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Originally Posted by nation-x
conservatives will attack the Occupy protesters for arming themselves against government oppression of their first amendment right to assemble and protest while simultaneously claiming the higher ground on second amendment rights.
I don't think violence is a way to solve any of the issues that Occupy are protesting... I am just making a point.
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I'm a fiscal conservative...and I absolutely DESPISE the way cops misuse their power.
But I'm also critical of this movement's tactic of "occupying" parks. I'm just not sure I see how that is part of their right to assemble.
I do think that they should definitely be out there marching and protesting. But building tent cities and sitting on their ass in the parks all day long and becoming a public nuisance doesn't equate in my mine to "protesting".
The methodology of "occupying" makes the whole thing a lot more complicated than if they were actually up in the face, old school protesting at the people they actually are protesting about.
"Occupying" is instead causing problems for everybody BUT the banks and wall street. And they still aren't confronting the "bad guys".
I heard on the news the other day that the actual big shots on wall street and the banks in New York all go to work at like 5 a.m. and don't leave their offices until after dark.
So the occupiers are usually either sleeping in or have already went back to "occupy" their tents and tend to their "community" when the big shots are actually there to be confronted.
Don't know what the answer is going to be over "occupying". But it's pretty obvious that local govt.'s are going to have to do something to get those tent cities taken down for public safety. And then if the protestors still want to stand up and march with signs and fill the streets? That is their 100% constitutional right to do so.