Is The Occupy Wall Street Movement an Answer to The Tea Party Movement?

[dbacks fan]

Some L.A. pee partiers are apparently so traumatized by their arrest and/or eviction that they may seek therapy. Wow, what tough, bad@ss revolutionaries these people turned out to be.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/some-occupy-la-arrestees-feel-traumatized-might-need-therapy.html

Tree house boy was pretty funny, he made his dream come true to build a tree house.

[guido911]

Tree house boy was pretty funny, he made his dream come true to build a tree house.

Dare to dream, tree house boy. Is this a potential therapist for the babies?

[RecycleMichael]

Some L.A. pee partiers ...

Were you not the TulsaNow poster who threw a fit when other refered to the tea party as tea-baggers?

I guess you get to make up mean names but no one else can.

[guido911]

Were you not the TulsaNow poster who threw a fit when other refered to the tea party as tea-baggers?

I guess you get to make up mean names but no one else can.

Not at all. Turnabout being fair play and all. Perhaps if your buddies didn't turn their encampments into disgusting, putrid public urinals, or didn't crap on cop cars, or didn't throw piss on people a more suitable nickname would have been in order. These are FACTS RM, sorry if they get in the way of their envy-based message you support.

[guido911]

Here's more from your buddies RM:

Seattle police officers then tried to contact the protesters, but the protesters closed and locked the door, then barricaded themselves inside.

While the officers were at the door, some protesters scrambled onto the roof and began spitting on them, Jamieson said. The officers then withdrew.

[Emphasis added].

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/16-Occupy-Seattle-protesters-arrested-after-building-break-in-134966938.html

[RecycleMichael]

Not at all. Turnabout being fair play and all.

Keep spraying your hypocrisy.

[patric]

Here's more from your buddies RM:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/16-Occupy-Seattle-protesters-arrested-after-building-break-in-134966938.html

That account makes it sound like police were using kid gloves. This one doesn't:

Hundreds of Occupy Seattle supporters occupied a vacant warehouse slated for demolition and condo development. After entering, Occupiers erected barricades, held a General Assembly, and began plans to fix up the space for community use.

Using SWAT teams and a ladder truck, police swarmed the warehouse, making 20 arrests and setting an unsettling precedent for the escalating use of military-style tactics against nonviolent occupiers who are liberating public space.


Read more: http://www.beaconequity.com/smw/16238/Occupy-Seattle-Joins-Wave-of-Building-Occupations#ixzz1fbVtKc7f

[dbacks fan]

If vacant buildings are public space, then take the doors off of Abundant Life and the Tulsa Club and any other building and let them move in.

[patric]

Not at all. Turnabout being fair play and all. Perhaps if your buddies didn't turn their encampments into disgusting, putrid public urinals, or didn't crap on cop cars

We should pity the police being victimized by the Occupy Wall.... wait a minute...

Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer's Home From Foreclosure

Occupy Atlanta has repeatedly run into hurdles, as it has been evicted from Woodruff Park in Atlanta multiple times by the city's unsympathetic mayor, Kasim Reed. Yet the group was invigorated yesterday as it moved to a new location to take action for economic justice.

Last week, Tawanna Rorey's husband, a police officer based in Gwinnett County, e-mailed Occupy Atlanta to explain that his home was going to be foreclosed on and his family was in danger of being evicted on Monday. So within a few hours Occupy Atlanta developed an action plan to move to Snellville, Georgia on Monday to stop the foreclosure. At least two dozen protesters encamped on the family's lawn, to the applause of neighbors and bystanders:

   Nearly two dozen protesters assembled Monday afternoon at Tawanna Rorey's four-bedroom home in a neighborhood just south of Snellville, clogging the narrow, winding street that runs in front of the house with cars, vans and TV trucks. Many neighbors stopped to gawk at the spectacle and even honked their car horns in support of the crowd. [...] [The protesters] set up two tents in the front yard, draped a "This Home is Occupied" sign over the porch railing and handed out bottled water and granola bars to other members.
"It's a good cause," said Diona Murray, one of the Roreys' neighbors, about the occupation. "If we don't take a stand, who will?"

[guido911]

If vacant buildings are public space, then take the doors off of Abundant Life and the Tulsa Club and any other building and let them move in.

+1. With that said, color me surprised that patric would look at the police's conduct while trying to remove trespassers from private property. And in any case, the police's actions certainly justified they getting spit on.

[Ed W]

Give it up, guys.  The Occupiers have won despite the arrests, pepper spray, and military tactics.  The concept of the 99% has spread into the general discussion about economics and justice in our society.  They've successfully gained control of the message.  Even some Republican law makers - not generally known for their firm attachment to reality - have realized that there may be more money coming from the 1% elite, but the 99% represents far more eligible voters.

[guido911]

I help people threatened with foreclosure, and actually get results, without spitting on people, crapping on police cars, or any other vile things committed by persons patric and RM support.

[guido911]

Give it up, guys.  The Occupiers have won despite the arrests, pepper spray, and military tactics.  The concept of the 99% has spread into the general discussion about economics and justice in our society.  They've successfully gained control of the message.  Even some Republican law makers - not generally known for their firm attachment to reality - have realized that there may be more money coming from the 1% elite, but the 99% represents far more eligible voters.

Are you for real? Do you really believe that before this laugh riot began no one was talking about income inequality? Someone forgot about Mr. "Spread the Wealth Around" class warrior campaigned on years before what the pee party is saying. In my view, all this "movement" has done was waste millions of dollars in clean up and police man hours.

[Red Arrow]

I help people threatened with foreclosure, and actually get results, without spitting on people, crapping on police cars, or any other vile things

Think of how much more effective if you did do those things.

[Red Arrow]

If vacant buildings are public space, then take the doors off of Abundant Life and the Tulsa Club and any other building and let them move in.

I also wonder about liability issues with vacant structures.  Who gets to pay if someone gets hurt there?