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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Kali74
Blaming banks for all our problems is akin to blaming forks for obesity.
Banks play by rules.
Who writes those rules?
(a little hint)
It rhymes with shmoliticians.
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Kali74
Blaming banks for all our problems is akin to blaming forks for obesity.
Banks play by rules.
Who writes those rules?
(a little hint)
It rhymes with shmoliticians.
Blaming the banks is what they have done since the days of Teddy Roosevelt the same recycled rhetoric over and over again thinking somehow some way the next generation will buy it.
The same ideology that led to the anti trust laws,regulations,the financial reforms that have been the largest creators of their so called perceived "problem".
Originally posted by redneck13
Where can I read about its mission statement?
Where are its headquarters?
Who is the person representing Occupy? (Anonymous does not count)
No one that wears a mask should have a political platform
Who started the occupy idea and why?
If you think that 99% of the population blindly follow unknown entities with unknown leaders
for unknown reasons, you have grossly underestimated us.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Kali74
Blaming banks for all our problems is akin to blaming forks for obesity.
Banks play by rules.
Who writes those rules?
(a little hint)
It rhymes with shmoliticians.
Originally posted by beezzer
American Fascism: Identifying the cause in the response to Occupy
Who are the fascists?
Is it the Tea Party, who promotes individuality?
or
Is it Occupy, who promotes government oversight into every aspect of our lives?
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Is it the Tea Party, who promotes personal responsibility?
or
Is it Occupy, who wants government to provide free education to all?
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Is it the Tea Party who promotes freedom in the market place?
or
Is it Occupy, who wants to cap salaries and punish success?
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Is it the Tea Party, who honours the soldiers who represent freedom?
or
Is it Occupy, who spits on thm?
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Is it the Tea Party, who wants smaller government, and to have government stay in DC?
or
Is it Occupy, who wants government everywhere?
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Who are the fascists?
Is it the Tea Party who gets endorsements from freedom-loving groups?
or
Is it Occupy, who gets endorsments from communists, marxists, socialists, nationalists?
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Who are the fascists?
nutsandolts.com...
the Tea Party’s version of separation of church and state protects the church from the state. In fact, religion plays a dominant role in the Tea Party Constitution. Freedom of religion would mean you get to choose which denomination of their list of approved religions you can belong to. Agnostics, Athiests, Jews, Muslims, Mormons and anyone else who doesn’t subscribe to the Tea Party approved religions will be forced to convert. In fact, religion plays a big role in the Tea Party constitution. The constitution is interpreted through a religious prism. In honor of women’s equality day, it’s also worth noting that women’s freedom means being submissive to their husbands.
The full implications of a Tea Party constitution are well stated by RACHEL TABACHNICK when asked during an interview with Terry Gross on NPR what authority dominionists want in government.
" They want the authority to align government with what they believe is the kingdom of God, with biblical values in their interpretation.
Let me back up and say something about dominionism. Dominionism is very different than having strong beliefs or even having very strong beliefs about one’s Evangelical values. Dominionism is very controversial inside of the conservative and Evangelical world. It’s a specific theology that states that somehow God lost control of the Earth when Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden and that humans must help God regain control of the Earth. And the way that they do this is by taking dominion over society and government.
The apostles and prophets have an interesting twist on this. They’re not the only dominionist movement out there. Some people may be familiar with Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism. This is a different brand of dominionism.
And the apostles teach what’s called strategic-level spiritual warfare with the idea being that the reason why there is sin and corruption and poverty on the Earth is because the Earth is controlled by a hierarchy of demons under the authority of Satan.
And so they teach that not just evangelizing souls one by one, as we’re accustomed to hearing about, they teach that they will go into a geographic region or to a people-group and conduct these spiritual-warfare activities in order to remove the demons from the entire population or the demonic control over the entire population. And this is what they’re doing that’s quite different than other conservative Evangelical or fundamentalist groups of the past."
Under a Tea Partye constitution, public education is non-existant. That like every other facet of life would be controlled by “the church” and maybe the occasional coupon.
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by thehoneycomb
Is this the anti beezer thread?
I may have struck a nerve.
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$3.6 Million from Soros Backs 'Occupy Wall Street', Media Ignore or Downplay Connection
By Iris Somberg
Left-wing financier George Soros is at it again. While he may claim he’s not behind the Occupy Wall Street protests, funding from his foundations says otherwise. Soros threw his support behind the movement at a United Nations panel on Oct. 3, “I can sympathize with their grievances.” But he does more than just sympathize, his foundations funded groups that back the protests and steer their “progressive” message.
Reuters even posed the question “Who’s behind the Wall St. protests?” on Oct. 13, but downplayed Soros’s actual financial involvement. Even though “Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground,” the story added. But Reuters undersold the connection significantly.
Organizations that joined the protesters were granted more than $3.6 million from Soros’s Open Society Foundations. On Oct. 5 there was a “march in solidarity with #occupywallstreet” that listed seven such groups out of the 16 overall supporting the protest. Those seven organizations received $3,614,690 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since the year 2000, with more than $2 million going to Common Cause Education Fund, part of Common Cause, and another $1.1 million to MoveOn.org
Even the protesters admit the hypocrisy of having billionaire Soros and MoveOn.org “joining forces to voice their ‘support’ for an anti-Wall Street movement” and that it ‘should set alarm bells ringing.” Additional funding went to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Community Voices Heard, Coalition for the Homeless, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP), and 350.org.
Originally posted by beezzer
American soldiers represent freedom.
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They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
Originally posted by Kali74
You don't know the answers to these questions yet you're ranting all over any thread about Occupy. In other words you read other people's opinions and adopted them as your own. Stop being lazy and look to the sources and form your own opinion.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
Too bad we could get some combination of the Tea Party and OWS.
Taking the good components of both:
Smaller government
Fewer Social Programs
Financial Responsibility.....and finally eliminating the banking / corporate elite that interfere with the political system.
and eliminate the bad:
The socialist components of OWS, the gimme crowd, the MORE social programs. They don't seem to realize that a 100% safety net is impossible to implement.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
The let capitalism run free component of the Tea Party. I am conservative, but even I realize that given a chance, most CEOs will cut their own mother's throat to make a buck. Capitalism will kill itself if given free reign.