Why did the Occupy Wall Street suddenly happen? It’s been 30 years in the making. This video tells us why and how it happened beginning with the comments of Elizabeth Warren:
Veteran Marines explain why they are protesting and call out Sean Hannity for calling OWS protestors “Un-American”:
Boston Police, after encircling peaceful veterans protesting move in for arrests, employing violence to destroy the encampments in Dewey Square:
Pass them on.
As someone who served this country honorably this disgusts me.
We are veterans of the United States of America.
We Are Veterans for Peace.
We are the 99%
Rock on brothers.
“I don’t understand why I am supposed to care about this whole #OccupyWallStreet protest. There is no platform, no legislative vehicle, no coherent call to action, no overriding message, and very little in the way of any point. While the enterprise is less nihilistic than the Rodney King riots or the recent unpleasantness in England, it is even less effectual. I am not sure they are even being successful in inconveniencing anyone. The best I can say for the whole effort is that at least they haven’t created a right-wing backlash. If you want to hurt Wall Street without hurting everyone else in the process, develop a legislative goal that sticks it to Wall Street without further tanking the economy. Walking around in circles in Lower Manhattan and chanting “This is what Democracy looks like” is little different from holing up in your apartment with a week’s worth of free porn. It’s nothing more than a Wank-a-Thon, and I find the whole thing boring and depressing….
People aren’t doing anything worth commenting on. They don’t deserve a response, let alone pepper spray. When they deserve the pepper spray, maybe I will give a shit.”
— Booman, 9/26/11
I’m willing to admit I was wrong about that.
My assumption at the time was that what we we’re seeing is what we were going to get.
I saw a huge dissipation of attention on Congress at the very moment the president began his push for jobs, from the same people who had been pushing to work on jobs.
I still have a disconnect with the protesters, or most of them anyway.
They see the current conditions of the country as the problem. I am still much more concerned about the future of the country. I am looking at the potential for a Republican trifecta in 2013, and I do not want to see that happen to the world.
Yet, at the same time, it’s natural that there should be an eruption on the left, and it’s been too long in coming. It creates more room for Obama in the center. And it could get some of our elites to think about maybe paying for some piece of mind.
So, I was wrong to be dismissive. But I still don’t want us to lose sight of the fact that there are battles in Washington that have to be tended to.