Occupy Wall Street: Not on major media but worth watching!

[rootfingers]

Actually somedude, I'm sitting on the floor. And thanks for all the bullshit you offer me so I can purchase it from you at your profit. Oh wait, I don't have any money. What should I do? Perhaps you can offer me a job too? At slave wage you say? While you raise the price on everything my family needs to live?

You're right I should be thanking people like you. What a wonderful thing your greed has created.

 

[rootfingers]

(10-25) 07:06 PDT OAKLAND -- Oakland police arrested dozens of people at a plaza outside City Hall and at a second, smaller camp nearby early this morning, two weeks after the protesters launched their efforts as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed and economic inequality.

At about 4:57 a.m., officers began making arrests and removing tents and makeshift shelters at the Occupy Oakland protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza near 14th Street and Broadway. By 5:05 a.m., the bulk of the arrests had been completed, and arrestees were led away in plastic handcuffs.

One of those arrested, Aiyahnna Johnson, 30, of Oakland, had been living at the camp with her 2-year-old daughter. The child was not present this morning.

"We want the best for you guys, that's all," she told the two officers who were leading her away.

At 6:15 a.m., police then arrested at least six protesters at a smaller encampment at Snow Park at 19th and Harrison streets near Lake Merritt. One man went limp, but those arrests also happened quickly and without incident amid cries of protest by onlookers yelling, "Cops! Pigs! Murderers!"

As she was led away by police from Snow Park, Mindy Stone, 43, said, "I'm not camping, I'm demonstrating. What they're doing today is disgraceful."

It appeared that most of the arrests outside City Hall took place without incident. But one man was shown on television actively resisting by kicking his legs and yelling. Two officers calmly escorted him away. An officer fired a non-lethal projectile from a shotgun at a protester who had lobbed a bottle, authorities said.

Protesters said the police action did not mean that Occupy Oakland was over. Some said they would return to the plaza. At 6:40 a.m., however, police began erecting metal barricades around the plaza.

The police action there began at 4:45 a.m. and involved hundreds of officers from at least 10 law-enforcement agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, the Alameda County sheriff's office and various East Bay police departments. Squads of officers had assembled at the Oakland Coliseum before traveling in convoys downtown.

Officers in riot helmets began arriving in force and formed a line in the street adjacent to the plaza while motorcycle officers shut down the street. Some protesters began shouting, "Cops, go home!"

Protesters pulled a Dumpster into the middle of the intersection, and officers quickly pushed it to the side of the road.

At 4:40 a.m., an officer used a public-address system to warn protesters that they would be making arrests if they did not leave the plaza.

"Attention all persons in Frank Ogawa Plaza. It has been determined you are illegally blocking Frank Ogawa Plaza and are the subject to arrest," said the officer, who ordered protesters to remove their belongings, secure their dogs and exit toward Telegraph Avenue. "Those remaining in the park will be arrested," he said.

The officer further warned that those who did not comply could, besides being arrested, face other "police action" that could result in injury.

At 4:50 a.m., some loud bangs were heard after officers lobbed "flash-bang" grenades, and smoke rose into the air. After a protester apparently released a smoke bomb, officers began putting on gas masks. A police helicopter flew overhead with its spotlight on.

As police made arrests, BART trains did not stop at the 12th Street City Center Station. The station reopened at about 6:30 a.m., but only the 11th Street entrance and exit is accessible.

AC Transit has also rerouted a number of buses around the protest and parts of Broadway are closed to traffic.

City officials asked downtown businesses to consider allowing their employees to "delay their arrival" this morning to allow work crews to clean up the plaza. City employees were asked to come in later as well.

Officials initially waived city laws that ban camping and allowed the occupation of the plaza. But since Thursday, the city has issued of series of orders for protesters to vacate the area, citing concerns about fire hazards, sanitation issues, graffiti, drug use and violence.

Officials said protesters had plugged power cords into city utility poles and had denied access to emergency responders who needed to get into the plaza. The city was also alarmed by the activists' decision to try to police themselves with a volunteer security team.

Protesters had vowed to resist eviction and protect an encampment of about 150 tents, where pathways made of wooden pallets connected a kitchen, a garden, a medical station and an area for children to play.

For more than an hour before the police moved in, several hundred people appeared ready to defend the camp, placing Dumpsters, boards, pallets and even metal police-style barricades around the plaza as blockades.

After the mass arrests, protesters vowed to return.

Gabe Meyers, a protester who had been camping at the plaza but was not arrested this morning, said, "People are going to keep coming back. What are they going to do, send cops in every night and waste taxpayer dollars?"

Meyers added, "The cops are the 99 percent, but they're doing the work of the 1 percent. Wall Street is proud of them every time they clear out an encampment."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/BAUB1LLTC9.DTL#ixzz1bnpcHddl

 

[Dudesome]

Actually I'm sitting on the floor. And thanks for all the bullshit you offer me so I can purchase it from you at your profit. Oh wait, I don't have any money. What should I do? Perhaps you can offer me a job too? At slave wage you say? While you raise the price on everything my family needs to live?

You're right I should be thanking people like you. What a wonderful thing your greed has created.

ooooh, I see.... You are most probably connecting to the internet through astral projection right? I bet you can also conjure prana or sun rays instead of normal food.
And ofcourse being who you are, there is no corporation that can afford your most valuable skill of doing something really beneficial for this society.

 

[Dudesome]

admit it. almost 90% of things around you were created by those corporations. yet those things stoll surround you. yet you are stilll using those things, flamming all those evil creators.

 

[Iron_Lion]

The FACE OF REVOLUTION.....FEAR THE TEA TARD

 

[rootfingers]

Haha somedude, you are starting to grasp at straws. What does it matter who made what when you only care who holds the patent. And I can't afford any of your crap these days because I'm unemployed and soon to lose my house and internet connection. Will I matter less to you after that happens?

Because my company was taken apart and handed capital to ship my job to India so the new owner could make some money, I'm fucked into sending out resumes everyday to jobs I'm over qualified for and still won't get because I'm already unemployed.

Eat it, I am the 99%

 

[rootfingers]

Honestly somedude, I first thought you were market testing responses to the OWS movement from some right wing think tank but now I'm leaning towards you really are just a rich guy giving his last ditch effort to convince the people of the greatness of your style of capitalism. How has it been going btw?

 

[HempHut]

admit it. almost 90% of things around you were created by those corporations. yet those things stoll surround you. yet you are stilll using those things, flamming all those evil creators.

Just to illustrate how silly the argument, "well, you made use of the system so you have no right to critique the system" is:


"If you buy coffee at Starbucks you can't protest"



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[Dudesome]

Eat it, I am the 99%

you definitely are.

 

[rootfingers]

I DEFINITELY AM! FUCKING PROUD OF MY PEOPLE!

 

[Iron_Lion]

The other day the wall street journal posted a "percentage calculator" to be considered "the 99%" you had to have a household income of like $450,000 a year to even get to the "98%"

 

[Green lung]

Well isn't this special

Well isn't this special

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45028595/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/#.TqbNUWCOdjJ

Eight NYPD officers and one New Jersey corrections officer have been arrested on charges that they were running a gun-smuggling ring that trafficked more than $1 million in illegal weapons and stolen goods.
The officers arrested include five active-duty officers assigned to Brooklyn and three retired NYPD officers. They were picked up by FBI agents and NYPD Internal Affairs investigators early Tuesday.
According to the criminal complaint, several officers smuggled M-16 rifles and weapons that had their serial numbers removed, a common tactic employed by criminals seeking to avoid gun detection. As recently as Sept. 22, three of the officers transported firearms from New Jersey to New York.
Several of those arrested are also accused of illegally transporting other stolen goods. The group is accused of transporting stolen slot machines from Atlantic City, N.J., to Port Chester, N.Y., in March. Two months later, they allegedly stole more than 200 cases of cigarettes from trucks in Virginia and hauled them to New York.
The investigation involved interviews with a confidential informant, undercover work, surveillance, and intercepted phone conversations.
Before the details were unsealed, a PBA spokesman declined comment, saying he was unaware of the specific charges as well as which officers were being charged.
In all, 12 people are charged with federal conspiracy counts expected to be announced later Tuesday by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and FBI officials.
The alleged NYPD corruption arrests come as other officers could also be charged this week in a separate ticket-fixing investigation headed by the Bronx District Attorney's office.

 

[Dudesome]

Honestly somedude, I first thought you were market testing responses to the OWS movement from some right wing think tank but now I'm leaning towards you really are just a rich guy giving his last ditch effort to convince the people of the greatness of your style of capitalism. How has it been going btw?

very flattering. thank you.


Look. I a usually not the guy to spill enlightment, but I will try it this time.


I understand that your condition is pretty heavy. And I understand, that you want to blame someone for being in that condition, because obviously its not ur fault.

But you need to understand, that the reason why ur company has moved offshore isn't really the greed.

A company that moves offshore has only worked as a messenger for folks like you to tell you that the system doesnt work. So instead of digging into the system you start blaming the messenger. why?


Dude. it's not the corporations. It's the system that is so fucked up. And corporations only exploit that what is exploitable.

Yes there is corporatocracy and corporatism. Those things are fucked up. But those arent the fucking roots of evils. Untill you folks of 99% understand that - you are doomed.

 

[Green lung]

The other day the wall street journal posted a "percentage calculator" to be considered "the 99%" you had to have a household income of like $350,000 a year.

you mean the 1%

 

[Iron_Lion]

you mean the 1%

you got me before the edit, but over 500K a year makes you the top 1%, below 500K a year and you are the 98th percentile.

 

[rootfingers]

Perhaps it is you who needs to reassess his positions. I understand everything you say and agree with much of it. I am still firm in my convictions. Thanks so much for taking a minute though, I do appreciate you trying to drop some knowledge on us.

 

[dagnabit]

root:

i'd like to see what you think needs to be done?

if you could have a list of "demands" for lack of a better term what would they be?

i tried to steer the convo into something other than bad vs. good nonsense into "what needs to be done"

i even made some suggestions but it seems no one is actually interested in solutions nearly as much as they are for bitching...

 

[Secrecy]

Occupy Wall Street: Not on major media but worth watching!

Goldman sacks of shit is the enemy here

Every bank that takes in profit from people is the enemy

Every politician that accepts money from wallstreet is the enemy

My sativa told me so...

I'm just relieved that Ows wasn't some shit just for a week then dissipated.

 

[Dudesome]

I am still firm in my convictions.

yeess very firm. I can not dis that. Yet I want to so much

 

[dagnabit]

im a 19.4%


99 vs. 1 is a bit polar no?