For the past six days, a group called Occupy Wall Street has been staging a protest against the influence of greed on American politics. With free pizza. What? You know nothing about it? Not a word in the news? Well, that’s because it’s been fairly uneventful and therefore ignored. That’s over.
New York’s Finest, at least those not under indictment for a ticket fixing scandal, have decided that they’ve had enough of peaceful kids protesting and decided to take an otherwise innocuous situation and make it tense. Tension leads to the police giving orders and trying to herd feral children, which lead to all sorts of mischief.
Since then, 80 protestors have been arrested. Our brave New York police officers have busily maced young ladies, pulled out the hair of those who didn’t jump fast enough and thrown to the ground people who started at them with disrespectful eyes.
The mission of Occupy Wall Street, a group comprised largely of articulate, smart, caring young people, is hardly a threat to the police.
On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.
Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.
It warms my heart to hear about young people who care about something other than the size of their paycheck or where their next bag of Cheetos is coming from. Beyond that, I know nothing more about this group, or the young people who are being beaten, than what I can see on the television or youtube videos. No doubt more will be exposed as the day goes on, and we’ll learn more specifics about their cause and more about how their refusal to pay homage to our boys in blue has disrupted the equilibrium of the universe, mandating the imposition of pain and a bunch of DATs for disorderly conduct.
But I do know one thing, as these young people who may not be great with following police orders but haven’t hurt a fly as far as I’ve heard, get beaten, maced and arrested. We now have a real protest on our hands. And this would have faded to obscurity but for the heavy-handed assistance of the NYPD.
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Sir, it’s sad that this group chose to protest over “greed in politics” vs say – false arrests & wrongful convictions / deaths. Plus to advertise as being similar to a Real revolution is insulting due to the weak-ass ‘greed’ portion.
Their endeavors will be fruitless due to the majority of us not having the spare time to travel to NY and hang out. Greed isn’t eradicated via protest, you have to Vote it away or Vote it out. But, we get to learn a valuable lesson.
The U.S. Constitution & all the Amendments are nothing more than a joke. Which brings me to asks, are the police acting alone or being guided by the Mayor to deprive this group of citizens of certain rights? Or, is it as simple as peacefully disrupting the normal flow of activity has been outlawed? Thanks.
I’m not from New York, or American, and I can tell you what the white shirt means. They’re the ones making with the violence, which is a clear indication of where the orders are coming from.
When the command staff starts hosing you down with chemical weapons, ‘greed’ was the proper message. These kids fucked with the dollars and that brought down the wrath.
Different people focus on different causes. Don’t begrudge anyone else’s cause, lest they begrudge yours.
I understand their 1st Amendment Right is being violated, which is becoming more and more common these days.
I was just thinking maybe a better way to effect change is for these folks to go get their degrees in Business, join the business world and then do it different. If they are following the current news on the economy they may find that the greed factor may be correcting itself.
They want to restore democracy? Democracy, the American Dream…call it what you want…allows for greed, some would say even encourages greed through free market.
It still doesn’t make the actions of the NY cops right….