Occupy Wall Street

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Spikekiller, Sep 29, 2011.

  1. Mercor

    Mercor

    Looks like they are going to target the FIA convention this week in Chicago
     
    #181     Oct 10, 2011
  2. sheda

    sheda

  3. nitro

    nitro

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    #183     Oct 10, 2011
  4. I admit it, I want those pants.
     
    #184     Oct 10, 2011
  5. nitro

    nitro

    When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world...

    - Declaration of Independence

    The two party system is dead.
     
    #185     Oct 10, 2011
  6. His parents should've paid the mortgage instead of his college tuition. And he should've prepared a better diatribe, not gonna convince a jury with that type of rambling.
     
    #186     Oct 10, 2011
  7. You can keep the pants, I'll take the bag he's holding...LOL!! :D
     
    #187     Oct 10, 2011
  8. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/07/china-takes-note-as-wall-street-gets-occupied/

    Earlier this week, a small group of pensioners in China’s central Henan province even rallied in support of the U.S. protesters, though nostalgia for Mao Zedong’s bygone era appeared to be a main driver.

    “Resolutely supporting the American people’s mighty ‘Wall Street revolution,’” read an unfurled banner during the demonstration Thursday at a park in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, according to video footage posted online as well as the leftist website Utopia. The website said several hundred people took part.

    Some of the old men fumbled with their red arm bands, which called for world-wide solidarity. Many simplly stood quietly, hands clasped behind their backs.

    “United, proletarians around the world,” was one of the slogans the pensioners chanted.

    :D
     
    #188     Oct 10, 2011
  9. Any video of when they got the crap beaten out of them by Chinese police?? :eek:
     
    #189     Oct 10, 2011
  10. Do you actually try to be narrow-minded or is it a genetic defect?

    The whole jobs situation is only one of the issues being brought up and it's not even the main one. I'm more interested in the fact that it is about time some protesting is done for the continuous bailouts for the banks and top corporates at the expense of the masses. Additionally, there is pretty clear dissent about big business controlling politics and hence government finances.
     
    #190     Oct 10, 2011