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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #30 on Oct 2, 2011, 1:02pm »
Some people in my college were part of the arrested, apparently. This is ridiculous. Didn't these people learn from the eras in which they lived?
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« Reply #31 on Oct 2, 2011, 1:16pm »
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #32 on Oct 2, 2011, 1:33pm »
You know, one of my great fears is that twenty years from now, we'll all be as stupid as the NYPD and the Tea Party is right now. After all, the Teabaggers are from the same generation as the hippies...
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #33 on Oct 2, 2011, 2:04pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 9:13am, VirtualStranger wrote:
Hey, guess who JP Morgan just "donated" 4.6 million dollars to? That's right, the NYPD.


Bribery! Corruption! TREASON!!!

I so envy those of you who live in countries where this battle was fought and won decades ago.
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« Reply #34 on Oct 2, 2011, 2:09pm »
The first estimate of 500 arrests was wrong. Apparently the total amount of arrests yesterday numbers somewhere above 700, bringing the total number of arrests since the protests began to above 1,000.

More protests are being planned all across the country, with especially large gatherings in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland, with the next major protest to be scheduled in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, The protests in New York are just getting bigger by the day. This is shaping up to be a nationwide movement.

The movement's unofficial website is here.
http://www.occupytogether.org
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #35 on Oct 2, 2011, 2:31pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 2:04pm, brendanrizzo wrote:

Oct 2, 2011, 9:13am, VirtualStranger wrote:
Hey, guess who JP Morgan just "donated" 4.6 million dollars to? That's right, the NYPD.


Bribery! Corruption! TREASON!!!

I so envy those of you who live in countries where this battle was fought and won decades ago.

lol, you're kidding, right?
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #36 on Oct 2, 2011, 6:00pm »
More union support.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/usw-sup....ment-2011-09-30

It also seems that a few ex-marine Redditors are going to go join the protests.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment....py_wall_street/
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment....reddit_we_took/

And
http://www.yfrog.com/z/hsbxkomsj
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« Reply #37 on Oct 2, 2011, 7:43pm »
Here is a video taken by someone on the pedestrian walkway that shows police deliberately guiding protesters into the middle of the road and letting them march halfway across the bridge before arresting them.


By the way, the police had these people trapped on the bridge blocking traffic for hours while they were detaining everyone, which means the "impeding vehicle traffic" charges are complete bullshit. If they had been allowed to walk across unimpeded, the bridge would have been completely cleared in several minutes.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #38 on Oct 2, 2011, 7:54pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 9:13am, VirtualStranger wrote:
Hey, guess who JP Morgan just "donated" 4.6 million dollars to? That's right, the NYPD.


That answers a lot.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #39 on Oct 2, 2011, 9:36pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 7:54pm, Thejebusfire wrote:

Oct 2, 2011, 9:13am, VirtualStranger wrote:
Hey, guess who JP Morgan just "donated" 4.6 million dollars to? That's right, the NYPD.


That answers a lot.

Apparently the donation was done in June so it's not directly linked to the protests. I'm not saying that it has no effect on how the police treats the people protesting against the "benefactor", though.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #40 on Oct 2, 2011, 9:41pm »
How does one even donate money to a police force? Here in Oz, our pigs aren't even allowed to accept free dinners from Macca's!
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #41 on Oct 2, 2011, 10:01pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 9:41pm, lighthorseman wrote:
How does one even donate money to a police force? Here in Oz, our pigs aren't even allowed to accept free dinners from Macca's!


You can donate money to the force at large, not to individual officers. There's even a bit of a tradition of donating money to the force and getting a decal to put on your car, so if you get pulled over...
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #42 on Oct 2, 2011, 10:06pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 10:01pm, Smurfette Principle wrote:

Oct 2, 2011, 9:41pm, lighthorseman wrote:
How does one even donate money to a police force? Here in Oz, our pigs aren't even allowed to accept free dinners from Macca's!


You can donate money to the force at large, not to individual officers. There's even a bit of a tradition of donating money to the force and getting a decal to put on your car, so if you get pulled over...
That's obscene! My respect for the executive branches of America's many and varied governments continues to plummet.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #43 on Oct 2, 2011, 10:21pm »

Oct 2, 2011, 2:04pm, brendanrizzo wrote:

Oct 2, 2011, 9:13am, VirtualStranger wrote:
Hey, guess who JP Morgan just "donated" 4.6 million dollars to? That's right, the NYPD.


Bribery! Corruption! TREASON!!!

I so envy those of you who live in countries where this battle was fought and won decades ago.

The war is never won. If the Tea Party and the religious right has demonstrated anything its that any progress, no matter how seemingly entrenched and positive, can be rolled back. Progress is a constant fight against those who will do anything to return to an imaginary past, or those who have a stake in the status quo. That's why Occupy Wall Street is so important; it shows us how Liberals in the USA have dropped the ball so dramatically since the days of FDR.


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You know, one of my great fears is that twenty years from now, we'll all be as stupid as the NYPD and the Tea Party is right now. After all, the Teabaggers are from the same generation as the hippies...

Trust me, there are plenty of idiots from our generation that can fill that quota. Society is a constant pendulum of idologies. We can only hope this Austerity-mania will induce a backlash that will last decades, same way the 60s caused the Religious Right to flourish.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #44 on Oct 3, 2011, 12:07am »

Oct 2, 2011, 10:21pm, Armand Tanzarian wrote:
We can only hope this Austerity-mania will induce a backlash that will last decades, same way the 60s caused the Religious Right to flourish.


I wouldn't count on it. We had an austerity economy through most of the seventies, and look where that got us - stagflation followed by Reaganomics and the Thatcher Doctrine :(
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