Occupy L.A. Plans "City Paralyzing" May Day Celebration

[Sunni Man]

Have no doubt about it.

OWS = Communism

 

[RoadVirus]

Ah! The sweet smell of spring.....ruined by the stench of fecal matter that is the Occupy Movement.

 

[chanel]

Remember a few "respected" journalists and politicos calling the Tea Party "terrorists"? What do we call this?

Envelopes containing white powder turned up at multiple banks in Manhattan on Monday, police told 1010 WINS.

Five of the envelopes were sent to Wells Fargo banks, one was sent to JP Morgan Chase headquarters and another was sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office and ended up in a mailroom on Gold Street.

Multiple Threatening Letters Containing White Powder That Turned Out To Be Cornstarch Sent To Manhattan Banks, Including Wells Fargo « CBS New York

Happy May Day all. Stay safe.

 

[BillyV]

Anyone want to celebrate "loyalty day" on May first? It's the anti-labor version of the international Mayday celebration. Many authoritarian governments have instituted similar May first holidays in an attempt to supplant the populist message of the day. If you don't like OWS perhaps you can counter-demonstrate by reaffirming your loyalty to the United States government and the financial elite for which it stands.

What bothers me about that statement is that you find the ideas of loyalty to your country and disagreements with some of its policies to be mutually exclusive. Our representative democracy allows for and even encourages change if enough people can be convinced that your ideas have merit. Whether or not you agree with the Tea Party, they organized peacefully and worked within the system to advocate the changes they were seeking, and were largely successful in installing representatives that mirrored their positions. Are your ideas so unsupportable that you can't find redress through popular support within the democratic system? If so, maybe it's your ideas that need to be changed. Financial power buys airtime, it's true, but it doesn't buy votes; those are still freely given by the electorate.

 

[occupied]

Anyone want to celebrate "loyalty day" on May first? It's the anti-labor version of the international Mayday celebration. Many authoritarian governments have instituted similar May first holidays in an attempt to supplant the populist message of the day. If you don't like OWS perhaps you can counter-demonstrate by reaffirming your loyalty to the United States government and the financial elite for which it stands.

What bothers me about that statement is that you find the ideas of loyalty to your country and disagreements with some of its policies to be mutually exclusive. Our representative democracy allows for and even encourages change if enough people can be convinced that your ideas have merit. Whether or not you agree with the Tea Party, they organized peacefully and worked within the system to advocate the changes they were seeking, and were largely successful in installing representatives that mirrored their positions. Are your ideas so unsupportable that you can't find redress through popular support within the democratic system? If so, maybe it's your ideas that need to be changed. Financial power buys airtime, it's true, but it doesn't buy votes; those are still freely given by the electorate.

So the the Tea Party was all about fighting the power in Washington by becoming the power in Washington? All they did was replace one kind of stupid for another, mission accopmplished.

 

[BillyV]

Anyone want to celebrate "loyalty day" on May first? It's the anti-labor version of the international Mayday celebration. Many authoritarian governments have instituted similar May first holidays in an attempt to supplant the populist message of the day. If you don't like OWS perhaps you can counter-demonstrate by reaffirming your loyalty to the United States government and the financial elite for which it stands.

What bothers me about that statement is that you find the ideas of loyalty to your country and disagreements with some of its policies to be mutually exclusive. Our representative democracy allows for and even encourages change if enough people can be convinced that your ideas have merit. Whether or not you agree with the Tea Party, they organized peacefully and worked within the system to advocate the changes they were seeking, and were largely successful in installing representatives that mirrored their positions. Are your ideas so unsupportable that you can't find redress through popular support within the democratic system? If so, maybe it's your ideas that need to be changed. Financial power buys airtime, it's true, but it doesn't buy votes; those are still freely given by the electorate.

So the the Tea Party was all about fighting the power in Washington by becoming the power in Washington? All they did was replace one kind of stupid for another, mission accopmplished.

Yes, you see, that's how representative democracy works. Change happens by building a consensus for your opinions and then installing representatives that will work to institute the reforms you seek. Working outside the system can only work if the plan is to overthrow the system. Is that the goal, comrade?