Occupy Wall Street! Big Protest in New York

[Johnfromokc]

Brooklyn Bridge Protest:

 

[Tim]

Over 400 arrested tonight...

Do you know what I find totally amazing? Fox news would give national coverage to tea party events with less than 20 people showing up, yet they can't be bothered to cover this. Well unless they are calling them trouble makers.

 

[Johnfromokc]

Over 400 arrested tonight...

Do you know what I find totally amazing? Fox news would give national coverage to tea party events with less than 20 people showing up, yet they can't be bothered to cover this. Well unless they are calling them trouble makers.

The TEA Party has corporate sponsors. Occupy Wall Street is a true grass roots citizens movement about government AND corporate abuse of American citizens. The TEA Party is an extension of the same corporate interest groups that came out against healthcare reform in 1994. This video covers who is funding the TEA Party. Note how FOX cheerleads the TEA Party movement. They don't even attempt to hide their spin and bias any longer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePoDp9UtFE

 

[Joe the meek]

I'll pass the word along to all those protesters who have the courage of their convictions that they are a bunch of fucking morons because this wise sage in North Carolina says so. I'll tell them this this NC guru is so all seeing and all knowing that he knows they are getting slammed to the ground and pepper sprayed because they fucking deserve it. I'll also let them know that you, the Maharaja of law enforcement, ensures me that law enforcement is divine and makes the correct decisions 100% of the time, and that if they don't want their hippie asses kicked they will heed your sage and timeless advice and prostrate themselves before the man.

Nice to see the old wise ass back:24:

Uncle sams misguided child, let me explain it to you in a way you might be able to understand. Peace through superior firepower.

 

[Kyle B]

Brooklyn Bridge Protest:

If those protesters were arrested, they only have themselves to blame. You can't just stand on the Brooklyn Bridge and block traffic because you want to. Police issue tickets for not walking in the crosswalk, they're not going to just allow people to block a major roadway.

 

[MoonOwl]

Well, our local Good Day (Fox) morning news had a small blurb about all this. They even mentioned 2 thousand people in LA, CA.

 

[Johnfromokc]

If those protesters were arrested, they only have themselves to blame. You can't just stand on the Brooklyn Bridge and block traffic because you want to. Police issue tickets for not walking in the crosswalk, they're not going to just allow people to block a major roadway.

If you would take the time to investigate what actually happened, you would not make that statement. The NYPD actually led these protesters across the bridge. The protesters believed this was done for public safety. Then, at the end of the bridge, out comes the plastic netting and zip tie handcuffs. The NYPD set this up.

There is too much knee-jerk reacting to the 15 second corporate media news blurbs and not enough intellectual investigation by average Americans. These protesters represent the 99% of us who can not afford congressional lobbyists to represent our interests. They are standing up to the government AND the corporations who are legislating and influencing legislation against the best interests of the American working class.

 

[MoonOwl]

JP Morgan just donated quite a bit to the NYPD:

http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/article/ny-13.htm

 

[Tim]

If those protesters were arrested, they only have themselves to blame. You can't just stand on the Brooklyn Bridge and block traffic because you want to. Police issue tickets for not walking in the crosswalk, they're not going to just allow people to block a major roadway.

The ones that stood in the middle of the road blocking traffic knew full well they would end up in jail for it.
Sometimes you believe in something so much that you make a stand even if that leads to being arrested.

 

[MoonOwl]

Here's a link to a map of where these are going on. I didn't realize there were so many - and I read indy news:

http://12160.info/page/occupymap-map-of-people-occupying-wall-street-occupywallstreet

 

[Johnfromokc]

Here's a link to a map of where these are going on. I didn't realize there were so many - and I read indy news:

http://12160.info/page/occupymap-map-of-people-occupying-wall-street-occupywallstreet

This looks like it is already bigger than the corporately sponsored TEA Party farce.

 

[MoonOwl]

This looks like it is already bigger than the corporately sponsored TEA Party farce.

Indeed.

I still can't figure out how what started as a movement for Ron Paul has any momentum w/out him at the helm? I only have half a brain and I figured out his movement was subverted long, long ago. hehehehehehehehehehe....... When Sarah Palin got on that bandwagon it should have been everyone else's first clue. Heeellllloooooo?:24:

 

[Kyle B]

If you would take the time to investigate what actually happened, you would not make that statement. The NYPD actually led these protesters across the bridge. The protesters believed this was done for public safety. Then, at the end of the bridge, out comes the plastic netting and zip tie handcuffs. The NYPD set this up.

There is too much knee-jerk reacting to the 15 second corporate media news blurbs and not enough intellectual investigation by average Americans. These protesters represent the 99% of us who can not afford congressional lobbyists to represent our interests. They are standing up to the government AND the corporations who are legislating and influencing legislation against the best interests of the American working class.

From what I read, the protesters went to the Brooklyn Bridge and were asked to stay out of the roadway and keep to the walkways. When they refused they were then arrested or issued court summons.

They're free to protest, no problem with that. Just don't stand in the middle of the road/bridge and not expect the cops to do anything. I also have a hard time believing they were all "peaceful". I bet there were at least a few people at that protest who just wanted to instigate the police, just as there may have been police who reacted too harshly.

Honestly, none of us are there, so we don't have a complete picture of what's going on.

The ones that stood in the middle of the road blocking traffic knew full well they would end up in jail for it.
Sometimes you believe in something so much that you make a stand even if that leads to being arrested.

I agree. If you believe in something so much that you're willing to break the law and get arrested for it, then that is your choice.

 

[Johnfromokc]

Lots of conflicting information - and the NYPD has released some video attempting to justify their position. However, the NYPD did indeed allow the protesters onto the bridge and then put up the plastic orange fencing AFTER the protesters were on the bridge. A silly game played by NYPD management. From the attached link:

Bensonhurst resident Luke Rudkowski agrees that the police initially led protestors onto the bridge, only to arrest them later.

"The cops allowed us to be on the road, I just wanted to get on the pedestrian side so I had a better angle to film," he said. "It was fine until they stopped us and brought the nets out. These two older men just sat down, and that's when they wouldn't let anyone leave and just picked people out and arrested them."

"We were given the bum's rush," said Long Island resident Walter Gafforio, who was watching the road from the pedestrian side. Gafforio, a retired postal worker and Vietnam veteran, said that the police wouldn't let anyone leave once the nets were up down on the road.

"There was absolutely no resisting arrest that I saw, and they just had them trapped in there." The NYPD then used MTA buses and buses they had moved down before the demonstration from Rikers Island, to process all the arrests.

"It seems to me that if the NYPD wanted to stop someone from walking, they'd stop them," Stecklow says. "This looked like a plan to entice people onto the roadway. There was a huge police presence there and they had buses ready.

It's like the 2004 [Republican] convention: sometimes they want to make mass arrests."

Look at this video - it shows all the protesters already on the bridge and the NYPD brass on the megaphone after the fact announcing arrests. To the protesters credit, they continue to be non-violent and express their understanding for the rank and file NYPD officers who are following orders. These protesters are marching for many reasons - one of which is to support public safety employees like the NYPD to keep their pensions and wages in tact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSf7JzpD7kg&feature=player_embedded#!

Of course, the protesters were willing to face arrest because they have the courage of their convictions. We all are part of the 99% that our government is ignoring. These protesters are all of us when you get down to it. We should all be in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

 

[CityGirl]

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[cam elle toe]

I've been following this on another forum. Not one peep over here about it.

 

[Guyzerr]

I just started hearing about it on Canadian news today and guess what.... it's spreading here.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/02/occupy-wallst-canada.html

 

[Johnfromokc]

I've been following this on another forum. Not one peep over here about it.

The mainstream media here is blacking it out. FOX is doing some reporting, but it is negative toward the protest of course. This morning on the Sunday talking head shows, they each gave it a 10 second blurb and nothing more.

So much for the bullshit claims of the media in the United States being liberal.

 

[cam elle toe]

 

[Tim]

Absolutely a great website...

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

and here is the site to get organized.

http://www.occupytogether.org/