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The Left doing what the Left does best: Marching to protest [fill this space with, literally, anything].
What do we want? Free unicorns!
Who do we want it from? Wall Street!
Apparently someone told them the unicorns could be found on the Brooklyn Bridge, and now the NY justice system has a new revenue stream.
I kid of course. At a great cost to NY taxpayers, these protesters will likely skate on all fines using the airtight defense of "social justice", a defense only available to roughly half the U.S. population, despite the best intentions of the Equal Protection Clause.
These are serious times. It is instructive that in these times the best the left can do is foment for violence, create economic uncertainty, and spend other people's money.
And by instructive, of course I mean axiomatic.
Originally posted by gncnew
The reason the cops are called out is because downtown NY is pretty much THE busiest place on the planet. If the protests are blocking traffic - both vehicular and pedestrian - then effective operation of the city itself stops.
While I may or may not empathize with the protestor's agenda, this is just a blitz to try and gain as much media attention as possible.
What exactly are you even protesting? There seems to be no consistant agenda or actual action the protests would like. It's ideologues and/or board youth that have no jobs just "protesting" Wall Street?
WTF is that exactly? What is the point? "We want rich people to know we're not going to take it anymore"?
What about the poor single mom who's a receptionist for Mr. Wall Street but can't get to work because you're blocking the streets?
Better yet, why isn't this happening in Washington DC? Why not march on the White House? They're the ones that "bailed out Wall Street" after all? They took your money and gave it to the "rich" people...
I'm also sick of hearing whiny girly men and chicks screaming like they're being skinned alive every time a cop gets near them with their iPhone camera rolling.
"Occupy Wall Street" = "Board Attention Whores" looking for YouTube hits.
Originally posted by RandomThought
You guys obviously don't know what occupy wallstreet is all about. You think its all children then you are just plain and simple being ignorant. I'm not going to sit here and explain what its all about, its all over the web and easy to obtain information.
You think people are doing this because they don't want to work? are you kidding me?
Originally posted by RandomThought
You guys obviously don't know what occupy wallstreet is all about. You think its all children then you are just plain and simple being ignorant. I'm not going to sit here and explain what its all about, its all over the web and easy to obtain information.
You think people are doing this because they don't want to work? are you kidding me?
Originally posted by RandomThought
You guys obviously don't know what occupy wallstreet is all about. You think its all children then you are just plain and simple being ignorant. I'm not going to sit here and explain what its all about, its all over the web and easy to obtain information.
You think people are doing this because they don't want to work? are you kidding me?
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
S&F!!!!
Very good points, and I agree 100%. These people are nothing more than bored ACORN or CP kids who are too damn lazy to work hard for something, and want the "gubment" to give, give, give, so they can sit on their iPads and post tweets all day about meaningless dribble.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I hate to put it this way, but lets see how many of the kids have the stomach for this after the first couple ambulances roll off with injured protesters after police actually *DO* get a little rough with a couple of them. I don't mean Mace that wears off in a short time, either. The Egyptians would have loved for Mace to be all they dealt with. Libyans would call the New York Police response Mana from Heaven as Syrian Security Forces are just shooting them.
Originally posted by lbndhr
really? im 50, and I will be at the protest this weekend, and will stay until ???? we dont want a handout, we dont want to give the banks the corporations anymore stimulus money so they can turn around and charge us atm fees. we dont want to bail out the ones who arent creating new jobs,give another 2 solar eneergy our money to waist away AGAIN
the BUCK stops KNOW. greedy turds
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Looking at some of the people in those photos, I can now see why they're protesting. There is no chance in hell of them ever finding gainful employment, and I highly doubt they'll have the gray matter to invent anything, or become an employer.
Originally posted by gncnew
The reason the cops are called out is because downtown NY is pretty much THE busiest place on the planet. If the protests are blocking traffic - both vehicular and pedestrian - then effective operation of the city itself stops.
While I may or may not empathize with the protestor's agenda, this is just a blitz to try and gain as much media attention as possible.
What exactly are you even protesting? There seems to be no consistant agenda or actual action the protests would like. It's ideologues and/or board youth that have no jobs just "protesting" Wall Street?
WTF is that exactly? What is the point? "We want rich people to know we're not going to take it anymore"?
What about the poor single mom who's a receptionist for Mr. Wall Street but can't get to work because you're blocking the streets?
Better yet, why isn't this happening in Washington DC? Why not march on the White House? They're the ones that "bailed out Wall Street" after all? They took your money and gave it to the "rich" people...
I'm also sick of hearing whiny girly men and chicks screaming like they're being skinned alive every time a cop gets near them with their iPhone camera rolling.
"Occupy Wall Street" = "Board Attention Whores" looking for YouTube hits.