Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

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jhunter1163 said:
The thing that concerns me the most about the whole OWS thing is that it seems likely that someone is going to get hurt when these things start getting broken up by the cops, as they inevitably will. I hope it doesn't turn into a Kent State moment.
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I cheered when I heard about the Kent State shootings. I cheered when the Hard Hats attacked the commie peace freaks in streets of NYC.
 
Ziggurat said:
On some, but definitely not all, issues.



To a significant degree, yes. But it wouldn't even matter in the context of this thread. Agree with them or not, the Tea Party has unquestionably acted more honorably, more lawfully, and more effectively than the OWS movement.
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Plus the Tea Party are big supporters of Israel, right?
 
Alt+F4 said:
Yeah, now that you mention it, what are their politics? I mean besides Wall Street is bad, bad, bad....and filled with a bunch of bad, bad, bad meanies!
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Communist, anarchist, you know--the usual.
 
Terrorizing little kids? All part of a glorious day for Obamaville New Yorkers.

In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting — some kicking and screaming – CBS 2’s Emily Smith found little school kids trying to get to class. Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted “follow those kids!”
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Mommy, why does that man smell like poo-poo?
 
Brainster said:
Terrorizing little kids? All part of a glorious day for Obamaville New Yorkers.



Mommy, why does that man smell like poo-poo?
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This is the same "movement" that pushed an octagenarian in front of their main body in Seattle, while the "occupiers" donned protective goggles and allowed peace officers to hit her with pepper spray while they gleefully observed from the rear.
 
Ziggurat said:
Brilliant.
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Love the guy who says he's against private property, not personal property. Reminds me of an old high school teacher, who observed that under communism, what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. Or, as I countered, bad communism is when the people poorer than you get to share your stuff. Good communism is when you get to share the stuff of folks wealthier than you.
 
Occupy Wall Street : Movement :: Brownian Motion : Movement

In both cases any goal reached is entirely by accident.
 
Brainster said:
Love the guy who says he's against private property, not personal property...
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Yeah, I laughed at that guy, too.

Is it just me or did anyone else think TDS crowd didn't seem to enjoy that skit very much?
 
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MaGZ said:
I cheered when I heard about the Kent State shootings. I cheered when the Hard Hats attacked the commie peace freaks in streets of NYC.
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That's kind of an odd thing. I remember back in 1972 when George Wallace was shot. As a liberal Alabamian, I had hated Wallace for much of my life. To me, he embodied everything that was wrong with America. My first reaction when I heard of the shooting was, "Good. I hope he dies."

But you know, that feeling didn't last long. My knee jerk reaction might have been supporting murder, but within days, maybe hours, I began to feel shame for my hatefullness. I realized that regardless of how much you disagree with a person, murdering them is not the solution and is not what civilized people do.

I'd like to assume that MaGZ felt a similar surge of guilt when he reconsidered his cheering of murderers at Kent State. It is one thing to have an automatic reaction to the death of someone you hate, but quite another to realize that you are less than human if you continue to support the murder of people who you disagree with, however strongly.

That's what you felt upon reconsideration, right MaGZ?
 
Tricky said:
I'd like to assume that MaGZ felt a similar surge of guilt when he reconsidered his cheering of murderers at Kent State. It is one thing to have an automatic reaction to the death of someone you hate, but quite another to realize that you are less than human if you continue to support the murder of people who you disagree with, however strongly.

That's what you felt upon reconsideration, right MaGZ?
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Timothy Leary gave a speech at my college around 1976, and I happened to ask him afterwards what he thought had ended the student activism of the 1960s, and his response was the Kent State shootings. I wonder if we aren't headed towards something similar with the OWS protestors; whether that's what it will take.

BTW, I think you're wrong calling the National Guardsmen involved murderers. It was certainly a tragic mistake for them to have opened fire.
 
Roadkill wannabes in LA:



Real simple solution to this: put the car in neutral and gun the engine. They'll get out of the way in a hurry.
 
Slow news day. I can't find much on recent idiocy and antics. Nothing beyond the normal level of idiocy we're used to.
 
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