Younger People Are Angry

[tosberg34]

Obama and Democrat supported Flea Baggers now harassing children.

 

The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted “follow those kids!”

 

“These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids,” one father said.

 

“For them it’s horrible. They’re afraid of all the crowds. We’re not even able to get through. They’re just, he’s … very afraid now,” a mother added.

 

What's next on the list? Puppies?

 

I think I can safely say that the Flea Baggers have pretty much lost what little support they had. So let's see, there's Waterman and...yep, that's about it.

Edited November 17, 2011 by tosberg34

[WaterMan]

Time Magazine took 196 photos of the Occupy events.

 

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29...2323148,00.html

 

 

 

This picture shows Andy Griffith-like police officers using their powers of persuasion to tell protesters to go home.

 

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29...2322433,00.html

Edited November 18, 2011 by WaterMan

[gbpfan1231]

Time Magazine took 196 photos of the Occupy events.

 

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29...2323148,00.html

 

 

 

This picture shows Andy Griffith-like police officers using their powers of persuasion to tell protesters to go home.

 

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29...2322433,00.html

Jesus dude!! Do you have a job - please go out and protest and quit posting useless links.

[Duchess Jack]

Jesus dude!! Do you have a job - please go out and protest and quit posting useless links.

Why does it bother you so much?

 

and anybody who things that somehow a small portion of OWS is in any way indicative of the whole is kidding themselves. This group is far harder to get a handle on that the tea-party and folk who supported the tea-party didn't want to be lumped in with some of the rasism that was going along with it.

[WaterMan]

Hey, I'm keeping this in one thread. Be thankful this isn't a new thread for every post.

[gbpfan1231]

Hey, I'm keeping this in one thread. Be thankful this isn't a new thread for every post.

OK Thanks!!

[Jimmy Neutron]

I drove by Occupy Portland this morning - pretty rough looking bunch. Peaceful while I was there, but radio reported several physical confrontations with police as I drove south.

 

My primary concern with this movement is that governments (city, state, fed) will use the difficulties as an excuse to more severely limit citizens' ability to assemble.

[bpwallace49]

Jesus dude!! Do you have a job - please go out and protest and quit posting useless links.

 

Dude . . . have you seen how many times Tossberg has bumped this thread and posted useless links?

 

He is reveling in the right wing media coverage of this hippie drum circle.

[WaterMan]

I drove by Occupy Portland this morning - pretty rough looking bunch. Peaceful while I was there, but radio reported several physical confrontations with police as I drove south.

 

My primary concern with this movement is that governments (city, state, fed) will use the difficulties as an excuse to more severely limit citizens' ability to assemble.

 

Mayors have been trying, but everytime they do the state's supreme court overrules them.

[tosberg34]

Dude . . . have you seen how many times Tossberg has bumped this thread and posted useless links?

 

He is reveling in the right wing media coverage of this hippie drum circle.

 

No, not really. I only do it to bring out the hypocrisy in types like you.

 

BTW, you're spelling my name wrong.

Edited November 18, 2011 by tosberg34

[Square]

Hey, I'm keeping this in one thread. Be thankful this isn't a new thread for every post.

True. If you turn this into the Tebow of the Tailgate where ever 3rd post is about this topic, I swear I'll email you a round house kick.

[Savage Beatings]

and anybody who things that somehow a small portion of OWS is in any way indicative of the whole is kidding themselves. This group is far harder to get a handle on that the tea-party and folk who supported the tea-party didn't want to be lumped in with some of the rasism that was going along with it.

 

I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare the negatives of the Tea Party to the negatives of the OWS groups. The CNN types desparately wanted to find racism in the Tea Party, but it just wasn't there. Anyone that disagrees with Obama is labeled a racist regardless of any actual evidence of racism being present. I was at Tea Party rallies myself, and I can tell you that if anyone had shown up with an kind of racist signs or propaganda, they would have been asked to get the F out (kind of a Tea Party equivalent of a Code Red to clean out the rifraff).

 

The OWS group on the other hand, does not need anyone to try to pin negative stories on them. They are rampant everywhere you look. That doesn't mean that evey person at an OWS event is a rapist, or a drug user, or a union thug, or just a rude and inconsiderate person trying to prevent people from going to work, and trying to scare children. But those horrible human beings are not being asked to leave the OWS movement even though there are coming to represent the movement in most people's minds. Instead they seem to be at the forefront of the movement. The worst of humanity is on display, and I don't see any OWS leaders stepping up to say, hey that's not us. I see OWS movements embracing anyone that will hang out with them (even if they are the dregs of humanity) because they have adopted a strategy that requires large numbers of people to get involved.

 

In short, there is no OWS equivalent of a Code Red to get rid of the rifraff... I suspect because the majority of the OWS participants don't care if they are dirty, rude, or criminal, as long as they think they are getting their way.

[Duchess Jack]

I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare the negatives of the Tea Party to the negatives of the OWS groups. The CNN types desparately wanted to find racism in the Tea Party, but it just wasn't there. Anyone that disagrees with Obama is labeled a racist regardless of any actual evidence of racism being present. I was at Tea Party rallies myself, and I can tell you that if anyone had shown up with an kind of racist signs or propaganda, they would have been asked to get the F out (kind of a Tea Party equivalent of a Code Red to clean out the rifraff).

 

Perhaps we disagee on whether a fraction of leaderless collective with a wide array of views should be used to represent the whole. I however have never gone out of my way to accuse folk who don't like Obama's policy of rasism. I don't believe any of the folk that I am friendly with on the left have either. Once again, it seems like it is a small portion of a thing being made into something much larger than it is.

Edited November 18, 2011 by Duchess Jack

[evil_gop_liars]

I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare the negatives of the Tea Party to the negatives of the OWS groups. The CNN types desparately wanted to find racism in the Tea Party, but it just wasn't there. Anyone that disagrees with Obama is labeled a racist regardless of any actual evidence of racism being present. I was at Tea Party rallies myself, and I can tell you that if anyone had shown up with an kind of racist signs or propaganda, they would have been asked to get the F out (kind of a Tea Party equivalent of a Code Red to clean out the rifraff).

 

 

[Savage Beatings]

 

 

Yep. Rumors of phantom racists possibly maybe being in some indrect way linked to Tea Parties is the same as the human trash that is on display every day during OWS coverage. But not all OWS protesters are criminals so, you know, it's ok.

[evil_gop_liars]

 

Yep. Rumors of phantom racists possibly maybe being in some indrect way linked to Tea Parties is the same as the human trash that is on display every day during OWS coverage. But not all OWS protesters are criminals so, you know, it's ok.

 

What you talkin about Savage?

 

This one is nice.

 

Respectful.

 

What no McRib?

 

This guy leads the tea party.

[Yukon Cornelius]

What you talkin about Savage?

 

This one is nice.

 

Respectful.

 

What no McRib?

 

This guy leads the tea party.

those are just some infiltrators that are not apart of the movement.

[bushwacked]

 

+

[evil_gop_liars]

those are just some infiltrators that are not apart of the movement.

 

CNN put them there...

[bushwacked]

There is nothing disingenuous in claiming that American's view both groups in the same light:

 

In a war between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement to capture the hearts of Americans, who wins? According to a new poll, it’s a draw.

 

Less than a third of Americans say either movement represents their values, according to a poll released Wednesday (Nov. 16) by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service.

 

One thing, however, is clear: neither movement can make a strong claim to speak for Americans. Near identical majorities say neither movement represents their values — 57 percent for the Tea Party, and 56 percent for Occupy Wall Street

[bushwacked]

CNN put them there...

 

Next to palm trees.

[Deathpig]

What you talkin about Savage?

 

This one is nice.

 

Respectful.

 

What no McRib?

 

This guy leads the tea party.

 

How does calling Obama a Kenyan translate into being racist? Birther? Sure. Racist? Huh? How does calling Obama a Socialist translate into being racist? The last sign equates taxpayers with the 'n word', not Obama. This is the best you can come up with after two years? This is the pinnacle of hate and vitriol that the Tea Party represents? I expected MUCH better.

 

 

I can sum up this right quick.

[CowboyGal2011]

Why is the left so desperate to attach the genuine legitimacy of the Tea Party with these OWS clowns?

[Boilerduff]

I can sum up this right quick.

 

 

It'd be funny if it wasn't true... The media bias on this crap is rediculous!

 

You want to say there are fringe elements that have infiltrated both movements, I agree.

 

You want to tell me with a straight face that the OWS crowd is not more violent, destructive, rude, and immature than the Tea party crowd, you are just blind to reality, regardless of what you think of their message or methods.

 

They have succeded in what they need to do which is promoting the debate. Now put some actions together, that don't hurt the 99% that you are fighting for, that will actually make a difference! I mean who do you think is going to pay for all the money that is being spent to secure these areas? The top 1%? Talk about self defeating...

[gbpfan1231]

I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare the negatives of the Tea Party to the negatives of the OWS groups. The CNN types desparately wanted to find racism in the Tea Party, but it just wasn't there. Anyone that disagrees with Obama is labeled a racist regardless of any actual evidence of racism being present. I was at Tea Party rallies myself, and I can tell you that if anyone had shown up with an kind of racist signs or propaganda, they would have been asked to get the F out (kind of a Tea Party equivalent of a Code Red to clean out the rifraff).

 

The OWS group on the other hand, does not need anyone to try to pin negative stories on them. They are rampant everywhere you look. That doesn't mean that evey person at an OWS event is a rapist, or a drug user, or a union thug, or just a rude and inconsiderate person trying to prevent people from going to work, and trying to scare children. But those horrible human beings are not being asked to leave the OWS movement even though there are coming to represent the movement in most people's minds. Instead they seem to be at the forefront of the movement. The worst of humanity is on display, and I don't see any OWS leaders stepping up to say, hey that's not us. I see OWS movements embracing anyone that will hang out with them (even if they are the dregs of humanity) because they have adopted a strategy that requires large numbers of people to get involved.

 

In short, there is no OWS equivalent of a Code Red to get rid of the rifraff... I suspect because the majority of the OWS participants don't care if they are dirty, rude, or criminal, as long as they think they are getting their way.

The pathetic thing that I have noticed by seeing a lot of the videos is that when one of these fringe OWS people are being arrested (for what I assume was something that the rest of OWS crowd would disapprove of) the other OWS people are not trying to distance themselves or stop this person - instead they are filming and photographing the police to use it against the police.