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Stuff hits the fan in America: Protests
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gytfunke



Joined: 22 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:17 am    Post subject: Stuff hits the fan in America: Protests Reply with quote

Crazy, didn't realize this was happening until this morning. Check it out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-protesters-brooklyn-bridge

It's all over the States right now.

http://www.occupytogether.org/

The police look like they've been kinda brutal about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA&feature=player_embedded
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kimchi_pizza



Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wrong forum, otherwise I'd respond.
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gytfunke



Joined: 22 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is the proper forum?
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Kennyftw



Joined: 08 Aug 2011

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:41 am    Post subject: Re: Stuff hits the fan in America: Protests Reply with quote

gytfunke wrote:
Crazy, didn't realize this was happening until this morning. Check it out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-protesters-brooklyn-bridge

It's all over the States right now.

http://www.occupytogether.org/

The police look like they've been kinda brutal about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA&feature=player_embedded


Good. I hope they trash the White House lawn and overthrow the government. It's coming...it's coming..
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comm



Joined: 22 Jun 2010

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thousands of people have been actively protesting in the streets for weeks. Naturally, corporatist media has ignored it as much as possible, since active and angry protesters DO have the power to change things.

Here's a great video detailing some of the abuses of the state against peaceful protesters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCJkyJ1Hro
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rollo



Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeez someone actually reads the Guardian???? There are protests constantly in the U.S. these are getting attention because they are in Manhattan. Next week they will be protesting something else.
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Kimbop



Joined: 31 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kimbop wrote:
Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.


I know, right?

And think . . . most of those (later) Tea Partiers were Baby Boomers. They should've been working rather than pissing and moaning in tricorner hats.
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Zackback



Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last I read about 700 arrested.

Well.....there's 700 less people that will be coming here to teach Smile
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mrcolin1



Joined: 21 May 2011

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully this will keep growing and not lose steam
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Kimbop



Joined: 31 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kuros wrote:
Kimbop wrote:
Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.


I know, right?

And think . . . most of those (later) Tea Partiers were Baby Boomers. They should've been working rather than pissing and moaning in tricorner hats.


Your hippies cry for more wealth arrogation from the working. 700 of them cause chaos and are arrested.

My tea partiers -- whom actualy create wealth --cry for less government intervention in their lives. They protest peacefully, causing no chaos, and none are arrested.
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kimbop wrote:
Kuros wrote:
Kimbop wrote:
Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.


I know, right?

And think . . . most of those (later) Tea Partiers were Baby Boomers. They should've been working rather than pissing and moaning in tricorner hats.


Your hippies cry for more wealth arrogation from the working. 700 of them cause chaos and are arrested.

My tea partiers -- whom actualy create wealth --cry for less government intervention in their lives. They protest peacefully, causing no chaos, and none are arrested.


Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. You assume that because the 700 got arrested, they caused chaos. There's no possibility that, as in fact happened, the police committed unwarranted brutality.

Yeah, you're definitely one of the late comers to the Tea Party. You know, the older guys who voted for Bush and just want to re-brand the GOP, not the genuine libertarian Ron Paul crowd.

Anyway, your class warfare and job creator nonsense is amusing. Yeah, you cry for less gov't intervention, unless civil liberties are at stake, and the protestors are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to say something with which you disagree.
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shifter2009



Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kimbop wrote:
Kuros wrote:
Kimbop wrote:
Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.


I know, right?

And think . . . most of those (later) Tea Partiers were Baby Boomers. They should've been working rather than pissing and moaning in tricorner hats.


Your hippies cry for more wealth arrogation from the working. 700 of them cause chaos and are arrested.

My tea partiers -- whom actualy create wealth --cry for less government intervention in their lives. They protest peacefully, causing no chaos, and none are arrested.


yeah, tea partiers create wealth, right.....Good talking point usage.
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johnnyenglishteacher2



Joined: 03 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kimbop wrote:
Kuros wrote:
Kimbop wrote:
Solution: tear gas, rubber bullets, & criminal records.

God forbid you study & get a job.


I know, right?

And think . . . most of those (later) Tea Partiers were Baby Boomers. They should've been working rather than pissing and moaning in tricorner hats.


Your hippies cry for more wealth arrogation from the working. 700 of them cause chaos and are arrested.

My tea partiers -- whom actualy create wealth --cry for less government intervention in their lives. They protest peacefully, causing no chaos, and none are arrested.


I wonder how many of those southern state tea party supporters will want less government intervention in their lives once all the clean drinking water supplies start to run short.
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T-J



Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae

PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Wondering how the tea party even got drug into this conversation.

Also wondering if anyone thinks these protests have a chance of gaining any real traction....

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