Heart of Occupy Wall St Protest

[Jermyn Davidson]

"Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out."


Am I the only Conservative that understands and agree with these sentiments?


I am grateful for the right to protest and for the protesters who exercise that right.

I don't criticize the hamsters who choose to abandon their wheel. I only wish I could abandon mine.

[Nitehawk013]

Peaceful protestors don't cause millions of dollars of property damage, violently shut down ports, riot and steal, deficate on police cars or abuse old women.

Have you watched the news? These people are getting exactly what they ask for.

[Jermyn Davidson]

It is unwise to judge a whole movement by the indescritions of a few morons, at least, that is what we were told when we lumped all the cracked tea pots in with the regular thinking American Tea Party members.



I think the quote that I have provided is worth thinking about, discussing.

I don't see thier concern as a solely Liberal or solely Conservative issue.

[aegsm76]

JD, what do you think the Democrats reaction would have been if the Tea Party had contained some of the elements/actions that have been displayed in OWS?
They would have demanded a federal investigation of the movement and would have threatened to bring conspiracy charges against them.
You have heard the GOP criticizing OWS, but they have also left it up to the local politicians to deal with it.
There you have the main difference between the two parties.
One threatens and one speaks freely.
I know whose side I am on.
Do you?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

JD, what do you think the Democrats reaction would have been if the Tea Party had contained some of the elements/actions that have been displayed in OWS?
They would have demanded a federal investigation of the movement and would have threatened to bring conspiracy charges against them.
You have heard the GOP criticizing OWS, but they have also left it up to the local politicians to deal with it.
There you have the main difference between the two parties.
One threatens and one speaks freely.
I know whose side I am on.
Do you?

ROFL!!!!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

It is unwise to judge a whole movement by the indescritions of a few morons, at least, that is what we were told when we lumped all the cracked tea pots in with the regular thinking American Tea Party members.



I think the quote that I have provided is worth thinking about, discussing.

I don't see thier concern as a solely Liberal or solely Conservative issue.

Maybe those 4000 that were arrested WERE the morons?

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

"Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out."


Am I the only Conservative that understands and agree with these sentiments?


I am grateful for the right to protest and for the protesters who exercise that right.

I don't criticize the hamsters who choose to abandon their wheel. I only wish I could abandon mine.

"I was watching the television interviews of some of the Occupy Wall Street young people. In this particular segment they seemed to only be able to find 22 year olds. That is, those just out of college who have not been able to find a job. The latter is understandable since the unemployment rate of 18-22 year olds is somewhere in the neighbor- hood of 25% or worse. They are angry. They feel they have been sold a bill of goods. They have been told, ‘get a good education and you will find your job and place in life’. Only that isn’t so much happening these days. There are a lot of unemployed college graduates, and the number of unemployed high school graduates who did not go on to college is astronomical. Your odds at least are better if you have a college degree. Looking around for someone to blame for this mess, the Occupy Wall Street crowd has fixed on Wall Street, on the Bernie Madoffs in our world (as in made off with our cash). And of course there is some truth to the rumor that greedy people on Wall Street caused the crash of 2008. But it is not the root of the problem. Nor is the root of the problem laziness. Nor is the root of the problem a lack of hard work. Americans still by and large are very hard workers, compared for example to the Greeks. No, none of this gets at the root of the problem. One of the wonderful old Pogo cartoons gets at the root of the problem.



We in general are the root of the problem. Our culture is in the clutches of the most primal sin of all narcissism. We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. The heart turned in upon itself leads to greed, a strong sense of entitlement, selfishness, self-centeredness, ‘me first’. It’s all narcissism. Narcissism is by definition a sick form of self-love. Love that is focused on self, not God or others, but self. Did you ever wonder why the great commandments (not suggestions) were love God with your whole heart and neighbor as self? Because frankly that’s the hardest thing in the world for a self-centered narcissistic person to do. They have to be continually reminded. We are indeed our own worst enemies. We don’t need to point fingers at others who are ‘more narcissistic than us’. We need to simply look in the mirror. There is an old ditty which goes this way ‘The three persons I admire most are me, myself, and I. Me, myself I know very well, but who’s that other guy?’..."

By Ben Witherington http://www.patheos.com/blogs/biblean...besetting-sin/

[TheChariot]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Maybe those 4000 that were arrested WERE the morons?

I had friends arrested at OWS, and they are not morons.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

"I was watching the television interviews of some of the Occupy Wall Street young people. In this particular segment they seemed to only be able to find 22 year olds. That is, those just out of college who have not been able to find a job.

... still by and large are very hard workers, compared for example to the Greeks.

see attached picture for an educated person who cannot seem to find a good job.


Are you saying that the Greeks are lazy but Americans are not? Our President recently said that Americans are lazy.

The right to free speech and the right to assemble have limitations. The old classic example is that the right to free speech does not give one the right to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater. Lots of filthy language and anti-semitist rhetoric going on there. The rights of the protestors interferes with the rights of people to go to work, to shop, etc. Also, whenever I've seen protestors interviewed they didn't seem to have any idea of a solution --just the old Obama socialist redistribution of wealth. It seems that what the protestors are really into is public fornication, defecation, urination, defecation, drug ingestion, etc.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

"Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out."


Am I the only Conservative that understands and agree with these sentiments?


I am grateful for the right to protest and for the protesters who exercise that right.

I don't criticize the hamsters who choose to abandon their wheel. I only wish I could abandon mine.

You are devoted to not understand economics.

Durbin triggered punishment on banks.
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Obama has banks walking on eggshells wondering which way the commie in the whitehouse wants to mess with banks next.