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Occupy Wallstreet

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. across110thstreet

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    occupyhouston.org
     
  2. Dubious

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    not dead, yet extinct. curious.

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    They should have a safety tent in the gym shower where you take your 'flight risk' son -- they certainly already have a tent pole.
     
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    lol who are these douches?
     
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    I wonder if these people know that Guy Fawkes was a Catholic terrorist? :confused:
     
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    va fa 'n culo.
     
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    Occupy D.C attacked an Americans For Prosperity dinner last night. They harassed families with children and even pushed a 78-yr old lady down some stairs (at the 3:40 mark).

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    Um, yeah, as much as they were obnoxious, what about the car that ran over 2 people? Conveniently left that out, huh? Pathetic conservatives.
     
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    Why don't you start a thread called 'people who run over other people' and I will post the video there. What relevance does that have? Are you trying to say the protesters were ethical in attacking old women because later one was hit by a car while standing in the middle of the street at night?
     
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    I'm trying to say that you posted a video which does not even show protestors pushing these people, only that they fell down (as in, maybe people pushed from the back of the crowd and it surged forward- a lot less "damning" than if a protestor put out his hands and pushed these ladies). You point out 2 things in a video without pointing out perhaps the most important element (that people were run over), and it has complete relevance. Your whole point was that the Occupy people were acting out of line, which they were, but neglected to mention a potentially criminal act from the other side, which happened. Conclusion? Fail.
     
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    Because it has no relevance which is evident by the fact that you don;t explain why it is relevant.

    Also, it isn't a criminal act if some idiot is in the street at night. In fact the only criminal would be the fellow in the road. Why do think nobody was arrested? If I do jumping jacks in the middle of a highway at night and get nailed, it's my fault. What does 'from the other side' mean? Are you suggesting a person purposely ran this dude over then stopped and explained himself to the police? :rolleyes:
     
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    That can happen when you "occupy" a street where cars are driving. Their whole intent is to obstruct and disrupt until someone accidentally gets hurt and they can shout "help, I'm being repressed, don't taze me, bro", etc. Like a soccer player looking for a penalty. Pathetic.

    How come Tea Partiers can protest and win elections without arrests and violence?

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    And the lady is wearing a Texans hat. She's a keeper.
     
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    What part of: people can't get jobs and keep up with the cost of living do people not understand?
     
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    Not a license for incivility.
     
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    I assume that those guys do since the sign behind them is in Spanish and they are in Guatamala.

    I assume what's going on worldwide with it has more to do with the V For Vendetta movie. I was looking at a Time silde show yesterday, at the same time as Basso's post. It was about the phenomena, Fawkes masks showing up all over the wold at Populist protest, about any number of issues.

    I take it as a "sign" of the beginning of a global Consciousness, THE counter to the mindlessness of the Power For The Sake Of Power, that, won't have any reason to exist when mankind's quality of life is defined by free Solar Power, free Information and virtual experience.....

    hence Basso, and his ilk's, extinction, not death
     
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    Two or three times lately the term 'douche' has come up from the people who generally support the the status quo, Justice Roberts, Dick Army and Karl Rove, John Yoo, Phi Gramm, Dick Cheney, John Bolton.....

    If those are the serious guys, I would rather be a douche.


    (marginalized republicans I like: Codoleeza, Powell .... Rumsfeld, yes)
     
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    None of those people support the status quo
     

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