“A businessman tries to pass Occupy Wall Street protesters blocking access to the New York Stock Exchange area Thursday.” (via CNN)
How noble, preventing that man from getting to work. He’s clearly the devil. Can’t you tell by his suit?
I wonder if Charlie Rangel had any difficulty getting to work today.
Imagine, pictured above: Abortion protestors prevent a doctor from entering the Planned Parenthood office where he works. I get that they aren’t throwing bombs. But is it still nonviolent in our minds?
Physically using your body to contain or restrict the movement of someone is violence, if you ask me. When a husband stands in front of a door and refuses to let his wife leave, that’s violence. When a crowd uses its collective, brute force to block a man’s path, that’s violence too. Unless you’re Bart Simpson, and you think it’s okay to say: “I’m going to be swinging my arms like this, and if any part of you should happen to get in the way, that’s YOUR problem!”
Lol so it’s violence when a businessman is blocked from entering his area of business, that being money over people. Which leads to deeper problems for everyone else including shitty education, policing, environments. BUT. It’s notable violence when a crowd blocks one of the members that consists of that institute that allows people to get screwed. Yeah sure, express your civil disobedience when you feel things aren’t working. But block a wallstreet man from working and all of the sudden the people are committing acts of violence? We’re going to make NO changes if we’re to be standing down and just taking up space doing nothing. Practice that civil disobedience, block paths, block roads, they wont listen to you even when you gather in mass to let them know how badly they’ve fucked things up? You make them listen.
wespeakfortheearth owned these two dumb fucks. If you’re not down with the occupy movement, you’ve been seriously disconnected from your humanity and are a slave to the machine.
Hell of a classy point you made there. When you don’t have a point of your own to contribute - props to wespeakfortheearth for having and making one, at least - name calling is always a good fall back.
And if you can’t see that OWS is itself a machine, you are as much a slave as anyone else.
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know I was supposed to make a point, not just mindlessly express my rage against non-supporters of The Occupy movement and advocates of non-violence. But, you’re right. Calling you a “dumb fuck” was completely uncalled for. I’m greatly sorry. So, let me do this again in a more “classy” fashion.
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I am strongly opposed and extremely angry towards the views of the two persons whom wespeakfortheearth had responded to in this post. I wholeheartedly agree with the point they have made and believe that their argument has bested that of both jeffmiller and chaptertwelve. The way I see it is: if you do not support the Occupy movement, you have been brainwashed an assimilated into the system, or “The Machine” as some people like to call it.
I believe we should stand with the movement: for the people who have lost their home, been preyed on by banks, young individuals who hunger for knowledge, our friends and families members who were brutalized by the police for exercising their first amendment rights, and the countless numbers around the globe who were adversely affected by crimes committed in Wall Street. We, regardless of wealth, intelligence, and ability should stand with the oppressed against grave injustices. Do not side with the ones who view you and I and everything in this world as just a commodity or expense. Side with the people, your brothers and sisters need you. People before profits….
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There! Was that classy and sarcastic enough for you? You seem to love sarcasm. But, I truly am sorry for insulting you. I apologize a million times. Friends? Also, sure, you can say that OWS is a machine itself, but if you think it’s is in anyway like The System, you’re making a serious mistake. Don’t tell me I should make a point for that too.
