Occupy Wall Street: The Movement Grows

[georgephillip]

"NEW YORK (AP) — Police arrested protesters who sat on the ground and blocked traffic into New York City's financial district on Thursday, part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street camps nationwide.

"Police in riot helmets hauled several protesters to their feet and handcuffed them at an intersection one block from Wall Street.

"All day, all week, shut down Wall Street!" the crowd chanted...."

Occupy protesters arrested in NYC finance district - Yahoo! News

Maybe New York's finest should prosecute those responsible for the epidemic of mortgage fraud that crashed the global economy in 2008. Fraud the FBI began warning about in 2004 with 80% of the alleged fraud coming from lenders.

 

[Katzndogz]

obama friend Bill Ayers teaches Occupy Chicago.

obama pastor gives occupy church sanctuary.

You can't GET better than this! obama is going to own every head louse and crab.

 

[Uncensored2008]

obama friend Bill Ayers teaches Occupy Chicago.

obama pastor gives occupy church sanctuary.

You can't GET better than this! obama is going to own every head louse and crab.

Damn..

So Obama is a headcrab?

Somehow, it all makes sense.

 

[chanel]

AUSTIN, TEXAS – A 20-year old Occupy Austin protester arrested Sunday morning at City Hall is charged with exposing his private parts and masturbating in front of a 16-year old girl.

Jarod Smith was arrested and charged with indecency with a child, which is a third degr

Occupy Austin protester arrested for masturbation at City Hall

 

[chanel]

AUSTIN, TEXAS – A 20-year old Occupy Austin protester arrested Sunday morning at City Hall is charged with exposing his private parts and masturbating in front of a 16-year old girl.

Jarod Smith was arrested and charged with indecency with a child, which is a third degr

Occupy Austin protester arrested for masturbation at City Hall

 

[georgephillip]

"You would think that a former partner at the investment bank Solomon Brothers, which originated mortgage-backed securities, a man who then partnered with Merrill Lynch in the high-speed computerized trading that has led to so much financial manipulation, would have some sense of his own culpability.

"Or at least that someone whose Wall Street career left him with a net worth of $19.5 billion would grasp the deep irony of his being the instrument for smashing Occupy Wall Street, the internationally acknowledged symbol of opposition to corporate avarice..."

But then you would be confusing Mayor Bloomberg with someone who is not a 1% psychopath.

Robert Scheer: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

 

[JStone]

"You would think that a former partner at the investment bank Solomon Brothers, which originated mortgage-backed securities, a man who then partnered with Merrill Lynch in the high-speed computerized trading that has led to so much financial manipulation, would have some sense of his own culpability.

"Or at least that someone whose Wall Street career left him with a net worth of $19.5 billion would grasp the deep irony of his being the instrument for smashing Occupy Wall Street, the internationally acknowledged symbol of opposition to corporate avarice..."

But then you would be confusing Mayor Bloomberg with someone who is not a 1% psychopath.

Robert Scheer: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

Georgie, occupy a desk, loser.

 

[georgephillip]

"You would think that a former partner at the investment bank Solomon Brothers, which originated mortgage-backed securities, a man who then partnered with Merrill Lynch in the high-speed computerized trading that has led to so much financial manipulation, would have some sense of his own culpability.

"Or at least that someone whose Wall Street career left him with a net worth of $19.5 billion would grasp the deep irony of his being the instrument for smashing Occupy Wall Street, the internationally acknowledged symbol of opposition to corporate avarice..."

But then you would be confusing Mayor Bloomberg with someone who is not a 1% psychopath.

Robert Scheer: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

Georgie, occupy a desk, loser.

Speaking of psychopathic liars:

"Amira Hass: Netanyahu is less of a liar than past Israeli PMs | Israeli Occupation Archive

"Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, we are told, do not believe Netanyahu. But it seems that they and their governments are pissed off at him because he’s not as good a liar as his predecessors in the Prime Minister’s Office...."

How's the land and water stealing business in Palestine going?
Better than Bloomberg?

 

[conner700]

I'd rather have this one question answered:

If we do away with capitalism, what is it to be replaced with and how will this be implemented?

I suspect the real answer is damning to the movement.

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I'd rather have this one question answered:

If we do away with capitalism, what is it to be replaced with and how will this be implemented?

I suspect the real answer is damning to the movement.

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

What system has Economic Equality?

 

[conner700]

You're creating an artifical distinction between labor of body and labor of the mind.

Both represent human labor.

Yes they are both labor, but the distinction remains important. Because there is this misconception that simply putting forth hard work, which can take the form of manual labor or even putting in many hours at a desk, should yield ever increasing levels of income. That simply isn't the case. Getting ahead financially isn't about simply working hard. It's about working smart.

From where I come from, "... working smart" means one has no moral and/or ethical means to obtains one's goals. Discovering a way to steal and cheat others out of their hard earned money isn't work, it is a crime against the United States of America.

Bribbery, ponzie schemes, failure to pay properly, and criminalizing innocent poor people for being poor--isn't the work of a genius--it is the work of a very greedy, selfish person (corporation) who has no thread of humanity in his and/or her own blood.

 

[MikeK]

I'd rather have this one question answered:

If we do away with capitalism, what is it to be replaced with and how will this be implemented?

I suspect the real answer is damning to the movement.

There is no intention to "do away with capitalism."

Capitalism is a good economic system provided it is controlled by certain socialist controls to prevent its developing into the laissez faire "supply side" monstrosity foisted on us by Ronald Reagan and accelerated by George W. Bush.

 

[Big Fitz]

There is no intention to "do away with capitalism."

I call bullshit.

 

[Big Fitz]

I'd rather have this one question answered:

If we do away with capitalism, what is it to be replaced with and how will this be implemented?

I suspect the real answer is damning to the movement.

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

And answered nothing. Please define for us HOW "Economic Equality" will be installed, maintained and used. I want functional answers, not shiny ass platitudes with no specifics.

Who, What, When, Where, Why and most importantly HOW.

 

[Katzndogz]

I'd rather have this one question answered:

If we do away with capitalism, what is it to be replaced with and how will this be implemented?

I suspect the real answer is damning to the movement.

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

And answered nothing. Please define for us HOW "Economic Equality" will be installed, maintained and used. I want functional answers, not shiny ass platitudes with no specifics.

Who, What, When, Where, Why and most importantly HOW.

For economic equality to be imposed on the people, you need a very strong dictator. One like Saddam Hussein would do quite well. Someone strong enough to forcibly remove people's property from them.

Then you have economic equality.

 

[Big Fitz]

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

And answered nothing. Please define for us HOW "Economic Equality" will be installed, maintained and used. I want functional answers, not shiny ass platitudes with no specifics.

Who, What, When, Where, Why and most importantly HOW.

For economic equality to be imposed on the people, you need a very strong dictator. One like Saddam Hussein would do quite well. Someone strong enough to forcibly remove people's property from them.

Then you have economic equality.

Josef Stalin had to just kill over 16 million people to pull off economic 'equality', and he still never truly succeeded although most Soviets were equally poor and oppressed. He and his cronies still had lots of prosperity.

Oh well, can't have perfection I guess.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Cancer grows also nothing new.
The OWS is like cancer cells
The people in the movement are misguided and are taking their bitterness out on the wrong people.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The answer is:

Economic Equality.

Now did that hurt?

I take that lots of guns and mutilated bodies will be part of the equation, as is always the case from the left?

Murder the productive and let the dolts who supported you stand in line for toilet paper.....

 

[Katzndogz]

And answered nothing. Please define for us HOW "Economic Equality" will be installed, maintained and used. I want functional answers, not shiny ass platitudes with no specifics.

Who, What, When, Where, Why and most importantly HOW.

For economic equality to be imposed on the people, you need a very strong dictator. One like Saddam Hussein would do quite well. Someone strong enough to forcibly remove people's property from them.

Then you have economic equality.

Josef Stalin had to just kill over 16 million people to pull off economic 'equality', and he still never truly succeeded although most Soviets were equally poor and oppressed. He and his cronies still had lots of prosperity.

Oh well, can't have perfection I guess.

Libs just can't answer the question of how economic equality for those who work and those who don't led to the labor camps.

 

[Big Fitz]

For economic equality to be imposed on the people, you need a very strong dictator. One like Saddam Hussein would do quite well. Someone strong enough to forcibly remove people's property from them.

Then you have economic equality.

Josef Stalin had to just kill over 16 million people to pull off economic 'equality', and he still never truly succeeded although most Soviets were equally poor and oppressed. He and his cronies still had lots of prosperity.

Oh well, can't have perfection I guess.

Libs just can't answer the question of how economic equality for those who work and those who don't led to the labor camps.

Of course they can't. When faced with the actual application of their desired ideology, they cannot admit how many people will have to die to accomplish the nightmare.

They want to nestle safe and sound in their fantasy that cannot exist in the real world, for if it did... it becomes an unspeakable evil. And if it COULD exist in the real world... it already would have.

It's like that oft loved, but completely stupid RFK quote:

"People often look at the world and ask 'Why?' I look at the world and ask 'Why not?'"

The answer, is still "Because if it COULD have been, it would have already existed if it was so simple and natural."