Posted on 10/23/2011 11:37:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For those old enough to remember the protests of the 1960s and 70s, Occupy Wall Street has revisited that era. Folk legends Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, joined the ever growing movement and marched with the group in New York City singing Seeger's signature, We Will Overcome.
Seeger is now 92 and walks with two canes; Guthrie is 64 and a long way from Alice's Restaurant. Seeger, a lifelong activist, is best known for penning the infamous, "If I Had a Hammer," " Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?"
After performing on Friday evening at Symphony Space, the singers joined the march to Columbus Circle where they evoked strong support and memories of a bygone era.
Occupy Wall Street which started in New York on Sept. 17 has grown exponentially across the country and the globe. Residents living near Zucotti Park have lamented the loss of the use of the park, especially those with children.
Protestors in Oakland, Ca., don't seem bothered by the fact that they were facing eviction from their encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. ABC news reported that though they were issued an order to vacate the plaza by 10:00 p.m. on Friday night, more tents were erected and there are no signs of anyone leaving.
Business Week reported that Occupy London Stock Exchange protestors caused popular tourist spot, St. Paul's Cathedral, to close because of risks to public safety. The protestors' use of flammable liquids and stoves has created a fire hazard. Tourists were frustrated and disappointed.
There are complaints in and around many of the protest sites, citing public urination, vandalism, noise, garbage, graffiti and more.
The Huffington Post reports that a 24-year-old man was finally taken into police custody after he climbed a large sculpture in Zucotti Park and refused to come down until Mayor Bloomberg resigned.
Special police units were called in to intercede. There was an emergency service unit and a hostage negotiation team to try to talk the man down the 70-foot sculpture. After a 3-hour stand off, the Canadian man was coaxed down in a basket from the sculpture called Joie de Vivre.
In these times of massive budget cuts, how much did those special police teams that were brought in to deal with this nut, cost the city? Where will that money be taken from? Clearly, that man realized that scaling a sculpture would not result in Bloomberg's resignation but would result in his own 15 minutes of fame. Well, maybe 14 minutes - I'm not going to use his name.
How much is the increased police protection and other necessary services around all of these sites, costing the cities? What started out as a noble cause is in danger of becoming convoluted and murky.
A friend of mine went to film in Zucotti Park the other day and came back impressed by the remarkable disjointed nature of the protestors. The pizza box signs that many groups had, were varied and contradictory. "Never, Never, Never, Never, Never Vote Republican" and a few feet away, "Vote Ron Paul 2012," "Stop Using Gasoline," "No Nuclear Power," "Free Palestine," and not far away, was a Sukkah, There was a group chanting "No Prison for Precision" - and no one knew what that meant.
It's clear that the common denominator of this group is unhappiness with current conditions. But that seems to be where the cohesion ends. Nevertheless, officials seem to be pussyfooting around the protestors, terrified of making waves because of the sheer size of these groups, lest they become angry mobs. And let's not forget, this is election time.
Famous people have been lending their name to the cause - WEALTHY famous people. So, they speak at the protest and then jet off to their Hamptons house. Isn't this what the protestors are protesting?
How will these groups facilitate actual, positive change or is this just a protest? Growing larger doesn't seem to be the answer. At this point, they have the world's attention. OK self anointed 99 percent - what's next?
The usual suspects...
Hey wait, I thought Seeger was dead...
” Hey wait, I thought Seeger was dead... “
From the article —
” And let’s not forget, this is election time. “
The time when Dem voters arise from the grave and walk among us....
“(excepting Alice...)”
If these two commie relics are the best they come up with the cause is lost.
Good Read: (It tells us how it works)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2.009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
I cannot help but consider how much these kids are like their gruesome historical counterparts.
They protest “Wall Street” and yet fail to see the likenesses of Morgan-Rockefeller trading our technology away with their very own tax dollars. Dollars that shuold have remained in our pockets, spent here, given here. Dollars, that in the hands of the common-man would do good here.
GE, GM, etc. going overseas and yet these elite sit and dine in the White House? Soros and his ilk trading falling countries like poker chips at the cost of human lives crying out for freedom, only to find their very souls sold into hell.
I just do not understand how they can be so blind and yet so accusatory. So right and so very wrong.
They have come for Wall Street.
They have come for the Banker.
They have come for the Jew.
They have come for the “rich.”
They will come for you...
Get a truckload of those minority female bruisers on YouTube who are always beating the snot out of McDonalds customers and truck them up to Zuccotti Park.
I tried that link....404 not found.
Did find this through google
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Pretty sure Solomon wrote the lyrics to Turn, Turn, Turn
I am beginning to think that by this years end we may be on the brink of total anarchy in this country.
Seeger, a life long activist.
The man’s a Stalinist.
Seeger, a life long activist.
The man’s a Stalinist.
The article was off when the author waxed eloquent about the protesters vast numbers. I don’t see anything of the sort. It’s always the Dem-run cities that eagerly pander to these people and ignore their own ordinances. Hell, San Fran Freako of all places, has kept them out.
These lefty city governments are going to pay fierce price, come next November, for their shameless pandering to these punks over the needs of their own exasperated voters.
someone needs to brink a few skunks there and let us loose
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