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Occupy protesters broke into Oakland's City Hall and a YMCA Saturday night, after a day of demonstrations that led to several clashes Source: The Bay Citizen (s.tt...)
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
I've been watching a lot of the streams as they happen and the reason they broke in to the YMCA was to escape out the back. They had no intention of damaging it or occupying it; they were kettle'd in to a corner and left with no other means of escape.
If you see pictures of occupy guys doing bad things and they're wearing all black, please don't assume they speak for the whole movement. These guys wear black so they can do radical things and slip back in to the crowd and the majority of occupy guys down there don't want anything to do with their radical form of protest.
Originally posted by NuminousCosmos
I've marched in protests since I was 16-and there is ALWAYS a contingent of stupid wannabe "anarchists" in them. They think that causing a ruckus instead of making an impassioned statement is more effective. All it does is piss off the Righteous Rightwingers and makes otherwise decent people not want to have their voices heard due to bad 'associations.'
As for burning the flag, I cant not stand to see Old Glory incinerated. However, if these morons want to shock folks with their "edginess" the Constitution guarantees this right...and we don't want to step on the Constitution, do we.
Originally posted by PhantomLimb
reply to post by JibbyJedi
Oh, there was one other thing. Occupy Philly tried to get the city of Philadelphia to change curfew laws. They sat around knitting, literally, and asked for a change in the time they had to go to bed ffs.
These people are taking real action.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
I've been watching a lot of the streams as they happen and the reason they broke in to the YMCA was to escape out the back. They had no intention of damaging it or occupying it; they were kettle'd in to a corner and left with no other means of escape.
If you see pictures of occupy guys doing bad things and they're wearing all black, please don't assume they speak for the whole movement. These guys wear black so they can do radical things and slip back in to the crowd and the majority of occupy guys down there don't want anything to do with their radical form of protest.
They would not needed to *escape*
if they were not doing anything wrong.
THIS IS OCCUPY this DOES speak for the whole
group. They want violence. This is not the boston
tea party or the revolution war. Quit comparing them.
Ready for the onslaught of PRO occupy defending
the actions of these people and the occupy movement.
It will be stopped I PROMISE.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by popsmayhem
Um. . . how is the YMCA part of the 1%?
This is a poor reflection on their movement.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Originally posted by PhantomLimb
reply to post by JibbyJedi
Oh, there was one other thing. Occupy Philly tried to get the city of Philadelphia to change curfew laws. They sat around knitting, literally, and asked for a change in the time they had to go to bed ffs.
These people are taking real action.
REAL ACTION?
Right, the occupiers
really do want violence.
This REAL ACTION is
not going to change anything
except them getting the boot.
Only idiots are going to support this
violence.