THESE ARRESTS CAME AS A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED. IT'S LIKE THE COPS AWOKE FROM A FUGUE STATE AND JUST DECIDED TO INCARCERATE RANDOM PEOPLE. I FOR ONE, AM TOTALLY SHOCKED AND FLABBERGASTED.
Occupying bank branches seems the best statement that can be made locally. "Occupy" is about things that happened on Wall Street and in DC. It isn't really a fight against the police or the local city hall.
No, and we're not fighting the police or the local city hall. We're camping out in public spaces in order to draw attention to the gross inequalities in American society today, and to try to rouse the American public to do something to change that. We're going to keep camping as a form of protest until the public does begin to take action.
If the police object to that, and try to stop it, that's a problem because it disrupts the protests, but it's them confronting us, not us confronting them.
I'm going to start punching the air, and if your face happens to be in the vicinity of the air I'm punching, that's YOUR fault!
BTW, the whole "The police are arresting us for (insert trivial crime here) while the banks get away with (insert serious fraud here)" is a real loser of an argument. That's not to say it isn't true, but no one is going to be swayed by it.
The Government and Police Departments country wide have been taken over by TERRORISTS using violence, threats and intimidation tactics to dispel a peaceful, Democratic Movement of the people. Stop the TERRORISTS in Washington and in our local towns from RUINING this country.
terrorism[ter-uh-riz-uhm] noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
Everyone at occupy keeps talking up bailouts - but it was my understanding at the time, however much it sucked for the rest of us, that these bailouts helped prevent a second Great Depression.
That said, B of A repaid back their government loan.
I still won't bank with them because of previous experience, but still....
If the police object to that, and try to stop it, that's a problem because it disrupts the protests, but it's them confronting us, not us confronting them.
BTW, the whole "The police are arresting us for (insert trivial crime here) while the banks get away with (insert serious fraud here)" is a real loser of an argument. That's not to say it isn't true, but no one is going to be swayed by it.
terrorism[ter-uh-riz-uhm] noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
That said, B of A repaid back their government loan.
I still won't bank with them because of previous experience, but still....
Grow Up.