This all started around 2000, thanks W....

Tea Party co-founder expresses support and gives a word of advice for the Occupy Wall Street protesters:

(Story Link)

Poor little Bed wetter pro...whaaaa

Yes, it's woulda, coulda, shoulda. But a lot of the blame lies with the Dems in Congress who insisted on repeating the mistakes of the first two years of the Clinton administration. That's why these outside movements are so important. They can put the pressure on the President and Congress to do the right thing. And that's what is needed.

The old saying among activists is that the Democratic party is where progressive movements go to die. There's more than a grain of truth to that saying. Progressive movements must remain independent if they are to succeed. We need such a movement not only to hold Obama's and the Democrat's feet to the fire, but to speak and to act in it's own name regardleds of which party occupies the White House and Congress.

Simple question......Do you think this latest "movement" (right word, BTW) is garnering an increasing number of Democratic voters.......or reducing their numbers? I'm not at all convinced that what I've seen is "progressive"....unless of course you call shooting yourself in the foot, "progressive".

Appears to be more a collection of non-tax-paying whiners whose collective intellect is such that a common purpose took weeks to put together in any kind of presentable fashion.......akin to, "Yeah, that's it! That's why we're here! Let's say that!"

I'm guessing that centrist-leaning Dems will be crossing the line, if for no other reason than to dis-associate themselves from these "activists".

(So many pretty words for palitibility....more rewriting of the English language..... press 1 for English )

The same thing is said about all movements when they begin. In my lifetime I've seen the civil rights, anti-war, women's rights, and gay rights movements ridiculed and condemned by their detractors. But each of these movements won in the end. I think we are probably only seeing the beginning with the Occupy movement. The movement will become more articulate and focused as labor unions and other organizations become involved.

We're a bunch of pussies. Rome just started their protests and they're burning cars and shitt.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/231808/20111015/occupy-wall-street-rome-italy-berlusconi-draghi.htm


Anarchy!

Unfortunately the French sometimes act as though a political demonstration is a revolution. Maybe someone should remind them that it's not supposed to be the charging of the Bastille of 1789, the Paris revolt of 1848, the Paris commune of 1871, or even the May uprising of 1968 (though it could certainly turn into the later).

Frenchies. What can I say?

So any bets on the total number of tents for tonight? The "movement" is calling for 500 tents.

I bet there will be fewer than 50.
They will be out of Westlake by midnight.

Go down there for your attempt at anarchy Grizzle. I hope SPD busts your head and restores order.

What is economic equality?

This is the kind of filth were talking about, her Parents must be proud

Of course you do. That's because, as I've always known, in their heart of hearts conservatives are thugs. It matters not whether these demonstrators have committed acts worthy of having their heads busted, or that the First Amendment guarantees the right of peacable assembly. No, all that matters to authoritarians on the right is that these folks happen to disagee with conservative political dogma and therefore deserve to have their asses kicked.

You would have done Bull Connor proud.

Atleast the Tea party has class!

Too bad it's low class.

Dammit SolDuc......I'm trying to eat!
fk me

Exactly. When Teabaggers were disrupting town meetings in congressional districts a couple of years back, righties defended those actions and applauded. Just shows that right wingers are rank hypocrites in addition to being thugs.

I think you'll find the thugs in the various Unions.

I hardly think that maintaining some sembalance of order is being a thug. It would seem to me that those who advocate anarchy are thugs and deserve to be put down.

Regarding your first amendment rights, where do you draw the line? If a group of people with some random incomprehensible demands starts blocking bus loads of people trying to get home to their families, I don't think containg them to the sidewalk violates their rights.They should not be able to block the street. If that requires arrests/violence so be it.

With tonights rediculous flaunting of the limited amount of control the Mayor has, I think this protest will turn somewhat violent.

If I were a homeless person or one of these "99%" , I would certainly be camping out at City Hall. Seems like the Mayor has opened it up for a permanent camp.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but it seems to me that there is a distinct difference in respect for boundaries between the right and left......personal, physical, and emotional. The right are pretty much a leave me alone, get out of my face type.....the left is a "Hey there! Look over here! Yooooo Hooooo!!" all the while doing whatever it takes to disrupt.
I can picture standing along the beach somewhere looking at the setting sun, listening to the slap of the waves.....and have the above pictured abomination walk between me and the water, yammering on it's cell in a loud whiny voice. Kinda ruins the moment, you know?