Thread: Occupy Wall Street around the world.... Your thoughts and feelings about it!

Ok, so now they're finally talking business. All those peaceful "just to raise the awareness" somehow drifted away in peace. Revolution, eh?

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Somehow reminded me of this, but anyway.
Maybe "occupiers" should stop being so vague and start to accuse real persons with real names for real crimes.
You know - not "we protest against corporate greed" or "greedy jews - pay my tuition".
But "we accuse mr. John Banker for stealing 50 millon dollars from.. well.. some real bank, organization or whatever."
or "mr. Steve Politician for taking bribe from xxx to pass some law that benefits person/company yyy"
That would make a lot more sense.

Hanna made comparison with eastern Europe in the beginning on 1990s.
At that time protesters in Baltics had very clear goals.
Latvians wanted to:
1.) Regain independence from Soviet Union.
2.) Restore country in 1940 borders.
3.) Restore pre-war constitution
4.) Give communist stolen property back to real owners.
5.) Punish communists for their crimes.
Not just "burn commies" or "protest against bad living conditions".

And we more or less got what we wanted.

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Ok, so now they're finally talking business. All those peaceful "just to raise the awareness" somehow drifted away in peace. Revolution, eh?

Something is missing on this poster, don't you think? Maybe some red color?

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Ok, so now they're finally talking business. All those peaceful "just to raise the awareness" somehow drifted away in peace. Revolution, eh?

O'RLY? Revolution or talks about Revolution?

A revolution is a change in power. When revolution happens you replace those who rule you with someone else (or yourself). They should start storming the Capitol and the White House if revolution is what they want. Create a government, start arming people... Does anyone of them have the balls to do that?

The protesters can stay there and protest for years... so? These evil bankers will simply ignore them.

Originally Posted by Ramil

O'RLY? Revolution or talks about Revolution? [...] The protesters can stay there and protest for years... so? These evil bankers will simply ignore them.

Well, if I were a politician, I would say something like: "The extremist wing of the protesters is trying to ride the wave and highjack the attention by shouting their extremist slogans which do not even express the sentiment of the majority of the crowd. However, by insulting the rest of the public, the extremists provoke the public and the police to finally take some actions and contemplate to use that process to elevate the protest into a new level switch the peaceful protest into something more violent ultimately dreaming for a Revolution similarly to the recent Middle-East events."

But, since I'm not a politician, but just a simple-minded crocodile, I can only observe the change in tone of someone's posts... Getting too frustrated with the public which find comfort in their collective denial?

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Well, if I were a politician, I would say something like: "The extremist wing of the protesters is trying to ride the wave and highjack the attention by shouting their extremist slogans which do not even express the sentiment of the majority of the crowd. However, by insulting the rest of the public, the extremists provoke the public and the police to finally take some actions and contemplate to use that process to elevate the protest into a new level switch the peaceful protest into something more violent ultimately dreaming for a Revolution similarly to the recent Middle-East events."

But, since I'm not a politician, but just a simple-minded crocodile, I can only observe the change in tone of someone's posts... Getting too frustrated with the public which find comfort in their collective denial?

Скромные крокодилы живут дольше чем гордые политические деятели! --> So, who's *really* simple-minded, at the end of the day? =)

Originally Posted by kidkboom

Скромные крокодилы живут дольше чем гордые политические деятели! --> So, who's *really* simple-minded, at the end of the day? =)

Well, it's subjective. A galapagos tortoise in captivity lived 170 years. Do you want to change places with that turtle?

Originally Posted by Crocodile

But, since I'm not a politician, but just a simple-minded crocodile...

And if anyone believes you are simple minded... I have a great bridge to sell you in Brooklyn or maybe some swamp land in Florida would be better as there are more crocs there (or are there only gators there?).