Occupation or Shell Game? You Tell me.
Could somebody please tell me what has been accomplished by the Occupy movement. I’m not so silly that I would expect world changing events but I do expect something.
Take a look at the financial section of your newspaper. Have any of you noticed a change within stock trends? Are any of the Big Evil Banks stepping forward to tell us there will be changes in how business is done? Are any politicians telling of how they will remove corporate money from the election process?
No, no and ahhh, NO!
All I see are a number of city parks around the country being destroyed by these numbskulls.
At one corner of the Portland occupation is a sign telling of how this is a protest, not a party. When I walk through I hear loud music (this is a very loose interpretation of the word music), see countless people drinking, and smell marijuana everywhere. If this is not a party I have no idea what is.
If you ask an Occupier what has been so far most will not have no answer for you. Others may tell you how they have raised public awareness through marches and whatnot. Ask them for something tangible and they have no answer.
As usual, the media will play the hell out of this and the public ends up taking their collective “eye” off the ball. At some point we are going to see something in the news that will shock us. We will wonder just how something like that could happen and as usual the distraction will be missed.
October 27, 2011 at 12:50 pm
At least you know what side of the bread your butter is on. Most of us are in support of the 99%. The issues are long and worthy and can not all be mentioned here nor will they be achieved over night.
On the other side of the (sic) coin there are the 1% -ers…they will do what ever they can to diminish and marginalize the “occupy movement”. What I find amusing is that the 1% and their ignorant supporters, are coming unglued and bouncing off the walls about this revolution.
It is amusing as hell to me to see the concocted furry being whipped up with massive self- frustration by these “nay-sayer”. … At least you have butter on your bread, and you can talk down to others with your mouth full of your buttered 1% bread.
This revolution is going to be weary on you that are just standing on the sidelines eating buttered bread and talking w/ your mouths full from your privilaged class. I suggest you don’t get to steamed up about seeing a revolution that will probably end up working in your flavor ….in the *long *run of course …. for a revolution *doesn’t happen over night.
Oh by the way ….can you please pass the butter? (please)?
(I didnt think so …. for the 1% shares nothing!)
October 27, 2011 at 4:31 pm
I pray you are right but I will not be surprised it turns out I am right.
Thanks for your comment!
October 30, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Your argument makes my head hurt. Hard Work+ a willingness to take risks= success (if repeated over and over enough). Until anyone has put this into practice on a continual basis, they have no grounds to complain.
I hope they get the heck out of the parks and go back to doing something, other then trying to be part of a faux revolution. Camp on UrbanOutDoorsmen its back to basics and no park needed. The revolution lies within every man camped benath concrete, pushing his belongings on rubber wheels, the revolution would explode if only anyone was willing to light the fuse. Anyone got any matches?
October 30, 2011 at 10:58 am
pdxurbanoutdoorsman, I seem to remember a SHITLOAD of music (good and bad) recorded and a TON of doped smoked during the 1960′s protests and I think most would agree they had some kind of impact, as we talk about them to this day. Any protest action conducted today is going to be made much more difficult by the “1%’s” near completed domination of American life. As with many, I see a complaint here, but no solutions proposed. I’m pretty sure donating some money to my local “service provider” isn’t going to cut it at this point. I did the “urban outdoors man” thing in my 20′s and decided I liked sleeping under a roof and in heated rooms. So I began working toward that aim and achieved it. Now that my eyes are open, I see they’re trying to take that all away and negate the hard work I’ve done. I most certainly resent that and aim to fight them. The camp is just one focal point (a powerful one, if done right) of this whole “99%” movement thing. From your moniker I assume you’re living on the streets, correct me if I’m wrong. While you may be doing this by choice, many would like to hold on to some basic amenities. If we do nothing, a powerful few (less then 1% truth be told) will see to it that U.S. infrastructure collapses to Beirut or Kabul-like levels. – James Logan
January 3, 2012 at 12:27 am
The result of these tighter restrictions is that more people are being forced to rent homes thus bolstering the rental market in many communities.
January 25, 2012 at 8:06 pm
I believe the movement was started as a ploy to get the dissenters within the public to identify themselves openly (by posting support through blogs, social media, and by being arrested during protests).
A good place to see how the US government was involved in the creation of many of the ideas and tools behind OWS, look at the Serbian company, OTPOR, which gets a lot of funding from the State Department and US think tanks.
The people running the show are smarter than we give them credit for, and I believe every action and reaction are engineered to some degree, at least anything that shows up in the news.
January 25, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Commenting again because I forgot to check the notifications box lol.