huh? You can protest without disrupting people.
Why do you feel it is necessary to disrupt people in order to get your message across?
I think the very idea of protest comes with some sort of disruption. Obviously, there are varying degrees of disruption (such as violent or non-violent). But yes, I think protest in its very nature comes with disruption.
OWS doesnt claim to be just protesting. They also claim to be engaged in Civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is a form of rebellion. So its a bit more than just protesting.
Disrupting others is not peaceful.
And this is not peaceful Solidarity Sunday
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Walking in a street is peaceful. Walking in the streets is peaceful.
This is peaceful.
Someone who needs to get to or from his job, and for whom that road is the only reasonable route, would disagree.
They can disagree all they want. Fact of the matter is the protesters are marching peacefully making it peaceful.
There is nothing peaceful about interfering with the ability of others to go about their own business in peace. Such interference is inherently unpeaceful.
Oh god :doh
Back to these images again?
Also holding a sign is peaceful even if its with a hateful message. Just like Nazis they can hold a peaceful rally even if they use racist imagery.
You cannot deny that Oakland is a part of OWS. Thats why I provided you with this link: occupywallst.org/article/solidarity-sunday/
"Yesterday, Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%. Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds and mass arrests. The state has compounded its policy of callous indifference with a ruthless display of violent repression. The Occupy movement will respond, as we have always reponded: with an overwhelming show of collective resistance. Today, we take to the streets. Across the country, we will demonstrate our resolve to overcome repression and continue to build a better world grounded in love and solidarity for one another. All eyes on all Occupies."
And from experience so far if one does not join the resistance we are targeted as being with the 1% or in effect the enemy. Its for the principle alone that I am resisting the resistance. But at least call it what it is a resistance and the protests are just a tactic of the resistance.
Oh and how do the OWS folks act when they are blocked from their peaceful path? Well they start yelling and getting all upset that someone blocked their path. It would seem that blocking someone path isnt very peaceful even to the occupiers.
The Constitution is incorporated, for the most part.
Who cares? OWS has run it's 15 minutes out and is fading back into insignificance where it began.
Police over reaction and abuse should always be exposed and prosecuted.
Can someone tell me anything OWS accomplished? Anything good? Outside of being a grass roots movement with no future.
National discussion. Brought to the front the topics of inequality, economic wages amongst working class and middle class people, corporate injustice, and money in politics.
All of those topics were being discussed nationally before the occupiers started squatting in public places. During Katrina the national discussion was focused on inequality. Liberals have been talking about wages for a longtime. Conservative's as well. And both sides have been talking about the working clss and the middle class. Corporations have also been a big topic of national discussion, have you not been paying attention to Enron and also the bail louts and and that national debate? And money in politics is always a big focus of national discussion long before the occupiers were even born.National discussion. Brought to the front the topics of inequality, economic wages amongst working class and middle class people, corporate injustice, and money in politics.
Im not debating this issue here. I have already made the points i wanted to make on that thread about 3 months ago. If you want to continue to debate on that issue PM me and we can move this discussion and have the whole other round of discussion about those images there and about Occupy Oakland and the events that unfolded on that night on the other thread. I will be more than happily do that on that thread and not derail this thread. Just PM me on the thread link to that thread about Occupy Oakland and i will be more than happy to do it there.
To the extent of? No. Not at all.As if no one new any of that already.
Rebellion is not protected by the Constitution, peaceable assembly is.
Police over reaction and abuse should always be exposed and prosecuted.
They were not talking about the causes of this mess, the punishment of the bankers, what measures she be brought back to end these. Plus the common people were never involved and i gurantee the average citizen did not even care about inequality even if they are affected until the OWS movement was brought and until the media actually reported on them.All of those topics were being discussed nationally before the occupiers started squatting in public places. During Katrina the national discussion was focused on inequality. Liberals have been talking about wages for a longtime. Conservative's as well. And both sides have been talking about the working clss and the middle class. Corporations have also been a big topic of national discussion, have you not been paying attention to Enron and also the bail louts and and that national debate? And money in politics is always a big focus of national discussion long before the occupiers were even born.
Hardly any.But how much of a national debate on any of those subjects is going on right now?
Never stated that "all of OWS is peaceful".You are the one that posted a giant photo of a protest and asserted that it was peaceful. You were implying that all of OWS is peaceful which just is not true.
How am i "derailing it"?If you do not want someone to answer your assertions in this thread dont offer them. You cant just assert something then when called on it turn around and cry about derailing a thread when you were the one derailing it in the first place.
If you want to debate Occupy Oakland go to the other thread and i will gladtly follow.Oakland is not the leader of OWS but like I showed in that link OWS is in solidarity with Oakland and their Anarchist block bloc tactics. The only occupiers that are not in solidarity with the black bloc tactics are the Liberal tools that had not figured out that they are in the wrong protest. But the Liberals figured it out and left OWS and now OWS is just a collection of radicals. Which makes OWS a fringe movement of radicals. Which also means that groups like those in Oakland have more power in the occupy movement. Plus OWS has been very vocally against Obama and the Liberals are trying to get Obama reelected so they cant tolerate such things anymore.
Lol if there is so much inequality how come the average citizen is unaware of it? Inequality is not something that someone needs to be told exists. Inequality is something that people cannot but to recognize since it is around them at every turn. The problem is that OWS sensationalized the concept of inequality too much. OWS was disconnected from reality and the average citizen notice that disconnect just as they notice the disconnect the wealthy politicians have.They were not talking about the causes of this mess, the punishment of the bankers, what measures she be brought back to end these. Plus the common people were never involved and i gurantee the average citizen did not even care about inequality even if they are affected until the OWS movement was brought and until the media actually reported on them.
Then there wasnt any success now was there?Hardly any.
Its that small percentage that is controlling the majority of the movement now.Never stated that "all of OWS is peaceful".
I stated before that about 97% of OWS is peaceful.
First they were not just slowing down tragic they were purposely stopping it. The entire premise of the original protesters were to shut down Wall Street by having mass protests in the middle of it. And lets be honest they were not talking about just stopping traffic in a road. OWS planned on causing a disruption to the stock market in an attempt to topple our financial system. It was an attempted economic terrorism tactic. And at the same time another group headed by the owners of Firedoglake were going to protest in DC to demand the end of military actions. It was a two prong attempt to get people to move against the government in hopes of toppling it like in Egypt. And the entire charade was put on by solely Leftist groups. But thankfully they failed miserably. If they had make any victories we would probably not be discussing this on here but would be fighting in a civil war.How am i "derailing it"?
People are saying: "Well if you walk in a street and slow down traffic thats not peaceful"
Oakland is not separate from OWS, in fact they are collectively bound together in solidarity as I have shown you. The occupy movement is viewed as a whole not separate protests. So Oakland is not off limits, no matter how much they have made OWS look bad OWS does not agree with you that Oakland is separate from the movement.But you are correct this is not just about Oakland it is about the entire occupy movement.If you want to debate Occupy Oakland go to the other thread and i will gladtly follow.
Did a case come up in front of him pertaining to guns?My question for this ny judge is that if he is all for constitutional rights how can he sit back and let Bloomberg ban guns like he has?
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