Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

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WildCat said:
I'm pretty sure that for the Paultards it's about giving Wall Street an easy ride. They'd repeal insider trading laws if they had their way.

It's abut whatever you want it to be!
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Except that Ron Paul was against the bailout of Wall St and wants to end the Fed. Bailout + Fed = Easy ride for banks.
 
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Possible arson attack on Bank of America.
http://www.king5.com/home/Seattle-Bank-of-America-building-set-on-fire-133520443.html
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And in the Portland arson case:

This morning, Wednesday November 9, 2011, Portland Police officers arrested 29-year-old David Joseph Hodson for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the World Trade Center, located at 121 Southwest Salmon Street, in the late evening hours of Tuesday November 8. Officers obtained a very good description of the suspect and later located him within the Occupy Portland encampments.

Hodson has been booked into the Multnomah County Jail for Arson in the First Degree, Manufacturing a Destructive Device, Possession of a Destructive Device, and Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree.
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Mugshot here. Not too bright; he had been arrested two days before throwing the molotov cocktail for a series of fire-related charges. And the building was not far from the local Obamaville:

Police spokesman Lt. Robert King said the Molotov cocktail caused minor damage to an external stairwell at the World Trade Center building. The office building is located one block east of the two parks where Occupy protesters have been for more than a month.
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WildCat said:
He'd also repeal just about any business regulation you can name. He'd even abolish the EPA.
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Which is beside the point. You seemed to assert that OWS stands for anything, including being kind to the banks. I would suggest that yes, it represents a lot of grievances, but a 'lack of friendliness to banks' is not one of them. I suppose there could be some clinically insane person who has wondered down there, 'yeah let's Occupy Wall St. and tell them what a great job they've been doing'.
 
Democracy Simulator said:
Which is beside the point. You seemed to assert that OWS stands for anything, including being kind to the banks. I would suggest that yes, it represents a lot of grievances, but a 'lack of friendliness to banks' is not one of them. I suppose there could be some clinically insane person who has wondered down there, 'yeah let's Occupy Wall St. and tell them what a great job they've been doing'.
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Yes it is! Do you think Ron Paul is in favor of any banking regulations at all? Just because he wouldn't bail them out doesn't mean he's not friendly to them. Hell, he probably thinks the only reason they failed was too much government oversight.
 
WildCat said:
Yes it is! Do you think Ron Paul is in favor of any banking regulations at all? Just because he wouldn't bail them out doesn't mean he's not friendly to them. Hell, he probably thinks the only reason they failed was too much government oversight.
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*Snorts

Too much government oversight? I hope he wouldn't say that, that' be his most comedic performance yet:blush:.
 
Berkeley cops try a little tough love on Cal protestors:

Note that although the cops seem to be pretty brutal, the students don't back off much. Either those batons aren't as solid as they look, or the kids were extraordinarily resistant to pain.
 
Brainster said:
Berkeley cops try a little tough love on Cal protestors:

Note that although the cops seem to be pretty brutal, the students don't back off much. Either those batons aren't as solid as they look, or the kids were extraordinarily resistant to pain.
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Really makes you question the "80% of americans are Christians" statistic. Hard to believe you could read through the whole of Jesus' teachings and decide that the best way to deal with a peaceful protest by young people was to hit them with batons.
 
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This article on the Denver protest reads like a Monty Python skit:

Right now, Liberate Denver remains mostly an idea, but occupiers have consistently proven that ideas, though tough to control, are powerful in this movement. A handful of members are working to establish regular space and time for the second entity, which was inspired by issues of violence and patriarchy within the ranks and is targeted toward starting over, this time united against those issues.

"Changing the world takes time," says Kerri Kellerman, a Thunderdomer who supports the concept of Liberate Denver but also remains a part of Occupy Denver. "The movement is young, and right now the entire community is detoxing from this capitalism as a whole. So we're dealing with these huge growing pains of violence and assault and misogyny and these other internal issues, just like all of the movements are."
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And:

"Women and transgendered people are marginalized here and treated as 23rd-class citizens inside the movement," Kellerman says. "People here want change for themselves, but right now it doesn't feel like they want equality. We have homeless people and addicts and tweakers just like every other group does, and we have to support all of our members equally."
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Splitters!
 
Atlanta has a tuberculosis outbreak:

The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.

The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
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Can the plague be far behind?
 
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