When Occupy Atlanta first got involved in the fight for the Roreys’ house, we knew it would be a tough fight. Our entire system is built to favor the perpetrators of dishonest banking practices and institutionalized fraud rather than to protect the victims. We understood that we were standing up against an entire corrupt system as we have done from the beginning. We were prepared to do our utmost, and still are.
What we didn’t realize is how deeply the system has influenced the local political scene. From a judge who doesn’t believe that it’s necessary for the bank to prove ownership of the mortgage, to a sheriff whose solution to a family’s plight is to threaten arrest of a fellow law enforcement officer and his wife for seeking our help, the facts and justice of the situation don’t seem to matter to anyone in power. Deception, failures of the legal system, trading mortgages as securities, and outright fraud created this tragedy, and now callousness is rounding it out. Unlike sheriffs in Cook County, Illinois; Wayne County, Michigan; and Butler County, Ohio, Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway chooses to side with the banks rather than the people. Sheriff Butch Conway has threatened the Rorey family with warrants for arrest if Occupy Atlanta continued to occupy the space. So in an effort to protect the Rorey family we have decided to develop a new strategy. We call on the people of Snellville and of Gwinnett County to side with their neighbors against the banks.
We are here to stay.
The good people of Gwinnett Co. should keep this in mind and vote the corporate stooge’s ass out of office next election. Let the people speak!