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Occupy Wall Street Enters Its Fourth Day, Tensions Rise

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Redeeming factor is that chick has nice boobs but I would shoot myself listening to her dribble. A for effort though. I applaud the interviewer for not going insano on them.
 
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Redeeming factor is that chick has nice boobs but I would shoot myself listening to her dribble. A for effort though. I applaud the interviewer for not going insano on them.


What happened to the interviewer? Did he go to the asylum? Hearing that drivel (which I did for about 5 seconds and think now have permanent brain damage) would have sent anybody there
 
Erin Larkins, a Columbia University graduate student at who says she and her boyfriend have significant student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.

"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "No one is expecting immediate change. I think everyone is just hopeful that people will wake up a bit and realize that the more we speak up, the more the people that do have the authority to make changes in this world listen."


Oh yes...its Wall Street and the evil bankers...

Attica...Attica...
 
You know this? Cuz...Ive seen the chants and the screams and the interviews and the yelling...nah...I dont see a whole lot of well developed stances or positions. I see people caught up in the vague generalities just like you were.

I think these people see clearly that they have been ripped off by Wall Street and its revolving door of economic management of our government. Voting doesn't seem to be curing the problem of the masses in general, so an alternative movement for change is initiated. The banks were bailed out and all it has cost us is millions of jobs, retirement funds dried up, an inevitable National bankruptcy, and all is just a delaying tactic to try to save a faulty banking system, but you got yours and screw the others, eh?
 
Hats off to your accomplishements young man...but I see the group here a bit differently...and I believe you have all your blame directed to the wrong place.
I see legions of young men like yourself that have had the sunshine and the beautiful blue sky and big white gorgeous fluffy clouds in your future turned to black...by disgusting greedy corporate scum from MY GENERATION...yes the babyboomers have stolen your future...its not the ones you blame perry...its the ones that have gutted my country for a buck....I realize im considered a liberal now by the Ron Paul fanatics and teaparty nutters, Im just fine with that....The only thing that has me totally baffled is that so many of you think that the ones I see as killing the country for the other 80%..are the saviors...Ive questioned myself over this but based on my life experience and admittedly limited education compared to most of you...I come right back to the same beliefs...corporate greed is destroying my country and its future in its ever quest for mOAR and mOAR

I didn't write this. I posted the article. Someone later on did a poor job of quoting. I never finished college.
 
Semper Fi: Marines Coming To Protect Protesters On Wall Street | Addicting Info

The thousands of indefatigable protestors, who have been risking their eyes and recording equipment against Wall Street’s personal jack-booted thugs in the NYPD at the Occupation of Wall Street, recently garnered even more support– the US Marines. That’s the type of support that might make an NYPD cop think twice before he decides to go all Tiananmen Square on a group of teenage girls armed with chalk and cardboard signs.

The Occupy Wall Street movement may have thought it broke new ground when the NYC Transit Union joined their movement, but that ground just tipped the Richter Scale with news that United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters.

Here’s the message Ward Reilly relayed from another Marine, on his facebook page:

“I’m heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s Congress’ turn.

My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the ****ing Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.
 
I saw some pictures of what appeared to be a motley collection of anarchists, whackos, sexual deviants, animal rights nutcases all united in a common hatred of personal hygiene
 
I think these people see clearly that they have been ripped off by Wall Street and its revolving door of economic management of our government. Voting doesn't seem to be curing the problem of the masses in general, so an alternative movement for change is initiated. The banks were bailed out and all it has cost us is millions of jobs, retirement funds dried up, an inevitable National bankruptcy, and all is just a delaying tactic to try to save a faulty banking system, but you got yours and screw the others, eh?
Dang that Wall Street...walking around...ripping people off...stealing from them. And 'the banks'...evil...

If all you have is slogans...you got nothing. You got nothing. Now...as discussed earlier...if you think we should rid the country of all those congressmen and women that supported the bank bailouts...great. If you have some form of evidence of individuals that committed crimes...YES. By all means. Identify their criminal behavior. Repeating empty headed rhetoric over vague entities...well...not exactly 'priceless'.
 
I didn't write this. I posted the article. Someone later on did a poor job of quoting. I never finished college.


So what I still cheer your accomplishments and your still a bright young man :) and more importantly and honest one
 
Dang that Wall Street...walking around...ripping people off...stealing from them. And 'the banks'...evil...

If all you have is slogans...you got nothing. You got nothing. Now...as discussed earlier...if you think we should rid the country of all those congressmen and women that supported the bank bailouts...great. If you have some form of evidence of individuals that committed crimes...YES. By all means. Identify their criminal behavior. Repeating empty headed rhetoric over vague entities...well...not exactly 'priceless'.

Vance your not naive they get busted all the time doing dirty crap...its always 4th page news and its always downplayed and theres so much of it theres not enough time to search t hem all or enough space to put them all on here...please man...own up
 
i want praise too :-(
 
Vance your not naive they get busted all the time doing dirty crap...its always 4th page news and its always downplayed and theres so much of it theres not enough time to search t hem all or enough space to put them all on here...please man...own up

That doesn't give a riotous mob the right to intimidate those people, though.

This is still America, where American citizens are to be protected from this crap.
 
Does this remind any of the other older posters of the 1960s civil rights protest and the anti-Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s and early 70s? This protest is making headlines across the world. It has very effectively done exactly what the protesters hoped it would do - drawn attention to role Wall Street's establishment and its associated organizations played in the financial crisis and made it clear to both politicians and the rest of the world that American citizens are not willing to allow the lax oversight of either one nor to bail them out again.
 
Does this remind any of the other older posters of the 1960s civil rights protest and the anti-Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s and early 70s? This protest is making headlines across the world. It has very effectively done exactly what the protesters hoped it would do - drawn attention to role Wall Street's establishment and its associated organizations played in the financial crisis and made it clear to both politicians and the rest of the world that American citizens are not willing to allow the lax oversight of either one nor to bail them out again.

Well hopefully we don't elect people who would allow such a thing. :)
 
Does this remind any of the other older posters of the 1960s civil rights protest and the anti-Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s and early 70s? This protest is making headlines across the world. It has very effectively done exactly what the protesters hoped it would do - drawn attention to role Wall Street's establishment and its associated organizations played in the financial crisis and made it clear to both politicians and the rest of the world that American citizens are not willing to allow the lax oversight of either one nor to bail them out again.

Yeah, that's what it did. :lamo
 
Dang that Wall Street...walking around...ripping people off...stealing from them. And 'the banks'...evil...

If all you have is slogans...you got nothing. You got nothing. Now...as discussed earlier...if you think we should rid the country of all those congressmen and women that supported the bank bailouts...great. If you have some form of evidence of individuals that committed crimes...YES. By all means. Identify their criminal behavior. Repeating empty headed rhetoric over vague entities...well...not exactly 'priceless'.

How about $4 trillion of deadbeat mortgages carried on bank books at their stated value and not "mark to market" values which would cause instant bankruptcy, don't you think? Could AIG possibly make good their insured credit default swaps? Would these things be criminal? No bank bailout, they would have all gone belly up. Thank you Uncle Sam. That would be some of those citizens protesting Wall Street perhaps?
 
How about $4 trillion of deadbeat mortgages carried on bank books at their stated value and not "mark to market" values which would cause instant bankruptcy, don't you think? Could AIG possibly make good their insured credit default swaps? Would these things be criminal? No bank bailout, they would have all gone belly up. Thank you Uncle Sam. That would be some of those citizens protesting Wall Street perhaps?

How about a government that forced those companies to write those deadbeat loans in the first place? Nevermind those ****ers, I guess.
 
How about $4 trillion of deadbeat mortgages carried on bank books at their stated value and not "mark to market" values which would cause instant bankruptcy, don't you think? Could AIG possibly make good their insured credit default swaps? Would these things be criminal? No bank bailout, they would have all gone belly up. Thank you Uncle Sam. That would be some of those citizens protesting Wall Street perhaps?
And I was opposed to the bank bailouts. i would have rather seent ehm all collapse. Had that happened we would be now 5 years into a recovery and not 5 years into treading water and gasping. But see...that is a very specific thing...opposed to congress and the bank bailouts. Fine...go after every congressman that voted to allow it. But the continued vague generalities are silly and pointless. If you have a specific banker you believe should be held accountable or liabel, then cite that individual. Most of those people are doing the same things you and others here have done...man...its...the banks...and Wall Street...and...they are bad man...

As for the home mortgage values...its very easy for you to tell the banks they should devalue mortgages they hold instead of hanging onto them for when market values go back up. From their perspective it makes good business sense. Ive said it for years...they should have let the market values crash. But keep in mind...all those bank held properties...they wont be the only ones that get their teeth kicked financially when those housing costs drop. Huge numbers of middle income home owners will get their ass kicked when it comes to home values.
 
That doesn't give a riotous mob the right to intimidate those people, though.

This is still America, where American citizens are to be protected from this crap.

those scumbags are another reason why NYC needs to scrap its idiotic anti-gun nonsense
 
That doesn't give a riotous mob the right to intimidate those people, though.

This is still America, where American citizens are to be protected from this crap.

Did my post say they did ? I dont see that
 
That wont happen in our lifetimes..
It might

the way the USSC ruled in McDonald, I suspect the NY discretionary laws are going to get raked over the legal coals.
 
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