Occupy TBA Thread

[ZennyPLUS]

Fuck the police, they're just brandishing/abusing their right to use "force". If they had half the honor they thought they did, they'd let those people protest and NOT attack anybody.

[DrRumack]

there is going to be a protest at the us embassy in tehrir, egypt about the police brutality in oakland

egyptians are protesting the way americans are being treated

what a year it's been

[rtil]

Does anyone find something...amiss here?

it's interesting how the media approaches OWS. it's funny how it was perfectly acceptable that tea party protests with people brandishing guns and bigoted signs were welcome to protest wherever and whenever they wanted, but peaceful OWS protests are being pressured by city and police forces to get out, even though anyone legitimately a part of the movement was courteous and peaceful at the place they were occupying.

at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, i really think the majority of media that is consumed by americans, which is owned by newscorp or another wealthy organization with ties to the targets of the protests, wants to paint them as lazy hippies and malefactors to society so that people forget who the real problem is and get obama out of office. the truth of the matter is that republicans have blocked nearly every piece of legislation obama and the democrats have attempted to pass in order to get people back to work, for the sole purpose of making obama look bad so that they can get him out in 2012. they don't care about the people, they don't care about the economy, they don't care about jobs, they don't care about the country. they just want the power.

[ZennyPLUS]

Does anyone find something...amiss here?

it's interesting how the media approaches OWS. it's funny how it was perfectly acceptable that tea party protests with people brandishing guns and bigoted signs were welcome to protest wherever and whenever they wanted, but peaceful OWS protests are being pressured by city and police forces to get out, even though anyone legitimately a part of the movement was courteous and peaceful at the place they were occupying.

at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, i really think the majority of media that is consumed by americans, which is owned by newscorp or another wealthy organization with ties to the targets of the protests, wants to paint them as lazy hippies and malefactors to society so that people forget who the real problem is and get obama out of office. the truth of the matter is that republicans have blocked nearly every piece of legislation obama and the democrats have attempted to pass in order to get people back to work, for the sole purpose of making obama look bad so that they can get him out in 2012. they don't care about the people, they don't care about the economy, they don't care about jobs, they don't care about the country. they just want the power.

And most importantly, they certainly don't care about YOU (Americans). I can fall in line with this train of thought, as I think these corps probably have something invested in the banks that 99% are protesting. The media is doing a fine job of splitting Americans, that's why nothing can ever get done in congress. This isn't so much as an economic issue as it is a cultural issue. We as a people values things different depending upon where we're from.So, Americans are at war with each other, this is class warfare. What many of the super rich don't understand (or seem to care), that without a strong middle class, there is no strong America.

[Casey Pixmintro]

Yeah it was an Iraq War vet. It is pretty goddamn disgusting what those Oakland police officers did.
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