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Old Oct 16th 2011, 12:27 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Occupiers if you please. Protesters are so last century.
That little park already has occupiers, I'd expect them to beat up the newcomers and steal their shoes.
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 12:48 am
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That little park already has occupiers, I'd expect them to beat up the newcomers and steal their shoes.
Oh yes, there are always a lot of questionable characters around St. James' Park.
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Oh yes, there are always a lot of questionable characters around St. James' Park.
Just turn it into a temporary 'Gulag'......job done....
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 10:42 pm
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you might want to either remove that last picture or at least blur out the sweary words
What ...you don't like dogs?
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Originally Posted by macadian
Shades of the 'Jarrow Crusade' (Jarrow March) in the '20's
Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them. If it's a repeat of the Jarrow Crusade, I'd say it's in the Marxist sense of history repeating itself as farce.

I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
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Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them
And why not? The banks got the their free money by the billions - why shouldn't the guy on the street get his share?
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Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them. If it's a repeat of the Jarrow Crusade, I'd say it's in the Marxist sense of history repeating itself as farce.

I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
Where on earth did you conjure that strange notion up from? In so far as goals have so far been articulated, just the opposite is true. They appear to me and I think most others to be objecting to massive handouts to bankers, among others, paid for by them, the 99% sacrificing to save the 1% from their just deserts (i.e. gaol).
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Old Oct 17th 2011, 7:12 pm
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And why not? The banks got the their free money by the billions - why shouldn't the guy on the street get his share?
Oh, don't swallow that crap. They're out for reducing the obscene income and wealth gaps which exist today and not for doing that by handouts to the great unwashed.
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Where on earth did you conjure that strange notion up from? In so far as goals have so far been articulated, just the opposite is true. They appear to me and I think most others to be objecting to massive handouts to bankers, among others, paid for by them, the 99% sacrificing to save the 1% from their just deserts (i.e. gaol).
Most media coverage so far has been to make these people look like crazies. It's quite easy to control the narrative like this because there are plenty of crazy people there to interview - and they are much more interesting than normal people who are simply pissed off with being stolen from.
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Oh, don't swallow that crap. They're out for reducing the obscene income and wealth gaps which exist today and not for doing that by handouts to the great unwashed.
I just used the contrast to make a point. I don't actually think the majority of OWS want free stuff. Well they probably do, but that's not why they are there.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/10...ss-ag-offices/

This first line pretty much sums it all up:
There is an unfocused financial rage in the United States.

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Old Oct 17th 2011, 7:22 pm
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Most media coverage so far has been to make these people look like crazies. It's quite easy to control the narrative like this because there are plenty of crazy people there to interview - and they are much more interesting than normal people who are simply pissed off with being stolen from.
That's fair enough. But viewing the wider canvas rather than the usual suspects portrayed in the media, this lot don't even seem to want media attention. Nor, I suspect do they want to sully themselves by tactics such as someone above mentioned of "protesting" outside of politicians' offices. Fat lot of good that does.

Everyone is on about social media revolutions and uprisings and such, but we'll see how it develops. I have an open mind on this.
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