Occupy Wall Street Baloney

[Jesus_lol]

funny, with all the comparisons between Occupy and the Tea Party, you would think someone else would have posted Ron Paul's(you know the founder of the tea party?) take on the Occupy protests?

[url="http://amherst.patch.com/articles/ron-paul-defends-occupy-wall-street#video-8518569"]http://amherst.patch.com/articles/ron-paul-defends-occupy-wall-street#video-8518569[/url]

[Ice_nine]

Ron Paul founded the Tea Party? I'll admit my ignorance.

The thing is I can understand where the protesters are coming from. They want some of that free handout money from the fed gave to failing corporations. Yes it's an immature reaction, "Daddy he got [i]more[/i] than me wahh give me some!"

ah Idk. I'ma stop talking son

[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='Ice_nine' timestamp='1323392161' post='2347610']
Ron Paul founded the Tea Party? I'll admit my ignorance.

The thing is I can understand where the protesters are coming from. They want some of that free handout money from the fed gave to failing corporations. Yes it's an immature reaction, "Daddy he got [i]more[/i] than me wahh give me some!"

ah Idk. I'ma stop talking son
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that is an overly simplified and generally untrue characterization actually.

[Ice_nine]

Is it?

Oh poo

I feel like I'm getting tendonitis or something so I didn't prattle on too much to explain myself. But I was pretty much talking out of my arse anyway, so I stopped. I think I was trying to generalize what people find distasteful about the movement, but floopy do I know?

All I really know is this movement seems to have accomplished next to nothing except managing to piss a few people off.

world peace

[Nihil Obstat]

I don't think nearly enough people are protesting the fact that if you put $1000 in the bank today, in 20 years it won't be worth nearly the same amount. The dollar amount may not go down. Maybe it even goes up a tiny bit. But the value decreases tremendously.
Here's the thing: that's not just a fact of life. That happens [i]directly because of the Federal Reserve[/i] and the politicians who legally protect it. It's theft. Without your consent they are taking your wealth and redistributing it to their favoured cronies.
But people are ok with it, or at best just don't notice it. I guess that's just the banality of evil. It's so entrenched in our society that we've forgotten in a lot of cases just how bad it is for the middle and working class. It's not a glamorous cause, and it's not exciting, but it's absolutely an enormous issue. I was hoping OWS would start flying that flag, and in a few very isolated incidents they did, but by and large it was more of the same redistributionist stuff.

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323334489' post='2347227']
funny, with all the comparisons between Occupy and the Tea Party, you would think someone else would have posted Ron Paul's(you know the founder of the tea party?) take on the Occupy protests?

[url="http://amherst.patch.com/articles/ron-paul-defends-occupy-wall-street#video-8518569"]http://amherst.patch...t#video-8518569[/url]
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Actually, it was a rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli that is considered the birth of the tea party movement:

[url="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World"]http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World[/url]

[Nihil Obstat]

Weird. I thought there was some thing in Boston that was the start of the Tea Party. Shows what I know about American history.

[spoiler][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Boston_Tea_Party_Currier_colored.jpg[/img]

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[Papist]

Someone gots to get these cops under control.

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[Nihil Obstat]

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[Papist]

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[Nihil Obstat]

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YES! The past generations must be destroyed with great vengeance!

[Jesus_lol]

euthanasia? from a catholic??? SCANDAL

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323809352' post='2350587']
euthanasia? from a catholic??? SCANDAL
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Euthanasia? Perish the thought. This is warfare.

[Clare~Therese]

LOL @ the pictures!

I seriously lol'd. And my dad asked, "what's so funny?"

Edited December 13, 2011 by Clare~Therese

[Papist]

[b] Occupy: A Brit’s Perspective on the Movement[/b]

December 14, 2011 By Frank Manning


Yet again, the Occupy movement has attempted to [url="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-13/occupy-port-closures/51859954/1"]shut down ports[/url] around America, further damaging the economy and injuring port companies and their workers. While they did this supposedly to express ‘solidarity’ with various ‘martyrs’, the ‘leaders’ of the movement still deny receiving any [url="http://www.joc.com/labor/trade-union-rejects-occupy-move-ports"]endorsement[/url] from unions operating within the Northwest port area. As a Britain, I want to ask this question: how much further do Occupiers have to push before Americans stand up and say “enough”?

At a time when the worldwide economy needs all the support it can get, protests like these directly cost the American economy millions and millions of dollars in negative publicity and lost productivity which, in turn, hinders growth in the European economy. Therefore, I’m sufficiently pissed.

History will likely place the Occupy protests as a footnote on the global financial crisis. While the [url="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2ce6cd4-24a3-11e1-bfb3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gRIo9Xw7"]Eurozone crumbled[/url] and American [url="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2ce6cd4-24a3-11e1-bfb3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gRIo9Xw7"]unemployment soared[/url], a collection of socialists, environmentalists, anti-Semites, radicals, statists and progressives set up camps around the Western world to ask the government to give them something for nothing.

But the Occupy movement has been a blessing to Barack Obama and Democrats, allowing them the luxury of deflecting their own mistakes onto bankers and businesses rather than facing up to their own failed policies. But its not just American politicians that may be rethinking their support of the Occupy movement. The left-wing Labour party in the UK is also reconsidering their supporting role in the Occupy protests. European politicians used the same tactics to shove their failed policies off onto the banking industry and it is going to come back to bite them.

The simple ‘bash the bankers, soak the rich’ rhetoric has been given too much airtime by liberal media happy to attack a soft target. But not even the noble cause could maintain the high stature of the movement; it lost serious legitimacy when the world heard of the criminality occurring within the camps. [url="http://news.yahoo.com/sexual-assault-thefts-hate-plague-occupy-movement-200100603.html"]Sexual assaults, robberies, thefts[/url] and shocking examples of [url="http://news.yahoo.com/sexual-assault-thefts-hate-plague-occupy-movement-200100603.html"]hypocrisy[/url] ended any justification for the occupations. Civility was lost and positive attention fled the scene.

In the Occupy London protest, police used a thermal imaging camera to examine [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8847357/Telegraph-evicted-from-St-Pauls-Occupy-London-camp-as-the-mood-turns.html"]the tents[/url]. The majority of the them, almost 90%, were [url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053068/Occupy-London-9-10-tents-remain-overnight-St-Pauls-camp.html"]empty at night[/url]. These rent-a-cause protestors were hanging around the camp in the daytime then going home to their warm, capitalist beds in the evening. Hardly ‘solidarity’ at its finest.

The icy chill of winter will inevitably send the majority of protestors home, and it is likely that the entire Occupy ‘movement’ will end in a damp squib rather than a final conflict. The cost of policing and cleaning all of their camps will run into millions of dollars though, a cost which will be generously met by, you guessed it, the taxpayers of America.

Without realizing it, the Occupy movement has been used by everyone. To the media, they are a quick story they can stretch out for months. To Republicans, they are an example of modern-day entitlement culture, young people who expect the moon on a stick and refuse to work for it. To Democrats, they are useful idiots, taking media attention off Obama’s diabolical ratings.

[b][url="http://thecollegeconservativedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/frank-manning.png"][img]http://thecollegeconservativedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/frank-manning.png?w=230&h=300[/img][/url]Frank Manning [/b]// University of Nottingham (UK) // @billymanning

Edited December 14, 2011 by Papist