I'm looking at the West Mall page and laughing- it's got a lot of far right people nervous. Lots of overlapping threads with no real message other than "they suck and are weird." The idea of a nation wide movement that galvanizes those who believe the income disparity issue is very serious, and thus punishes politicians who bend over backwards to protect tax cuts for the upper 1%- is scary for those depending on a GOP sweep, rather than real bi-partisan progress to improve the economy and country. I actually walked by Zicotti Park last week- (no, not to hang out- for a conference in battery park) and looked at the protesters. First- there was a guy whose face is tattooed and he looked like a freak. And I saw a few legitimate hippies- maybe 10 or so. A few mid-western tourists were snickering- the other 900 people or so were average folks who were unemployed or underemployed. They weren't the pot smoking hippies that many here wish they would be so they could so easily dismiss their claims of income disparity. While a lot of people here consider a victory something that only involves their party owning 100% of the seats in both houses and the WH, most of the country would just like the damn problems addressed in a smart way. What many here are missing is that this OWS movement may help the Bi-Partisan supercommittee realize that they need to come to terms- with entitlement spending and revenues- quickly. For the moderates- this is all upside. I'm glad there is an OWS, I'm glad there is a tea party- because of these 2- we may have a historic budget passed within a few weeks that does so much to help the USA address some long ignored problems.
They are not scary. If it weren't for the violence and destructive behavior they would be laughable. They have no stated agenda whatsoever. What a bunch of morons.
Tough guys attack old people, women and children Just came across this video where they tried to prevent a conservative meeting in D.C. by forming chains, pushing old people to the ground and, apparently, doing something to a child. What a great bunch of people these misfits are. I'm glad the OP is willing to overlook the trash that is now resorting to violence to make political points.
It is scary, in a way. Scary at how ridiculously STUPID some of the people are, and even scarier that our corrupt media is in on this farce of a movement. We are on the edge of losing this country to the morons of society. That is scary.
I am sure Roger, Mcbrett, and Satchel will all say they were not the first to start the pushing and knocking people down. These people are nothing like the tea party. Bunch of morons.
The idea of a nation wide movement that galvanizes those who believe the income disparity issue is very serious ___________________________________________________ a few people screwing, shitting, stealing and pissing in public isnt scary. let me know when a million of them are doing the same thing at the national mall. right now, they are annoying and its frustrating because the media is trying to help it thrive and make it an actual movement. that is what is scary. a media that is supporting a socialist movement. they should be exposing them for the fools that they are.
Yep. The same media that bent over backwards to try to find violence and racism when the Tea Party marched peacefully somehow completely ignores everything coming out of the OWS rallies. Amazing, isn't it?
You know if I wanted to stoop down to these levels of the replies- I could show the pictures of tea party morons who showed up to rallies with guns- looking for an excuse to join militias and tell everyone the 'govment wants to take der guns away." But then that would punish the legitimate portion of the tea party which I respect. Whereas instead- the posters here who are indeed bothered by a movement that could hurt the GOP, focus solely on the OWS freaks- and no arguments that they exist. What you guys are missing- is that there is a moderate view that both of these movements, freaks aside, could help make meaningful legislation. But some of you are too focused on the same partisan fight to notice- because you care about that more than you do real results.
People are genuinely frustrated that Hope and Change was just so much BS. I get it. I never bought into it to begin with but I completely understand that those people that did are frustrated.
The people who are scared of the OWS are the many people who have been made victims by the OWS thugs including the people raped by thugs , the people beaten by OWS thugs and the people set on fire by OWS thugs. The vandalism enacted by the OWS thugs may not be scary but is surely expensive, for the private property owners and for the taxpayers who will ay to clean up the filth and destruction caused by the OWS thugs this latest from the LA occupy siteThe Link "Police were called to two violent incidents at Occupy Los Angeles on Friday, adding to questions about the protest and its future. In the morning, a woman was arrested at the encampment outside City Hall after she set another person's clothes on fire, police said. In another incident hours later, a woman was arrested after protesters said she struck a man with a tent pole. Both were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Also Friday, police arrested a man on suspicion of climbing a tree and dumping fluorescent paint on a historic marble fountain that the city barricaded earlier this week to protect from vandalism." I think mcbrett was finally right, some people do find the OWS scary but it is not the people he intended to show as firghtened, it is all the people IN the OWS gatherings who have become victims.
OMG. People legally carrying guns at a public rally. If only we had the government create some underhanded way to drive gun dealers out of business with a phony ploy to sell guns to Mexican drug cartels. Oh wait...
mcbrett is right, the OWS is scaring some people. Now OWS NYC has to put up a tent JUST for women since so many have been assualted and or raped.The Link "It’s a safe house from the sex fiends. Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away. The large, metal-framed “safety tent” -- which will be guarded by an all-female patrol -- can accommodate as many as 18 people and will be used during the day for women-only meetings, said Occupy Wall Street organizers. “This is all about safety in numbers,” said Becky Wartell, 24, a protester from Portland, Maine." yep mcbrett is really right, but not in the way he intended funny scary thing, at the link, a story about a OWS protestor at mickey d's throwing a fit and tearing out a debit/ credit card reader and throwing it at the workers who were likely just teenagers just trying to make some money. Wonder if having a machine trown at you by a crazed protestor is scary? maybe those are the ones mcbrett meant were scared.
honestly…i don't really care. they have a right to protest, but they seem overall a bit pathetic to me. I am not sure what would satisfy them and the fact that they are basically sleep overs just makes them seem a bit annoying. I suspect winter will kill much of it, but who knows, maybe it goes on for years?
What you guys are missing- is that there is a moderate view that both of these movements, freaks aside, could help make meaningful legislation. ___________________________________________________ what more legislation would you like mcbrett? give me a topic and i wilol give you an agency or law/statute that covers it. if you want to live in a free society, we probably have enough legislation...unless you are one of the ones that wantsto raise the minimum wage to 20.00 an hour.
OWS is what happens when a whole bunch of people with 75k in student loan debt realize their degree in Bitterness Studies isn't worth jack ****.
What is scary is that we have a poster - McBrett - stressing moderation and bi-partisanship, and a slew of posts harping on the same crap - filthy OWS, violent OWS, OWS supporters scaring old people and so on. And as was pointed out, I could post a hundred links and pics of the TP clowns showing up with guns at rallies, carrying racist placards and threatening older people and congresswomen. But since these are folks of the "right", they're just fine, upstanding americans.
It can't get any more despicable than this: Disabled woman heckled by Healthcare opponents P.S. The guy that put this youtube video up is perfect for this thread - a moderate who is fed up with extremes from both sides.
I missed the vid of Yea Partiers raping burning and beating up people over and over and over at event all over the country. I missed the vids of TP's throwing rocks etc at police. i did see a vid where a woman was HECKLED, she should not have been heckled. She had as MUCH right ( if not more) to voice her opinion as did everyone there. The heckling might have ben uncalled for but no one threatened her Thank goodness no one threw a credit car reader machine at her or robbed her or hit her with a tent pole or raped her or tried to set her on fire. Moreover that hrcking is NOT destruction violence assault and death and you are silly to try to equate that with the chit the OWS thugs are pouring out on other protestors bystanders, property owners and police.
All the replies here is another classic case of the right thinking that their doo doo don't stink. Reminds me of:
