OWS ‘May’ get ugly out there

NYPost ^ | May 1, 2012 | LARRY CELONA, SALLY GOLDENBERG and LEONARD GREENE

[rightwingintelligentsia]

New York is braced for May Day mayhem.

Workers are staring at hellacious commutes today when the flagging Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to get a second wind with a full slate of “general strike" protests across the five boroughs.

That could not only make it difficult for people to get to their jobs, but it also could put angry demonstrators on a collision course with beefed-up police.

From Bryant Park to Bushwick, demonstrators will protest everything from economic injustice to school privatization in a series of planned and also potentially arrest-inducing unpermitted rallies, marches and walkouts.

If the Williamsburg Bridge-to-Wall Street march doesn’t bog down traffic, the group’s so-called “Bike Bloc” in Union Square will.

Workers who ignore the general-strike call will find it hard to get to their jobs.

It’s touted as a “day without the 99 percent” — seemingly disregarding the fact that most of the 99 percent actually works.

The activities are the biggest test of the movement’s organizing muscle since the winter.

Occupy groups in New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, Chicago and more than 100 other cities will join with immigrant groups and labor unions.

[Roccus]

Directly across 6th Ave. from where they are demonstrating now (Time Life Building) used to be the Museum of Money. (heh-heh)

[Roccus]

CORRECTION:...it was known as the Chase Manhattan Money Museum.

[dagogo redux]

Ditto: The meter on my Rat’s-Ass Detector hasn’t even budged.

[ETL]

Ditto: The meter on my Rat’s-Ass Detector hasn’t even budged.

Meanwhile, the slimey communist SOBs are attracting loads of stupid adults and naive young people to the movement continually. We need to spread the news about what the movement is about. We can't keep sitting back saying, 'so what?' The regular media won't do anything but glamorize and honor them.

[Marathoner]

I think Beck has this pegged. My fear is that along about mid October Zero is going to lay the hammer down on these maggot infested hippies, and the sheeple will say, "See, he's on our side after all".

Useful idiots indeed!

[SparkyBass]

[CodeToad]

“What is different now?”

Nothing, really. These kids simply do not want to work. They want an office job where they do nothing and sit around and make $100,000 a year. Well, to be fair, many corporate jobs are exactly that but they don’t want to enter the job market at $36,000 to start.

Comparing today to 1946 isn’t even fair. There are far more jobs today that pay great compared to 1946. Manual labor isn’t even a necessity anymore. Being treated harshly doesn’t ever happen, either. Subordinates don’t even have to show any respect to their bosses anymore.

[dagogo redux]

LOL! You just go right on doing that.

Me? I’m just sitting back waiting until they get in range.

[servo1969]

These poor people don't have a job, don't want a job as long as they are on the dole. Back in 1946 I was told that there were no jobs to be had, but the next week I found a job, and have been working for a living ever since. And what is worse all of my friends did the same thing. What is different now?
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The level of maturity expected by our society.

[raccoonradio]

These things always fail—every year there’s some kind of Buy Nothing day to protest capitalism, or “don’t buy gas day”.
Never succeeds. Protests are one thing—blocking people from
doing what they need or want is another.

Imagine if they were all hyped up to attend a concert. A bunch of people stand in their way. “Sorry, we don’t like that type of music. So we are blocking you from entering.
You say you already bought your $50 ticket? Tough...”

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Thanks.

You can omit my name on your tag line and other places.

BTW, I thought of "Obama been laudin' [this or that]" -- I was surprised that a google search revealed that others had thought of it too!

I don't think that too many know of (and remember in my case) the real Fidel Castro. I recall that many were put up against the outfield wall in baseball stadiums and shot in front of crowds of citizens forced to attend.

(In the 1950s Castro revolutionaries disrupted Cuban baseball league games.. I expect to see similar here soon.)

But any ol' wall would do..

RE: To the wall, street occupiers!

Hey! Castro is a hero of the OWS. In case some too young to remember.. here is what "To the wall!" means, just trying to help get their message out.

The Infamous Firing Squad -- Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro's infamous firing squad. There was no discrimination, as far as the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to 'el paredón' (the wall). Many of those who helped Castro gain power, like Comandantes Ernesto Sori Marin and William Morgan, an American, were among the thousands who were shot. [my emphasis]

source http://www.therealcuba.com/page5.htm

[Liberty Valance]

There’s a good reminder of the end result of occu-commies.
Thanks for posting.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: My comment in #51 "In the 1950s Castro revolutionaries disrupted Cuban baseball league games.. I expect to see similar here soon."

That was before Castro took power after that people were forced to attend baseball stadiums to watch his enemies (One-percenters, I guess) being placed against the outfield wall and shot.