Wall Street Protests

[SamIam]

Found on the Occupy Boulder page on FB. Not as lyrical as Dana's song, but certainly gets the point across.

http://youtu.be/w211KOQ5BMI

Damn! This old war horse is tempted to drive to the Front Range to join in!

[TheMercenary]

Interviews with the protesters on the radio and tv have been pretty funny. Few know why they are protesting and few agree on any of the reasons they are there. Reminds me of the fools at the WTO Protests.

here is one example.

Some ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Lash Out At Questions

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/...-at-questions/

[Lamplighter]

Beyond the title to the article and the last phrase in the lead paragraph,
where is all the "lashing out", or the "chaos" the on-scene reporter in the video clip is asserting ?

That link looks like it's more in the minds of scare-mongering reporters, and quite misleading.

Some ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Lash Out At Questions
October 7, 2011 12:24 AM

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday
to stand in solidarity with the growing nationwide demonstrations
aimed at corporate greed,
but some members of the peaceful event showed hostility
to media members over basic questions about the goals of the protest.
<snip>

[TheMercenary]

The point being why would some members show any hostility to anyone who is asking them to verbalize in a complete sentence their thoughts on why they were there and what were they protesting about. It is hilarious. They look just like the fools who protested at the supposedly peaceful WTO events, remember those where they burned cars and broke the windows of the local businesses?

[TheMercenary]

A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.

TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.

One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.

Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.

Interviewed in Spanish, the protesters told conflicting stories about how their group was organized. Some said it was organized at their church, and that they were there as volunteers. Others, however, referred to the man from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition — the only Caucasian in the group — as their “boss.”

TheDC asked that organizer whether he was paying the group to attend the protest, and he conceded that some protesters “aren’t” volunteers.

“Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t,” he explained. “I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.”

Video Link here:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/06/or...#ixzz1a7vjLnTw

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The point being why would some members show any hostility
to anyone who is asking them to verbalize in a complete sentence their thoughts
on why they were there and what were they protesting about. It is hilarious.
They look just like the fools who protested at the supposedly peaceful WTO events,
remember those where they burned cars and broke the windows of the local businesses?

What hostility ? Watch the videos again...
In the first, the reporter was given civil responses by each person he asked.
The second video shows police arresting some for curfew violations, each was calm and passive.

Maybe that reporter is in the wrong career,
or someone is trying to impose their own ideas on this story.

[TheMercenary]

Maybe you are correct. Maybe they shouldn't have posted the video along with the narrative since it barely supports their report.

It changes little about my points about these protests.

"In one week the Occupy Wall Street people have managed more trouble and cost to government and arrests to cities and taxpayers than the tea party has managed in three years."

[TheMercenary]

This is pretty accurate and I have to agree with the author, the protesters are nothing less than a disjointed mob of disgruntled focusing their anger in the wrong direction. Maybe they should shut down Wall Street for a week and see who gets hurt the most.... they will most likely all still have a job next week.

The "populist" protest movement "Occupy Wall Street" has certainly created enough buzz, partially from its disparate elements and lack of cohesive central message. It seems to be mostly anti-capitalism cloaked in the semantics of being against "greed" and for "justice", the usual straw men of the protest classes. However, I do think they have selected the right target, even if their rants are aimed in the wrong direction.

The protesters have labeled Wall Street as the capital of capitalism. It is a common misconception, one that is wholeheartedly embraced by the big banks and the banking system in general. Even the Federal Reserve, itself a creation of Wall Street, casts its public relations efforts in that light - that its monetary policies and framework are the fuel that runs the capitalist machine.

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/arti...get_99295.html

[footfootfoot]

And that's, like what, a half an hour in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I think our government has gotten out of touch with how money is really earned.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I think our government has gotten out of touch with how money is really earned.

No doubt...

[Pico and ME]

"In one week the Occupy Wall Street people have managed more trouble and cost to government and arrests to cities and taxpayers than the tea party has managed in three years."

That's probably a good thing, although unintentional - most there wanted simply to participate in peaceful protest, however there are bad apples in every group - it's what got the medias attention finally, which then brought about much more participation all across the country.

I think you are going to be amazed at how many people end up sympathizing with this protest. Whats really funny is their messages aren't that far off from the Tea Party's populace-type messages. The big difference is that the Tea Party is funded by the people and groups that the OWS crowd is protesting about.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

That's probably a good thing, although unintentional - most there wanted simply to participate in peaceful protest, however there are bad apples in every group - it's what got the medias attention finally, which then brought about much more participation all across the country.

I think you are going to be amazed at how many people end up sympathizing with this protest. Whats really funny is their messages aren't that far off from the Tea Party's populace-type messages. The big difference is that the Tea Party is funded by the people and groups that the OWS crowd is protesting about.

I don't disagree. Does this mean we can start calling the protesters "Nazi's" and "Racist"?

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I think our government has gotten out of touch with how money is really earned.

Surely not! Everyone in government knows that money is earned by sucking up to the the big corporations and the wealthy.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Everyone in government knows that money is earned by sucking up the the big corporations and the wealthy.

well...they're sucking something.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Does this mean we can start calling the protesters "Nazi's" and "Racist"?

We can certainly call the tea baggers that. They are infamous for their use of racial epitaphs.