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Interesting, I guess the propaganda war is winning; however, there are more and more people occupying every day.
But hot, many of the OWS folks are doing it to themselves and giving this movement a bad reputation. There's really not much the propaganda machine needs to do..not much spinning. Just show photos of what is going on..broken windows, crazy glued ATM machines, and police reports of drugs, sex, gun fire, complaining to the press that their committees won't give them new drums. There's really not much spin anyone needs to add to this.
They are providing this all of their own accord.
Let them continue to grow in numbers, as well as desecrate public & private property just like the above-the-law charlatans they are, and borrowing a few pages from the socialist/Marxist playbook of. the Obamaminable One.
Yes, the 1968 riots worked so well for the dems, electorally that is.
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Of course I would expect no less than part of the establishment to abandon them, since the OWS wants nothing to do with them from the people I have seen. Most of the OWS people want nothing do with "dems" or "rebubs" because they are both bought and paid for.
Nonsense. These are LEFTISTS, far left socialists, started by a global "justice" movement. If they were at all neutral, they'd be at the WH, the Fed, F&F, instead of storming and interrupting conservative events.
The movement includes all the usual suspects on the liberal side of the aisle.
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They tried to co opt the movement but failed so the cops are being sent in arrest them.
The democrat's allies are in the movement - ACORN, the unions, every left-wing org/group out there.
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The movement seems to be growing to me...otherwise why all the threads trying to discredit O.W.S.?????
Yet over on the CBS Evening News, Jim Axelrod noted how though “organizers promised tens of thousands demonstrators disrupting business as usual here in New York,” they didn’t show up: “Frankly, we’ve seen a fraction of that number -- closer to a thousand.”
NBC came in somewhere in between with anchor Brian Williams touting “thousands on the move” and reporter Mike Taibbi acknowledging “the Occupy Wall Street movement had promised huge crowds for its day of action,” then asserting “that prediction finally looked realistic a short time ago. Now some 5,000 protesters, union members and supporters are gathered in Foley Square.”
Without the unions showing up, it would have been a huge BUST. Turns out they didn't shut anything down anyway.
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Interesting, I guess the propaganda war is winning; however, there are more and more people occupying every day.
Completely false. They've all gone home to their plush high rises.
Other than NYC, you have a scattering of a few hundred, maybe a thousand around the country who USED to occupy those filthy tent cities...but last I looked, most were kicked out.
If this was truly a popular, grass roots movement, you'd see tens of thousands out on the street with this loons, but it's not.
It's just angry liberals/progressives who have seen their agenda stopped in its tracks by conservatism.
So you're now claiming that the Obama Administration is conservative?
Who do you think gave the orders to dismantle the Occupy camps?
Obama did.. He didn't though till he saw the political fall out of his earlier decision to support OWS. Now that it's a political liability, he calls on the mayors to crack down, while just weeks before he was encouraging them to let the protestors stay......
I am sick and tired of the OWS using the term, "we are the 99%". They are not the 99% because I am in the same income group that they claim to represent. They don't represent me!!!!! Nor do they represent most of americans... They need to change their slogan and downgrade it now to "we are the 10%." They may actually have more support than that, but they are getting there quickly, so why not avoid the rush
There are actually less and less people every day. Am I'm sure the winter weather will drive most of the rest out of their "camps" soon enough. They need to find another, less disgusting, way to protest. People (including the 99%) aren't going to put up with this nonsense forever.
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