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Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Declassified documents show things differently than they were presented back then, and that the leftist radicals SDS and Weathermen were involved in agitation. They burned the ROTC building. Bill Ayers himself was involved and Bernadine Dohrn had spoken to the students earlier.
www.redstate.com...
I just love the hammer and sickle moment at this OWS march
www.liveleak.com...
more on leftist agitation
dwightmurphey-collectedwritings.info...
6. The SDS had a system of "regional travelers" who moved from place to place, tying together the many strands of militant activism. One of those who visited the Kent SDS was Mark Rudd, who had led the violent shutdown of Columbia University.
By 1968 SDS became a significant force at Kent State. The Chicago and Cleveland offices sent organizers, and speakers were invited to keep the militants apprised of events in the French student strike. When Senator Hubert Humphrey spoke on campus, he was met with an organized walk-out.
8. National SDS conducted a "Spring Offensive" in April 1969. As part of this, SDS leaders at Kent State presented a set of demands to the University Trustees to abolish the Reserve Army Training Corps (ROTC) and to close down all war-related research. This led to a confrontation with the Trustees who were meeting in the Music and Speech Building; 58 arrests were made. SDS's campus charter was revoked.
9. The Weatherman faction of SDS established five communes in Ohio. One militant later described these to James Michener's interviewers as being "to teach severe discipline...The object was to produce revolutionaries programmed to obey orders...You surrendered all personal money, idiosyncracies and will power, assured that you would come out of the experience with total dedication."
In the early morning of May 1, spray-painted slogans appeared all over town. An organization called WHORE ("World Historians Opposed to Racism and Exploitation") sponsored a rally on the Kent State commons at noon, attended by approximately 500, "to bury the Constitution." At that rally, a radical professor who called himself a "libertarian communist" called for "street action downtown tonight."
sound familiar? Sounds just like the demands to abolish Capitalism. I distinctly heard two OWS people say over the microphone to abolish Capitalism. In TEN minutes, one after the other. This I just happened to hear while listening to their own livestream and it was LIVE. That may not have been reported in the news. It is stuff like that, that you just hear it with your own ears.edit on 21-11-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by RSF77
That's what I have been trying to say on here, the only people willing to take to the streets are radical and unfortunate individuals. If people who had some sense joined the movement the potential to accomplish increases exponentially, the movement would become more than just people defecating on sidewalks and not about some radical or harmful ideology.
I may be critical of the movement but I don't see them all that way. Yet by your own words it seems [Now correct me if I'm wrong here] that you feel they are all that way? That none are different?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Look I think we can all agree that Corruption has to be dealt with
Originally posted by RSF77
It doesn't take a genius to figure out I haven't met every OWS protestor.
You say I'm fear mongering and stuff, but to me, OWS is the beginning of a means to deal with it. I'm not naive enough to just disregard people that are unjustly losing their homes, livelihoods and various educations
You might live comfortably and honestly I do too, but I woke up in world filled with so much ugly # and injustice that I just won't keep quiet about it.
People seem to care more about arguing and one-upping each other than they do the welfare of their kin, not only on this website, but throughout America.
People are shooting at the white house, other people...
people are barricading themselves and committing mob assaults among a plethora of other things, THIS is supposed to a model of the "greatest nation on earth".
OWS is a better representation of democracy than the US is
supposedly the heart of the free world. That is why I say the movement would, if given the chance, basically become a representation of the American People through direct democracy and directly answering the concerns of US citizens, but only if everyone supports it instead of building on their ego scoffing at street #ting protestors.
I will read your reply if you choose to do so later, I have to go to work for a few hours.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by RSF77
It doesn't take a genius to figure out I haven't met every OWS protestor.
I'm not going to split hairs with you on this. I was going by what you wrote...
You say I'm fear mongering and stuff, but to me, OWS is the beginning of a means to deal with it. I'm not naive enough to just disregard people that are unjustly losing their homes, livelihoods and various educations
Nobody forced them to take out loans.
Nobody forced them to purchase all manner of foreign made products.
Which exasperates the lack of Jobs issue here in the US.
That requires personal responsibility to acknowledge they are part of the problem. They can't have it both ways. On the one hand, tweet, text, Email and chat away on all their Made in China products and not acknowledge that they are part of the problem and then turn right around and complain there are no jobs available.
Come on
It doesn't work that way..
You might live comfortably and honestly I do too, but I woke up in world filled with so much ugly # and injustice that I just won't keep quiet about it.
And you honestly think that the world just suddenly became that way recently? Yes, there is ugliness in the world. There are murders, wars, hate crimes and rape and all other types of grotesque activities. It has been that way since the beginning of time.
I'm sorry but IBM, Boeing and Hughes Aircraft didn't create Human nature.
People seem to care more about arguing and one-upping each other than they do the welfare of their kin, not only on this website, but throughout America.
I agree but trying to force a minority opinion on the whole is just simply not going to work.
Sorry..
People are shooting at the white house, other people...
Yes, and again this isn't new. Hell, they shot and killed Lincoln and Kennedy. They shot at President Ford not once but twice and missed twice. They shot Reagan.
people are barricading themselves and committing mob assaults among a plethora of other things, THIS is supposed to a model of the "greatest nation on earth".
Yes, What you don't see is outright mass black vs white armed warfare in the streets. You don't see our American Sunni Muslims fighting with our American Shiite Muslims [Like we do in Iraq] or American Jews and Muslims in outright combat in the streets.
Yes, we can dwell on the negative and equally not see the beauty and blessings as well.
It's your choice.
OWS is a better representation of democracy than the US is
I find that statement highly dubious at best.
supposedly the heart of the free world. That is why I say the movement would, if given the chance, basically become a representation of the American People through direct democracy and directly answering the concerns of US citizens, but only if everyone supports it instead of building on their ego scoffing at street #ting protestors.
Well some of us simply refuse to ignore all the very vocal voices in the crowd advocating outright communism. [Whether some OWS supporters care to acknowledge those voices or not] Which quite frankly if they get their way would prevent just about everything you are espousing.
I will read your reply if you choose to do so later, I have to go to work for a few hours.
No problem.
Catch ya on the rebound.
edit on 21-11-2011 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MaximosPoena
reply to post by -W1LL
Vietnam protesters were out in the millions for a good cause. Ending the war.
OWS protesters are out in the thousands. Ignores the wars and demand Handouts.
Kent State Army National Guards used real Bullets.
OWS get pelted with Rubber bullets from Cops.
I'm sorry, no comparison.
Massive S & F fest for a FAIL
Go figure.
Originally posted by GringoViejo
I don't see anyone getting arrested for protesting. I see some people getting arrested for their actions while they were protesting, which I think everyone can agree that if you're breaking a law(s) during a protest, you can reasonably expect to be arrested. Sometimes this is even the goal, civil disobedience is a great tactic. But its usually wise to get a fair amount of support before hand.
I don't understand what the problem is with OWS protesters getting arrested if the demonstration involves breaking a law, usually this is an accepted risk on the part of the protesters.
Originally posted by curious7
Originally posted by GringoViejo
I don't see anyone getting arrested for protesting. I see some people getting arrested for their actions while they were protesting, which I think everyone can agree that if you're breaking a law(s) during a protest, you can reasonably expect to be arrested. Sometimes this is even the goal, civil disobedience is a great tactic. But its usually wise to get a fair amount of support before hand.
I don't understand what the problem is with OWS protesters getting arrested if the demonstration involves breaking a law, usually this is an accepted risk on the part of the protesters.
That's the thing though, most of these protests involve the protesters themselves causing trouble, causing violence against police and breaking laws and requests to do or not do something but the moronic sheeple of ATS choose to ignore all facts and evidence to justify their "lets kill all police and their families to make the world a better place" BS.
Originally posted by Athin
reply to post by -W1LL
There hasn't been one protest yet where someone hasn't gotten arrested. People might think it's a peaceful gathering but trying to destroy businesses, trying to shut businesses down and creating a nightmare for commuters trying to get to their jobs is the reason for the violence that's sure to come.
Originally posted by yaluk
reply to post by -W1LL
so when are we to expect NATO intervention... I mean that is exactly how it went down in lybia. where is obamas speech about how the people have the right to protest and all that..