Wall Street Protests

[Lamplighter]

Take a deep breath, Dana.
Sometimes it's like white noise... to be ignored

[tw]

Originally Posted by DanaC

You just took a nose dive in my estimation. Seriously, where's your human warmth gone?

Simply worship what Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh order you to believe. All the warmth you will ever need. Hate always creates heat.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Cry me a GD River......

So, there we have it. Merc's final comment on low income children, seniors, and disabled who will be forced onto the streets in great numbers with no where to go and nothing to eat and no medical care. I'm beginning to think that you are very clueless or very mean. For your sake. I hope its clueless, although ignorance can often cause as much or as more harm as anything else.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

No, but thanks for the pic!

While that pic was interesting, I cannot claim responsibility for it. Classic is the one who first posted it.

[Pico and ME]

Dana, your posts in this forum always give me hope. Dont let the Mercs of the world take yours away - I think thats their motive anyway.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Really? Cause you don't sound like you have a fucking ounce of sympathy. Cry me a river? She did it all right. She followed the fucking master plan and did it all right until fate, or fortune or random chance threw an impassable block into her path.

Cry me a river? Her career, her health, her future and current security, all snatched from her leaving her wholly and inextricably bound up in state assistance, and there's almost nothing she can do about it.

The Right want to strip her of what little assistance society has deemed she 'deserves' and you have the fucking brass balls to say cry me a river?


Fuck Merc. You just took a nose dive in my estimation. Seriously, where's your human warmth gone?

I am done with this discussion. I'm not coming in here any more, it just winds me the fuck up.

Thank you very much, Dana. You are spot on. I am stunned how much hate some people direct at the poor, simply for being poor. Merc is a prime example of that mindset. He'd rather crow about how well he is doing rather than address the very real problem of poverty in the US and how the gap between rich and poor continues to widen.

And please don't let cretins like Merc prevent you from posting here. Unlike him, you always have good things to say.

[Undertoad]

making the rounds. here is the middle ground.

[piercehawkeye45]

Shhh! Don't tell them they have something in common Undertoad. Then they couldn't actually hate each other (as much).

[DanaC]

Oh guys, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a drama queen. I meant this thread, not the forum as a whole ;P

The Occupy Wall Street conversation occasionally makes me want to throw my computer through the window.

Just so fucking frustrating ya know?


Signed:

GD Fool

[Lamplighter]

What makes this Wall Street Journal article newsworthy
enough to be highlighted by Google News ?

Occupy Wall Street tackles crime in protest camp

NEW YORK — The "Occupy" protest sites are becoming preoccupied
by another urgent issue: growing crime, from assault and robbery to groping.
There's been a spate of unsavory acts — from New York to New Mexico and California.

It highlights the challenge of monitoring an anti-establishment movement with no formal leadership.
In New York, demonstrators are mixed with people who drop by solely for food and comfort.

They camp out under the watchful eyes of a security force.
Besides the police, there's a volunteer safety patrol.
It even includes former gang members, turned into security consultants.

This smacks of "headline pandering"
WSJ's use of "They" and "even includes former gang members" stirs the juices.
Go into any city park at any other time and you'll come across the same sort of "urgent issue".

I expect higher quality reporting from WSJ.
.

[classicman]

I've been reading a lot of articles about theft and crime in their camps.
Is it any different statistically than any other place where there are a large number of people camping/living in a smaller amount of space? I doubt it.

[sexobon]

The point is that living like a refugee doesn't enhance one's appearance as a force to be reckoned with (i.e. beggars can't be choosers).

[Lamplighter]

As in the anti-war/civil rights/feminism movements of the 60's, appearances can be deceiving.

[Pico and ME]

Wonderful discussion about OWS on the Charlie Rose Show.

[classicman]

corrected link here

Mod - please fix and delete my post thanks

This is also a good one