Occupy movement magnet for violence.

Why would I ask? I'm not welcome in the movement and have no influence on what they do. While I personally don't have any aversion to violence, believing the goal of non-violence to be charming but unrealistic, I can see why society as a whole prefers non-violence. What the Occupiers have done is nothing like what a group of people like me would have done. They want to remain nonviolent, and be picked-off one by one, booked and fined, until they can no longer be part of the movement... that's their choice. I'm saying that wouldn't be mine.

I'm guessing you think the Occupiers should give up and go home, get jobs, raise families, die. Some of them did have homes but lost them because of the housing fiasco. They had jobs but, again, the bubble burst and jobs became scarce. Their families are in similar situations. Eventualy they'll die, that one they can manage.

 

Yet, they remain irrelevant...

 

Those who refuse to acknowledge the evidence right under their noses are.....Republicans.

 

How partisan of you.

 

I guess you just hate to have your opinion proven wrong so easily. Sucks to be you.

 

Hardly. The Flea Party remains as irrelevant today as it ever was. It accomplished nothing, served no purpose, had no goals and faded with the cold winds of winter.

http://www.amerika.org/politics/occupy-irrelevance/

 

Who were they again?

 

From your blog source Amerika. Real journalism there chief.
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Amerika is a type of civilization, not a place.
Comprised of equal parts liberal anarchism and commercial fascism, this type of civilization uses "freedom" and "equality" to create a society without standards, values or ideals.
The ensuing social chaos demands a strong force of control, found in commerce, media and government. Commerce ropes citizens into debt and jobs, media fills their heads with illusions, and government enforces profitable laws.
What results is a destruction of all culture and even self-reliance, instead producing a society of identical neurotic drones who depend on government, entertainment and social approval like a nursing calf.
The Amerikan type of civilization, anarcho-totalitarianism, is the end result of us reversing our thought process. We gave up on leadership and goals, and instead are following whims and social trends.

 

If you can't attack the message, attack the source, eh?

 

No one is even giving the Flea Baggers donations anymore:

Occupy Wall Street Could Go Broke Within a Month

January 17, 2012
Occupy Wall Street's money troubles are taking their toll on the group's activity, as it voted on Saturday to stop funding any new projects from its dwindling supply of donated funds, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since last week, when we reported donations had dropped off and the group was hemorrhaging cash, the accounting volunteers have said its cash on hand has dwindled to $170,000 from the more than $700,000 total raised (they estimated it at $190,000 last week). At this rate, Occupy will go broke in a month, accounting volunteer Haywood Carey told The Journal. When we spoke to him last week, Carey said the group had no plans to start doing active fund-raising (as opposed to passive fund-raising in which people simply donate money unsolicited, which is what's happened so far), and that "there's a sizable and serious resistance towards going to a traditional form of fundraising." But the Journal's Jessica Firger found at least one Occupy proponent of moving to an active fund-raising model: Michael Levitin, who helped raise a total $75,000 for the Occupied Wall Street Journal though Kickstarter. "That money is there," he told Firger. "I think we would be wise to tap into it." Under the newly austere budget, they'll continue to fund their ongoing expenses such as food, housing, and rent on their Financial District office, but the decision Saturday bans new operational costs for the time being.

http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-wall-street-could-broke-within-month-142151416.html

 

Maybe they will realize the importance of hard work & earning an income instead of bashing it

 

But, David they DO realize the importance of hard work and earning an income. As long as YOU are the one doing the hard work and earning the income, not them.

 

Event the straggling remnants of the Flea Baggers are violent. ENOUGH with the violence already!!!!!!

Protesters Throw Bricks and Bibles at Police in San Francisco

January 21, 2012
Occupy San Francisco’s “Day of Action” turned violent Friday night when protesters occupied an abandoned hotel and began throwing objects at police officers from the roof, police said.
“Once they gained access [to the hotel], some of them made it to the top of the roof and they then began to throw bibles down at the officers,” San Francisco Police Department spokesman Carlos Manfredi said.

“One of officers was struck with a brick to the chest and one of our lieutenants was struck in the hand with an object and may have damaged or even broken his hand,” he said.
Protesters began the day Friday by targeting San Francisco’s financial institutions like the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, the SEC, Citibank, Chase, and Bechtel.

“The banks are not being responsible and we are tired of being foreclosed, getting in so much debt; it’s just time to change the system,” protester Wendy Kaufmyn told ABC News station KGO-TV in San Francisco.

Protesters began chaining themselves to the entrances of Wells Fargo Bank’s corporate headquarters in downtown San Francisco. Police in riot gear were called in, and 18 protesters were arrested. That did not stop others from trying to block a nearby Bank of America branch. Among the protesters was Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who was injured during an Occupy Oakland protest in October, when he was struck in the head by a blunt object other protesters said was a tear gas canister shot by police.

Across the country, protesters also rallied at courthouses Friday to challenge a 2010 Supreme Court decision that largely removed limits on union and corporate spending in support of political campaigns.

Protesters descended on the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. as part of the nationwide effort that Occupy Wall Street has dubbed “Occupy the Courts.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...bricks-and-bibles-at-police-in-san-francisco/

 

To use your words, "Yet, they[it] remain irrelevant... "

 

They sure try to keep themselves in the news, don't they? I guess violence is all they have to hold on to now?
Heck, Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore & Alec Baldwin have sure abandoned the cause!

 

Even Obama has abandoned them.

 

Correct. Their message/movement is certainly irrelevant. Their violence is not irrelevant, however. Just ask the police officers who were injured.

 

Just as irrelevant as ever, but just as VIOLENT as ever:
Police use tear gas on Occupy Oakland protesters

January 28, 2012
OAKLAND, California (AP) — Oakland police used tear gas and flash grenades Saturday to break up hundreds of Occupy protesters after some demonstrators started throwing rocks and flares at officers and tearing down fencing.

Three officers were hurt and 19 people were arrested, the Oakland Police Department said. No details on the officers' injuries were released.

The protest continued into Saturday evening. A four-block area near downtown was closed off with police in the street facing hundreds of protesters, while a second group of dozens of protesters headed toward City Hall. No additional clashes were reported.
The national Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces corporate excess and economic inequality, began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately.

Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on. The demonstrations ebbed after those cities used force to move out hundreds of demonstrators who had set up tent cities.

Oakland police said the group started assembling at a downtown plaza Saturday morning, with demonstrators threatening to take over the vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center. The group then marched through the streets, disrupting traffic.

The crowd grew as the day wore on, with afternoon estimates ranging from about 1,000 to 2,000 people.

The protesters walked to the vacant convention center, where some started tearing down perimeter fencing and "destroying construction equipment," police said.

Police said they issued a dispersal order and used smoke and tear gas after some protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects.

Most of the arrests were made when protesters ignored orders to leave and assaulted officers, police said.

 

If the Wall Street White House has stopped trying to co-opt OWS and given up pretending that they are in sympathy with OWS goals it's one more thing to be grateful for.

 

I knew it wouldn't be long before the Oakland story resurrected this thread. It must have been very inconvenient for the police that some of the protestors were actually stirring things up rather than simply sitting in silence waiting to be gassed. Still, it would have been much better if OWS had followed the UC Davis example rather than giving the corporate enforcers any sort of justification for using their toys in this manner.