Anti-Wall St. movement grows to dozens of cities (Media 'hearts' OCCUPY, Film at 11 and ad nauseum)

Yahoo ^ | 10/16/11 | Chris Hawley, Associated Press

[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."

[NormsRevenge]

Well Well, Merrrry Christmas and HaPPY New Year to All from Soro$ and the whack Left!

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.

[left that other site]

“They should take it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

Harman Cain

[RC2]

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.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Sometimes a photo or caption says it all. I found this over at moonbattery.com:

[Evil Slayer]

Great message! Really makes the point crystal clear!!!

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.

[RC2]

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.

[cripplecreek]

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living.

The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests.

We demand profit sharing in big business.

We demand a broad extension of care for the aged.

We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments.

In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education …

We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents…

The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth.

We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.

-Nazi party broadcast from the 1920s

[Salamander]

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]

[rllngrk33]

Martinsburg overwhelmingly votes Dem...guess why

That's easy, it's because of all those Government people who commute in to DC everyday.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[left that other site]

They all have the same DNA?

[NormsRevenge]

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.

[headstamp 2]

“Could not be any simpler than that. “

That’s also exactly how things worked out in the last trade union I was in.

[NormsRevenge]

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.

[NormsRevenge]

Is there such a thing as street rave-ing? In BloomyTown?

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement march through thefinancial district of New York October 14, 2011.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

[NormsRevenge]

ahhh Yes..yellow and black.. where have we seen that before?

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)

[Chode]

[Yosemitest]

Sometimes a movie can scare you into action.
You gotta' see the preview of the movie

"AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA DOWN, Dismantling America’s Heritage.

It's 6 minutes and 40 seconds, and it really is a "must see".
The movie review of "AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA DOWN" is about a page or two.
The movie can be purchased at Amazon.comAgenda: Grinding America Down, Format: DVD or just click on the photo to the right.

We must not compromise our values.

Jack Kerwick wrote an article on May 24, 2011 titled The Tea Partier versus The Republican and he expressed some important issues that I agree with.

Thus far, the field of GOP presidential contenders, actual and potential, isn’t looking too terribly promising.

This, though, isn’t meant to suggest that any of the candidates, all things being equal, lack what it takes to insure
that Barack Obama never sees the light of a second term; nor is it the case that I find none of the candidates appealing.
Rather, I simply mean that at this juncture, the party faithful is far from unanimously energized over any of them.

It is true that it was the rapidity and aggressiveness with which President Obama proceeded to impose his perilous designs upon the country
that proved to be the final spark to ignite the Tea Party movement.
But the chain of events that lead to its emergence began long before Obama was elected.
That is, it was actually the disenchantment with the Republican Party under our “compassionate conservative” president, George W. Bush,
which overcame legions of conservatives that was the initial inspiration that gave rise to the Tea Party.

It is this frustration with the GOP’s betrayal of the values that it affirms that accounts for why the overwhelming majority
of those who associate with or otherwise sympathize with the Tea Party movement
refuse to explicitly or formally identify with the Republican Party.
And it is this frustration that informs the Tea Partiers’ threat to create a third party
in the event that the GOP continues business as usual.

If and when those conservatives and libertarians who compose the bulk of the Tea Party, decided that the Republican establishment
has yet to learn the lessons of ’06 and ’08, choose to follow through with their promise,
they will invariably be met by Republicans with two distinct by interrelated objections.

First,
they will be told that they are utopian, “purists” foolishly holding out for an “ideal” candidate.

Second, because virtually all members of the Tea Party would have otherwise voted Republican if not for this new third party,
they will be castigated for essentially giving elections away to Democrats.



Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.

Let’s begin with the argument against “purism.” To this line, two replies are in the coming.


No one, as far as I have ever been able to determine, refuses to vote for anyone who isn’t an ideal candidate.
Ideal candidates, by definition, don’t exist.
This, after all, is what makes them ideal.
This counter-objection alone suffices to expose the argument of the Anti-Purist as so much counterfeit.
But there is another consideration that militates decisively against it.

A Tea Partier who refrains from voting for a Republican candidate who shares few if any of his beliefs
can no more be accused of holding out for an ideal candidate
than can someone who refuses to marry a person with whom he has little to anything in common
be accused of holding out for an ideal spouse.
In other words, the object of the argument against purism is the most glaring of straw men:
“I will not vote for a thoroughly flawed candidate” is one thing;
“I will only vote for a perfect candidate” is something else entirely.



As for the second objection against the Tea Partier’s rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.

Every election season—and at no time more so than this past season—Republicans 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 Partier’s 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,

as Glenn Beck once correctly noted in an interview with Katie Couric,
had John McCain been elected in 2008, it is not at all improbable that, in the final analysis,
the country would have been worse off than it is under a President Obama.
McCain would have furthered the country’s leftward drift,
but because this movement would have been slower,
and because McCain is a Republican, it is not likely that the apparent awakening that occurred under Obama would have occurred under McCain.


It may be worth it, the Tea Partier can tell Republicans, for the GOP to lose some elections if it means that conservatives—and the country—will ultimately win.

If he didn’t know it before, the Tea Partier now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.

Ironically, he can thank the Republican for impressing this so indelibly upon him.

I'm fresh out of "patience", and I'm not in the mood for "compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.

The "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!

[Salamander]

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.

[Salamander]

The “my family tree is a telephone pole” crowd vote overwhelming conservative.