http://www.portlandmercury.com/IAnonymousBlog/archives/2012/09/15/oh-yeah-occupy Comments On: Oh yeah... Occupy by Anonymous en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by chicostix]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:23:53 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by frankieb]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:38:41 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by maleeek]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:44:18 -0700 Portland Mercury
Oh get real, good ideas don't need money, and this is just a blatantly cop out statement. It's much easier to blame the Koch brothers and "the system, man" than accept the fact that Occupy was a bifurcated group from the beginning that finally succumbed to its own internal problems and/or lack of an overall goal.

Occupy could have stuck to the 1% argument, no more and no less, throw in a few galvanizing social issues that the group could rally around and run a bare-bones, volunteer / donation-based campaign and got some extreme left-wing people elected into office just like the tea baggers did for the right wing.

Instead they went more towards the direction of dysfunction -- somehow believing that destruction is somehow creation.
Posted by ws]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:15:43 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by disastronaut]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:13:42 -0700 Portland Mercury
They wanted a revolution when most people want to see more political, business, and economic accountability.

On the other end of the stick, the Tea Party got some people together, protested vociferously (but followed park rules), and got actual people elected to office without the drug overdoses and destruction.

Occupy whined a lot, vandalized businesses and parks, blocked streets with illegal protests and was overall a degenerate party scene that pissed many people, including socially liberal people.

I think the Tea Party Express is a bunch of right-wing nut jobs -- which they are -- but compared to Occupy, they look like responsible people.
Posted by ws]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:43:52 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by JamesK007]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:04:04 -0700 Portland Mercury
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1TWrPRCzbo
Posted by stjohnsrules]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:21:30 -0700 Portland Mercury