Occupy Broadwayworld — Page 8

Why should we have debt forgiveness? It's your debt, you caused it.

Then the same should have been true with corporate debt when the debt of the banks and the auto companies were bailed out.

The odd notion of "too big to fail" led inevitably to the idea of "too small to fail."

Lady Macbeth had the only answer when Macbeth asked her "What if we fail?"

She replied, "We fail."

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"Then the same should have been true with corporate debt when the debt of the banks and the auto companies were bailed out."


I agree but I think that's the only good point that these protesters have. All the other stuff that I've read that they want are not even the bit realistic.

And on another note...

I saw these people protesting inside a citibank who then say "the pigs mistreated us, shame, shame, shame." You can't go inside a bank(or any other place) and make a scene and start a protest inside of a place.

Do you really think the cops want to deal with this nonsense?

Updated On: 10/16/11 at 11:30 AM

From Saturday Night Live last night:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/16/snl-bloomberg-occupy-wall-street_n_1013400.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

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Love that list of writers. Considering joining myself.

Here's a wonderful middle-of-the-road appreciation from Susie Orman, who thanks Occupy movement for changing the status quo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suze-orman/occupy-wall-street-approv_b_1005128.html

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Chomsky at Occupy Boston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olxp34z_Mns

I wish I'd been there.

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Keith Boykin went to Zucotti Park and posted on Huffington Post that "Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall Street Is Wrong":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/occupy-wall-street-media_b_1019707.html

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"The Occupy LA folks are going to protest at an Obama fundraiser tonight"

But, but, but . . . the occupiers are all supposed to be Obamabots!

I'm so confused - it's almost like I can't believe what the media tells me - and I KNOW that can't be true!

Tuesday, in Oakland . . .
Link.

"Fed up with petty crime, the all-night racket of beating drums, the smell of human waste and the sight of trampled flowers and grass, police and neighbors are losing patience with some of the anti-Wall Street protests around the U.S."

This is the first paragraph of what the AP put out last night, which is being carried pretty much across the board (I linked to NPR's site) - and it's the type of thing that's framing a lot of public opinion.
Link to article.

Ironic that if it read:

"Faced with grand theft from wall street bankers and investment houses, all night construction noise of Mega-Mansions, the smell of sewage in the river, fracking residue in the drinking water, and the facts of a contaminated food supply, most in today's two major political parties looked at corporate america, said "Pay me more" and then when paid, looked the other way.

Why is that not a headline?

The two things that stuck out to me from that AP blast were:

Burying the rebuttal in the middle of all the vitriol, which countermanded each item presented.
"Protesters disputed the city's claims about conditions at the camp. Lauren Richardson, a college student from Oakland, said that volunteers collected garbage and recycling every six hours, that water was boiled before being used to wash dishes, and that rats had infested the park long before the camp went up. 'It was very neat. It was very organized,' Richardson said."

Waiting til the end to throw in a NON-SUPPORTER'S opinion - which also contradicted the point of the article.
"'As far as protesting, that's the way to do it. They're very clean,' Segui said."

The whole thing reeks of biased manipulation. But how to break through the wall to the media-fed masses? I think the next stage needs to involve masses of people showing up for scheduled events in support of the occupiers - things like October 15th, but more of them, with more participation.

Here's a sickening video shot in Oakland. The word now is that a Marine who did two tours in Iraq was hit in the head with a police-fired canister and knocked out on the street. When a group of protesters ran back to help him out, another canister was fired at them, landing near the fallen Marine. The word is that he has a fractured skull and brain swelling.

Why? Because people wanted to sleep in a park.
heart wrenching, not for the super-sensitive (like me)

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Luckily they're not using live ammo. Yet.

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