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This article os not about Baltimore It's older than that, its more about the 99%ers protest. It's about how rich people manipulate everyone else to be fooled into thinking their enemy is really the teacher next door and not the big fat corporation. It's right, IMO.
It is a bit mind boggling IMO how many people here don't read the articles, but only the headline, and feel that's enough to make a judgement about it. This is part of why we are so easily manipulated, few of us want to do more than skim the surface.
Seems to me, that's what the guy you were responding to was saying too. I remember the OWS protesters. Vile creatures worthy of our hate.
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Originally Posted by bus man View Post "Protesters"? You mean the ones who block traffic, smash out car windows, assault innocent bystanders, attack the police officers who are trying to maintain law and order, break store windows, loot the contents of those stores, then burn down what's left?
No, they don't need "powerful people" to get me to hate them. They're able to accomplish that all by themselves.
If the responses to this thread are any indication, this article, which is apparently one of the most clever and poignant articles ever written, basically takes the most common reasons people have for turning against protest movements and claims they are all illegitimate and anyone who uses one of these reasons is being tricked. Since these are the most common reasons, anyone voicing a negative opinion about a protest is most likely using one of these reasons, so people who support the protests can now say "look you used one of the reasons! You've been tricked! You're proving the article's point!"
Of course the one most obvious point, that a person's reason for not supporting a protest movement can be entirely valid, is never even considered.
Seems to me that the people being "tricked" are the people who read the article and got a little too taken in by it.
Seems to me, that's what the guy you were responding to was saying too. I remember the OWS protesters. Vile creatures worthy of our hate.
The only vile creatures on this planet are the "Committee of 200", a group of super rich folks at the top of the economic food chain that crush everyone else with their complete control of the world financial system.
You must either be one of their paid disinfo trolls or just a completely duped idiot that is easily brainwashed by the mainstream TV media, which they also completely control through only six corporations that allow them to spew their propaganda to fools like yourself 24/7.
One way to get everyone else to hate protestors - be inconsiderate to regular citizens just trying to live their lives.
Here are some simple tactics to do so:
1. Block roads so that people who have nothing to do with your cause are made to suffer.
2. Clog city sidewalks so people needing to get to work have to detour around.
3. Leave a giant mess.
4. Don't do anything about the thugs in your ranks who destroy property.
5. Hold rallies in public parks and ensure the person using the bullhorn is throwing out profanities for your children to hear.
The only vile creatures on this planet are the "Committee of 200", a group of super rich folks at the top of the economic food chain that crush everyone else with their complete control of the world financial system.
They require governments to pass laws to lock out, as much as possible, the little guys who are trying to compete.
Great post. Reminds me of the move to demonize the Occupy movement.
I think it was Glenn Greenwald who first pointed out to me the way the media presents whistle-blowers as marginal or disturbed.
It did not help the cause that they chose to squat and live like pigs in NYC.
The city picked up the massive tab for the clean up.
I am unaware that Occupy achieved anything.
In Chicago, the protests included plenty who were paid $10/hr and food to protest.
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