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Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
reply to post by newcovenant
So even though I disagree with some of their goals and motives....I should support them???
Should I go support the Tea Party as well? Do you support the Tea Party and go to their rallies?
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by dolphinfan
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by OutKast Searcher
Find a pdf file of something called "The Occupied Wall Street Journal" it is the movements newspaper and look for Issue 1 and read the article "Learning From The World" and it is specified in there about the 12.
QUESTION: I hear that Adbusters organized Occupy Wall Street? Or Anonymous? Or US Day of Rage? Just who put this together anyway?
All of the above, and more. Adbusters made the initialcall in mid-July, and also produced a sexy poster with a bal-lerina posed atop the Charging Bull statue and riot police inthe background. US Day of Rage, the mainly internet-basedcreation of IT strategist Alexa O’Brien, got involved too anddid a lot of the early legwork and tweeting. Anonymous—inits various and multiform visages—joined in late August. InNew York most of the planning was done by people involvedin the NYC General Assembly, a collection of activists, artistsand students first convened by folks who had been involvedin New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts. But no one person orgroup is running the Wall Street occupation.
Originally posted by dolphinfan
There are reasonable steps that could be taken to do that within the confines of the system, but rather than that, as I have said before, this has become everything from campaign finance reform, to transgender rights, to biofuels.
Originally posted by dolphinfan
As it relates to pressure groups, we just had out yesterday the folks from ACORN shredding documents and telling folks to get out of town to shield their involvement. Media Matters and Soros are partially behind this, organized labor is in there as a pressure group. This is a festival of pressure groups manipulating fools who think they are accomplishing something.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
And yes I would fear for my safety at an OWS event...because when idiots start rioting...all protestors are in danger. I wouldn't advise any female to sleep over at an occupy event...because it appears that protesting corporations makes men overly horny and they can't control themselves.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by RSF77
To slightly amend to what you are saying :
We see that bringing the problems of nation to those in power is utterly useless and ineffecitve as you can't force a leopard to change it's spots once they've been issued to them.
We feel it is our right and are obligated in our resolve to fully take control and charge of the direction and take it from those leading us all into the slaughter via chaos.
Govt won't do it,corporations ain't going to do it so that leaves, We The People to take this back.
Originally posted by RSF77
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
And yes I would fear for my safety at an OWS event...because when idiots start rioting...all protestors are in danger. I wouldn't advise any female to sleep over at an occupy event...because it appears that protesting corporations makes men overly horny and they can't control themselves.
Same thing happens to our troops when they go to the desert. (Male and Female)
Or most any human in an uncomfortable, tense environment. Including prison, unfortunately.edit on 4-11-2011 by RSF77 because: (no reason given)