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like i said, same old spin.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by wrdwzrd
What do you know about what I know personally? What do you know about what I do? I can tell you from personal experience you are wrong.
It is publicly known that police use black bloc tactics to infiltrate protests, including occupy, start trouble/destroy things and then use that as an excuse to bring in the dressed officers to bust up the protest.
Sure there are protesters that use black bloc tactics, but just as often you will have cops. Just as you had at last years occup protest. You really think cops don't use black bloc to incite the violence? You are so well trained to know the difference between a protester using the tactic and a cop? You would have to be a psychic. They do it every chance they get. Just as they did at the Toronto G20.
Well said, that is true logic and critical thinking...which most people cannot grasp. I don't mean that directed at any one person just in general.
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by wrdwzrd
Of course those who participate in Black Blocs (destructive and non destructive) have legitimate concerns and I think their voice is just as important as any other. However, I personally nor do from what I can gather first hand do many others, welcome vandalism. We want our movement to grow, to be heard...we want the elderly, the disabled and our children to be present and involved and that can't happen if there's a threat of windows being smashed. I don't want my 12 year old son to think breaking things is democracy, it isn't. I get the concept the targets are meant to be symbolic (bank windows etc) I don't agree but I get it.
All most Occupiers want though is safe space to raise our voices and that can't happen when vandalism is happening. Not to mention, the fact that it makes us too easy of a target for agent provocateurs and too easy for the media and whoever else to marginalize us. I want to speak my message, not spend hours deconstructing disinformation before hand.
By all means, march with us...speak up at assemblies but if you want to smash windows...do it on your own.
It contains Communist symbolism and terminology, and it is on one of the pages of OccupyWallSt.org.
Originally posted by XPLodER
this DOES NOT EXCUSE the fact that communists and anarchists only make up 2% of occupy
Originally posted by buster2010
reply to post by petrus4
Show the Communist symbolism and terminology in that picture. Is it the shopping mall they are in front of? Or is it the peace symbols? I hope your not mistaking the word commune as being something communist. Because seeing how commune was being used in the 15th century it predates communism by quite a bit.
Originally posted by XPLodER
reply to post by DavidWillts
like i said, same old spin.
use logic for a second,
why would the banks do nothing to protesters who were hurting their profits?
what would be the easyest way to hurt occupy?
use your noodle bud
xploder
Originally posted by petrus4
Originally posted by buster2010
reply to post by petrus4
Show the Communist symbolism and terminology in that picture. Is it the shopping mall they are in front of? Or is it the peace symbols? I hope your not mistaking the word commune as being something communist. Because seeing how commune was being used in the 15th century it predates communism by quite a bit.
For crying out loud; am I really supposed to dignify this level of dishonest pedantry with a response?
I'm reminded of one of Bill Clinton's answers in court.
"That depends on what the definition of 'is', is."
Originally posted by DavidWillts
Originally posted by XPLodER
reply to post by DavidWillts
like i said, same old spin.
use logic for a second,
why would the banks do nothing to protesters who were hurting their profits?
what would be the easyest way to hurt occupy?
use your noodle bud
xploder
Logic has nothing to do with what you are saying, the opposite actually.
OWS like any group has some bad apples but what OWS tries to do is say that it MUST be the banks trying to undermine them because OWS would NEVER have ANY people that would step out of line. It is just a way to shove responsibility on off on someone else. It would be like the pope blaming child molesting priests on some atheist conspiracy.
You have nothing to back up the banks paying all the violent OWSers to give OWS a bad name you are just making stuff up and calling it logic.
Originally posted by petrus4
Originally posted by XPLodER
this DOES NOT EXCUSE the fact that communists and anarchists only make up 2% of occupy
Then why are they so much more visible than anyone else?
Originally posted by buster2010
If you can't back up what you are saying just say so. I just asked for you to point out the communist symbols that you said were in the pic you provided. Now point them out.
Id say easily 99% of them are genuine in what they are doing and are NOT police officers