Occupy Wall Street being ousted RIGHT NOW

I support this movement. It's a shame for this to be happening. Police are destorying the tents and other various things. Apparently theirs also some police brutality going on. Whats your take on this?

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

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Sounds good.

What a wonderful police state we live in.

Sounds good.

airshocker

Yes, delicious fascism. MMMM It's exactly what we need.

What are these people protesting anyway? Making money? "Wealth and corporate greed", so to say?

I find it ironic how these Occupy Wall Street protestors have made their slogan "we are the 99%", when if you compare them to the entire world they probably rank within the top 1% as far as wealth goes.

Its a damn shame. But don't worry the occupiers will come back. There is no stopping them.MgamerBD

Seriously though, I support OWS.

From BBC: "The New York Times said as the police operation in Zuccotti Park began at about 01:00 (06:00), a police officer gave an announcement, saying: "The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard". Occupants were told to "immediately remove all private property" and that they would be arrested if they interfered with the operation, the report said. Leaflets were also handed out saying protesters would be allowed to return once the clearance had taken place, but not to bring camping equipment."limpbizkit818

Gas the bastards and move in with the rubber bullets. Their silly little movement should have come to an end weeks ago.

Gas the bastards and move in with the rubber bullets. Their silly little movement should have come to an end weeks ago.

QuistisTrepe_

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Gas the bastards and move in with the rubber bullets. Their silly little movement should have come to an end weeks ago.

chessmaster1989

These whiny little ******* are a pestilence. I have to put up with these punks here in Oakland. And what I get are disease-ridden, smelly hippies infesting my neighborhood, committing vandalism of small businesses (I guess they're the evil 1% too), theft, and violent crime (despite what you've been hearing about their allegedly peaceful demonstrations). They're not achieving anything, they're costing us millions for law enforcement sweeping the city, dispersing their encampments and bringing small businesses to a standstill with all the ruckus, interfering with mass transit, while drawing lawless lunatics from all corners of the Bay Area.

I want these people gone by any means necessary. They've had their say, the party is over. This isn't about ideology, it's about returning to civilized society.

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Gas the bastards and move in with the rubber bullets. Their silly little movement should have come to an end weeks ago.

QuistisTrepe_

These whiny little ******* are a pestilence. I have to put up with these punks here in Oakland. And what I get are disease-ridden, smelly hippies infesting my neighborhood, committing vandalism of small businesses (I guess they're the evil 1% too), theft, and violent crime (despite what you've been hearing about their allegedly peaceful demonstrations). They're not achieving anything, they're costing us millions for law enforcement sweeping the city, dispersing their encampments and bringing small businesses to a standstill with all the ruckus, interfering with mass transit, while drawing lawless lunatics from all corners of the Bay Area.

I want these people gone by any means necessary. They've had their say, the party is over. This isn't about ideology, it's about returning to civilized society.

They're wasting their time. No peaceful protest has changed anything.

They're wasting their time. No peaceful protest has changed anything.

Cerage

We're talking about it. Are we not? Occupy Wall Street is putting pressure on a lot of people.

They've had their say, the party is over. This isn't about ideology, it's about returning to civilized society.QuistisTrepe_

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They're wasting their time. No peaceful protest has changed anything.

microsoft4life

We're talking about it. Are we not? Occupy Wall Street is putting pressure on a lot of people.

The only pressure is whether or not the cops need to move in with gas and rubber bullets. These people can't even protest right. Remember the MLK protests? You didn't have people running around and vandalizing crap but that's happening at almost every location here. You have a bunch of immature people with self-richous attitudes running around, telling people what to do when most of the time they are the ones that are breaking the law. Of course there's corruption in America but you need to be smart about how you go about this. It only takes one idiot to break the law for them to have the green light and force people to disperse. And then they whine about a police state? How about obeying the law first - then complain.

Stop building stupid tents you lazy @#$ Americans and stand on your feet. This country wasn't built by lazy bums and it won't be saved by them either. Most of the places that these tents are being put up are illegal anyway! One woman in OccupyOakland got all angry because the cops took her's down. I mean she may as well have done it on I95. At least she'd get more press!

All they have to do is pick a PUBLIC AREA and peacefully protest. Don't waltz up to someone's property and think you won't get your cherry popped. These people think they can muscle their way into what they want but that is not gonna happen. If you push they push back harder. They need to use words if they're going to get anything done. But if they can't stand there for an hour without doing something stupid then this is a waste of time. All they need is for you to mess up one time. That's all they need.

This has been said before but these people should be occupying Washington DC, not wall street. It's the governement that's the problem. They're the ones allowing the corporate greed to go unchecked.

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[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"] Look, I'm no fan of OWS, but you serious?jonathant5

These whiny little ******* are a pestilence. I have to put up with these punks here in Oakland. And what I get are disease-ridden, smelly hippies infesting my neighborhood, committing vandalism of small businesses (I guess they're the evil 1% too), theft, and violent crime (despite what you've been hearing about their allegedly peaceful demonstrations). They're not achieving anything, they're costing us millions for law enforcement sweeping the city, dispersing their encampments and bringing small businesses to a standstill with all the ruckus, interfering with mass transit, while drawing lawless lunatics from all corners of the Bay Area.

I want these people gone by any means necessary. They've had their say, the party is over. This isn't about ideology, it's about returning to civilized society.

I agree with you, these people are doing no good (many have never done anything productive for society) and are now whining about not having a decent income or even a job, and blaming that its the fault of Wall Street and big businesses that they dont have a job, rather than looking inside of them and realizing that it is in fact their own fault, because they never put in the effort in school and never bothered to get a decent education or even bothered to work hard. There are individuals in 3rd world countries who cant get an education even if they want to, because the system is not there or they need to help their parents so that the family does not starve to death, yet in the US the infrastructure is there, getting a Uni/college education is not expensive and can be done through student loans if need be, yet these people never bothered...jonathant5

A lot of them did go to college, but took the wrong courses and got the wrong degree and now, can't get a job. They are wanting their student loans forgiven instead of paying for them. Go figure.

From what I heard on the radio on my way in this morning, they will be allowed back in after the place is cleaned. Personally, I would have let them stay in their own filth, but doesn't really bother me too much. In a way, the city is doing them a favor.

Its a damn shame. But don't worry the occupiers will come back. There is no stopping them.MgamerBD

i in no way support what i have seen come from OWS, but i do luz at what minor property damage (uncharacteristically petty i know) will occur to the protesters vie the government that not only screwed their pooch, but by whom they stretched out their hands and pleaded to for salvation. i just get some small level of sick joy from seeing people who demand the work of others getting their own destroyed in return.

This has been said before but these people should be occupying Washington DC, not wall street. It's the governement that's the problem. They're the ones allowing the corporate greed to go unchecked.

junglist101

[QUOTE="Serraph105]whatever you think about them they have managed to get conversations going between the media and politicians about income inequality.

[QUOTE="Serraph105]whatever you think about them they have managed to get conversations going between the media and politicians about income inequality. surrealnumber5

EDIT: Holy Glitchspot, Batman! For clarity I have bolded my text.

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This has been said before but these people should be occupying Washington DC, not wall street. It's the governement that's the problem. They're the ones allowing the corporate greed to go unchecked.

surrealnumber5

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[QUOTE="junglist101"]

This has been said before but these people should be occupying Washington DC, not wall street. It's the governement that's the problem. They're the ones allowing the corporate greed to go unchecked.

junglist101

big businesses are not even that important to employment in this nation, and would be far less important if we would just let people enter the industries they know as competitors, instead of trapping them within one of the huge firms.

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[QUOTE="Serraph105]whatever you think about them they have managed to get conversations going between the media and politicians about income inequality. Planet_Pluto

EDIT: Holy Glitchspot, Batman! For clarity I have bolded my text.

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] they wrote the check.... what do you mean unchecked? in the profit loss system greed is fine, but once people turn their back to you or you make bad investments you need too fail, the government wrote the checks to bail the bad businesses out, that is not the fault of the businesses, it is the fault of the thing giving the business public monies. if the government came to me with a check for 100 billion, i would take it without a second thought, and i am ideologically oppose to such acts and am a highly principled person... i am just not naive enough to decline a hundred billion dollars. frankly it would be stupid not to take the monies.

surrealnumber5

big businesses are not even that important to employment in this nation, and would be far less important if we would just let people enter the industries they know as competitors, instead of trapping them within one of the huge firms.

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[QUOTE="junglist101"]Uncontrolled may have been a better word.

junglist101

big businesses are not even that important to employment in this nation, and would be far less important if we would just let people enter the industries they know as competitors, instead of trapping them within one of the huge firms.

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] controls are what prevents competition, regulations and compliance costs keep new entries out, small firms small, and big firms big. the bigger the firm the more easily they can absorb these costs, if you seek to control the actions of these big businesses all you will do is better prop them up, give them larger shares of the market and create even more "wage inequality" as another person called it. people are calling to kill or harm all good actors that play within the profit/loss system just because they wish to control the large actors and dont understand the implications of the actions they are calling for.

big businesses are not even that important to employment in this nation, and would be far less important if we would just let people enter the industries they know as competitors, instead of trapping them within one of the huge firms.

surrealnumber5

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[QUOTE="junglist101"]Companies all have to have some level of greed because they have the desire for money. It's just when it gets to the point where it is at the detrement to society. A great example of this is the predatory lending by banks and lenders that went on during the housing boom. That should have been controlled.

junglist101

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[QUOTE="junglist101"]Companies all have to have some level of greed because they have the desire for money. It's just when it gets to the point where it is at the detrement to society. A great example of this is the predatory lending by banks and lenders that went on during the housing boom. That should have been controlled.

junglist101

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Sounds good.

Guybrush_3

Yes, delicious fascism. MMMM It's exactly what we need.

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] everyone has want, you want, i want, others want. there is no amount of voluntary want that can ever be detrimental to society. the banking industry is controlled, more so now than EVER before in US history, that is why those loans were made. if banks were not insured by the FDIC and banks were not told to give out risky loans vie acts like the affordable housing act, no sane business would make those loans, but once a business is immune to failure why not act stupid? youre only ever going to win.

DevilMightCry

smh.

Woulda figured there would be more of a response from the protesters. Guess they just don't want this thing badly enough. =\

I think you have the right to peaceful assembly. However, if you engage in the destruction of private property or other such illegal actions, the police may remove you. I dont know enough of what's going on to really comment on this current OWS crisis.