[Newsbot]

Title: Occupy Wall Street... mansions
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2011-10-11 08:08:21

[DanSC]

I would think Occupy the Hamptons would be more appropriate.

Of course, Occupy Congress would be better, assuming they actually want to accomplish something.

[raydan]

Isn't this how the French Revolution started... and for pretty much the same reasons?

I can imagine Jamie Dimon, David Koch, John Paulson, Howard Milstein and Rupert Murdoch scream from their mansions, "Let them eat cake!".

When are heads going to roll?

[DanSC]

raydan raydan:

Isn't this how the French Revolution started... and for pretty much the same reasons?

I can imagine Jamie Dimon, David Koch, John Paulson, Howard Milstein and Rupert Murdoch scream from their mansions, "Let them eat cake!".

When are heads going to roll?

Unlike the French revolutions, they can wait for elections.

[raydan]

DanSC DanSC:

raydan raydan:

Isn't this how the French Revolution started... and for pretty much the same reasons?

I can imagine Jamie Dimon, David Koch, John Paulson, Howard Milstein and Rupert Murdoch scream from their mansions, "Let them eat cake!".

When are heads going to roll?

Unlike the French revolutions, they can wait for elections.

Admit it, you'd love to see the heads roll too, especially that Murdoch guy?

[DanSC]

I think we've had enough lynchings down here already.

[Kitsune_H]

You know, it is true though, that these protests are near worthless. I'd bet the rich stock brokers who fucked us over are all like, "The peasants are revolting again? I guess I'll just wait it out in my private Caribbean island, all the while I continue to accumulate wealth unduly without ever producing goods or services."
Or something like that.

[eureka]

DanSC DanSC:

raydan raydan:

Isn't this how the French Revolution started... and for pretty much the same reasons?

I can imagine Jamie Dimon, David Koch, John Paulson, Howard Milstein and Rupert Murdoch scream from their mansions, "Let them eat cake!".

When are heads going to roll?

Unlike the French revolutions, they can wait for elections.

Unfortunately, elections are not doing it any more. The reason that voting turnouts are not great is that people are becoming disenchanted with what passes for democracy now. In essence they are saying "a Plague on al their houses;." as political Parties a;; over the western world but particularly in the English speaking countries, become less interested in, and less reflective of the needs of the populace and become increasingly the tools of wealth and privilege.

An explosion of some sort is inevitable. Whether this is it depends on whether some organising principle and body takes command.

[DanSC]

eureka eureka:

An explosion of some sort is inevitable. Whether this is it depends on whether some organising principle and body takes command.

Can't this explosion take place through an election?

[andyt]

DanSC DanSC:

eureka eureka:

An explosion of some sort is inevitable. Whether this is it depends on whether some organising principle and body takes command.

Can't this explosion take place through an election?

Let's freaking hope so. That's the worry on the right, that this movement will energize the left the way the Teabaggers energized the right. I sure hope so, and it doesn't get hijacked by some demagogue.

[eureka]

DanSC DanSC:

eureka eureka:

An explosion of some sort is inevitable. Whether this is it depends on whether some organising principle and body takes command.

Can't this explosion take place through an election?

I am really beginning to think we have passed electoral answers. For a generation now the Right has become increasingly emboldened in its enlarging its share of the economic pies and in its success in turning back the clock on social progress. The Law and Order agenda is a further tightening of the screws on the "plebes."

Violent responses, protests, demonstrations are becoming the new norm. Where will it end as the Right seems to have no understanding of the limits. As it historically has failed to grasp.

[DanSC]

eureka eureka:

I am really beginning to think we have passed electoral answers.

Yeah that always works out well.

[Dragon-Dancer]

Actually I've been wondering for years when we'd see the next revolution in the states. There seems to be a lot of mighty pissed off people down there on both sides of the political spectrum who've completely given up on the electoral process as agent of real change. Maybe we'll see it after the financial collapse?

[DanSC]

Dragon-Dancer Dragon-Dancer:

Actually I've been wondering for years when we'd see the next revolution in the states.

It'll probably start on Nov. 6th, 2012 and end January 20th, 2013.

[BartSimpson]

raydan raydan:

Isn't this how the French Revolution started...

The French Revolution...the only war that France ever won.