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Really, if this was a bunch of homeless crackheads doing these things in a park, the police would have already rounded them up and taken them to jail. It's like it's accepted because they are middle-class. That's a double standard.
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Um, homeless crackheads live on the streets all the time and nobody does anything at all about it. There aren't enough jails...
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Complaining about not being automatically zoomed into Upper Middle America with their (often irrelevant) college degrees. Well, get over it- working class people have been struggling for generations. Even at its worst, their lives are so much better than the lives of so many in this country. I can't help feel they are not fighting for the truly underpriveledged, but they are just irate because their lives haven't turned out exactly the way society has told them they should by age 25, because we are in a recession.
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This isn't the complaint. The complaint is that no matter what you or anybody else does, you are completely and totally powerless in determining the future of our country, laws, financial state, etc. Because corporations have all the power. This is NOT a government of the people, by the people or for the people. It is a corrupt hotbed of corporate greed. Is that really ok with you?
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And if they are so concerned with inequalities in this country, do something productive, like tutor at an after-school center (if there are any left, with all the funding cuts...but that's another post) for underpriveledged kids. These ARE edcuated, intelliegent people- pool your resources and start looking for places where you can ACTUALLY make a difference instead of pulling this stunt.
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The bolded part is exactly what they are protesting!
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I think it's kind of funny (but I'm just mean like that)...the Occupy movement has finally come to Newark, NJ. They were told to get out of the parks by dusk, but then the police changed their mind and let them stay. The caveat? "You are on your own," the police Captain said. "Call 911 if there's an emergency." And then the officers left to go patrol the neighborhoods.
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This is what the Occupy people want them to do. Watching the Portland standoff, with police in riot gear and the crowd chanting "We are a peaceful people" and "You don't need your riot gear, we don't see a riot here." This was after the police forced them out of a park, into one block of a street, packed in like sardines, and then announced over a bullhorn that if they didn't move to a sidewalk, they could be subject to arrest or physical, chemical or biological means of force. The sidewalk was packed, the street was packed and the police were blocking ALL possible points of egress. That was total B.S. Herd a group into a space for no reason, then tell them to leave or be arrested or injured and give them no way to leave???
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I know, I'm just a big meanie  But honestly, what is sitting in a park doing to change the world? It's not 1969!!! |
Maybe it needs to be. What would you do to change the world? How would you get media attention from all over the world to look at real problems in our societal structure?
I will say that I have not agreed with every direct action they have implemented. Blocking subways during NYC rush hour doesn't hurt anybody but the rest of the 99%. Whether I agree with all of their ideas and methods or not, they have a right to be heard and a right to protest. We have the First Amendment for a reason. The 1% is clearly getting uncomfortable with this movement and orchestrated raids on Occupy camps all in the same night all over the country. The old saying is, First they ignore you, then they fight back, then you win. As they often change "The whole world is watching." This says to me that they are winning.
Check this out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1....html#liveblog Sounds like the 1% is getting scared to me.