The Smear Campaigns against the Occupy Wall Street Movement

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Mestemia

From what I have seen, it appears that the article is trying to cover up the fact that the protesters are gathering in large groups waiting for the police to screw up and telling flat out lies as to why people were arrested.

Originally Posted by Alceste

Source please.

Originally Posted by Mestemia

Source of what?

Don't be disingenuous. Give your sources.

[YmirGF]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Don't be disingenuous. Give your sources.

One might ask the same of the "Occupy", um, err, "movement", Phil.

Given that it is now two months since these intellectually challenged individuals started their "protest", we have not heard a single official idea emerging from them. I am a part of the so-called 99% and these people sure as hell do not speak for me. I'm more inclined to label them the < .05% lunatic fringe and quite unworthy of any further attention.

[Shermana]

Originally Posted by javajo

When the rich get richer, get tax breaks and still ship jobs overseas, are corrupt and greedy, and people don't have jobs, are getting poorer and poorer, food and all going up, what do you expect? People are gonna push back, they should pay attention. I'm no socialist, but come on.

Maybe if there were less crippling regulations that punish the Middle Class business owner and deter the Rich from investing alike, (And maybe some protectionist regulations on overseas outsourcing like how other countries do) there'd be less jobs going overseas. It costs $100 million more just to do business in California with 500 employees than in Arkansas, imagine the difference in India. Food price has very little to do with actual supply and demand, price cartels dominate everything just like Standard oil in the oil days. And it's the Democrat-policy-pursuing Government that allows these things.

The way these people are pushing back is not exactly in the right direction, if they want more and better paying jobs, they should be lobbying Washington to make changes, not protesting banks who get their permission slips from Washington to manhandle Wall Street like it was their brothel. Are they hoping if they protest enough they'll stop misbehaving? What exactly are they expecting to happen anyway? Are they hoping for it to turn into riots or something? Don't they find it odd that Leftist Billionaires and North Korea are both supporting their cause officially?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by YmirGF

One might ask the same of the "Occupy", um, err, "movement", Phil.

Given that it is now two months since these intellectually challenged individuals started their "protest", we have not heard a single official idea emerging from them. I am a part of the so-called 99% and these people sure as hell do not speak for me. I'm more inclined to label them the < .05% lunatic fringe and quite unworthy of any further attention.

Unworthy of any further attention? Paul, you'll be the last person on earth talking about them. You know you will.

[YmirGF]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Unworthy of any further attention? Paul, you'll be the last person on earth talking about them. You know you will.

Hahahahaha... Unlikely, Sunstone.

[Nowhere Man]

I would go for trade barriers and reasonable regulation as far as safety and security goes. Otherwise the goverment really needs to butt out of free enterprise and let the market innovate and grow like it was allowed to in the past rather than trying to run and control things they know nothing about.

As it turns out as I see it, excessive and unreasonable regulation and litigation is a prime cause of the loss of our previous ability to self-sustain ourselves and as a result has artificially created a dependence on foreign products for our needs. This forced companys to look elsewhere outside the U.S. This is because complience issues get ever increasingly expensive and restrictive with no end in sight. The corporations discovered they liked the lower overhead and easier regulation elsewhere and obviously profits *soared. Unfortunately common Joe Schmuck back in the U.S. is left out of a previously good paying job as a result of all this while it's givin to a cheaper counterpart in another country.

*Sad we couldnt keep that here.

[Alceste]

Originally Posted by Mestemia

Source of what?

If you mean the headlines saying one thing and the reality being something completely different, let me go fetch a link to the thred right here on RF that shows it...

Here is the link:
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum...41-post30.html

I think you misunderstand what you're seeing there. According to the article the protesters were locked in by the bank until they could be arrested. The video shows a bunch of people locked in a bank waiting to be arrested. What happened before the video was shot is unknown. Do you have any good reason for believing they were lying? Our you pick the bank's version of the story arbitrarily?

[Alceste]

Originally Posted by YmirGF

One might ask the same of the "Occupy", um, err, "movement", Phil.

Given that it is now two months since these intellectually challenged individuals started their "protest", we have not heard a single official idea emerging from them. I am a part of the so-called 99% and these people sure as hell do not speak for me. I'm more inclined to label them the < .05% lunatic fringe and quite unworthy of any further attention.

That's right, go back to sleep. Nothing to see here. Just a global uprising toppling entrenched governments like dominoes.

[Shermana]

The OWS is toppling the government? Really? Where? I must be out of the loop.

[Alceste]

Originally Posted by Shermana

The OWS is toppling the government? Really? Where? I must be out of the loop.

OWS is part of a bigger picture that includes the Arab Spring, Green Revolution, the unrest in Greece, etc. It's early days yet, and these things take time.