Occupy Wall Streets Evolving Message
So I was just watching News 4 New York and the cameraman was talking to some of these Occupy Wall Street protesters. It appears as though Occupy Wall Street may be sharpening its message and getting a little more "real" in their aims. One thing one of the protesters told the NBC camera person though was shocking. "Occupy Wall Street is not anti business; we are not even anti capitalism...."
Excuse me?
If you do a search for "OCCUPY WALL STREET CAPITALISM" you get articles entitled "Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism's Alibi" from Richard Wolff in the Guardian , "Occupy Wall Street's Anti-Capitalist Crusade" in the American Thinker , and Occupy Wall Street by Keith Olbermann on the website Capitalism is Over .
I had always thought that was the big emphasis of Occupy Wall Street; that was what many of their signs said when I was downtown.
To refute that a few days ago from thinkprogress .org there was an article entitled "It's Not Anti-Capitalist to Protest an Industry That Was Saved by Trillions of Taxpayer Dollars." The piece goes on to say that while some protesters are indeed anti-capitalist, "the actual organizing principle of the demonstrations is to speak with moral clarity of the economic inequality of our current system."
So people are mad because some have more than them. Got that? I wonder how much the original organizer of Occupy Wall Street will wind up with when this whole thing is said and done? Do you think if they get several millions of unspent dollars that they should donate this to the deficit? Or should distribute this money evenly to all registered Occupy Wall Street supporters? They can go on the Facebook metric; anyone who has "liked" their group can be in on the distribution.
Earlier in the same day by NBC News' Chris Glorioso , one protester was quoted as having said, "the economy's not going to turn around for any of us until it turns around for all of us." Another volunteer who also happens to be a first year medical resident, Jay Kang said that corporate greed is "...what I believe in" and that's why he's showing up to lend a hand.
Still with their having set up in Zuccotti Park "a full-service demonstration staging zone, complete with hot food, health care, a digital counter registering supporters, and a solar energy truck to supply power to electronics," it's a little curious to me how Occupy Wall Street can be seen as anything other than another political faction.
No different than what they are all railing out against.
Sources:
http://www.guardian.co. uk / commentisfree / cifamerica /2011/ oct /04/occupy-wall-street-new-york
http://www. americanthinker .com/blog/2011/10/occupy_wall_streets_anti-capitalist_crusade.html
http:// capitalismisover .com/ keith - olbermann -occupy-wall-street/
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/10/04/335360/not-anti-capitalist-to-protest-wall-street/
http://www. nbcnewyork .com/news/local/Occupy-Wall-Street- OWS -New-York-City-protests-protesters- washington -square-park--131382728.html
Excuse me?
If you do a search for "OCCUPY WALL STREET CAPITALISM" you get articles entitled "Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism's Alibi" from Richard Wolff in the Guardian , "Occupy Wall Street's Anti-Capitalist Crusade" in the American Thinker , and Occupy Wall Street by Keith Olbermann on the website Capitalism is Over .
I had always thought that was the big emphasis of Occupy Wall Street; that was what many of their signs said when I was downtown.
To refute that a few days ago from thinkprogress .org there was an article entitled "It's Not Anti-Capitalist to Protest an Industry That Was Saved by Trillions of Taxpayer Dollars." The piece goes on to say that while some protesters are indeed anti-capitalist, "the actual organizing principle of the demonstrations is to speak with moral clarity of the economic inequality of our current system."
So people are mad because some have more than them. Got that? I wonder how much the original organizer of Occupy Wall Street will wind up with when this whole thing is said and done? Do you think if they get several millions of unspent dollars that they should donate this to the deficit? Or should distribute this money evenly to all registered Occupy Wall Street supporters? They can go on the Facebook metric; anyone who has "liked" their group can be in on the distribution.
Earlier in the same day by NBC News' Chris Glorioso , one protester was quoted as having said, "the economy's not going to turn around for any of us until it turns around for all of us." Another volunteer who also happens to be a first year medical resident, Jay Kang said that corporate greed is "...what I believe in" and that's why he's showing up to lend a hand.
Still with their having set up in Zuccotti Park "a full-service demonstration staging zone, complete with hot food, health care, a digital counter registering supporters, and a solar energy truck to supply power to electronics," it's a little curious to me how Occupy Wall Street can be seen as anything other than another political faction.
No different than what they are all railing out against.
Sources:
http://www.guardian.co. uk / commentisfree / cifamerica /2011/ oct /04/occupy-wall-street-new-york
http://www. americanthinker .com/blog/2011/10/occupy_wall_streets_anti-capitalist_crusade.html
http:// capitalismisover .com/ keith - olbermann -occupy-wall-street/
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/10/04/335360/not-anti-capitalist-to-protest-wall-street/
http://www. nbcnewyork .com/news/local/Occupy-Wall-Street- OWS -New-York-City-protests-protesters- washington -square-park--131382728.html
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Post a CommentTheir message has never been entirely clear from the onset. "Those who stand for nothing, will fall for anything." However, those who stand for anything should KNOW what they are standing for and most of these folks do not! cheers ;)