Posted on 10/15/2011 2:33:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Michael Moore on Friday called for police departments across the country to join the Occupy Wall Street protests "the same way the Egyptian army joined the people in Freedom Square there in Cairo."
"My appeal to the police is you are us and we are you," Moore said in a web only video published at MSNBC.com. "We’ll even let you beat on a bongo drum" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MICHAEL MOORE: My last word here out in the hallway just outside of [Lawrence O’Donnell’s] studio is that the police need to join us. In the same way the Egyptian army joined the people in Freedom Square there in Cairo. This is my appeal to the New York Police Department, the police departments all over the country. You are working class people. You’re not paid enough. You have the most dangerous job in the country, and these rich bastards on Wall Street they have ruined your 401(k)s, your pension funds, your future, your children’s future. Money that should be going to having better law enforcement has gone to needless wars in other lands.
So, my appeal to the police is you are us and we are you, and join us. It’s fun. We’ll even let you beat on a bongo drum. That’s my last word. Thank you.
So a man whose estimated net worth is $50 million is not only inciting people all around the country to rise up against some of America's largest corporations, he is now calling on law enforcement officials to join them.
What could go wrong?
” I can’t find many parallels in history.”
That’s why I watch this intently. We have history to look to but nothing has ever hapened on this scale in this way. So whatever happens it could happen very big.
Hence, we should ALL get bullhorns and participate in our way, shouting back.
Yes, where bullhorns are legal. However it must be kept in mind that the original excuse/reason for the people’s mic is for cases where amplified voices are not legal, such as OWC/NYC. When bullhorns are not legal, the commie cadres who have experience with the people’s mic get a big boost over any other potential group. In fact, other potential groups can’t even find themselves in such a crowd. The bolsheviks win, because they have a plan for crowd control.
The things a person sees & hears when you haven’t got a old school whaling harpoon handy.
Very true. It doesn’t take much to practice hand signals, so we would have a shot at it if we also organized even to a basic level.
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