Who are the protesters behind Occupy Wall Street–and what do they want?

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estesbob said:
OWS Protester Proclaims ‘The Jews Control Wall St.’ In Zuccotti Park Rant

That’s the message one Wall Street protester was trying to spread in Lower Manhattan to anyone that would listen.

A new video posted to YouTube shows the protester loudly and aggressively proclaiming “the Jews control Wall Street.”

newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/12/wall-street-protester-proclaims-the-jews-control-wall-st-in-zuccotti-park-rant/
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Nope they control the Diamond District and the Garment District. And they are not very difficult to do business with. 🤷 By all means lets persecute the Jews their and all time favorite target of satan, :eek:

The level of ignorance is astounding.
 
Very telling when the only adult supporter you have is from Iran. 👍😃 What I would love to know is how you cry poverty then hang out on wall street. 🤷
 
Occupy L.A. Speaker: “One of the speakers said the solution is nonviolent movement. No, my friend. I’ll give you two examples: French Revolution, and Indian so-called Revolution.
Gandhi, Gandhi today is, with respect to all of you, Gandhi today is a tumor that the ruling class is using constantly to mislead us. French Revolution made fundamental transformation. But it was bloody.
India, the result of Gandhi, is 600 million people living in maximum poverty.
So, ultimately, the bourgeoisie won’t go without violent means. Revolution! Yes, revolution that is led by the working class.
Long live revolution! Long live socialism!”
Crowd: [Cheers.]

pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/
 
Just read over lunch that one of the members of the Occupy Des Moines cult lists his hereos as Bill Gates & Warren Buffet, two of the most richest men in the world.

What a hypocrite :rolleyes:
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Some of history’s most vociferous anti-semites are self-loathing Jews.
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Noam Chomsky, Norman Finlestein and Karl Marx spring to mind of this widespread phenomena.
Like many Americans who internalized the response to “Why do they hate us” which arose after 9-11, for many Jews the response is “they hate us because we are detestable”.
 
GaryTaylor said:
Very telling when the only adult supporter you have is from Iran. 👍😃 What I would love to know is how you cry poverty then hang out on wall street. 🤷
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Yeah that’s kind of what I am wondering. If these people are talking about being poor and protesting because some people are wealthy…why aren’t they out there looking for jobs or working or going to school to better their employment prospects? Yeesh.
 
Whitacre_Girl said:
Yeah that’s kind of what I am wondering. If these people are talking about being poor and protesting because some people are wealthy…why aren’t they out there looking for jobs or working or going to school to better their employment prospects? Yeesh.
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Because other people have more money than they need/ deserve and since they are very specia lthey deserve to share in the money that people don’t need/deserve before they have to actually work for living themsleves.

Besides the fact life is unfair. It is grossly grossly unfair that there is no market for their gender studies degree while the nerd who took accounting is earning a six-figure income.
 
estesbob said:
besides the fact life is unfair. It is grossly grossly unfair that there is no market for their gender studies degree while the nerd who took accounting is earning a six-figure income.
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tell me where!!! :d
 
I just find it odd how the tea party movement didn’t get as much flack as occupy wall street is getting and many people praised them for being Americans who want financial responsibility, but those who participated in occupy wall street are being slammed as unpatriotic anarchists.
 
glamourdollxoxo said:
I just find it odd how the tea party movement didn’t get as much flack as occupy wall street is getting and many people praised them for being Americans who want financial responsibility, but those who participated in occupy wall street are being slammed as unpatriotic anarchists.
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Are you kidding me??? The Tea Partiers have been called FAR worse for far longer. 🤷
 
glamourdollxoxo said:
I just find it odd how the tea party movement didn’t get as much flack as occupy wall street is getting and many people praised them for being Americans who want financial responsibility, but those who participated in occupy wall street are being slammed as unpatriotic anarchists.
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I believe you did not follow the news very carefully:

Googling “Tea Party racist” gets 1.7 million hits

Googling “Tea Party Terrorists” gets 6.5 million hits
 
Thank you all for engaging in peaceful discussion. One of the factors that have many of the occupy protestors frustrated is how many of the big bank CEO’s pay continued to rise while having to accept million dollar bank bail outs. Americans also started to live outside of their means and taking on large amounts of debt they couldn’t afford to pay back and banks giving out as many of the loans that they did. Financial responsibility should be on everyone’s part.
 
If they haven’t been watching the new they certainly ought to watch tonights.

I heard the NYC police just gave them till 7am tommorrow to leave?:eek:
 
GaryTaylor said:
If the haven’t been watching the new they certainly ought to watch tonights.

I heard the NYC police just gave them till 7am tommorrow to leave?:eek:
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I believe that’s for those who have been camping out in certain areas.
 
Oh you mean like “private property”? Theres a lot of that there. So where will they go from there?
 
President Obama recently made a speech in which he encouraged people to take off their bedroom slippers and to protest.

But protest … what? … exactly? …

These protesters don’t actually want to work. They seem to just want to lay around.

While driving this evening, someone on the radio mentioned someone he knew as a youth … fellow didn’t want to go to college. So he took a job at McDonalds. But, he LIKED it. Liked waiting on the customers and making their McDonald’s experience a pleasant one. He worked hard, showed up on time, or early. Soon was made night manager.

Put in many more hours than what was expected of him.

Got promoted to general manager.

His branch made a lot of money. Lots of repeat business. High employee retention.

One day, he decided he should work for himself and with his work history was able to get his own McDonald’s franchise.

Now, some years later, he owns several McDonald’s franchises.

And is now a multi-millionaire.

So, … you want fries with that?
 
Monte_RCMS said:
President Obama recently made a speech in which he encouraged people to take off their bedroom slippers and to protest.

But protest … what? … exactly? …

These protesters don’t actually want to work. They seem to just want to lay around.

While driving this evening, someone on the radio mentioned someone he knew as a youth … fellow didn’t want to go to college. So he took a job at McDonalds. But, he LIKED it. Liked waiting on the customers and making their McDonald’s experience a pleasant one. He worked hard, showed up on time, or early. Soon was made night manager.

Put in many more hours than what was expected of him.

Got promoted to general manager.

His branch made a lot of money. Lots of repeat business. High employee retention.

One day, he decided he should work for himself and with his work history was able to get his own McDonald’s franchise.

Now, some years later, he owns several McDonald’s franchises.

And is now a multi-millionaire.

So, … you want fries with that?
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Not trying to get off topic but seeing your post has suddenly given me the urge to go hit up the McDonalds drive through for a number one with a root beer. You have officially made me hungry 😃
 
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