Where are the OWS supporters outrage...?

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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Ok, ok... That made me laugh.
    Just blowin off steam.

    Truth is, I'd like to camp out in a park playin music, drinkin, tent-hoppin w like-minded co-eds n protesting the bad guys d' jour- sounds awesome actually.

    But for grown ups w mouths to feed n bills to pay, who's got the time?

    It's a shame that it's gone violent tho...These things only seem to escalate.

    I agree, when you get voilent i think you negate whatever your argument you may have had.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    I agree, when you get voilent i think you negate whatever your argument you may have had.
    ...
    In every large gathering/protest... there are ALWAYS those people who fall into the category of, 'You're Really Not Helping...'. Like the Nader supporter that paints himself silver, hops up on stilts, wearing a silver body suit and shows up at the rally. He's the asshole that gets the media coverage and is represented as Nader's base supporters by political opponents.
    The Tea Party have those a-holes that can't spell, have no clue what the definitions of Socialism, Fascism and Communism are... yet, bring loaded fucking guns to Town Hall meetings. Those assholes should do the Tea Party a favor and just stay in their fucking fortified bunkers, stroking their gunstocks and sit and wait til the U.N. Blue Helmets come to pry it from their cold, dead hands.
    Same goes for those fucking, so-called 'Anarchists' that hurl molotov cocktails at police lines and shatter shop windows. You are nothing but moronic fucking vandals that sort of paid attention in that one PoliSci class at Community College, before you, predictably, dropped out... you are not political activists. Go back to your mom's basement room in your Urban uniform you bought at the Hot Topic in the mall and finish that game of 'World of Warcraft' with your buddies.
    You're Really Not Helping...
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,943
    These things always get spoiled by the attention being drawn to the sensational rather than the overall majority of what goes on. They also get infiltrated by ... well, whatever you call trolls in real life.
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,179
    If O.W.S. was smart, they should pull out of Oakland for at least a week. They need to distance themselves from the violence that is occurring. Otherwise, it's hard for the public opinion to differentiate between themselves and a bunch of troublemakers.

    Public focus has shifted from N.Y. to Oakland. And that is not good for public perception of O.W.S.
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    bennett13 wrote:


    All three of your points could just as easily apply to the police.

    I disagree. And, additionally, I think you're missing a huge difference between the groups: The police are official representatives of the government.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Jason P wrote:
    If O.W.S. was smart, they should pull out of Oakland for at least a week. They need to distance themselves from the violence that is occurring. Otherwise, it's hard for the public opinion to differentiate between themselves and a bunch of troublemakers.

    Public focus has shifted from N.Y. to Oakland. And that is not good for public perception of O.W.S.

    in my opinion ... they need to finish their occupation and re-organize ...

    i would start with a website showing the inequities in the system and the failures of a corporatized gov't ...
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,179
    polaris_x wrote:
    in my opinion ... they need to finish their occupation and re-organize ...

    i would start with a website showing the inequities in the system and the failures of a corporatized gov't ...
    You have to organize in the first place before you can re-organize. ;)
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