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All Americans should read Paul B. Farrell’s MarketWatch article, “Occupy Wall Street will lay siege to U.S. greed.” He reports that as many as 20,000 protestors could occupy Wall Street on September 17, (interestingly a Saturday) and suggests that the number of protestors could grow to 90,000 or so if social media generates a flash mob.. The would-be occupiers, who identify themselves as “the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,” say they will stay there until they get what they want, namely the elimination of Wall Street as “the greatest corrupter of our democracy.” Farrell points out that, before lightly dismissing this protest, Americans should remember that disenchanted revolutionaries have recently risen up in many other countries and even overthrown dictators.