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Wolseley
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Y’know, I pray for these protestors every night. I pray for their safety, for their enlightenment, and for their prosperity—just as I do for the rest of the country.
But I gotta tell ya: from what I’m seeing and hearing, these people are at the same level as the hippie scumbag who tried to spit on my cousin when he rotated home from Vietnam in 1969. This was at the LAX airport; he saw the guy coming and dodged the spittle (he was in full dress green uniform) and the hippie grabbed him by the shoulder.
Bad move. My cousin whipped around quick as a snake, cold-cocked the guy, and left him lying on the floor, bleeding from what was probably a broken nose. Middle of the night, the few people who saw it didn’t report it, and by the time the hippie finally reported it (if he did), my cousin was on another flight headed home.
Not condoning or recommending what he did, mind you—I am only reporting the event.
When my father heard about it, he asked my cousin, “Jeez, did you make sure to wash your hand afterwards?”
But I gotta tell ya: from what I’m seeing and hearing, these people are at the same level as the hippie scumbag who tried to spit on my cousin when he rotated home from Vietnam in 1969. This was at the LAX airport; he saw the guy coming and dodged the spittle (he was in full dress green uniform) and the hippie grabbed him by the shoulder.
Bad move. My cousin whipped around quick as a snake, cold-cocked the guy, and left him lying on the floor, bleeding from what was probably a broken nose. Middle of the night, the few people who saw it didn’t report it, and by the time the hippie finally reported it (if he did), my cousin was on another flight headed home.
Not condoning or recommending what he did, mind you—I am only reporting the event.
When my father heard about it, he asked my cousin, “Jeez, did you make sure to wash your hand afterwards?”
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EmperorNapoleon
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Utter nonsense. OWS isn’t a defined organization and it has no structure or leaders so it can’t be “arm and arm” with any group. The overall movement isn’t responsible if some anarchists pop out of the woodwork and commit crimes.
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bbarrick8383
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Turn the clock back 3 years and this is the same argument tea party supporters were making. The OWS is in the same process the tea party is in. They have their Koch brothers as well.
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EmperorNapoleon
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OWS is a true grassroots movement unlike the Tea Party.
OWS is a just a crowd of random people who happen to be gathered at the same place not a defined and organized institution with stated goals like the Tea Party was.
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Ridgerunner
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I’m not a Tea Partier, though I know some and have seen films of their activities. There really is no comparing the Tea Party and this group. Tea Partiers, from what I have seen, are simply protesting the threat of higher taxes and more government. What I have seen and known of them they are sedate people who appear to be responsible citizens.
The OWS people, on the other hand, are just chaotic, disrespectful, some are violent, and none seem to have any sense of personal responsibility at all.
Now, what I can’t quite figure out is why this administration, through its allies, supports this OWS mess. Maybe it’s only to cause a confusion in peoples’ minds between the Tea Party and this bunch. Otherwise, I would think this administration would have some fear that people would identify the OWS with the administration and find both repugnant.
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bbarrick8383
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How quickly the mind likes to forget little inconvieniences. We had tea party protesters gathering in Duncan Oklahoma way before there was a tea party tour bus.
Sorry, but this is just a big stinking fresh pile of cow manure.
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bbarrick8383
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I agree Ridge,
I’ve never been to a tea party event myself. But the argument he is trying to make was the same one we said on these forums back when the tea party was in full swing. But, as usual the liberals wouldn’t have it. It was all funded and organized by the Koch brothers. My my, now they have their own version of the tea party and all of the sudden they are the legitimate crowd of everyday people the tea party never was.
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EmperorNapoleon
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Just local chapters of a defined organization.
The Tea Party was started by the Young Americans for Liberty, carried forward by FedUpUSA, then maintained by FreedomWorks. It was never the spontaneous grassroots movement that OWS is. If a large enough crowd forms then there are bound to be some extremists among them. The clear difference between the Tea Party and OWS, in this regard, is that the Tea Party propped up these extremists as their leaders.Sorry, but this is just a big stinking fresh pile of cow manure.
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Ridgerunner
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With union and ACORN backing and the tacit approval of the president, OWS is a spontaneous movement?
Say what anyone wants about organizations that might have encouraged the Tea Partiers, but knowing what I know about them, nobody could direct those people to do anything. Picture for a moment some “organizer” going around to business offices, doctors offices and the like and “organizing” them to do anything at all. Those kinds of people won’t even attend Rotary regularly.
No, what you have with the Tea Party is Atlas Shrugging just a tiny bit; to the extent Atlas can get it together. More like a “pre-shrug”. What you have with OWS is the Chicago Democrat Party Convention riots of 1968…orchestrated to the full by community organizers, with a little spontaneous violence thrown in.
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SamH
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Actually the violence appears to be as planned as everything else.
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Ridgerunner
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Could be right.
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EmperorNapoleon
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Neither the unions, ACORN, or the President are organizing these protests. They are entirely spontaneous and have no leadership.
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SamH
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Nothing to see here, move on…
Nothing to see here, move on…
Nothing to see here, move on…
Nothing to see here, move on…
Nothing to see here, move on…
Does help if I click my heels three times?
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iamrefreshed
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No, ours is different…really!
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Pirate_Talker
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OWS was going on for almost three weeks before the unions wanted to jump on the bandwagon. You are thinking that they have been in existence only as long as they have been covered by the media. Not true.With union and ACORN backing and the tacit approval of the president, OWS is a spontaneous movement?
Say what anyone wants about organizations that might have encouraged the Tea Partiers, but knowing what I know about them, nobody could direct those people to do anything. Picture for a moment some “organizer” going around to business offices, doctors offices and the like and “organizing” them to do anything at all. Those kinds of people won’t even attend Rotary regularly.
No, what you have with the Tea Party is Atlas Shrugging just a tiny bit; to the extent Atlas can get it together. More like a “pre-shrug”. What you have with OWS is the Chicago Democrat Party Convention riots of 1968…orchestrated to the full by community organizers, with a little spontaneous violence thrown in.
The rest of your comment is just speculation with no facts to back it up.
Roll you eyes and smirk all you like, but when posting please back up your statement with facts and not opinions. I wonder if it is possible to carry on a debate without quoting Rush or the other bloviators. Let’s give our own honest take on a situation. That might be enlightening.
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Scott_Lafrance
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OWS, the website, was acquired as a registered DNS address in June of this year, a good 3 months before the protests ever started. It is as organized as anything. You don’t have multi-state, multi-city, multi-country protests “spontaneously”.
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