Posted on 10/16/2011 9:02:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AP) -- The protesters at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement were planning a day of rest Sunday, a day after rallies across the globe drew thousands who marched and chanted and, in some cases, grew violent.
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In Chicago, Sunday began with much more activity. At least 175 people were arrested in the early hours after refusing to obey a police order to leave a park that closed at 11 p.m.. They were in somewhat of a contrast to demonstrators elsewhere, .. Still, the arrests were mostly peaceful, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Over the course of what was billed as "a global day of protest" Saturday, demonstrators gathered in cities throughout the world to rally against what they see as corporate greed and Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. In Rome, rioters hijacked what had been a peaceful gathering and smashed windows, tore up sidewalks and torched vehicles. Repair costs were estimated at $1.4 million, the mayor said Sunday.
But most of the marches remained largely nonconfrontational, though dozens were arrested in New York and elsewhere in the U.S. .. Two officers in New York were injured and had to be hospitalized.
In the city's Times Square, thousands of demonstrators mixed with gawkers, Broadway showgoers, tourists and police to create a chaotic scene in the midst of Manhattan.
"Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" protesters chanted from within police barricades. ..
Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for "Anything Goes" in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her.
"It's horrible what they're doing," she said of the protesters. "These people need to go get jobs."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
THE NYC group took the day off so the rest of the World could catch up as the media updates the theme and agenda .. and give the media some recupe time to reload their make-up trays and flasks..
All Hail the Media.. a subversive element and then some these days.. as they cover another 'shovel-ready' project and a distraction from the lack of sanity in a Leftist leadership.. more interested in plundering from the rich than running on their records as they decimate this nation , one rally at a time. Goebbels would be proud.
“They should take it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Harman Cain
Yup .....””Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!”” Go to Washington DC and thank Obama for that one. They are wasting their time in New York.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan" All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A....
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
The pilgrims tried socialism also. Didn’t work then and hasn’t worked any place in the world. You’d think that these people would know that. Trouble is, all the colleges teach it as a way it should be. It amazes me that you use to be able to go to college for about $600.00 a year, now it’s at least $40,000.00 and you learn less. You could learn more on the streets in any big city.
The “took it” it to podunk Martinsburg WV instead.
http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/569229/Local-Occupy-very-peaceful.html?nav=5006
Talk about trying to be relevant.
[Martinsburg overwhelmingly votes Dem...guess why]
That's easy, it's because of all those Government people who commute in to DC everyday.
I am all in favor of this occupy movement, for the reason that it is an utter disaster, and it is a strong military adage that you “Never interfere when your enemy is seriously fouling up.”
While what they *intended* to do was create a major public uprising, which would propel Obumble back into the White House, where much of this nonsense was originally schemed; what they have *achieved* is a pathetic tantrum display, by societies’ dregs, losers, Moonbats and spoiled brats.
And the MSM’s fawning lust for this stupidity, giving copious amounts of airplay to these small bands of parasitically freakish numbnuts, is to exhibit the utter bathos of the liberal agenda. Their perfidy and the serious, destructive nature of the horrible liberal policies are turned into an ugly comedy, a rafter of brightly colored but foul smelling, gobbling turkeys, dashing hither and yon while defecating freely upon the land, on network television.
For some reason, this does not appeal to voters.
In a hilarious irony, these “illiterati” do represent the status quo, and to what level our federal leadership has fallen under the current failure in chief, trying to drag the nation itself down to their level. They are the urban village idiots, who should properly be consigned to asylums and workhouses, possibly even transportation to some remote island, but certainly nobody in whom should be invested with authority or responsibility.
They are seen by the public as nothing like the Tea Party, who are the true revolutionaries, seeking a reformation of the collapsing system to make it whole again.
They all have the same DNA?
try this on for size. ;-)
Anti-war activist Sheehan joins Occupy Sacramento protest
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/15/3982704/anti-war-activist-sheehan-joins.html
The Occupy Sacramento movement received one of its biggest endorsements today when anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan urged demonstrators to continue their protest.
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Whata a waste of print. She has a hard time occupying a brain lobe.
“Could not be any simpler than that. “
That’s also exactly how things worked out in the last trade union I was in.
social media-driven movement
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About 175 arrested overnight in Chicago protest
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-protest-banks-corporate-greed-u-marches-010458899.html
(Reuters) - Chicago police said on Sunday they arrested about 175 protesters in a downtown plaza where some had set up tents and sleeping bags in a protest inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
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The protest was one of many in a global day of demonstrations on Saturday that started in Asia and Europe and rippled around to the United States and Canada. Demonstrations were held in dozens of cities including Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been gathering steam for the past month, ..
But it was unclear whether the movement, which has been driven using social media, would sustain momentum beyond Saturday. Critics have accused the group of not having a clear message.
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement march through thefinancial district of New York October 14, 2011.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Occupy Wall Street participants stage a protest on Times Square in New York, October 15. Clashes erupted in New York and Rome and protesters camped out in worldwide demonstrations seen as a show of force by a rising global movement against corporate greed and government cutbacks. (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand)
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
Not really.
Downtown is populated by the liberals who have turned it from a thriving business district to a silly “boutique boulevard” and people whose “employer” is the welfare department.
Oh...and LOTS of “migrant workers” who never went home.
The “my family tree is a telephone pole” crowd vote overwhelming conservative.
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