wall street protests...is this the start of the revolution?
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Could be, but the powers that be are quieting them up real quick and not letting it get out of hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ05rWx1pig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH29cSUNd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbNMPTWezQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ05rWx1pig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH29cSUNd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbNMPTWezQ
No way. There are still too many americans with far too much to lose by upsetting the status quo.
They may imagine themselves revolutionary people, but that was 250 years ago. They're a deeply reactionary society who will isolate and destroy any political movement that seeks to redistribute wealth or political entitlement.
A random bunch of people with random complaints (and a few bored rich kids thrown in) doesn't exactly compare with what happened in Egypt.
The funny thing about that protest is there is no goal, no agenda, no message just angst.... and not much of it given the size of the sustaining crowd.
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Let's hope something positive and peaceful will come out of the whole thing.
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More Than 700 Protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
- By AL BAKER, COLIN MOYNIHAN and SARAH MASLIN NIR , The New York Times
Updated, 11:59 a.m. Sunday | In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action.
“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, said. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”
But many protesters said they believed the police had tricked them, allowing them onto the bridge, and even escorting them partway across, only to trap them in orange netting after hundreds had entered.
“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us onto the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who marched but was not arrested.
More from the NYTimes report:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2...sters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?partner=rss&emc=rss
A video on the YouTube page of a group called We Are Change shows some of the arrests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yULSI-31Pto&feature=youtu.be
What I loved was the reporter who interviewed some of these folks, and when they would say they were protesting Capitalism, asked them what economic system they would prefer instead - not a single one of them, probably a dozen interviews, could give him an answer.
Also the early 20's young man who when asked to explain his comment about heavy taxes on higher income earners could only say that the money was needed so American made products could be purchased.
Also the early 20's young man who when asked to explain his comment about heavy taxes on higher income earners could only say that the money was needed so American made products could be purchased.
Every protest and revolution is also typically led by another group of elites. They offer the masses a better deal. Even the US revolution went down that way.
These are the same bone heads that show up at G20 meetings.... but as long as they follow the laws I don't care how long the camp in lower Manhattan...... has the media called them racist yet... oh wait, that's just conservative groups, never mind.
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That's a good one. It's amazing with today's tech, so many vid's from different angles are available for viewers to see it from themselves.
Here is another good one , 11 min. uncut , on one of the incidents last week. Have to sign to view though.
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?n...ch?v=83KN0EI9EjM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
FOX on Cops Pepper Spraying Peaceful Female Protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYqJLm0DBcw&feature=related
MSNBC Reports on Senseless Police Brutality, including the pepper spray incident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4Xc-AGaIA&feature=player_embedded
I would have simply said"I'm not protesting capitalism, i'm protesting a corruption of that economic system by banks".
link
http://anonops.blogspot.com/
Where are the Tea party in all this?This is EXACTLY what they were bitching about for the last 3 years.They HATED the bank bailouts.I would guess it's easier to sew some revolutionary costume together then it is to get arrested for a little righteous civil disobedience.Bought and paid for pussies.
They'll come out against unions in Wisconsin(y'know that actually have many hardworking Americans as members),but the silence is deafening on this destructive issue concerning a few hundred very rich bankers.What a bunch of gutless, bloated cocksuckers.(No anger here.I just enjoy calling them out the same way I call Ann Coulter a cunt.It's the sign of ultimate disrespect)
Luckily the lefty media is giving the protests full coverage .(massive eye roll).
Luckily the lefty media is giving the protests full coverage .(massive eye roll).
Wall Street's casino mentality needs to be more regulated. The gap between the poor and the wealthy has widened in the last few decades.
There are plenty of systems in democratic countries around the world better than pure capitalism. They also have a better stand of living for their citizens.
There are plenty of systems in democratic countries around the world better than pure capitalism. They also have a better stand of living for their citizens.
Perhaps the difference is that the Tea Party actually had a message.... where as these kids don't seem to have any idea other than some ill informed left wing spin.
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They covered this: http://news.yahoo.com/700-arrested-protest-nys-brooklyn-bridge-030009188.html
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The wall street protests, similar to the Tahrir square protests in Egypt, both were started for economic issues. Both started out without clear goals.
But the difference is that in Egypt more people went on the street, they got more press and the government fell under their pressure.
There, the army was on the side of the people, since they are a conscription based force, not professional like the US.
In the states, they've kept the wall street protests off the news and and now are starting mass arrests.
But the difference is that in Egypt more people went on the street, they got more press and the government fell under their pressure.
There, the army was on the side of the people, since they are a conscription based force, not professional like the US.
In the states, they've kept the wall street protests off the news and and now are starting mass arrests.
