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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
First of all, there is no need to send cops to a peaceful protest, especially hundreds of them.
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Really?
The big thing was the protest in Oakland, California, yesterday. I guess it's perfectly acceptable to the citizens of Oakland that their library was off limits because of protesters. (I read constantly and make weekly trips to the library; I'm also well educated and aware of local politics - I know a huge chunk of library costs comes from our town's general fund and I'd be pretty pissed off if I couldn't go to the library later today!) The police needs to be there to ensure the fucking taxpayers can enter the library - You know, the building with the books paid for by tax dollars and open to the public?
They didn't shut down the free way yet - protesters usually shut down the 580 - but they did fuck up a lot of surface streets. Peaceful or not, when you protesters marching down streets with cars you have lots of problems. I did see a car trying to weave through a group of protesters - surely the police was needed to direct traffic there, right?
The police ordered the protestors to leave the park - Frank Ogawa Plaza. The city wants to clean it, which makes sense, but they refused to leave. No problem - No need to call the police. They can just do whatever they fucking want in Frank Ogawa Plaza. They can violate all the city laws they want such as camping over night in a city park, smoking pot in pubic, taking craps in the bushes. No problem. No need to call the police.
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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Also, you are really misguided on what caused the economy to crash. It is well known that the banks giving those loans were breaking laws to do so, corruption led to the crash. There will always be idiots that fall for this shit, the banks knew better but they pawned off their bad investments on the retirement funds of your friends and family.
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What laws were broken?
I bought a house and lived in it for four years. I sold the house and made a huge profit. No laws were broken by the bank.
My friend here in California bought a house, house went up in value, they refinanced and took that money out - and fueled the economy further by buying themselves a nice new truck, a boat, a jeep, a motorcycle that would make Baddog jelaous, and a pair of ATVs. No laws were broken. Value of the house went up, they refinanced.
The 99% is what caused this. All of us did by our greed. Did the banks make money? Sure did. But so did everyone else.