Posted on 09/17/2011 8:49:07 AM PDT by RightGeek
A loose coalition of left-leaning groups like Adbusters and Anonymous are beginning their "occupation" of Wall Street today at noon. Their goal is to "see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades, and occupy Wall Street for a few months." According to the protest's website, a "leaked bulletin from the New York Police Department reveals that they expect at least 5,000" to show up today, and ask participants to being "warm clothing" along with other provisions due to the recent cold snap. Mayor Bloomberg told his eponymous news organization, "People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it. As long as they do it where other people’s rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds …"
Once in place, the protesters claim they will "incessantly repeat our one simple demand until Barack Obama capitulates," but what exactly is that demand? We won't know until a week from now, when they "publicly deliver [their] manifesto to the White House and to the American media," but looking at their list of possibilities, they are anything but "simple." Then again, neither are the problems.
The occupation won't be entirely "peaceful," as Anonymous is promising to roll out a new, more powerful hacking tool to cripple websites. According to ITWorld, the group recently tested it by bringing down WikiLeaks and Twitter. If the protesters make it until Monday, they'll be able to greet President Obama as he swings into town to speak to the UN and schmooze with wealthy donors.
"If we have peaceful assemblies and debates about what our demands to President Obama should be, then bit by bit we can create a situation that will rival what happened in Egypt," the editor of Adbusters tells CNN. While the occupation begins at 12:00 p.m. at North Bowling Green, the protest will amass in earnest at 3:00 p.m. at Chase Plaza.
Port-A-Potties?
Hey, where are all the NYC construction workers that used to beat on the hippies back in the early 70’s during their protests, riots, US flag burnings and general marxist tendencies? They can beat on the hippies in the morning and beat on the mosque supporters in the afternoon. All in a days work saving the United States from foreign enemies.
LOL. I’m sure they will be crapping in the streets and there won’t be any poop scopping going on.
There is NO place down there to “go”....everything is closed up tight...ain’t gonna be pretty...
Cops need to wade in clubs flying.
Useful Idiots never know that they are useful idiots.
Great, rape the woman, burn the Christian churches down, and sack the historical sites.
Maybe I can round up the local Amish gang members and bus them to NYC.Hey hippies,beware of the switchblade pitchforks.
The Twitter hash tag #USDayOfRage is almost as funny as #AttackWatch.
http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23USDayOfRage
Have fun...
Shovel ready.
I hope the MSM publicizes this. For each 10 minute segment they show these vermin on TV, 20,000 more independents become confirmed GOP voters.
I am equally opposed to the Anonymous anarchy culture and the fascist-facilitating Wall Street culture. No favorites at all.
Hope those are some good demands, because it would suck getting maced for something idiotic like warning labels on role-playing video games.
Flash mobs rule! (or they encourage the perception that they do)
Goldman Sachs, Obama’s largest corporate contributor and the Dem Party’s largest corporate contributor, can house them in their headquarters.They deserve one another.
Pretty strong words. Care to elaborate on that?
I’m having my own protest today. I’m calling it, ‘A Day of General Malaise and Random Ennui.’
Wake me when it’s January, 2013! :)
Well, #17 does a pretty good job of that (not that GS is all that unique).
#usdayofrage Is this the new stupid idea to try to prevent attackwatch from being the most moronic thing on the internet?
LOL! Between this and AttackWatch I have never laughed so much in my life!! My fave so far:
#USDayofRage What do we want! (we dunno), When do we want it! (We dunno that either) #FAIL #usdor 15 minutes ago
It would be good if you could wake up just for one day on 6 Nov 2012...Sarah Palin would appreciate your vote.
Kelly will let them camp out for months on Wall St? lol I have to admire the self-important attitude. That being said, how in league is Bloomberg, Unions, Obama in this Spring deal? They do know it’s Autumn?
I’m with Steve.
Bobz, do a search on Solyndra and Goldman Sachs. Or JP Morgan and food stamps. Or any Wall Street bank and mortgage fraud.
What’s going on on Wall Street today is two groups who both feel they have divine right (”we’re doing God’s work” - Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs) to steal from you and me, without restraint.
Think Stalin vs. Hitler. The liberty loving American patriot has no skin in this matchup, except to hope that they each inflict maximum casualties on each other and thus have left to bring to bear against us. In this scenario, we are all Poles.
lol Now i’ll have to go look.
I’ll send my absentee ballot in time, LOL!
Haven’t missed an election from Local Dog Catcher on up since I was 18. :)
“incessantly repeat our one simple demand until Barack Obama capitulates,”
RESIGN !
RESIGN !
RESIGN !
RESIGN !
RESIGN !
Etc.
****The hippies have rolled out the sack and are getting ready for a little light rioting.****
Time for the police to break out the billy clubs, tear gas and electric cattle prods!
Haven’t missed an election from Local Dog Catcher on up since I was 18. :)
If Obama was running for dog catcher, I’d turn out
to vote for his opponent.
I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that 5000 people will show up and risk arrest, when they don’t even know what they’re protesting against.
Like good democrats they’re having to protest to find
out what they are protesting against.
The police should just break out the soapy water...that should terrify them enough.
I knew you would a good soldier lives by stradegy and is always on time. Your service to our country is most commendable...Thank You!
Then I wish you anarchy. You would like it less, I promise.
Have been told yrs ago in Boston they’d have the police horses crap on the streets and drag the hippies through the horse droppings.
Prob no Day of Rage in Boston today; hippies there have the usual Freedom (i.e., legalize hemp) rally
Also try:
#takewallstreet and #occupyWallStreet
I agree. They could all use a hickory shampoo by the police!
Too bad we live so far away !
Out there somewhere. Funny, we’re still at war etc but nobody seems to have anti war rallies anymore with a Dem in the white house.
Some tweets from Day of Rage itself:
>>We’ll change the name US Day of Rage, which IS NONVIOLENT, when Pentagon changes name of Operation Enduring Freedom, which IS VIOLENT
>>Good to start the day with a healthy breakfast. Make sure you charge your batteries & take water
(me, Note to hippies: DURACELL IS A CORPORATION!! EVIL!)
Ah yes, the good old days - http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/hard-hat-riots-a-forgotten-chapter-sixties-history-echo-tea-parties-of-today
Construction workers at the World Trade Center building site got wind of the plan. When anti-war protester assembled at the George Washington statue on Wall Street that day -- complete with Viet Cong flags -- suits and hard hats joined forces against the hippies...
Ah yes, the good old days - http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/hard-hat-riots-a-forgotten-chapter-sixties-history-echo-tea-parties-of-today
Construction workers at the World Trade Center building site got wind of the plan. When anti-war protester assembled at the George Washington statue on Wall Street that day -- complete with Viet Cong flags -- suits and hard hats joined forces against the hippies...
A Few Months””
Obviously, these butned out hippies & trust fund babies don’t have calendars in their possession.
Rain-Sleet-Snow- will not be very pleasant in tents in the coming months.
Can anyone come up with a live video feed address for this; wanna see how many are dressed up as the Grim Reeper.
You just know these creeps envy the true protests that are the Tea Party. They've never seen anything like the Tea Party...which is a true, grassroots movement.
Resist we much...
Do leftists *ever* know what they are protesting against?
Yep, this takes me back to 1970, when smelly people raised hell on the Ohio State campus making things difficult for people trying to get to classes and to work. They didn’t get out of bed until noon, however, so it was possible to get the buildings where the science classes were concentrated if you went there in the morning.
Put that energy into getting a job. Any job is better than protesting and being a nuisance.
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