Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

[NoZed Avenger]

Great song, guaranteed to make your heart glow with revolutionary fervor!

If your heart glows for more than four hours, please see a doctor.

 

[Virus]

One day JihadJane should tell us how she thinks the economy would be run after this revolution.

 

[theprestige]

"The tea party did not leave their trash behind" --- okay, but what did they accomplish?

I wanna say... something about elections? In 2010 maybe? Does that sound at all familiar?

 

[JihadJane]

It's like seeing George Orwell's Animal Farm in action

The supporting evidence you have produced so far to support such assertions has turned out to be wild exaggeration so perhaps you could explain how this one is rooted in reality.

 

[Stout]

I have. Somalia (a year), India (a year), Pakistan 2 years), central china (three years). I have also worked in Sierra Leone, thailand and vietnam. (those were short term jobs though)

The poor americans are still better than the AVERAGE person on the streets there.

Yes, that really brings it into perspective.

Remember the poor OWS protester complaining about losing a $5500 laptop ? What king of idiot would even admit to owning such an expensive gee gaw, at a rally about income inequality, in the first place ?

These protesters need to get out more, see the world and develop an appreciation of what they actually have before getting all weirded out about the 1% and their 300 foot yachts.

Beans and rice.

 

[AlBell]

Popular Hawaiian musician Makana sung this song, We Are the Many, for President Obama, Chinese leader Hu Jintao of China, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and more than a dozen other heads of state as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gala in Hawaii, for 45 minutes:

"We Occupy [Until] You Do the Bidding of the Many, Not the Few”



Great song, guaranteed to make your heart glow with revolutionary fervor!

Made me want to spit.

 

[Stout]

Welcome to the world of anyone working in an industry where illegal aliens are hired. Yet I don't see the OWS people demanding a crackdown on employers who hire illegal workers.

Politically, they're prohibited from doing so. There'd be groups like No-one is Illegal raising a stink about it. Saying such policies or complaints would be racist. Take Occupy Vancouver, they issue a list of demands WRT housing including things like surtax on undeveloped lots, surtax on second properties, ending real estate speculation yada yada, yet they completely ignore the issue of foreign ownership of properties in Vancouver. There's a mayoral candidate running with this issue as part of her platform ( 25 years too late ).

Not only were the OV protesters demanding housing last week, but they demanded that they all wanted/needed to live together as well as demanding free transportation from their free housing to the protest site. Doh !

Source. These demands aren't on OV's brand new website though, maybe they reconsidered.

 

[Alt+F4]

Police officer, UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike, walks down a line of those young people seated quietly on the ground in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience, and sprays them all with pepper spray at very close range. He is clearing a path for fellow officers to walk through and arrest more students, but it's as if he's dousing a row of bugs with insecticide

And yet it's the Chancellor who they wanted fired, not the cop! Typical OWS thinking, just hurl accusations at people with no evidence (in this case, no evidence that the Chancellor ordered or even knew about the pepper spraying) and demand they be fired or thrown in jail.

 

[Brainster]

Police officer, UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike, walks down a line of those young people seated quietly on the ground in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience, and sprays them all with pepper spray at very close range. He is clearing a path for fellow officers to walk through and arrest more students, but it's as if he's dousing a row of bugs with insecticide:

It had the added benefit of delousing those filthy hippies.

 

[WildCat]

It had the added benefit of delousing those filthy hippies.

We're at the time of year where water cannons become particularly effective.

 

[dc1971]

Unless you're trying to argue that making a complete mess is an integral part of their strategy, you really have no point. I doubt that's what you're saying, but who knows....

Well no, that's exactly what I'm saying however I'm not the one who brought up the "leaving a mess" issue. It's so important to point out that trash was left behind when "liberals" protest according to Fox News fans.

 

[dc1971]

We're at the time of year where water cannons become particularly effective.

Can you bring the conversation down any lower?

 

[bikerdruid]

It had the added benefit of delousing those filthy hippies.

that is a comment i would have expected to hear during the anti-vietnam protests.
caught in a time-warp, are you?
we are now 50 years more along, and the rich are getting a much sweeter deal then they got then.
why do you hate the poor?

 

[Pardalis]

Did someone really quote Mao earlier or was I just hallucinating?

 

[Neally]

Well no, that's exactly what I'm saying however I'm not the one who brought up the "leaving a mess" issue. It's so important to point out that trash was left behind when "liberals" protest according to Fox News fans.

Relevant in the fact that it costs cities thousands to clean up after the children. Adults tend to be a bit more responsible.

that is a comment i would have expected to hear during the anti-vietnam protests.

Are you denying that personal and environmental sanitation levels were at a very low level in the OWS camps?

 

[bikerdruid]

Did someone really quote Mao earlier or was I just hallucinating?

i keep the little red book close at hand, and it is often relevant.
surprised?

...welcome back.

 

[Brainster]

The movement is about to get hijacked:

A coalition of labor and progressive groups is about to unveil its answer to that question. Get ready for “Occupy Congress.”

The coalition — which includes unions like SEIU and CWA and groups like the Center for Community Change — is currently working on a plan to bus thousands of protesters from across the country to Washington, where they will congregate around the Capitol from December 5-9, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry tells me in an interview.

And:

One goal of the protests, Henry says, is to pressure Republicans to support Obama’s jobs creation proposals. More generally, the aim is to highlight Congress’s misguided obsession with the deficit and overall inaction on unemployment.

“We’re taking about it as an effort to take back the Capitol,” Henry says. “It would be great if we could build pressure that goes beyond the jobs act.”

 

[Brainster]

that is a comment i would have expected to hear during the anti-vietnam protests.
caught in a time-warp, are you?
we are now 50 years more along, and the rich are getting a much sweeter deal then they got then.
why do you hate the poor?

Since you love Chairman Mao so much:

 

[WildCat]

i keep the little red book close at hand, and it is often relevant.
surprised?

...welcome back.

"But when you start carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"

-John Lennon

 

[WildCat]

The movement is about to get hijacked:



And:

Remember when Obama was going to tax the fat cat 1% for their "Cadillac" health insurance plans, and then he discovered that most of those plans were for public union members?

Funny stuff!