested In Sonoma County At ‘Occupy Bohemian Grove’ Protest	Link
7/13/2012	Los Angeles	17	Police arrest sidewalk chalk-drawers in LA Occupy protest	Link
7/12/2012	New York	3	At Least 3 Arrested at Zuccotti Park After Occupy March	Link
7/11/2012	Eugene	1	1 arrest as most Occupy Eugene members leave plaza	Link
7/6/2012	New York	3	Demonstrators Chain Themselves Across Brooklyn Bridge To Protest Citizens United	Link
7/4/2012	Oakland	1	Protester arrested on suspicion of not having a sound permit	Link
7/2/2012	Philadelphia	26	26 arrested at Occupy's National Gathering	Link
6/21/2012	Minneapolis	15	Occupy Homes protesters arrrested include rapper Brother Ali	Link
6/14/2012	Albany	4	'Occupy' march leads to 4 arrests	Link
6/7/2012	New York	9	Police Make 9 Arrests at March Supporting Protests in Quebec	Link
	Milwaukee	5	Police arrest 5 at downtown Occupy Milwaukee protest	Link
6/6/2012	Chicago	12	A Dozen Protesters Arrested During March On Michigan Avenue	Link
5/31/2012	Albany	6	6 arrested during minimum wage protest in Albany	Link
5/31/2012	Minneapolis	14	14 arrested during foreclosure protest in Mpls	Link
5/29/2012	Minneapolis	3	3 arrested in Mpls. Occupy protest	Link
5/26/2012	Minneapolis	5	Deputies arrest 5 protesters in Minneapolis eviction	Link
5/24/2012	Portland	12	12 arrested in Occupy protest to support post office	Link
5/16/2012	Little Rock	4	Four arrested as police clear Occupy Little Rock site	Link
5/14/2012	Albany, CA	9	9 arrested after UC police clear out "Occupy the Farm" settlement	Link
5/12/2012	Denver	2	Occupy protest of urban camping ban leads to 2 arrests	Link
5/9/2012	Charlotte	6	Protesters assail BofA mortgage practices	Link
5/4/2012	Des Moines	4	Occupy Protesters Arrested at Foreclosure Auction in Des Moines	Link
5/1/2012	Seattle	8	Violence, arrests at Seattle May Day protests	Link
	Portland	12	Arrests in early Portland May Day protest	Link
	Oakland	39	39 arrested in Oakland May Day protests	Link
	Miami	3	Occupy Miami protesters march; three arrested	Link
	New York	97	The NYPD May Day siege	Link
	Philadelphia	2	2 Arrested in Occupy Protests	Link
	Los Angeles	13	At least 13 arrested in L.A. May Day protests	Link
	Albany	23	Arrests mark Occupy's return	Link
4/26/2012	New York	19	Hundreds march in ACT UP/Occupy rally, 19 arrested	Link
	San Marino	1	Woman with cerebral palsey fighting foreclosure arrested in appeal to Wells Fargo CFO	Link
	Eugene	3	Kids March Leads to Disturbance, Arrests	Link
4/24/2012	San Francisco	24	2 dozen arrested for demonstrating at Wells Fargo shareholders meeting	Link
4/21/2012	Washington, DC	3	International Monetary Fund: 3 arrested outside IMF meeting in D.C.	Link
	Portland	1	Boy charged after police clear 30 people trying to re-occupy Chapman Square	Link
4/20/2012	New York	10	Wall St. Protesters Lying on Sidewalk Are Arrested	Link
4/18/2012	New Haven	13	Occupy New Haven encampment cleared out; 13 protesters arrested	Link
4/16/2012	New York	10	Ten Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested last night at Federal Hall	Link
4/13/2012	Chicago	23	Save Our Clinics: Chicago Activists Occupy to Save Mental Health Services	Link
4/10/2012	Washington, DC	2	Occupy takes protest to street -- the one near Bank of America	Link
4/9/2012	Raleigh	9	Occupiers arrested during protest at Southeast Raleigh foreclosure	Link
4/7/2012	Minneapolis	12	Cameraman shoved during arrests at Occupy rally	Link
3/29/2012	Washington, DC	1	Occupy D.C. tents removed by Park Police in McPherson Square	Link
3/24/2012	New York	14	Police arrest 14 in two New York Occupy protests	Link
3/21/2012	New York	6	New York police eject Occupy protesters, arrest six	Link
3/20/2012	Boston	2	Two protesters held after Occupy march	Link
3/17/2012	New York	73	73 arrested on Occupy Wall Street six month anniversary	Link
	Los Angeles	4	Arrests made at Occupy event downtown	Link
	Philadelphia	1	Instead of receiving her award, Penn grad student is thrown in jail	Link
3/16/2012	New York	5	Occupy, furniture unwelcome at BofA	Link
	St. Louis	14	Occupy protest arrests in St. Louis; some bloodied	Link
3/12/2012	Atlanta	14	14 Occupy Atlanta protesters arrested at Chase banks	Link
3/6/2012	Sacramento	1	'Occupy' protester arrested for throwing flower petals in Capitol	Link
3/5/2012	Sacramento	72	72 arrested during ‘occupy the Capitol’ student protest	Link
	Palm Beach	4	Occupy Palm Beach Camp Shut Down; Four Protesters Arrested	Link
	Cleveland	5	Occupy Cleveland disrupts sheriff's sale of foreclosed properties	Link
3/1/2012	Tucson	21	Police push Occupy Tucson from DeAnza Park, 21 arrested	Link
2/29/2012	New York	10	Occupy Wall Street Roars Back: Ten Arrests at NYC Protests	Link
	Kansas City	4	Police arrest four more at Occupy KC	Link
	Washington, DC	12	Occupy DC protesters arrested outside Monsanto	Link
	Portland	7	Over 1,000 take part in Occupy Portland F29 march, 7 arrested	Link
	Orlando	1	Occupy protester arrested for 3rd time for sidewalk chalk	Link
	Groton	8	Eight arrested when Occupy movement comes to Pfizer	Link
	Erie	4	Occupy Erie members enter not guilty pleas in bank trespass case	Link
2/27/2012	Seattle	10	Protesters calling for police chief's ouster arrested	Link
2/25/2012	Louisville	5	Caught on camera: Occupy Louisville protest turns violent, five people arrested	Link
	Sarasota	1	Disabled Occupier arrested for sidewalk chalking	Link
2/17/2012	Asheville	3	Occupy Asheville protesters break camp peacefully - 3 arrested	Link
2/16/2012	New Paltz	4	Occupy New Paltz protesters speak out after 4 arrested	Link
2/14/2012	Tacoma	3	Protesters disrupt Santorum speech, get arrested	Link
2/13/2012	Atlanta	12	12 Occupy Atlanta followers arrested in AT&T protest	Link
	Washington, DC	2	Occupy protesters arrested at "targeted Occupation" of Merrill Lynch	Link
2/10/2012	Atlanta	8	8 Occupy Atlanta protesters arrested	Link
2/9/2012	Los Angeles	2	Two Occupy L.A. protesters arrested at foreclosure event	Link
2/8/2012	Oakland	1	Occupy Oakland protester arrested for violating stay-away order	Link
2/6/2012	Portland	10	At least 10 arrested in Occupy protest in Southeast Portland	Link
	Flint	2	Two Occupy Flint protesters arrested for carrying weapons	Link
2/5/2012	Washington DC	1	1 arrested at Freedom Plaza	Link
2/4/2012	Washington, DC	11	11 arrested at Occupy DC site	Link
	Austin	5	Police evict protesters at Occupy Austin encampment	Link
2/2/2012	Buffalo	10	Occupy Buffalo removed from Niagara Square	Link
	Orlando	2	Report: Two occupy Orlando protesters arrested	Link
	Honolulu	1	Occupy Honolulu protestor arrested, belongings confiscated	Link
1/31/2012	Miami	3	3 arrested at Occupy Miami	Link
1/30/2012	Charlotte	7	7 arrested as Charlotte police tear down Occupy protest camp	Link
	New York	12	12 Arrested at Manhattan March for Oakland Protesters	Link
1/29/2012	Washington, DC	1	One protester tased, arrested at Occupy D.C.	Link
	Des Moines	12	12 Occupy protesters arrested outside of State Capitol	Link
	Tampa	2	Police arrest two Occupy Tampa protesters they say confronted officers	Link
	Philadelphia	2	2 Occupy Philly protesters arrested at Oakland solidarity rally	Link
1/28/2012	Oakland	409	Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Leads to Only 12 Charges	Link
1/27/2012	Washington, DC	3	Occupy D.C. Protesters Arrested	Link
	Reno	1	Reno police arrest one Occupy protester	Link
1/26/2012	New York	37	Occupy protesters disrupt NY foreclosure auction	Link
1/25/2012	Portland	4	Four arrested during Occupy Portland rally	Link
	Miami	3	3 More Occupy Members Arrested At Boca GAIM Conference	Link
1/24/2012	Miami	3	3 Occupy Members Arrested Blocking Boca Raton Bridge Outside GAIM Conference	Link
1/23/2012	Hull	2	Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in Ga.	Link
1/22/2012	Salt Lake City	1	Occupy SLC activist arrested at Sundance Film Festival	Link
	Raleigh	2	Occupy Raleigh marks 100th day; two arrested	Link
1/20/2012	San Francisco	23	23 arrested during "Day of Action" protests at banks & hotel	Link
	Washinton, DC	12	12 persons arrested during 'Occupy' protests at U.S. Supreme Court	Link
1/19/2012	Syracuse	7	Cops boot Occupy Wall St. encampment in Syracuse	Link
	Eureka	6	Six arrested squatting at vacant house protesting foreclosures	Link
1/17/2012	Washington, DC	4	Handful of protesters arrested during ‘Occupy Congress’	Link
	Missoula	1	Occupy Missoula protesters evicted from courthouse lawn	Link
1/16/2012	Baltimore	6	State Police arrest six members of Occupy Baltimore	Link
	New York	4	Occupy Wall Street marks MLK day in NY; 4 arrested	Link
1/14/2012	Oakland	2	Occupy Oakland antipolice rally brings 2 arrests	Link
1/13/2012	San Diego	4	4 arrested for disrupting Mayoral debate	Link
1/12/2012	Los Angeles	2	Prosecutors aim new weapon at Occupy activists: lynching allegation	Link
1/11/2012	Miami	7	Seven people arrested at Occupy FIU event	Link
1/10/2012	Philadelphia	3	Amtrak police arrest Occupy protesters for mic check	Link
1/9/2012	Eureka	5	Protester arrested for hoisting own flag	Link
	Boulder	1	Protester arrested after Boulder encampment cleared	Link
1/7/2012	Charlotte	2	'Walkupy' protesters arrive in Charlotte, 2 arrested	Link
	Oakland	6	Occupy Oakland plans more antipolice rallies	Link
	San Franciso	1	Protester arrested in Occupy SF event	Link
	Santa Rosa	7	Seven Arrested at Occupy Santa Rosa Rally	Link
	San Diego	3	3 Arrested at Occupy San Diego	Link
1/6/2012	Darien	1	Occupy Darien organizer arrested for breach of peace, other charges	Link
1/4/2012	Oakland	12	12 Occupy Oakland activists arrested; camp dismantled again	Link
1/2/2012	Des Moines	12	12 arrested at "die-in" in hotel lobby	Link
	Des Moines	3	3 Occupy protesters arrested at Romney event	Link
	New York	3	Cops bust three in flash mob protesting NDAA	Link
	New York	6	Occupy Livestream operators arrested	Link
	Bloomington	3	Bloomington mayor rethinks allowing Occupy camp	Link
1/1/2012	New York	68	Cops arrest 68 as Occupy Wall Street protesters try to ‘retake’ Zuccotti Park	Link
	Des Moines	1	Protester arrested at Romney's Des Moines office	Link
12/31/2011	Urbandale	18	18 arrested at Iowa campaign offices of Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum	Link
12/30/2011	Oakland	14	Police arrest 14 in separate confrontations with Occupy Oakland protesters	Link
	Oakland	12	Occupy Oakland protesters arrested at foreclosed home	Link
	Charlotte	2	2 Occupy Charlotte members arrested for burning American flags	Link
	Honolulu	2	Police arrest 2 Occupy Honolulu campers at park	Link
	Kokomo	2	Dollar covering mouth sparks arrests at courthouse	Link
12/29/2011	Des Moines	12	14-Year-Old Occupier Arrested at Iowa Democratic Party Headquarters	Link
	Des Moines	5	Arrests outside the Iowa campaign headquarters of Ron Paul	Link
12/28/2011	Des Moines	10	Occupy protesters arrested at Romney office, bank	Link
	Bellingham	4	Police clear Occupy Bellingham camp, arrest 4 protesters	Link
12/25/2011	Eugene	4	Occupy protesters arrested for pitching tents on councilor's lawn	Link
12/22/2011	Albany	4	Camp cleared, protesters pepper sprayed	Link
	Orlando	1	Protester arrested for sidewalk chalk - second time in a week	Link
	San Diego	4	Tension over new Occupy San Diego arrests	Link
	Buffalo	1	Second Occupy Camp Raided	Link
	Tucson	1	Police evict Occupy Tucson from downtown park	Link
	Berkeley	2	Police use batons, nearly clear Occupy camp	Link
12/21/2011	Long Beach	1	Police Brutality Alleged in Arrest at Occupy Long Beach Site	Link
12/20/2011	Washington, DC	7	Arrests for second night in NDAA protests at White House	Link
	Winston-Salem	1	One arrested as police disband Occupy protest at City Hall	Link
12/19/2011	Des Moines	8	8 Occupy protesters arrested at Democratic HQ	Link
	San Antonio	5	Police arrest 5 Occupy S.A. protesters	Link
	Denver	9	Police clear camp; some protesters set tents on fire	Link
	Binghamton	2	Occupy Binghamton Protesters Arrested After Bank Occupation	Link
	San Francisco	3	Police arrest Occupy SF protesters	Link
	Washington, DC	11	11 arrested while protesting National Defense Authorization Act	Link
12/18/2011	Los Angeles	7	Occupy L.A: Seven Arrests Reported Over Weekend	Link
	Portland	1	March participant arrested for allegedly spitting on security officer	Link
12/17/2011	Raleigh	6	Six protesters arrested in 'Occupy Raleigh' march	Link
	Oakland	3	Three arrested for refusing to remove supplies, sleeping bags	Link
	New York	50	50 arrested trying to occupy church lot	Link
	Pensacola	2	Two charged with trespassing on lawn of Pensacola City Hall	Link
	Portland	2	Two arrested in Occupy Portland march	Link
12/16/2011	Portland	1	One person arrested at flash mob	Link
12/15/2011	Norfolk	4	4 arrested at Norfolk 'Occupy' protest over military detention	Link
	Orlando	1	Occupy Orlando demonstrator arrested at City Hall for writing on sidewalk with chalk	Link
12/14/2011	New Orleans	2	2 arrested as Occupy NOLA makes last stand	Link
12/13/2011	Orlando	1	Cop takes down jaywalking Occupy Orlando protester	Link
	Brattleboro	11	Brattleboro, Vt. police arrest 11 women	Link
	Portland	1	One arrested in Occupy protest at Portland World Trade Center	Link
12/12/2011	New York	17	Police arrest Occupy protesters in New York	Link
	Denver	13	Occupy activists arrested blocking trucks at Loveland Walmart	Link
	Portland	2	Occupy protesters force closure of 3 PDX terminals	Link
	Houston	19	Occupy Houston holds protest at Houston port, 19 arrested	Link
	Seattle	11	Multiple arrests as Occupy protesters rally outside Port of Seattle	Link
	Port Hueneme	1	Lawyer arrested in Occupy protest at Port Hueneme	Link
	Los Angeles	2	At Least 2 Arrested in 'Occupy' Protest at Port of Long Beach	Link
	San Diego	5	5 'Occupy' protesters arrested at port	Link
	Bellingham	12	Dozen Occupy Bellingham protesters released after spending night in jail	Link
12/11/2011	San Francisco	55	Occupy SF: Police clear last camp, arrest 55	Link
12/10/2011	Boston	47	Police arrest 47 as Boston Occupy camp is broken up	Link
	Erie	1	Protester Arrested as City Removes Occupy Erie Tents	Link
12/9/2011	Sacramento	1	Protester Comes Down From Tree, Arrested	Link
	Bremerton	1	Another Occupy arrest at Kitsap County foreclosure auction	Link
	Grand Junction	3	Arrests made as Occupy GJ disrupts foreclosure auction	Link
	Springfield, IL	2	Two cited outside congressman’s office for writing on sidewalk	Link
	Phoenix	6	Police arrest 6 protesters, seize camping equipment	Link
12/8/2011	Sacramento	21	21 Occupy Sacramento Protesters Arrested	Link
	Orlando	5	Five Occupy Orlando demonstrators arrested for camping near park	Link
	Ft. Worth	1	Occupy Fort Worth protester arrested a second time	Link
	Santa Cruz	8	Police clear Occupy Santa Cruz camp, arrest 8 people	Link
12/7/2011	San Francisco	70	S.F. police raid Occupy camp, arrest 70	Link
	Washington, DC	85	Police arrest 85 total in 3 incidents	Link
	Boulder	7	Occupy Boulder Gets Deaf Ear From City Council	Link
	Dayton	5	5 Occupy Dayton members arrested	Link
12/6/2011	New Orleans	1	Police clear out Occupy New Orleans camp	Link
	Tucson	8	TPD arrests 8 occupiers Monday, 2 booked into jail	Link
	Washington, DC	1	Take Back the Capitol protests at lawmakers' offices	Link
	Atlanta	1	Occupy protesters show up at foreclosure sales	Link
	Hartford	1	Occupy Hartford Protester Was Arrested and Fired On Same Day	Link
12/5/2011	San Diego	9	Nine Occupy San Diego protesters arrested	Link
	Orlando	7	7 arrested in separate incidents	Link
	Medford	6	Occupiers demand town hall meetings	Link
	Bend	8	Occupiers demand town hall meetings	Link
	Portland	1	One arrested at Occupy protest	Link
	Bowling Green	3	3 arrested when police break up Occupy BG camp	Link
12/4/2011	Portland	19	Riot police move quickly to thwart new protest site	Link
	Washington, DC	31	Police arrest protesters who refused to dismantle a wooden structure they built	Link
	New York	6	Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strikers Arrested Twice in 12-Hour Span	Link
	Santa Cruz	2	Occupy Santa Cruz cleared from county property	Link
12/3/2011	Seattle	16	Cops arrest 16 for occupying a building	Link
	Bronx	5	Police break up rally at community garden	Link
	Nashville	4	4 arrested for refusing to stay on a sidewalk	Link
	Los Angeles	1	Occupy L.A. protesters return to downtown streets	Link
12/2/2011	New Haven	2	Arrests after shouting match over upside down flag	Link
	Bremerton	1	Occupy group stages protest during foreclosure auction	Link
12/1/2011	Tampa	29	Police make first mass arrests of Occupy Tampa protesters	Link
	San Francisco	2	2 Occupy SF protesters arrested in scuffles	Link
	Eureka	1	Police clear Occupy Eureka structure, detain 11	Link
	Boston	1	1 Arrested After Occupy Boston Sink Fight	Link
	Phoenix	6	Occupy Phoenix Demonstrators Arrested, Pepper Sprayed	Link
	Minneapolis	2	2 Arrested After Occupy MN Protesters Set Up Tents	Link
11/30/2011	Los Angeles	292	Occupy L.A.: 292 arrested in camp shutdown	Link
	Philadelphia	52	More than 50 arrested as police clear Occupy Philly	Link
	Tucson	11	11 Occupy Tucson protesters arrested Wednesday night	Link
	Charlottesville	18	Police apprehend Occupy protesters	Link
	Bloomington	5	Five Occupy Protesters Arrested For IU Demonstration	Link
	Riverside	3	3 arrested when police clear Occupy camp	Link
11/29/2011	San Diego	1	Activist cited for trespass at Occupy SD	Link
	Tampa	2	2 arrests at Occupy Tampa	Link
	Olympia	11	Occupy protesters hold peaceful rally in state Capitol	Link
	Tucson	2	Chalking, assault lead to arrests of Occupy Tucson demonstrators	Link
11/28/2011	Los Angeles	5	Five arrested after deadline passes for Occupy LA	Link
	Olympia	4	Police arrest, tase protesters at state Capitol	Link
	Wilmington	1	Occupy Protester arrested in Wilmington	Link
11/27/2011	Augusta, ME	9	Nine protesters arrested in Augusta	Link
11/26/2011	Tucson	2	Two more early morning arrests at Occupy Tucson	Link
11/25/2011	Raleigh	6	Six protesters arrested at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh	Link
	Syracuse	6	Occupy Syracuse protesters arrested in Black Friday demonstration	Link
	Harrisburg	1	Occupy Harrisburg zombie protester arrested at Mall	Link
	Oklahoma City	10	10 Occupy OKC protesters arrested in Del City	Link
	Portland, ME	5	Five arrested at Occupy Maine	Link
	Austin	1	Occupy Austin expands to Bee Cave, Capitol	Link
	Eugene	1	Protester arrested during Black Friday shopping at Walmart	Link
	Tucson	1	Former mayoral candidate arrested at Occupy Tucson	Link
11/24/2011	Oakland	1	One arrest after protesters confront police over portable toilets	Link
	San Diego	4	4 arrests at Occupy San Diego	Link
	Tucson	34	Police cite 34 'Occupy Tucson' protesters	Link
11/23/2011	Charleston	10	Occupy demonstrators to be released on bond	Link
11/22/2011	Austin	1	Occupy Austin protester arrested	Link
11/21/2011	Springfield, MA	15	Police arrest 15 at Massachusetts foreclosure protest	Link
	Colorado Springs	1	Occupy Protester Arrested, Permit Denied	Link
11/20/2011	Albany	48	Biggest Occupy Albany arrest yet	Link
	San Francisco	6	SF police arrest 6 Occupy protesters in early raid	Link
11/19/2011	Minneapolis	2	Two arrested as protesters 'occupy' U lecturer's house	Link
11/18/2011	Davis	10	Police pepper-spray seated protesters at UC Davis	Link
	Los Angeles	14	14 arrested in anti-Wall Street protests at UCLA	Link
	Eugene	17	17 arrested in Occupy Eugene protests	Link
	Phoenix	8	8 protesters arrested at Occupy Phoenix	Link
	Portland, ME	2	A violent overnight at Occupy Maine site	Link
	Austin	5	Police arrest five chained to tree at Occupy Austin	Link
	Philadelphia	12	Occupy Philly Protesters Arrested At Center City Bank Sit-In	Link
	Ft. Myers	1	Occupy kicked out of Fort Myers park, 1 arrested	Link
	Albany	4	4 arrests at Occupy Albany	Link
	Hartford	13	New mayor’s wife arrested at Occupy Hartford protest	Link
11/17/2011	Houston	12	Houston police arrest 12 for march on bridge	Link
	Philadelphia	24	Occupy Philly Moves Following Arrests	Link
	St. Louis	14	Fourteen arrested as unions, Occupy St. Louis protestors unite	Link
	Minneapolis	11	Police arrest 11 during Occupy Minnesota protest	Link
	Los Angeles	72	Occupy L.A.: 72 people arrested in downtown protests	Link
	Dallas	17	Occupy Dallas protesters evicted, more than a dozen arrested	Link
	New York	300	Police: 300 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in NYC	Link
	Portland	25	25 arrested in Portland	Link
	Atlanta	8	8 Occupy Atlanta protesters arrested	Link
	Las Vegas	21	21 arrested in orchestrated Occupy Las Vegas demonstration	Link
	Berkeley	2	Police clear Occupy Cal encampment	Link
	Tampa	3	Police arrest three more Occupy Tampa protesters	Link
	San Jose	1	Protester at 'Occupy San Jose' arrested for camping	Link
	Milwaukee	4	Occupy demonstration closes North Ave. bridge	Link
11/16/2011	San Francisco	100	San Francisco police arrest 100 in Bank of America protest	Link
	Columbia	19	Troopers arrest 19 at Occupy Columbia	Link
	Wichita	1	Protester arrested at governor’s town hall meeting on poverty	Link
	Fresno	3	3 Occupy Fresno protesters arrested today	Link
	Portland	1	Occupy Portland: 4 hour-long rally and march from PSU includes arrest	Link
	Pittsburgh	5	5 arrested in Occupy Pittsburgh protests	Link
	San Diego	9	Occupy San Diego: 9 arrested in sweep of homeless encampment	Link
	Des Moines	1	Police, protesters tell different stories in Occupy Des Moines arrest	Link
	Cincinnati	15	15 Occupy Cincinnati protesters arrested	Link
11/15/2011	New York	200	Occupy Wall St. cleared out, 200+ arrested; court upholds eviction	Link
	Charlotte	8	Arrests made in front of Charlotte B of A	Link
	Los Angeles	5	5 Occupy LA protesters face charges in camp crimes	Link
	Albany	3	At least 3 protesters arrested	Link
	Seattle	6	Elderly woman, priest pepper-sprayed during Seattle Occupy protest	Link
	Houston	1	Dispute over what's a tent leads to arrest	Link
	Isla Vista	1	Occupy Isla Vista Protester Arrested for Sleeping in Park	Link
	Columbus	7	Police in Ohio arrest 7 Occupy protesters at bank	Link
	El Paso	7	El Paso arrests 7 Occupy protesters	Link
	Asheville	1	"Occupy Asheville" Relocation & Arrest	Link
11/14/2011	Oakland	32	Cops dismantle Occupy Oakland, arrest 32	Link
	Eureka	33	Occupy Eureka camp raided, 33 arrested	Link
	Tulsa	6	Arrests resume as Occupy Tulsa members return to civil disobedience	Link
11/13/2011	Portland	50	Portland police arrest over 50 as protest camps cleared	Link
	Denver	3	Three protesters arrested, two officers hurt in Occupy Denver shoving match	Link
	Albany	13	13 more Occupy Albany arrests - city says it won't prosecute those arrested over weekend	Link
	Gainesville	3	3 arrested, 20 given notice to appear at Occupy Gainesville	Link
	Fresno	5	Park arrests continue for Occupy Fresno	Link
	San Diego	5	Despite arrests, Occupy San Diego protest continues	Link
11/12/2011	St. Louis	27	27 Occupy St. Louis protesters arrested	Link
	Salt Lake City	19	19 arrested for failing to remove tents; site razed	Link
	Denver	17	Police force Occupy Denver to move their property	Link
	Fresno	1	One overnight arrest at Occupy Fresno assembly	Link
	Springfield, MO	8	Police arrest eight Occupy Springfield protesters	Link
	Asheville	3	Three veterans arrested at Occupy Asheville	Link
	Albany	24	24 more arrested at Occupy Albany	Link
	Albany	1	Occupy Albany protester arrested on trespassing charge	Link
11/11/2011	Denver	1	Occupy Denver protesters invade conservative conference, one man arrested	Link
	Seattle	2	Occupy Seattle protesters square off with police	Link
11/10/2011	Fresno	11	Occupy Fresno showdown yields another 11 arrests	Link
	Norfolk	6	Norfolk police arrest 7 Occupy protesters	Link
	Los Angeles	11	11 arrested during protest near UCLA	Link
	Tucson	11	Tucson Police make 11 more Occupy Tucson arrests	Link
	Richmond	2	Occupy Richmond protesters leave park	Link
	Burlington	1	Chaos erupts in Burlington’s Occupy Vermont Camp	Link
11/9/2011	Berkeley	39	Cops arrest dozens of Occupy Cal protesters	Link
	Mobile	20	About 20 Occupy Mobile protesters were arrested early Wednesday morning	Link
	Houston	7	Occupy protesters in Houston remained defiant as police carted some of them off to jail	Link
	Dallas	8	Police arrest 8 Occupy protesters in Dallas demos	Link
	Tampa	3	Three More Protesters Arrested in Public Park; First Amendment Struggle Continues	Link
	Fresno	7	For a fourth straight night Occupy Fresno protesters arrested	Link
11/8/2011	Fresno	9	For a third straight night Occupy Fresno protesters arrested	Link
	Asheville	1	Occupy Asheville protester arrested for passing out fliers	Link
	Eureka	13	Eureka police officers in riot gear arrest 13	Link
11/7/2011	Atlanta	5	Police arrest 5 more at Occupy Atlanta	Link
	Tampa	8	Four Occupy Tampa protesters arrested for second night	Link
	Portland	2	Police arrest 2 at Occupy Portland camp	Link
	Tucson	24	2 dozen Occupy Tucson protesters arrested	Link
	Fresno	8	Eight more arrests - 2nd occurrence in past two days	Link
11/6/2011	Honolulu	8	Police arrest Occupy Honolulu protesters	Link
	Riverside	11	Riverside police arrest 11 protesters	Link
	Fresno	13	Thirteen Occupy Fresno protesters arrested at courthouse - released from jail	Link
	Santa Rosa	3	Three arrested at 'Occupy' event in Santa Rosa	Link
	Orlando	12	Protestors arrested during a First Amendment "teach-in"	Link
11/5/2011	Dallas	8	Eight arrests at Dallas bank protest	Link
	Asheville	4	Four more Occupy Asheville protesters arrested	Link
	New York	20	Around 20 arrested at Wall Street demonstration	Link
	Atlanta	20	Police arrest more Occupy Atlanta protesters	Link
	Boston	4	Four Occupy Boston protesters arrested	Link
	Worcester	21	Occupy Worcester activists arrested after move to Common	Link
	Colorado Springs	2	Police arrest two Occupy Colorado Springs protesters	Link
	Anchorage	1	At least one arrested at 'occupy' bank protest	Link
	Phoenix	3	3 arrests connected to Occupy Phoenix	Link
	Lincoln	4	Four arrested during Occupy Lincoln action at Wells Fargo	Link
11/4/2011	Olympia	2	5 'Occupy Washington' tents removed, 2 arrested	Link
	Washington, DC	6	6 arrested at conservative group's dinner	Link
	Tulsa	23	10 more Occupy Tulsa protesters arrested - total now 23 in past 24 hours	Link
11/3/2011	New York	15	15 Occupy Wall Street protesters, including Chris Hedges, arrested outside Goldman Sachs	Link
	Rochester	50	16 arrested at Occupy Rochester event in city park, bringing total to 50 in past week	Link
	Asheville	24	Asheville police arrest 24 Occupy Asheville members	Link
	Oakland	80	After a night of confrontations with police, 80 arrests in downtown Oakland	Link
	Philadelphia	10	Ten arrested at Occupy Philadelphia sit in at Comcast	Link
	Detroit	2	“Occupy Detroit” Protestors Arrested At Wayne State	Link
	Seattle	7	Occupy Seattle: Street clashes, arrests as bank leader speak	Link
11/2/2011	Milwaukee	3	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photojournalist, two college students arrested at Occupy protest	Link
	Omaha	3	Protesters Consider Legal Action Against City	Link
	Cleveland	1	Medina man charged with disorderly conduct at OC	Link
	Coachella Valley	1	Police arrest 66-year old woman	Link
	Toledo	2	2 Occupy Toledo supporters arrested	Link
11/1/2011	Coachella Valley	9	Nine Arrested as Police Clear Out Occupy Coachella Valley	Link
10/31/2011	Richmond	9	Police erase Occupy Richmond tent site - 9 arrested	Link
10/30/2011	Austin	38	Dozens of Occupy protesters arrested in Austin	Link
	Portland	24	Dozens of Occupy protesters arrested in Portland	Link
10/29/2011	Denver	20	Occupy Denver protesters, law enforcement officers clash; 20 arrested	Link
	Nashville	53	State troopers for the second time arrest more than two dozen Occupy Nashville protesters	Link
10/28/2011	Tucson	370	Tucson police arrested 18 Occupy Tucson demonstrators, bringing the total to nearly 370 arrests	Link
	Raleigh	8	Eight at Occupy Raleigh arrested after standoff	Link
	Tampa	11	3 arrested at Occupy Tampa - 2 charged with felony battery on police officer; total arrests now 11	Link
	San Diego	53	51 Occupy San Diego protesters arrested Friday morning and two more were arrested later in day	Link
	Albuquerque	31	Occupy Albuquerque arrests	Link
10/27/2011	Indianapolis	1	Police arrest 1st Indianapolis Occupy protester	Link
	Oakland	2	Occupy Oakland arrests at BART station	Link
	Orlando	2	2 Arrested At Occupy Orlando Protest	Link
10/25/2011	Atlanta	52	Atlanta police arrest more than 50 Wall Street protesters	Link
	San Jose	7	7 More ‘Occupy San Jose’ Arrests; Protester Remains On Wall	Link
	Oakland	75	Riot police fire beanbag rounds and teargas, arrest 75 at Occupy Oakland	Link
10/24/2011	Chicago	130	130 arrested at Occupy Chicago	Link
	Sacramento	74	Lawyers May Sue Sacramento City Over ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Arrests	Link
	Cincinnati	11	11 arrested at Occupy Cincinnati	Link
	Dallas	23	Occupy Dallas Protesters Arrested outside Bank	Link
	Philadelphia	15	15 arrested at Occupy Philadelphia	Link
10/22/2011	New York	30	30 Occupy Wall Street protesters, including Cornell West arrested in NY	Link
	San Jose	8	8 'Occupy San Jose' protesters arrested, man in wheel chair cited	Link
	Santa Ana	4	Four protesters arrested in Orange County for camping	Link
	Seattle	2	2 more arrests as Occupy Seattle enters its 4th weekend	Link
	Orlando	19	19 arrested at Occupy Orlando	Link
10/21/2011	Cleveland	12	Protester arrested at governor’s town hall meeting on poverty	Link
10/20/2011	Minneapolis	7	Occupy MN: Seven arrested at US Bank protest	Link
	Manchester	5	NH protestors to regroup after Manchester arrests	Link
10/18/2011	Washington, DC	19	Cornel West, 18 others arrested for protesting at the Supreme Court.	Link
10/17/2011	Long Beach	2	Occupy Long Beach ends with arrests, citations	Link
10/16/2011	Chicago	175	175 arrested in Chicago	Link
	Denver	24	24 arrested in Denver	Link
	Phoenix	40	40 arrested in Phoenix	Link
	Fort Worth	5	Arrests at Occupy Fort Worth protest	Link
	Raleigh	19	19 arrested in Raleigh	Link
10/15/2011	Minneapolis	1	First arrest made at Occupy MN rally	Link
	New York	92	Invasion of Times Square leads to 92 arrests	Link
10/14/2011	New York	14	Protesters arrested in New York	Link
	San Diego	1	At least 1 protester arrested in San Diego	Link
	Gainesville	4	Four ‘Occupy' protesters arrested for not leaving plaza	Link
	Seattle	41	Protesters arrested in Seattle	Link
10/13/2011	Washington, DC	8	U.S. Capitol Police arrested eight anti-war protesters in D.C. for disrupting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta	Link
	Austin	4	Four Occupy Austin protesters arrested	Link
	Portland	8	Police arrest 8 Occupy Portland protesters, clear way on Main Street	Link
10/12/2011	San Francisco	11	11 protesters arrested after shutting down entrances to the Wells Fargo corp. headquarters	Link
10/11/2011	Washington, DC	6	Occupy DC protesters arrested after unfurling banners in Senate building	Link
	Washington, DC	4	Four arrested protesting free trade agreements	Link
	Boston	141	141 arrests in Boston "Occupy" protests	Link
10/10/2011	Des Moines	32	Arrests and Pepper Spray at Occupy Des Moines	Link
10/6/2011	Santa Barbara	8	Occupy S.B. Protesters Get Arrested and Go on Record	Link
	St. Louis	10	OccupySTL demonstrators remain at Kiener	Link
10/5/2011	Seattle	25	25 arrested at Occupy Seattle	Link
10/1/2011	New York	700	700 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge	Link
	Boston	24	24 Arrests at Bank of America Protest in Boston	Link
9/24/2011	New York	80	At least 80 arrested at Occupy Wall Street march	Link

Note: Only confirmed arrests specific to Occupy events are included. Please send questions to info@occupyarrests.com.

And on Wall Street - "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." – From George Orwell’s Animal Farm

The greatest country

The Newsroom (TV Series)

Will McAvoy: And yeah, you... sorority girl. Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is: There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the (expletive) you're talking about! Yosemite?

It can indeed.  Is 
objectivity the

first step?

Will McAvoy: [pause] We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

Will McAvoy: [to moderator] Enough?

Controversial, of course.  Provocative as well, and the statistics are contestable but reasonably accurate.  Are his comments on who we used to be equally supportable?

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs study on America's reputation internationally support the above rather pointedly.   

See the Stimson Center summary on the issue here.

From the Pew Research Center's report:

• Overwhelming numbers around the world continue to see the U.S as having a big — often bad — influence on their own countries.
• The U.S. was not seen as considering the interests of other countries in the conduct of its foreign policy, expectations about Obama notwithstanding.
• Majorities or pluralities in 20 of 24 publics believe that the U.S economy is hurting their own economies.

We've changed.  Have we lost a part of our character as a nation?

The path ahead will always include change.  Culture changes, ideologies change, politics change.  Issues of national morality will not be invoked either in discussion or policy making unless we make it happen.  True?

It is just a TV show, after all.

Helping others makes you live longer

Community center construction project

in Sao Tome & Principe funded by 

friends overseas.

In a fascinating study, researchers discovered that a helping lifestyle is a lifesaver ... for the helper. The one who is helped is blessed too, of course. Feeding the hungry, healing the sick, coming alongside as a friend and working through hard times, all make a difference.  But doing such things seems to add years to your life!  But we knew that all along.  "It is more blessed to give than to receive." ~Acts 20:35.

The study's relevant categories include personal involvement in helping extended family, friends, neighbors, ... giving our strength and skills and resources.

Interestingly, a genuine personal investment in such things is more satisfying (enjoyable) than just attending to your own pleasures and comfort.

A youth volunteer association; they help families

in need!  I met 3 of them carrying water jugs and 

gave them a ride. We did introductions, swapped 

stories; they'll spend a few weeks restoring and 

planting gardens for the neighborhood.

The critical element seems to be actually caring; the functional path appears to be that helping produces a stress-relief, a buffer against the strain of life.  Who knew?

“When we adjusted for age, baseline health and functioning and key psychosocial variables,” Poulin says, “the Cox proportional hazard models (the most widely used method of survival analysis) for mortality revealed a significant interaction between helping behavior, stressful events, morbidity and mortality.

“Our conclusion,” he says, “is that helping others reduced mortality specifically by buffering the association between stress and mortality.

“These findings go beyond past analyses to indicate that the health benefits of helping behavior derive specifically from stress-buffering processes,” Poulin says, “and provide important guidance for understanding why helping behavior specifically may promote health and, potentially, for how social processes in general may influence health.”  See the source article at the University of Buffalo.

Weekend cleanup project, community folks pitch in

together.  West Africa

Plenty of opportunities to add years to our lives and enjoy the process.

POLARIZATION

"I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart." ~Glenn Beck. 

America is effectively divided, politically speaking.

The middle ground discussions and collaborations we remember are gone from Congress and the upper-level political arena in general.  To a some degree, the media and the two major political parties are responsible.

The average American until recently was a moderate with both liberal and conservative leanings depending on the issue.  The media and political parties cannot be so.  They deliberately share no discernible common goals, leaving them with just their marketable opposing positions and the mandate to win.  Now the public is following their lead.

Glenn Beck, one of the Fox News conservative spokesmen, has abdicated and apologized for his part. 

In an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, Beck reflected on his part, saying there were things he wished he could do over.

"I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language," Beck told Kelly. "I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart."

"I didn't realize how really fragile the people were," he continued. "I thought we were kind of more in it together."

“I believe that we are in — I think we're a country in civil war.  I just think we're in a cold civil war. Shooting hasn't started, but somebody stupid is going to do something stupid and it will escalate unless we talk to each other.”

–Glenn Beck

Beck said instead of highlighting all the problems in the country he should have looked at more of the "uniting principles."

"Now I look back and I realize if we could have talked about the uniting principles a little bit more instead of the problems," he said. "I think I would look back at it more fondly. But that's only my role." True; he was not the only voice, and Fox News was not the only channel following the same trend.

The progressive polarization was forecast for us in 1969 when internet pioneer Paul Baran saw the emerging stampede of specialized media channels. Instead of 2 TV channels, everyone would have hundreds of sources from which to choose.

"Baran saw the media’s role as a unifying force that contributed to national cohesion; a shared identity and sense of purpose. With more specialized channels at their disposal (political or otherwise) then Americans would have very little overlap in the messages they received. This, Baran believed, would lead to political instability and increased “confrontation” ..."   ~Smithsonian History

The aggregation and specialization of mass media in the United States over the past half a century has undoubtedly led to the stark “differing models of reality” that Baran describes.  Differing models of reality - that's a polite reference to narrow-minded and uninformed. The true believers of any ideology will adhere to the party line and draw strength from their particular team’s media outlets.

Partisan polarization now cripples the nation's government and leaves no place for people of conscience whose best option is the lesser of the great evils. It drives wedges in families, communities, and between friends. It ruins friendly conversations and spoils good intentions.

Perhaps we should spend more time in gracious conversation with folks who disagree with us.  They may know some things we don't.

Thanks and a hat-tip to Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the White House who obligingly enabled and engaged the moneyed media corporations.  News is now a product for profit rather than a service.

The Line

“Don’t think just about where the lines are drawn, think about who draws the lines.”

If I take a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, I will go to jail.  If Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street take billions out of the savings of ordinary people (with purchased government help) then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of them will ever be prosecuted. The lines are drawn differently for big money.

The average bonus on Wall Street this
year? $160,000!  That's more than three times
the average household income, just for their bonus.

Our local police have crossed that line. They are soldiers who treat us like terrorists. If Occupy speaks against Wall Street, they will be tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones” designed to make us forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now we have free speech only when and where they say you can have it.  Meanwhile, Wall Street can say and do pretty much anything they want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it.

Things have changed.  The way forward is not an easy one for us as a nation or as individuals.  The quest for wealth has replaced the quest for territory, and the weapons are economic.  True?

See The GAP - Part I, Part VI

Thanks and a hat-tip to Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the White House
who obligingly set the stage Wall Street needed.

Things my Father told me

A loving father hopes to inform his child's thinking, not replace it.

Today's rule about fingers on the stove eventually needs to carry the 'why' and 'what else' for future use in similar circumstances.  We want our kids to understand and make good decisions of their own.

My Father offered good insight on many issues; he explained them well and demonstrated them all.

You can have everything you want, or you can enjoy what you have, but not both.

• The things we have are a means but not an end in themselves.  
• This one took awhile.

Helping someone else is more satisfying than helping yourself, especially if it costs you a lot.

• It makes no sense at all, but he's right.
• Nobody believes this one until a ways down the road.

If you care about others, you won't be happy all the time; you'll spend time sharing their load. 

• There's a high price for caring.
• It can take all the years you've got.

Things my Father
told me; enough to
fill a book!

The fact that my Father loved me didn't preclude hardship.  He knew I'd have my share, and he walked through it with me.  I learned a lot along the way.  A lot.


I've cringed when a religiously styled speaker, presuming to speak on behalf of my Father, would tell us things using the magic phrase,  'the Word of God'.  Lots of King James-ish phrasing and stylistic emphasis, but not much useful information.  The religious power-speak seems shaped to narrowly enforce rather than inform, and it doesn't help.

Just things you want your kids to know ...

Some distance down the road, I realised that most things my Father told me were to equip me for a purposeful, meaningful life.  He wanted me to know and understand.  It turns out, he's more a practical realist than I expected, and not particularly religious.