Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

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Taarkin said:
:jaw-dropp indeed! I am totally :jaw-dropping over here at these folks who have trouble wrapping their head around the idea.
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Amazing isn't it ? Understanding such a simple concept that linking arms and refusing to move will result in pepper spray. It's sort of like refusing to acknowledge the simple reality that pulling a knife on a cop will cause you to get shot.
 
Stout said:
Amazing isn't it ? Understanding such a simple concept that linking arms and refusing to move will result in pepper spray. It's sort of like refusing to acknowledge the simple reality that pulling a knife on a cop will cause you to get shot.
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Of course you WILL get you pepper sprayed. Obviously! Now try taking the old noodle for a spin and wrap your head around the idea I was talking about.
 
Turning an unused resource into a homeless shelter?
My god. Will these monsters stop at nothing? Take us to DEFCON 2, general.
 
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Brainster said:
Why would I go to jail if I handcuffed someone and put them in the back seat of my car?
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Because you're not allowed to do that sort of violence, but a cop is.
(the point is, legal or justifiable violence is still violence- see sig).
 
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Pardalis said:
Hello fire hazard.
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They're turning an abandoned building into a homeless shelter; somebody more concerned with making accurate statements instead of smearing the opposition might say something like "Goodbye fire hazard".
 
Kthulhut Fhtagn said:
I certainly don't believe the officers, without full benefit of hindsight, were aware of that. But this another attempt to divert into the "will they become violent" territory.
Taarkin said:
Fair enough, but it isn't a diversion.
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I take that back. It was a response to other posters' attempts at diversion.
 
Taarkin said:
I take that back. It was a response to other posters' attempts at diversion.
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I am especially getting a kick out of the made up word, "Occutard" when referring to OWS. It's as if we're NOT in a place to discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly and lively way!
 
Alt+F4 said:
Well think about the jobs that illegals do: construction, cleaning, farming, food preparation. These are not well paid jobs. In addition, illegals often work in very bad and dangerous conditions.
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I happen to know a few illegals and they have pretty good jobs. One guy works in maintenance where I work and makes a dollar less than I do. Another works at a tattoo parlor as, yes you guessed it, a tattoo artist, and another drives truck! I don't have a problem with them working those types of jobs and the people who hired them are not bothered about hiring them and paying them well either! However there seem to be people here on JREF as well as those looking for camera time on Fox News who have taken this whole immigration issue to a level of some sort of mental instability. It really bothers you (them).
 
Taarkin said:
They're turning an abandoned building into a homeless shelter
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The article says nothing of the sort, it says they are simply "occupying" the place.

The way they've haphazardly set up camp in the parks so far, it doesn't seem as though they have a genuine and secure plan to turn the edifice into anything viable, they're just going to squat the place. They didn't have a safety plan before, and won't have any for the building either.

I predict the fire department will ask them to leave because they do not follow city safety codes, and I predict that the occupants will cry that they are being oppressed yet again.
 
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Taarkin said:
Because you're not allowed to do that sort of violence, but a cop is.
(the point is, legal or justifiable violence is still violence- see sig).
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Police handcuffing someone and putting him in the back of a police car is not "violence" either.
 
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