Today was the Day of Rage (in the USA)

[Abdul Alhazred]

Story makes Wall Street Journal.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/19/wall-street-protesters-plan-to-stay-awhile/

Some stragglers didn't go home yet. So they are still OCCUPYING Wall street.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Daily Mail blamed the fail on organised police forces.

The NYPD these days is real good at crowd control. The best. And I mean peaceful control, not busting heads. This isn't the 1960s. Or the 1990s.

They diffuse much uglier crowds than this one on a regular basis.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The NYPD these days is real good at crowd control. The best. And I mean peaceful control, not busting heads. This isn't the 1960s. Or the 1990s.

They diffuse much uglier crowds than this one on a regular basis.

Did you see the video? This is a pretty ugly crowd.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I thought you were in Madison.

Go outside and look around, you'll see more naive than you can handle.

True.

Portland OR is similar in that regard.

Asking why we don't stop people from making Coke and reassign them to growing "real food" (presumably "organic", local, shade grown, fair trade), is like me, upon seeing a story on TV about how the Treasury destroys worn out paper money, asking my mom "Why don't they give it to the poor people instead"? But I'd like to think I had an excuse - I was 6 years old.

 

[quarky]

Admittedly, this was a half-baked attempt at a protest, but the underlying reason for it certainly has merit.
Accountability at Wall Street and the banks 'too big to fail'; campaign finance reform; return to sane levels of regulation to prevent the sort of corruption that has cost the American tax-payer dearly, while making a few criminals very wealthy.

So far, there is nothing in place from preventing a repeat of the massive, and mostly pointless bail-out mechanism.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Did you see the video? This is a pretty ugly crowd.

I'm not talking about mere looks.

 

[WildCat]

Story makes Wall Street Journal.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/19/wall-street-protesters-plan-to-stay-awhile/

Some stragglers didn't go home yet. So they are still OCCUPYING Wall street.

"“People brought in some dumpster food. There was some packaged watermelon,” said Mimi Ator, a 20-year-old student at the University of Washington, who’d traveled from Seattle and said she was on vacation."

I wasn't aware that UW students got to take vacations in mid-semester?

 

[Newtons Bit]

"“People brought in some dumpster food. There was some packaged watermelon,” said Mimi Ator, a 20-year-old student at the University of Washington, who’d traveled from Seattle and said she was on vacation."

I wasn't aware that UW students got to take vacations in mid-semester?

The U stands for "Union", didn't you know?

 

[daenku32]

"“People brought in some dumpster food. There was some packaged watermelon,” said Mimi Ator, a 20-year-old student at the University of Washington, who’d traveled from Seattle and said she was on vacation."

I wasn't aware that UW students got to take vacations in mid-semester?

Big Brother clearly doesn't want you to travel. Big Brother doesn't like it when college age students are out protesting Wall Street.

The good thing is that this protest is still going on. We need more of it, until the Wall St. bankers start getting sent to jail for their incompetence.

 

[Arisia]

...

The good thing is that this protest is still going on. We need more of it, until the Wall St. bankers start getting sent to jail for their incompetence.

Being an incompetent banker isn't a criminal offense... yet.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Big Brother clearly doesn't want you to travel. Big Brother doesn't like it when college age students are out protesting Wall Street.

The good thing is that this protest is still going on. We need more of it, until the Wall St. bankers start getting sent to jail for their incompetence.

Incompetence isn't illegal.

 

[quarky]

This wasn't incompetence.

This was a well thought out robbery.

 

[Virus]

This wasn't incompetence.

This was a well thought out robbery.

Prove.

 

[quarky]

Prove.

Yeah, right.


Anti-prove?

Nevermind.

all is well

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

This wasn't incompetence.

This was a well thought out robbery.

Then it wasn't very well thought out. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, (most of) the big banks lost a lot of money.

 

[Arisia]

Then it wasn't very well thought out. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, (most of) the big banks lost a lot of money.

But how many of the actual bankers responsible have been punished by being fired without a 'golden parachute'?

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

But how many of the actual bankers responsible have been punished by being fired without a 'golden parachute'?

A fair number, I would say.

 

[Brainster]

Some updates here:

The first arrest was a protester who objected to the police removing a tarp that was protecting our media equipment from the rain. The police said that the tarp constituted a tent, in spite of it not being a habitat in any way. Police continued pressuring protesters with extralegal tactics, saying that a protester on a bullhorn was breaking a law. The protester refused to cease exercising his first amendment rights and was also arrested. Then the police began to indiscriminately attempt to arrest protesters, many of them unsheathed their batons, in spite of the fact that the protest remained peaceful.

Love the "End Civilization" sign:

Plus deep thoughts from a Hurley (Lost) look-alike.

 

[quarky]

Then it wasn't very well thought out. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, (most of) the big banks lost a lot of money.

A successful burglary isn't about making other people rich.
Its about a few individuals taking a chance.
Bernie Maddoff went too far.
But we can't have the money back.

Marcos, democracy's best friend, according to Reagan, slipped out of the Philippines with an estimated 10 bil. That the government of that country didn't profit from this is no indicator of its unlikelihood.

Corruption in high places is so predictable, its almost soothing.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I keep running into paranoid-sounding misinformation being forwarded around about this. First, they kept saying that the mainstream media (mentioning, among others, specifically CNN by name). I pointed out that CNN had video and a text article on their website Saturday around 3 pm Eastern.

Next I hear that people trying to send e-mails on yahoo with the organizers websites were having those e-mails blocked. I haven't even been able to verify that that happened at all, but they're also saying that Yahoo apologized, corrected it, and said that it wasn't intentional. (I could believe that. Mass e-mailings could easily trigger a spam filter of some sort. And once a website is associated with triggering a spam trap, any link to that site gets blacklisted.)