Posted on 09/18/2011 10:00:25 AM PDT by ponygirl
Lisa Fithian said she's not part of any official group and that the “occupation” of Wall Street is the work of many people coming together with the same message.
"Wall Street is certainly the heart of why we're here. It's the corporations — the big banks in this country have been destroying this country,” said Fithian. "Overfees or high mortgages, student loans, the banks are touching every aspect of our lives."
She added that banks and the wealthy have taken money for their own interests and their own survival.
“The people here are saying enough of that," said Fithian.
Inspired by events around the world, she drew the analogy to Tahrir Square in Egypt and said the power of the people is leading to change.
"I'm here, I'm tweeting," said one protester.
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
Lol.....”Corporations are evil!”......I guess that means too the evil computers created by evil corporations!
Wow! That's almost 1 millionth of the world!!
I’ve got some business tomorrow morning at 40 Wall Street. Hopefully some of these losers will be around.
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Why are politicians exempt from the laws against Insider Trading? How does someone like Harry Reid go from being a sh!tkicking nothing from a backwater like Searchlight Nevada, then shows up in Washington with no business or financial experience, and now years later is a multi-millionaire? He's never run a business, knows nothing about finance, yet we're supposed to believe he "made excellent investing decisions" on his own? Who repealed Glass-Steagall and why? Why was Lehman taken to slaughter while Goldman was propped up? Why has no one been arrested for falsifying credit ratings, which led to the mortgage meltdown? What does it mean that Goldman's fingerprints are ALL OVER the Solyndra loan? Those are the questions they need to be asking. This "Twitter Protest" is pointless and is being directed by Bill Ayers & Co, which should tell you everything you need to know.
More bellowing from the human vuvuzelas.
More bellowing from the human vuvuzelas.
To hate banks is to hate capitalism. Banks provide credit...communists hate credit because it allows people to get ahead. Without credit, the middle class would be without homes, cars, and small businesses most of which were gotten by using credit.
There's nothing evil about credit, but these people would say there is.
Oh, sure, there not a part of any organization.
Thanks for the informative links.
“Overfees or high mortgages, student loans, the banks are touching every aspect of our lives.”
Who’s responsible? The banks who charge overfees and provide mortgages and student loans, or the people who take the money?
No one forced anyone to take the money, run up their charge cards, or finance their education. For example, it’s still possible to work one’s way through college and/or save up over time to buy a house. No one OWES anyone else such things as housing or a college education. You take the money, it’s your fault if you don’t like the terms.
Conservatives once believed in individual responsibility.
BTW, I do agree with you to the extent of government bail outs. They have no more right to other people’s money (for the mistakes they make) than individuals.
Fithian said, “When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
She’s leftist scum, but she has a kernel of truth there. Change for good or bad rarely occurs until there’s a crisis. That’s why 2012 is a good chance to turn things around...for the better. That means no more handouts or bailouts.
The protest should be in both places. Who do you think is funding these politicians? The beneficiaries of all the TARP money is the answer. What did the beneficiaries of the money do? They bought more banks. YOU loaned these companies trillions. What did you get for that? Inflation.
Only about 300 protesters, mostly college kids and aging hippies, showed up near the Stock Exchange for yesterday’s anti-Wall Street rally -- far fewer than the 20,000 that organizers of the so-called global “Day of Rage” had predicted.
Police barricades were put up to protect both the exchange and the iconic “Charging Bull” statue on Broadway. The barriers hardly needed.
Police said two members of the anemic crowd -- which carried signs declaring “Wall Street is our Street” -- were arrested after they tried to enter a Bank of America office at Broadway and Liberty streets wearing masks.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sparse_day_of_rage_MrTG7UDAV9u29hAGGWNHpO#ixzz1YKbVWRFi
While it looks like an array of miniature green stadium lights, the Taser shockwave uses its juice to shut a crowd down. It can send out a jolt of electricity up to 25 feet away that will shock a mob into submission. You can also patch them together, sort of like Legos, to create an ever bigger electric pulse — and take the fight out of any angry rabble.
These people have no clue how to organize young people into a riot in America today. First, do not start doing and definitely don’t schedule anything to start before 3 pm. Maybe even 5pm. Second, serve plenty of booze (don’t worry the people you invite will bring their own mind altering substances to mix with your booze such as ADHD drugs (speed) and marijuana and crank and stuff). Third Bring in a DJ or controversial musician who supports your cause. THEN tweet the twits about the “BLOK PARTY 2 SUPORT XYX 2NITE”. You will get 3 or 4 types of people to show up who make a toxic mix - people who have nothing to do (feel angst), people who want to ‘see the music’ (irony intended), people who want to see the people, and people who want to PARTY! After a few hours it will make the news but all of the people will remember the original twit they got and say why they are there.
“We just came here to see see some people about XYZ and then this dude did ABC and all off sudden those fascist cops came in riding unicorns and bashing heads we had to defend ourselves from the XYZ owned cartel”.
I am all for a good protest now and again. The tree of liberty needs refreshing from time to time and all that (NOT saying I support this rally but there is probably merit to the idea if it weren’t so obviously an Obama rally). But if you want the YOUNG to protest, you gotta do what the politicians have learned to do to buy votes - get them a bus, a pack of smokes, a bottle of booze and a hamburger... in this case, drugs, party, reason to be there and promise of a good time.
If you were to go down there, in milling about you would find people who say some of the same things that tea party people say. And this is why you feel conflicted. Because we DO have a problem in America— the technical term is crony capitalism.
But, And this is really BIG, these professional progressive organizers who are the subtle “voices” moving people in this protest, do not care about America and saving it from its self.
One guy, at the “Stacking Assembly” last night at the protest, had this to say...
“Prior to our constitution being established, there was a global movement happening. The British were inspired by the Spanish and from that came the Magna Carta. Our constitution was inspired by the Magna Carta, and we today [referring to those at Wall Street] are again being inspired by the Spanish in a new global movement. We are together [Wall Street protesters in unison with other global protesters of their governments] creating a new constitution that will be ever evolving, just as we are right now...”
the live feed went dead at that point. I saw this guy later being interviewed on live stream, and he started that speech all over again. But before he got too far into it, someone with him whispered something I could not hear, and then the guy nodded in agreement and went to another subject.
Poor guy, he's part of the progressive team, but he apparently didn't read the handbook closely enough. First, you get everyone talking about issues that matter to them, then once passions are united, and everyone is demanding solutions, you turn the talk to the place you had intended to go all along. This is where “constitution guy” is at, where the progressive organizers are GOING.
So, in conclusion, if you want to be part of a global socialist society that has one global monetary currency, then the Wall Street protest is for you. But be prepared to call the US Constitution a “flawed” document that needs to “grow” into today's time.
If however, you believe the US Constitution got it right, but has been misapplied through the years by subversive acts against it through the use of judiciary and through covert marxists subtly changing it's application through legislation, then FR and the Tea Party, and generally any person who dares to think independently of media and political talking points, are all on your side. I hope I've helped. But don't take my word for it. Gather information for yourself! And to get you started, here's a great link (although lengthy, worth it!)
http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Bound%20to%20Past%2009-08-2011.pdf
Happy hunting! And here's hoping that you end up on the side of the US Constitution!
FReeguards, D.
They'd prefer everything for free. They think they're "entitled."
Public school kids = Epic fail.
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