Every nerve revolted by what I hear, read, and see.
Murderers play games of force and extortion, the planet the prize, while the middle class idle the days away; at work or home watching wide screens, on vacations, financing Death with Their Taxes. They can vote or not, it matters not. It’s only business, nothing personal; They buy into it, especially, if there’s a sale, vote your wallet.
The sooner They fall into the lower ranks, experience hunger, the sooner the scales tip, the sooner it all ends. It’s not if, it’s when, inevitable. We must rally and help the middle class jerks out or they’ll starve, grow food.

I have just heard Michael Moore speaking on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. I am not going to buy diapers. I am going to buy a tent! And I am going to bring my $10.00 port-a- potty! So be it.

When I am denied my Constitution right to protest by arresting me and not allowing me my use of public areas for protests…you are just making me more determined and more inventive. My elected officials have been pissing on me for years. It is time I pissed back.

O'bomber sez: “I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there...”

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Oh, really? You "believe" you have the foggiest notion what Dr. King "would remind us"?
And while he's "reminding us", would he be holding private, closed-door sessions with the banksters to work out how he was going to promote and sign legislation written by, for and of those banksters, at the expense of "the unemployed worker"?

Methinks somebody was so busy studying "constitutional law" he missed out on the study of how King actually challenged oppressive power.

One suspects MLK, along with the protesters, would have approved, much to Obama's chagrin, this slogan put forth by writer Paul Street:

Fight the Rich, Not Their Wars

I wonder what the reaction would be if the Obama campaign said it would not accept any money from Wall Street. I think it would be a boon. I think he would gain much more in voter support than he would lose in dollars. I think it would be a dramatic way to show whose side he is really on.-- But I must be dreaming-- that will never happen. Not for Obama or for the the Democratic party. Look at it inversely-- they do take Wall Street money. In fact they grovel for it. And we already do know what side they are on.

I'll demonize them. I'd be glad to. Consider them demonized.

It must be remembered that the wealthy live in a state of constant terror that their riches will disappear, that if they start being taxed, it will snowball into something that will take away their every last cent.

I say keep telling the rest of the people that the rich are to blame for everything. It stirs the stew (Edward Abbey reference).

the movement without causes begins to have causes...

forgive me...

while I rant frequently about property ownership, and believe it must be negated for us to save the planet, I cannot feel the same sympathy for a college student unable to repay school loans that I feel for a homeowner burdened by a questionable mortgage...

while trends are evident in many areas, one must live somewhere, and pay for such living, so a mortgage, or rent, is, at least, a necessity, at this time...

a loan for college is a gamble...a gamble that one might work less to gain more than one's inferior fellows...

if one gambles at improving one's advantage without adequate knowledge of one's game of choice, one will probably lose...

best to do homework, in advance...it would certainly indicate intelligence to do so, and make appropriate choices based on such...

all industry, and, therefore, all economic activity, begins, and ends, with the living world...

there is no other source...

we can no longer con ourselves that we may continue to cheat nature out of our lifestyles...

we can no longer pretend the current, poisoned world is still the healthy one of distant pasts...

nor can we go on conning each other that one's 'job' doesn't harm another...

your college, and your eventual career, is costing me my planet...costing you yours, too, but you cannot see it, I guess, because you sure aren't commenting...could be that critical thinking problem...

take your college loan, the financial institutions that provided it to you, and your ignorance about inherent responsibilities and negligent impact, and shove it...

no sympathy for you...

I am awash in the breath and spittle of the Water Dragons of Fukushima...how concerned are you for my plight, which is sure to be your own?

enough to give up electricity?

exactly...

next?

Fukushima, the Dragon that will not die;
I’ve watched it spit its venom into the sky,
And dump its excrement upon the ground
Where generations will expire without a sound.

Dig it up, bury it, filter the air.
The Dragon will spew more poison without care,
Until the ground, water, air, are filled with its foul scent.
And malformed babies abound, with bodies bent.

Always remember, while bucks, shekels, yen and yuan rule,
War, nukes and biogenetics will just be a tool
For gathering wealth of their choice,
As they keep billions of souls from having a voice.

Perhaps the People are beginning to awaken,
As they gather to Occupy and steps are taken,
To dismantle the Wealthy and their endless greed.
To plant, in their place, a fresh and viable seed.

Steve Osborn
24 Oct. 2011

Here is a good one.
After all of Obama's complicit 'pragmatism', foot-dragging, leading from behind capitulation and incrementalism...His desperate attempts to portray himself as a war president in the Bush mold because he has nothing to run on, his constant carping that "change takes time" or "peace is hard" or he just needs more time--like he was actually addressing something or reversing course...his latest campaign slogan?

"We Can't wait!"

Cain very directly laid out the GOP position on the poor when he said,"If your not rich its your own fault."

"Who is Demonizing the Rich?" You ever seen what's moored out at the end of Straight Wharf, Nantucket Town? The modest housing on Shelter Island? I don't think the rich need any help in the demonizing department.

The 1% are demons. One can not demonize someone who is already a demon. O knows it and so does OWS. It is not as O tries to imply, just one or two bad apples. The 1% are demons. For the President to publicly acknowledging the fact would almost certainly, mean his literal death. These demons do not play nice with others and they will not be exposed by one who is in the fold.

Hmmm...has Anonymous struck an overdue blow for freedom of the press?
Huffington Post ran a story this morning about the ongoing efforts by Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union to starve Wikileaks of funds, but the comment section of the article was subject to the most extreme moderation I've seen on the site to date.
A few of the regular posters did manage to circumvent the onerous HP filter, however, and lodged complaints about the undue censorship.
HP's entire comment system is now "Down for routine maintenance". LMAO
WE are the 99%!!!

Being rich for the sake of richness isn't what is being demonized. John Lennon was rich, but he cared about the health and safety of the 99%.

There are thousands of Americans who got cancer or diabetes and were subsequently illegally cut off from their health insurance. My sister was one of them. She died quite a few years ago. At an occupy, a guy told me his father was another, and his father died last month. Many of them died for lack of health insurance money, or died of grief. The wealthy people who did it aren't so much demonized as they are not yet prosecuted for manslaughter. There are laws on the books against killing human beings for money, but they need to be enforced.

The same goes for the people who sold us cigarettes, bad coal mining jobs, carcinogens in our food, heart attack food, lots and lots of stuff. The same goes for the war profiteers. The same goes for the financiers and jackals who overthrow someone else's democracy in order to mostly enslave a few million people.

Too many rich people are in league with the rich man of whom Lazarus begged for the crumbs from his table, and was denied. In the Bible story, the rich man eventually died and went to a terrible, lonely place. Jesus of Nazareth demonized such uncaring behavior, but didn't demonize all rich people. It's not just being rich, but the cutting off of the world's 99% from their own lives that is the mortal sin.

You can't "demonize" a DEMON, nor an entire class of demons...

I think we not only want corporations to their fair share of taxes, but also to have a social and environmental conscience. I think we have monopolies proliferating in every area: the press, publishing, retail, manufacture, you name it. Paying their fair share of taxes is not the limit of what is wanted and needed. Didn't we use to have anti-trust laws? It seems that they aren't working anymore.

"Without money, we'd all be rich".

A direct democratic proposition: Abolish all taxation. A yearly referendum will determine how much money/power any person would be able to have, including assets. The excess would have to be given away only to persons by the bearer, or be deleted and destroyed.

Visual things work. May I suggest an additional way to occupy?
A decent symbol for the 99% is the bare base of the PYRAMID from the Great Seal on the back of the dollar bill. No cap/eye, just the base.

Find square cardboard boxes, cut and tape them into that shape and let them sprout up all over the country... it's OUR pyramid with the plutocracy whooshed off the top. Public property. Might help give the movement a little focus, too.

you can tell what God thinks about money by the people he gives it all to

Of course, in America it’s bad form to demonize the rich, since to paraphrase John D Rockerfeller, “god gives them their money.”

If i were to select a visual for "occupy wall street", I would just raise my right hand, and raise it to the sky. Middle finger extended, The best civil disobedience ever invented AND IT SAYS IT ALL. ........SHORT AND SWEET..........Q