The Colorado shooter is a Occupy Wall Street freak and Democrat
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James E. Holmes Ties to Occupy San Diego? [Updated]
by Steve MacDonald
(Updated- Word has it this not a picture of Holmes being carried away as indicated. We happily fall back on the ?reported to be?s? and ?ifs,? and are hurriedly filling out applications for employment opportunities at ABC news where the money and research are better funded but the reporting is not much better than this mornings post. )
The morning after the Aurora Massacre,in the wake of ABC News trying to build a left wing media narrative that the accused assailant was part of the TEA party, I wrote this?
For those with a short memory, and Democrats, Occupy was a left wing movement (see also Bowel) that developed violent and criminal tendencies, and was a disorderly cop hating public health risk?.among other things.
The establishment left loves Occupy and the media lionized them.
Don?t expect much follow-through from the Democrat Media on this if in fact it was left wing Occupy rhetoric that weaponized Mr. Holmes into action against the audience of an anti Occupy movement film.
Any such claims will be labeled as wild speculation by right-wing conspiracy nuts.
by Steve MacDonald
(Updated- Word has it this not a picture of Holmes being carried away as indicated. We happily fall back on the ?reported to be?s? and ?ifs,? and are hurriedly filling out applications for employment opportunities at ABC news where the money and research are better funded but the reporting is not much better than this mornings post. )
The morning after the Aurora Massacre,in the wake of ABC News trying to build a left wing media narrative that the accused assailant was part of the TEA party, I wrote this?
We?ll have to wait for the media to cycle through all their talking-points before we get to the truth but with major media reporters doing everything in their power to tie a murderer to their political opponents du jour instead of the more violent but politically favored Occupy Movement.
This is reported to be a picture of Jame E. Holmes being removed from Occupy San Diego. (See update above.)
For those with a short memory, and Democrats, Occupy was a left wing movement (see also Bowel) that developed violent and criminal tendencies, and was a disorderly cop hating public health risk?.among other things.
The establishment left loves Occupy and the media lionized them.
Don?t expect much follow-through from the Democrat Media on this if in fact it was left wing Occupy rhetoric that weaponized Mr. Holmes into action against the audience of an anti Occupy movement film.
Any such claims will be labeled as wild speculation by right-wing conspiracy nuts.
LONDON -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday said many of the weapons obtained by the shooting suspect in Colorado were obtained illegally and that changing laws won't prevent gun-related tragedies.
But the firearms that authorities allege James Holmes used to kill 12 people in Aurora, Colo., were obtained legally.
"This person shouldn't have had any kind of weapons and bombs and other devices and it was illegal for him to have many of those things already. But he had them," Romney told NBC News in an interview. "And so we can sometimes hope that just changing the law will make all bad things go away. It won't."
Holmes broke no laws when he purchased an assault-style rifle, a shotgun and Glock handgun, and he passed the required background checks.
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Then we got Willard who dont even know the details as well as RAYMOND and hedge.
Willard is a fraud !
But the firearms that authorities allege James Holmes used to kill 12 people in Aurora, Colo., were obtained legally.
"This person shouldn't have had any kind of weapons and bombs and other devices and it was illegal for him to have many of those things already. But he had them," Romney told NBC News in an interview. "And so we can sometimes hope that just changing the law will make all bad things go away. It won't."
Holmes broke no laws when he purchased an assault-style rifle, a shotgun and Glock handgun, and he passed the required background checks.
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Then we got Willard who dont even know the details as well as RAYMOND and hedge.
Willard is a fraud !
Does anyone think that the victims' families care what political affiliation this butt-knuckle carried?
Check your facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Treat others as you would like to be treated. I think it took me too long to learn this, but once i did it paid immediate and long term dividends in multiple aspects of my life.
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That is simply untrue and false. The Occupy movement and Tea Party movement were BOTH started by right wing moderates. Period. Cop haters huh, then why did the Chief of Police get arrested and fired for joining the movement on his off time?
That was and is a very irresponsible post Skul. Some of us actually do check the facts you know. Just because I don't agree with your politics doesn't make me ignorant.
I respect your views dude, but that statement should be retracted. I don't know if you will, but it certainly downgrades your integrity as it relates to your posts if you do not. I can go straight to the internet and even get the names of the first Tea Party and Occupy participants and they are far from left wingers brother. Very surprised that you posted so irresponsibly on this one.
Occupy Wall Street
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This article is about the protests in New York City. For the wider movement, see Occupy movement.
"American Spring" redirects here. For the 1970s band produced by Brian Wilson, see Spring (American band).
Occupy Wall Street
Part of the Occupy movement
Adbusters poster for the first protest, September 17, 2011
Date
September 17, 2011 ? ongoing
(10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location
New York City
40?42′33.79″N 74?0′40.76″W
Causes
Wealth inequality, Government Corruption[1] Corporate influence of government, inter alia.
Characteristics
Occupation
Non-violent protest
Civil disobedience
Picketing
Demonstrations
Internet activism
Status
Ongoing
Number
Zuccotti Park
Other activity in NYC:
2,000+ marchers
(march on police headquarters, October 2, 2011)[2]
700+ marchers arrested
(crossing Brooklyn Bridge, October 3, 2011)[3]
15,000+ marchers
(Lower Manhattan solidarity march, October 5, 2011)[4]
6,000+ marchers
(Times Square recruitment center march, October 15, 2011)[5]
50,000-100,000 marchers
(May Day march on Wall St.)[6]
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an ongoing protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest, which has led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government?particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters act on consensus-based decision made in general assemblies which emphasize direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.[7][nb 1] Protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. While there have been unsuccessful attempts to re-occupy the original location, protesters have turned their focus on occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, college and university campuses, along with Wall Street itself.
Contents
[hide] 1 Origins 1.1 "We are the 99%"
2 Income inequality
3 Goals
4 Protester demographics
5 Participation and organization
6 Funding
7 Zuccotti Park encampment
8 Security, crime and legal issues 8.1 Brooklyn Bridge arrests
8.2 Court cases
9 Notable responses
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links
[edit] Origins
OWS was initiated by Kalle Lasn and Micah White of Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, who conceived of a September 17 occupation in lower Manhattan. Lasn registered the OccupyWallStreet.org web address on June 9.[8] That same month, Adbusters emailed its subscribers saying ?America needs its own Tahrir?. White said the reception of the idea "snowballed from there".[8][9] In a blog post on July 13 of 2011,[10] Adbusters proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence on democracy, the lack of legal consequences for those who brought about the global crisis of monetary insolvency, and an increasing disparity in wealth.[9] The protest was promoted with an image featuring a dancer atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue [11][12][13]
A group called New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts (NYAB), promoted a "sleep in" in lower Manhattan called "Bloombergville" that took place in July, preceding OWS and provided a number of activists to begin organising.[14] Formation of the New York General Assembly (NYGA) began on August 2 when the NYAB met in Bowling Green Park for the ?People?s General Assembly? to ?Oppose Cutbacks And Austerity Of Any Kind?. Activist, anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber and several of his associates attended the NYAB meeting, but grew frustrated when they discovered the event was not a "general assembly" that rules by consensus resulting from group discussions. Rather, the event was intended to be a precursor to marching on Wall Street with a corpus of predetermined demands such as "An end to oppression and war!" In response, Graeber and his small group created their own general assembly, which eventually drew all remaining attendees from the NYAB meeting and developed into the New York General Assembly. The group began holding weekly meetings to work out issues and the movement's direction, such as whether or not to have a set of demands, forming working groups and whether or not to have leaders.[8][15][16][nb 2] The internet group Anonymous created a video encouraging its supporters to take part in the protests.[17] The U.S. Day of Rage, a group that organized to protest "corporate influence [that] corrupts our political parties, our elections, and the institutions of government", also joined the movement.[18][19] The protest itself began on September 17; a Facebook page for the demonstrations began two days later on September 19 featuring a YouTube video of earlier events. By mid-October, Facebook listed 125 Occupy-related pages.[20]
The original location for the protest was One Chase Manhattan Plaza with Bowling Green Park, the site of the "Charging Bull", and Zuccotti Park as alternate choices. Police discovered this before the protest began and fenced off two locations but left Zucotti Park, the groups second choice, open. Since the park was private property police could not legally force protesters to leave without being requested to do so by the property owner.[21][22] At a press conference held the same day the protests began, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg explained, "people have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it."[19]
Because of its connection to the financial system, lower Manhattan has seen many riots and protests since the 1800s,[23] and OWS has been compared to other historical protests in the United States. Writing for CNN, Sonia Katyal and Eduardo Pe?alver have said "A straight line runs from the 1930s sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan, to the 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins to the occupation of Alcatraz by Native American activists in 1969 to Occupy Wall Street. Occupations employ physical possession to communicate intense dissent, exhibited by a willingness to break the law and to suffer the?occasionally violent?consequences."[24] Commentators have put OWS within the political tradition of other movements which made themselves known by occupation of public spaces, such as Coxey's Army in 1894, the Bonus Marchers in 1932, and the May Day protesters in 1971.[25][26]
More immediate prototypes for OWS include the British student protests of 2010, Greece's and Spain's anti-austerity protests of the "indignados" (indignants), as well as the Arab Spring protests.[27] These antecedents have in common with OWS a reliance on social media and electronic messaging to circumvent the authorities, as well as the feeling that financial institutions, corporations, and the political elite have been malfeasant in their behavior toward youth and the middle class.[27][28] Occupy Wall Street, in turn, gave rise to the Occupy movement in the United States and around the world.[29][30][31] David Graeber has argued that the Occupy movement, in its anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian consensus-based politics, its refusal to accept the legitimacy of the existing legal and political order, and its embrace of prefigurative politics, has roots in an anarchist political tradition.[32] Sociologist Dana Williams has likewise argued that "the most immediate inspiration for Occupy is anarchism", and the LA Times has identified the "controversial, anarchist-inspired organizational style" as one of the hallmarks of OWS.[33][34]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This article is about the protests in New York City. For the wider movement, see Occupy movement.
"American Spring" redirects here. For the 1970s band produced by Brian Wilson, see Spring (American band).
Occupy Wall Street
Part of the Occupy movement
Adbusters poster for the first protest, September 17, 2011
Date
September 17, 2011 ? ongoing
(10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location
New York City
40?42′33.79″N 74?0′40.76″W
Causes
Wealth inequality, Government Corruption[1] Corporate influence of government, inter alia.
Characteristics
Occupation
Non-violent protest
Civil disobedience
Picketing
Demonstrations
Internet activism
Status
Ongoing
Number
Zuccotti Park
Other activity in NYC:
2,000+ marchers
(march on police headquarters, October 2, 2011)[2]
700+ marchers arrested
(crossing Brooklyn Bridge, October 3, 2011)[3]
15,000+ marchers
(Lower Manhattan solidarity march, October 5, 2011)[4]
6,000+ marchers
(Times Square recruitment center march, October 15, 2011)[5]
50,000-100,000 marchers
(May Day march on Wall St.)[6]
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an ongoing protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest, which has led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government?particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters act on consensus-based decision made in general assemblies which emphasize direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.[7][nb 1] Protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. While there have been unsuccessful attempts to re-occupy the original location, protesters have turned their focus on occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, college and university campuses, along with Wall Street itself.
Contents
[hide] 1 Origins 1.1 "We are the 99%"
2 Income inequality
3 Goals
4 Protester demographics
5 Participation and organization
6 Funding
7 Zuccotti Park encampment
8 Security, crime and legal issues 8.1 Brooklyn Bridge arrests
8.2 Court cases
9 Notable responses
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links
[edit] Origins
OWS was initiated by Kalle Lasn and Micah White of Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, who conceived of a September 17 occupation in lower Manhattan. Lasn registered the OccupyWallStreet.org web address on June 9.[8] That same month, Adbusters emailed its subscribers saying ?America needs its own Tahrir?. White said the reception of the idea "snowballed from there".[8][9] In a blog post on July 13 of 2011,[10] Adbusters proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence on democracy, the lack of legal consequences for those who brought about the global crisis of monetary insolvency, and an increasing disparity in wealth.[9] The protest was promoted with an image featuring a dancer atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue [11][12][13]
A group called New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts (NYAB), promoted a "sleep in" in lower Manhattan called "Bloombergville" that took place in July, preceding OWS and provided a number of activists to begin organising.[14] Formation of the New York General Assembly (NYGA) began on August 2 when the NYAB met in Bowling Green Park for the ?People?s General Assembly? to ?Oppose Cutbacks And Austerity Of Any Kind?. Activist, anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber and several of his associates attended the NYAB meeting, but grew frustrated when they discovered the event was not a "general assembly" that rules by consensus resulting from group discussions. Rather, the event was intended to be a precursor to marching on Wall Street with a corpus of predetermined demands such as "An end to oppression and war!" In response, Graeber and his small group created their own general assembly, which eventually drew all remaining attendees from the NYAB meeting and developed into the New York General Assembly. The group began holding weekly meetings to work out issues and the movement's direction, such as whether or not to have a set of demands, forming working groups and whether or not to have leaders.[8][15][16][nb 2] The internet group Anonymous created a video encouraging its supporters to take part in the protests.[17] The U.S. Day of Rage, a group that organized to protest "corporate influence [that] corrupts our political parties, our elections, and the institutions of government", also joined the movement.[18][19] The protest itself began on September 17; a Facebook page for the demonstrations began two days later on September 19 featuring a YouTube video of earlier events. By mid-October, Facebook listed 125 Occupy-related pages.[20]
The original location for the protest was One Chase Manhattan Plaza with Bowling Green Park, the site of the "Charging Bull", and Zuccotti Park as alternate choices. Police discovered this before the protest began and fenced off two locations but left Zucotti Park, the groups second choice, open. Since the park was private property police could not legally force protesters to leave without being requested to do so by the property owner.[21][22] At a press conference held the same day the protests began, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg explained, "people have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it."[19]
Because of its connection to the financial system, lower Manhattan has seen many riots and protests since the 1800s,[23] and OWS has been compared to other historical protests in the United States. Writing for CNN, Sonia Katyal and Eduardo Pe?alver have said "A straight line runs from the 1930s sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan, to the 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins to the occupation of Alcatraz by Native American activists in 1969 to Occupy Wall Street. Occupations employ physical possession to communicate intense dissent, exhibited by a willingness to break the law and to suffer the?occasionally violent?consequences."[24] Commentators have put OWS within the political tradition of other movements which made themselves known by occupation of public spaces, such as Coxey's Army in 1894, the Bonus Marchers in 1932, and the May Day protesters in 1971.[25][26]
More immediate prototypes for OWS include the British student protests of 2010, Greece's and Spain's anti-austerity protests of the "indignados" (indignants), as well as the Arab Spring protests.[27] These antecedents have in common with OWS a reliance on social media and electronic messaging to circumvent the authorities, as well as the feeling that financial institutions, corporations, and the political elite have been malfeasant in their behavior toward youth and the middle class.[27][28] Occupy Wall Street, in turn, gave rise to the Occupy movement in the United States and around the world.[29][30][31] David Graeber has argued that the Occupy movement, in its anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian consensus-based politics, its refusal to accept the legitimacy of the existing legal and political order, and its embrace of prefigurative politics, has roots in an anarchist political tradition.[32] Sociologist Dana Williams has likewise argued that "the most immediate inspiration for Occupy is anarchism", and the LA Times has identified the "controversial, anarchist-inspired organizational style" as one of the hallmarks of OWS.[33][34]
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Look at these LOSERS.
Look at these LOSERS.
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The mess the DEMOCRATS IGNORED!!!!!!!
The mess the DEMOCRATS IGNORED!!!!!!!
Typical Liberal Democrats, LIE, LIE, LIE!!!!!!!!
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The mess the DEMOCRATS IGNORED!!!!!!!
Typical Liberal Democrats, LIE, LIE, LIE!!!!!!!!
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You said that the Occupy movement was STARTED BY THE LEFT WING!!!
It was not. You are wrong and even posted an article proving that you were wrong.
Nuff said.
It was not. You are wrong and even posted an article proving that you were wrong.
Nuff said.
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I think this is a non-issue. Does anyone here think skul has an integrity to downgrade? Nuff said.
