Thread: Thousands to occupy Wall Street in protest

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Back on topic - which is raving lunatics gone wild.

Nice dodge.

It's ok, you don't live here so our problems are not yours anyway. The ugly truth of our political/economic imbalance is really not your concern - until they decide to do away with social security, which probably won't happen in your lifetime anyway. So keep firing away from the peanut gallery; we Americans who actually live here will keep up the good fight despite your uninformed retaliations and churlish arguments.

Cheers.

^
Curlish arguments? That's a good one.

Occupy DC To Get Free Ice Cream Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s

Proposed flavor: Rape & Grape?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Proposed flavor: Rape & Grape?

Cain will address OWS. Subject will be Rape & Grope.

On the topic of work avoidance the OWS folks seem to exhibit



snubbie seen nodding in approval.

It is a better day for the 99% in Ohio. Yesterday on Tuesday, November 8, Ohio voters overwhelmingly Repealed Senate Bill 5. The bill, just passed by the Ohio legislature in March, removed the ability of public employees to engage in one of the most fundamental rights known to working people — collective bargaining.
Occupy Cincinnati was active in this struggle. From Occupy Cincinnati:

"Ohio voters sent Governor John Kasich a clear message about restricting public union rights and denying their right to strike. SB5, the bill he initiated last spring, was struck down by a 60% to 39% margin. We, the people have spoken. This movement is not going away."

A victory for the 99% in Ohio | OccupyWallSt.org

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Remind me again how many Tea Party events folks perished?

Ahem, once again a change of subject.

Are the protesters lazy good for nothings or hard working, highly paid earners? Or are they just hippies? Or are they druggies? Or are they people who live in mansions?

Make up your mind, Boon Mee.

This is certainly a step up from those abysmal drum circles-

Crosby, Nash, No Stills Sing 1960s Hits to Occupy Wall Street

Folk-rock icons David Crosby and Graham Nash performed for society’s besieged 99 percent in a New York acoustic concert audible to about 99 protesters and press.
The outdoor concert today in Zuccotti Park, home of Occupy Wall Street in lower Manhattan, began with “Long Time Gone,” and ended with “Teach Your Children.”

Crosby, Nash, No Stills Sing 1960s Hits to Occupy Wall Street - Bloomberg

If I was working in one of those offices, I reckon I'd have joined the protest for a while.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

^
Curlish arguments? That's a good one.

Occupy DC To Get Free Ice Cream Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s

Proposed flavor: Rape & Grape?

Well that's it, if the corporations are getting on the bus the revolution will be televised, MTV are getting on it with 'Occupy Yo MoFo MTV Fashizzle' the revolution is officially cool.

There are real challenges facing the Occupy movement.

For one, the media’s stories of crime and violence, including sexual assault, at Occupy camps may be sensationalized, but they aren’t whole-cloth fabrications. In particular, tensions have increased where police have steered people with mental or substance abuse problems to the camps in an obvious attempt to stir up conflict.

In New York City, Occupy activists have responded by establishing a safe watch that is providing support to people who have been attacked in sexist, racist or other incidents, organizing community patrols, and working on restorative justice solutions that don’t involve calling on police.

Such initiatives are important to the future of the movement. Instances of violence and harassment may be more isolated than the media claim, but not a single such attack can be tolerated in a struggle that is devoted to challenging inequality and injustice.

The Indypendent

Originally Posted by misskit

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Remind me again how many Tea Party events folks perished?

Ahem, once again a change of subject.

Are the protesters lazy good for nothings or hard working, highly paid earners? Or are they just hippies? Or are they druggies? Or are they people who live in mansions?

Make up your mind, Boon Mee.

Most of 'em are what I witnessed when attending University of California at Santa Barbara. 'Ol Tricky Dick had just mined Haiphong Harbor, N. Viet Nam, and some of those folks there went completely out of their collectivists heads!

I was tear gassed out of my house in Isla Vista after the cops had enough with incidents like the local BofA getting burned down - twice. My next door neighbors were of the hippie persuasion with anarcists tendencies.

These protests today pale in comparison to 'back in the day'...

^Don't worry, they have just started.

Originally Posted by misskit

^Don't worry, they have just started.

Heh...but they don't have Hanoi Jane as their poster child.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

These protests today pale in comparison to 'back in the day'

Seems to me they had less to complain about to.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

These protests today pale in comparison to 'back in the day'

Seems to me they had less to complain about to.

Back then they were whinging about the Draft Lottery and possibly having to go meet Charles. Of course have a Republican President in office didn't help things in the hippies minds either.

Today's protests are a kinda free-flowing moan against everything except the policies of the present POTUS.

Originally Posted by misskit

^Don't worry, they have just started.

getting TB at the camps in Atlanta...

...this whole 'movement' cannot help but end badly.

^It is unclear if the two cases were among the homeless population or the anti-Wall Street

'Occupy Atlanta' shelter tests positive for tuberculosis | poconorecord.com

Just goes to show you what bad conditions exists in homeless shelters in America now.

Well, the beat goes on and as I say, this whole 'movement' is going to end badly:

On November 8, a San Diego woman, taken for a “Tea Partier,” was assaulted while trying to ask questions of the Occupiers. The protesters, visibly seething with anger, attacked the woman because they thought she was invading their privacy — on a public sidewalk. The footage cuts out just as the woman is, presumably, punched in the face.

Tea Partier Attacked by San Diego Occupiers - YouTube

Mayor: Man died of a gunshot wound
Possibly self-inflicted, witnesses say
NBC: Man arrested for breaking EMT's leg at Occupy Wall Street
Bloomberg: "They generally do not break the law"...
..."you would never know it exists"
Flashback last week: "This isn't an occupation of Wall Street," but of an entire "residential neighborhood"...
..."it's really hurting small businesses and families"


Yes indeed, just like Lord of the Flies, these protesters are degenerating into the lowest life forms. Darwin was right...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Yes indeed, just like Lord of the Flies, these protesters are degenerating into the lowest life forms. Darwin was right...

That's a real leap.

Why did that Tea Party woman taunt those people by putting a camera in their faces? She deserved a punch, or her camera knocked away whichever really happened, after continuing to film in their faces with them telling her to stop.

Seems she was there just to cause trouble.

Of course the Teabaggers are too scared to stay out all night and put their lives in danger for what they believe, they have to leave before it gets dark to run back home to mummy's basement and act real tough on the internet.

Oakland Undercover Officer Outed in Viral Video Gives Surprising Interview

Very good. I'm sure many police officers will see that video and agree. Let's hope the sentiment takes hold.

It's unfortunate Vimeo doesn't embed here.

Here's a clip of an OWS member from the US Marines. He compares the way his unit in Iraq dealt with rioters and the way the US police deal with these protestors.