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Hey, what's the Pepper-spray guy doing today?
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I don't make up and put it into articles in the same color and font. Thats what I think.
Hey, what's the Pepper-spray guy doing today?
Let's check up
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The turning point: The moral example of UC Davis students, and Occupy Wall Street
If America needs a moral turning point, this is it.
Published on November 19, 2011
by Michael Chorost, Ph.D. in World Wide Mind
Psychology Today<snip>
The video is shocking. A line of students sits on the ground, heads bowed. A police officer dressed in riot gear walks up to them, holding a pepper spray gun. He theatrically raises his arm, as if about to carry out an execution, and presses the trigger. A foul-looking orange spray shoots out. Methodically, deliberately, he walks to the end of the line, saturating each student. He might as well be casually spraying bug spray. When he reaches the end he begins walking back in the other direction, spraying each of them again. The students huddle in obvious pain. People in the crowd nearby gasp in shock and began chanting, "Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!"
This event is powerfully symbolic. It is about contempt from those in power and the wanton use of force against the powerless.
We have seen similar things over and over again in the past few years. We have seen it in banks lobbying for public handouts and then denying relief to millions of exploited homeowners. We have seen it in tax breaks and bonuses for the rich while millions of Americans are out of work. We have seen it in church and university officers abusing children and then covering it up. We have seen it in the censorship of climate science performed in the public interest. We have seen it in the absurd declaration that corporations are "people" and en led to spend billions of dollars to elect representatives that they will then own. We have seen it everywhere we turn.
The police officer is Congress. Our banks. Our clerics... The students are us... If I had to sum up the at ude of America's governing classes in one word, I would say: contempt.
We are seeing the beginning of a worldwide movement to fight for dignity and intelligent, collective governance. It is remarkable, the parallels between what we see in Tunisia, in Cairo, in Rome, in Zucotti Park, in Oakland, California, and now at UC Davis.
CNN News director tries to pass the 'media is doing a ty job covering Occupy because police are intimidating reports....talking point....
Has our media really become so inept...so ....compromised?
CNN's Howard Kurtz is calling for New York City and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for the way the media was censored, roughed up and arrested during the recent eviction of Occupy Wall Street activists in Zuccotti Park.
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a post-midnight raid to clear the protesters from a lower Manhattan park," Kurtz explained Sunday. "Some reporters were pushed away and barred from covering the confrontation. About two dozen journalists from outlets such as the AP and The New York Daily News were arrested. Bloomberg says the city was trying to -- quote -- 'prevent a situation from getting worse and protect members of the press.' Except police later shoved and roughed up a number of reporters and photographers."
"This is quite simply an outrage, that police haul off journalists trying to do their jobs and push the press corps away from a legitimate news event," Kurtz declared. "That is nothing less than censorship and the city owes these journalist and the rest of us an apology."
disinfecting the Nighthawks scene
Pretty lame reason to blow the margin.
There...better for you?
Today in New York
Why occupy?
looks like OccupyLA is the place to be tonight....police mounting for a possible eviction of protesters which number about a 1000
http://www.occupystream.com/
police are attempting to disperse the crowd in Philadelphia...
http://www.livestream.com/occupyphiladelphia
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/livenow?id=8449158
How much longer before the mercenaries fire on peaceful protesters
and then what?
You'll post something on a message board.
....and you'll post something stupid...
You certainly won't join an actual demonstration.
soo...only active demonstrators support causes....
Define support.
Do you do anything other than post on the internets about them?
Everyone does a part.....the Internet is a fabulous way to get information and news that you won't regularly get on domestic news sources...
.....the internet is a definite threat to those who wish to limit free speech and our right to freely protest our government....
...I support many other causes too...
So you do nothing but post on the internets.
Wow.
No....I've posted what I do here before....no need to reharp that....I post stuff on the Internet...so does everyone else on this site...
Go ahead and "reharp" -- do you need time to make something up?
Nah...I have a 7:30 meeting...time for bed...
....
That will give you plenty of time to make something up.
The Republican Governor’s Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz, who offered a coaching session for attendees about how they should communicate to the public. Yahoo! News’ Chris Moody was there, and captured some of Luntz’s comments on Occupy Wall Street.
MORE:Luntz told attendees that he’s “scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death.” The pollster warned that the movement is “having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.” So the pollster offered some advice for them about how to fight back. Here’s a few snippets of what he said, according to Moody:
– Don’t Mention Capitalism: Luntz said that his polling research found that “The public…still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we’re seen as defenders of quote, Wall Street, end quote, we’ve got a problem.”
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-– Don’t Mention The Middle Class Because Americans Don’t Trust Republicans To Defend It: “They cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers,” Luntz instructed the audience. “We can say we defend the ‘middle class’ and the public will say, I’m not sure about that. But defending ‘hardworking taxpayers’ and Republicans have the advantage.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-ta...
Luntz, Repug Minister of Propaganda. Right-wing Americans are real suckers for propaganda.
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