I agree. OWS claims to be the 99%, but they really aren't. A large percentage of the general population agree with their general message ("banks are bad") but so very few are protesting.

This already happened.

Smelly hippies? Those looked like rich white kids.

some people think the world is coming to an end, with all this shit going on, but good luck on that one I aint going anywhere so fuck you

Nobody particularly gives a shit what rich, white, spoiled kids say either. If they spent 30 years busting their ass to become a millionaire, they probably wouldn't be singing the same tune as they are now.

?The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.?
 

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If you are not hearing the message of the OWS protesters, perhaps you are not listening...

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Peace and Love,

ADG

while they were protesting we were working online lol

I just read through this again, and you know, I owe you an apology. My statement was a general one, and it shouldn't have been directed at anyone in particular.

Sorry about the misdirected anger.

You don't know me, and I don't know you either. :2 cents:

but that doesn't explain why you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway :2 cents:

i think the point was that the article was a complete fabrication of the facts.. it doesn't matter how you cut and paste it. They said they were surrounded and they used a sweeping motion to disperse the crowd , when the video clearly shows the police advance on sitting protesters and mace them in the face.

People seem to forget most police do not get to make the decisions. The police are only doing what they were told to do after being issued the pepper spray. The OWS people in the cases I have seen were told to move along, they were breaking a law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left

The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class.[2]

it's only been two months. there is plenty of time for goals and tactics to evolve.

This started before the police were brought in. The students were told to remove the tents by the school, and they refused. When college students refuse to obey the rules of the college, they are escorted off campus. In this case, the police were called. The students refused to listen to anyone, and the police went to arrest them. In very simple English, when the police are called into a dispute of this nature and the only resolution is to remove someone by force, the police will use force.

I think the police were surrounded. From the video I see a line of protesters blocking the sidewalks, protesters on both sides, and a group of police officers in the middle. You can't really see what's behind the police officers, but you can plainly see that in the back the police officers have their backs facing the camera. The officers in back were watching the far side of this group of officers.

Whatever. Some dumb kids refused to listen to the school staff, the police were called, the kids refused to "obey a peace officer" and were arrested, by force, using pepper spray.

This is what protesters do. They put police in an impossible situation and then exploit it. Our grandparents did this in the 1960s.

Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-​sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-​sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-​five minutes after being pepper-​sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...0#.TsibOcO5P3V

If you don't like the taste of pepper spray, don't participate in a riot, don't even get near one.

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Oh Quit wit the spin.

I watched a video not sure if it was the same one, about 8 minutes long I think.
at the end the Protesters were chanting we will Let you Leave in peace.

They sprayed the protesters that were sitting down blocking access. (The reason the police were called) You can tell the last and final order was given, because all the officers got back, then the one did a sweeping spray across the line.

If I go and protest, I know and am expecting to be pepper sprayed if I am blocking access, or other peoples rights to use the area being blocked.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...ate&id=8438529

DAVIS, Calif. -- Video surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.

The chancellor of the University of California, Davis described the video images as "chilling" and said she was forming a task force to investigate even as a faculty group called for her resignation because of the incident Friday.

"The use of the pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this," Chancellor Linda Katehi said in a message posted on the school's web site on Saturday.

Thanks to the police for protecting us from these very dangerous people. I was afraid for me and my family's life. LOL.

lol baddog youre so dumb

the police had ample opportunity to arrest them without pepper spray. they opted not to.

pepper spray is for protecting yourself, not just something you do before an arrest

i hope next time you get pulled over the cop just comes up and sprays you in the face then writes you a ticket but then again you seem like the kind of guy who would suck a cops dick

Did they leave because of victory? Or?

If they truly represented the 99% of 350,000,000 Americans, you'd see more than the tiny handful that have shown up.

yeah the rest of us are working lol

greater than 1% of the worlds population is allergic to that stuff and they are going to end up killing someone. Those people have a right to protest and these actions seek to take that right away.

Someone is going to die from that stuff and this whole protest things is going to change.

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From a few days ago:



Peace and Love,

ADG

10,000 protesters is what % of 350,000,000 again?
That's not even .01% of NYC.

It's supposed to impress you.

I was impressed by that number, The gate for the Las Vegas event totaled $3.9 million.

math wasn't your strong subject was it :1orglaugh

As soon as I saw Joan Baez joining to OWS lazy freaks I realized that this movement is nothing, only another useless '68 parody. Let's wait when TV won't send its reporters there and they'll loose visibility.

It's not about protecting anyone. They are police officers. They were called to a dispute. The students, much to their surprise, discovered that is in fact not "their school" and they do not have the right to pitch tents any place they please. The school said no, they disobeyed, and because there was a small group of them the police were called. The children refused to listen to the school, refused to listen to police, and broke a number of laws.

You'll see things vastly differently when you have kids. You won't want to visit the local park because the high school kids hang out in packs smoking, or your pissed off because after an hour of trying to get your six year old to sleep the silence was shattered and woke you kid up again.

Our city union was striking at the town meeting, yelling obscenities - not thinking this was a city park, and that my kid and a few hundred other kids from our league was practicing football. Sounds like no big deal until you discover that your on the league and you get flooded with dozens phone calls from pissed off parents. They have the right to protest, they do not have the right to yell obscenities at a park in front of my kids.

We had another problem where one of our football games ran late - very late - and was in violation of the noise ordinance. One of the neighbors (who is most likely pissed at themselves for buying a house next to a high school) called the police, and we were shut down.

These things sound trivial and minor, but they are laws, and they exist for a reason.

When the school administration tells you not to camp out on the campus quad, guess what - Your not camping out. And if you don't obey the school, the police get called and you get removed.

No, not at all. The police went to this group of kids and told them they were going to be arrested. Instead of standing up and putting their hands behind their backs, they remained seated with their arms locked. The police at that point had two options - Either pepper spray them, or physically separate them with their night sticks. I'm guessing being physically separated by force by men with night sticks is a lot more painful.

Your trying to make this out to be police brutality. It's not. Police brutality is when they beat you over the head with night sticks - not when they try to peacefully arrested someone who is resisting arrest.


You don't get pepper sprayed when you get pulled over - Unless there is a huge incident and you resist arrest.

I got pulled over in 2004 for a full felony stop. Long story, but I pulled away from a marked cop at a high rate of speed. Other than speeding, I had done nothing wrong but the cops thought I was running. A full felony stop meant me laying on the pavement with a cop's knee in my back while they cuffed me wasn't exactly fun, but I sort got what I deserved. And clearly it would have been a lot worse if I resisted arrested.

This is what protesters do. They bait the cops into arresting them, resist arrest, and make the cops look bad. Our grandparents did it for civil rights, and our parents did it for Vietnam. The cops don't give a shit one way or another. The cops were called to a dispute, college kids who failed to obey the rules of the school.