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2011-12-03 01:23:36 AM
TFA: Winterized tents are also not allowed in the camp, but there's one in there.

Protesters are expected to freeze to death in an orderly manner.
 
2011-12-03 01:25:44 AM
erveek: TFA: Winterized tents are also not allowed in the camp, but there's one in there.

Protesters are expected to freeze to death in an orderly manner.


Yeah, you hippies are only allowed tents that will increase the likelihood of dying!

Nothing sanitary either!

/bonus army ftw
 
2011-12-03 01:26:05 AM
All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.
 
2011-12-03 01:33:46 AM
randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?
 
2011-12-03 01:34:29 AM
erveek: TFA: Winterized tents are also not allowed in the camp, but there's one in there.

Protesters are expected to freeze to death in an orderly manner.


[ObSimpson'sReferenceMacro()]
 
2011-12-03 01:38:59 AM
I think it would be very cathartic to have a French Revolution-style movement in the United States. Needlessly violent? Perhaps. Then again, I have come to expect very little from my fellow human beings. Doomed as they are to continually repeat their bloody history, I have begun to realize that it is a waste of time to attempt to stem the tide of their unrelenting humanity; instead, I will embrace the fact that all I can do is try to find amusement in their suffering.
 
2011-12-03 01:44:07 AM
Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?


Ownage in its best forum right there.
 
2011-12-03 01:46:47 AM
In order for the protesters to make sanitary conditions, they bring in a sink. But the cops don't like sanitary conditions, as it takes away from that 'seasoning of the protesters', in order to make them taste better for the police dogs. Oh and I guess 'tear gas' to the head, is the onioning part.

/Here is an idea: Protesters to place multiple 'sanitary napkins' on their clothes for that 'f*ck you cops' effect.
//Guillotines is the only rational way to remove the 1%'ers from their crystal palaces.
¡Viva la Revolución!
 
2011-12-03 01:49:13 AM
This retardation is still going on? A bunch of tools with an army tent and a sink are supposed to bring about change?

IT'S A REVOLUTION MAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

/go home before you catch a cold
 
2011-12-03 01:49:29 AM
Why don't the protesters do weekly protests. That way other people can support them as well. Not everybody can or want to camp out in a park.
 
2011-12-03 01:49:43 AM
James F. Campbell: I think it would be very cathartic to have a French Revolution-style movement in the United States. Needlessly violent? Perhaps. Then again, I have come to expect very little from my fellow human beings. Doomed as they are to continually repeat their bloody history, I have begun to realize that it is a waste of time to attempt to stem the tide of their unrelenting humanity; instead, I will embrace the fact that all I can do is try to find amusement in their suffering.

War. War never changes.
 
2011-12-03 01:53:08 AM
Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?


I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless
 
2011-12-03 01:55:03 AM
MoeSzyslak: This retardation is still going on? A bunch of tools with an army tent and a sink are supposed to bring about change?

IT'S A REVOLUTION MAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

/go home before you catch a cold


Yeah, when has assembling in groups to protest ever succeeded?

Everyone knows change only comes about through lobbyists and politicians!
 
2011-12-03 01:55:38 AM
randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

The local Occupy camp here just got kicked out of the park it was in a couple of days ago. Apparently, it took city crews something like 30 man-hours to clean up after them.

Bonus: Now, the local Occupy people are complaining about the fact that the city doesn't want to give them a permit to move somewhere else. There's a city council meeting on Monday, and apparently they'll be making a showing there. (I may well be going to this meeting too, to present some counterpoints.)
 
2011-12-03 01:55:51 AM
Oh, and let's just hope the protesters don't bring Lite-Brites.

25.media.tumblr.com
 
2011-12-03 01:58:54 AM
fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless


So you have no problem with all the money that's been thrown away babysitting and cleaning up after these people until it exceeds the amount wasted on the ridiculous bailouts? Does it have to be one or the other is a stupid waste and not both?
 
2011-12-03 02:00:21 AM
In before anti protesters...damn!
 
2011-12-03 02:00:39 AM
I thought the jamboree was over?
 
2011-12-03 02:03:29 AM
Fett56: MoeSzyslak: This retardation is still going on? A bunch of tools with an army tent and a sink are supposed to bring about change?

IT'S A REVOLUTION MAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

/go home before you catch a cold

Yeah, when has assembling in groups to protest ever succeeded?

Everyone knows change only comes about through lobbyists and politicians!


Yeah that's exactly what I said, isn't it? But good luck with your bunch of entitled college aged overgrown babies throwing temper tantrums in public parks strategy anyway.
 
2011-12-03 02:03:55 AM
Every time I listen to their detractors I realize that the protesters are completely correct.
 
2011-12-03 02:04:25 AM
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
 
2011-12-03 02:05:23 AM
fusillade762: Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

That's an interesting number. I'm afraid I can't say I know how the Portland situation in particular was handled, but this makes me curious as to how much the protesters left behind when they were cleared out by the cops. If the clean-up costs were $85,000, how much was the material they were cleaning up worth? If the protesters were forced out, they might have left a significant amount of belongings behind to become "trash" when they couldn't reclaim it.
 
2011-12-03 02:05:31 AM
I feel a mild rage at the Occupy Protestors.

From a global perspective, the occupy protestors have had more opportunity and privilege than nearly anyone else in the world. And yet there is a sense of entitlement here that is difficult to understand. Please, feel free to tell me why your student loans should be forgiven: that's a much better idea than foreign aid, healthcare or economic stimulus. We don't owe you a damned thing, protestors.

/Now am I trolling? Or what?
 
2011-12-03 02:05:45 AM
Get Lost: In order for the protesters to make sanitary conditions, they bring in a sink. But the cops don't like sanitary conditions, as it takes away from that 'seasoning of the protesters', in order to make them taste better for the police dogs. Oh and I guess 'tear gas' to the head, is the onioning part.

/Here is an idea: Protesters to place multiple 'sanitary napkins' on their clothes for that 'f*ck you cops' effect.
//Guillotines is the only rational way to remove the 1%'ers from their crystal palaces.
¡Viva la Revolución!


Bonus points, the sink was approved by the Department of Public Health.
 
2011-12-03 02:08:18 AM
Police said 75-to-100 protesters surrounded a police patrol wagon after 8:30 p.m. and refused to let it move.

Maybe UCD should send some campus cops to Boston to show Boston PD how to clear a path.
 
2011-12-03 02:09:44 AM
MoeSzyslak: fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless

So you have no problem with all the money that's been thrown away babysitting and cleaning up after these people until it exceeds the amount wasted on the ridiculous bailouts? Does it have to be one or the other is a stupid waste and not both?


No, the problem lies in all of the fraud perpetrated before and after the $7.7T bailouts that has yet to put a single crook in jail on a single charge. You may want to redirect at least some of your OWS outrage in that direction. Just sayin'
 
2011-12-03 02:13:25 AM
mavrickatubc: Please, feel free to tell me why your student loans should be forgiven

Because society owes them a fair shake! Everybody should be part of the "one percent"! To hell with responsibility and hard work; if you're part of the "99%", your ass should be kissed and it should be kissed hard!

Question: Where did all this "Occupy" garbage originate anyway? I know Wall Street is pretty much where it started, but whose idea was it?
 
2011-12-03 02:14:11 AM
fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless


I think most occupyer would leave over night if they knew that they could come back and NOT find police in riot gear and pepper spray keeping them out the next moring.

Since this is not the case they stay 24/7. Also the occupyer are putting people to work. Somthing the banks can't or won't do.
 
2011-12-03 02:14:26 AM
SkinnyHead: Police said 75-to-100 protesters surrounded a police patrol wagon after 8:30 p.m. and refused to let it move.

Maybe UCD should send some campus cops to Boston to show Boston PD how to clear a path.


Nah, those UCD pussies can only pepperspray a sitting line of students. anything more complex they can't handle. Kinda like you handling facts and shiat....
 
2011-12-03 02:14:30 AM
Starry Heavens: fusillade762: Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

That's an interesting number. I'm afraid I can't say I know how the Portland situation in particular was handled, but this makes me curious as to how much the protesters left behind when they were cleared out by the cops. If the clean-up costs were $85,000, how much was the material they were cleaning up worth? If the protesters were forced out, they might have left a significant amount of belongings behind to become "trash" when they couldn't reclaim it.


I had jury duty early September, and used one of the restrooms they're saying needs to be repaired because of Occupy. Or, I should say, would have used if anything was working.

I'm not the type to piss in a sink, but the sinks even were out of order. This is entirely blaming the protesters for things they didn't do.
 
2011-12-03 02:16:35 AM
vudutek: MoeSzyslak: fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless

So you have no problem with all the money that's been thrown away babysitting and cleaning up after these people until it exceeds the amount wasted on the ridiculous bailouts? Does it have to be one or the other is a stupid waste and not both?

No, the problem lies in all of the fraud perpetrated before and after the $7.7T bailouts that has yet to put a single crook in jail on a single charge. You may want to redirect at least some of your OWS outrage in that direction. Just sayin'


I completely agree that the bailouts were a complete waste and the people responsible for tanking the economy should be brought up on charges and jailed. I just don't see what a bunch of near-do-wells and social outcasts acting like jackasses and biatching about their students loans and any other semi-coherent gripe they can conjure up has to do with it.
 
2011-12-03 02:17:25 AM
mavrickatubc: I feel a mild rage at the Occupy Protestors.

From a global perspective, the occupy protestors have had more opportunity and privilege than nearly anyone else in the world. And yet there is a sense of entitlement here that is difficult to understand. Please, feel free to tell me why your student loans should be forgiven: that's a much better idea than foreign aid, healthcare or economic stimulus. We don't owe you a damned thing, protestors.

/Now am I trolling? Or what?


The problem is that global perspective doesn't really capture the effects of income inequality on national economies. Someone below the poverty line in the US could live like a king in a third world country, due to low prices for everything, but might not even be able to afford housing in the US. Forgiving student loans would be a huge economic stimulus, although it may or may not be an the best approach. As I noted in another thread, the world doesn't owe anyone anything, however society does. That's the whole point of having society instead of being individual hunter gathers. Social contract and all that jazz.

/Not sure if trolling, or just stupid.
 
2011-12-03 02:21:46 AM
fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless


Bears repeating again and again and again...
 
2011-12-03 02:21:57 AM
de mmavrickatubc: I feel a mild rage at the Occupy Protestors.

From a global perspective, the occupy protestors have had more opportunity and privilege than nearly anyone else in the world. And yet there is a sense of entitlement here that is difficult to understand. Please, feel free to tell me why your student loans should be forgiven: that's a much better idea than foreign aid, healthcare or economic stimulus. We don't owe you a damned thing, protestors.

/Now am I trolling? Or what?


Mom's "starving children in Africa" defense never did make me eat those green beans. They can have MY green beans.
 
2011-12-03 02:24:13 AM
WaitWhatWhy: As I noted in another thread, the world doesn't owe anyone anything, however society does.

Unless you're using "the world" to mean something along the lines of "Mother Nature" here, you just contradicted yourself.

Forgiving student loans would be a huge economic stimulus, although it may or may not be an the best approach.

My student loan is almost paid off, and I'll be god-motherf*cking-damned if I'm going to stand by and watch a bunch of freeloaders get theirs magically erased because they cried about not being able to find a job. News Flash: The economy isn't doing all that well right now. Jobs are hard to find. Live with it like the rest of us have to. I had to live with it myself for a couple of years after graduation, and not one single time did I whine about having to pay my student loan. I signed the paperwork for it, so it was my responsibility.
 
2011-12-03 02:25:29 AM
AntiNorm: mavrickatubc: Please, feel free to tell me why your student loans should be forgiven

Because society owes them a fair shakeshouldn't screw people over! Everybody should be part of the "one percent"! able to obtain food, shelter, and basic health care. To hell with responsibility and hard work, you should be able to maintain a decent standard of living; if you're part of the "99%", small group who make money using highly unethical and possibly illegal practices, your ass should be kissed and it should be kissed hard! thrown in prison.

Question: Where did all this "Occupy" garbage originate anyway? I know Wall Street is pretty much where it started, but whose idea was it?


FTFY

Answer: Adbusters came up with the idea
 
2011-12-03 02:27:42 AM
Wow, is there a lot of rank stupidity in this thread, from all sides. Welcome to Fark, I guess.
 
2011-12-03 02:28:18 AM
Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: Doo Doo Brown: randomjsa: All this time, money, and effort that could be put in to something productive instead of destructive.

I agree. Why does the police have to spend so much money on helicopters and riot gear and pepper sprays?

I wrote this about Portland, but I think it applies here as well:

------------

Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000

Misplaced outrage over protests - Priceless

Bears repeating again and again and again...


One is worse than the other so the other is just fine. Right?

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - 13 people murdered

Seung-Hui Cho - 32 people murdered

Misplaced outrage over school shootings - Priceless
 
2011-12-03 02:28:22 AM
vudutek: SkinnyHead: Police said 75-to-100 protesters surrounded a police patrol wagon after 8:30 p.m. and refused to let it move.

Maybe UCD should send some campus cops to Boston to show Boston PD how to clear a path.

Nah, those UCD pussies can only pepperspray a sitting line of students. anything more complex they can't handle. Kinda like you handling facts and shiat....


Well then maybe they can send some Oakland PD to help clear a path. I just feel bad for those poor helpless Boston cops trapped in their patrol wagon. Isn't there anything they can do to persuade the hippies to let them go?
 
2011-12-03 02:33:25 AM
AntiNorm: WaitWhatWhy: As I noted in another thread, the world doesn't owe anyone anything, however society does.

Unless you're using "the world" to mean something along the lines of "Mother Nature" here, you just contradicted yourself.

Forgiving student loans would be a huge economic stimulus, although it may or may not be an the best approach.

My student loan is almost paid off, and I'll be god-motherf*cking-damned if I'm going to stand by and watch a bunch of freeloaders get theirs magically erased because they cried about not being able to find a job. News Flash: The economy isn't doing all that well right now. Jobs are hard to find. Live with it like the rest of us have to. I had to live with it myself for a couple of years after graduation, and not one single time did I whine about having to pay my student loan. I signed the paperwork for it, so it was my responsibility.


Dude, I've been laid off twice in the past year, and relocated to find a job. I have two engineering degrees, both paid off. You do know that education has become significantly more expensive since we were in school, and unemployement has skyrocketed, especially in the 18-25 year old demographic, right? If you can't understand that students who don't have to make monthly loan payments directly to already wealthy investment houses will have more money to spend on sectors of the economy which employ people like you and me who actually work for a living, you probably shouldn't discuss economics. Like I said, this may or may not be the best approach to stimulating the economy, but debt forgiveness does have a strong stimulating effect, and may in fact be in your own self interest. But keep on farking the Randian pseudo-philosophical chicken.
 
2011-12-03 02:33:43 AM
Hey I have an idea. Instead of finding standup people who agree with our gripes and getting them to run for office on all levels so we can throw all our energy and support behind them let's just sit in public parks and shiat in buckets while biatching about our student loans. That'll show 'em!

/¡Viva la Revolución!
 
2011-12-03 02:35:26 AM
vudutek: SkinnyHead: Police said 75-to-100 protesters surrounded a police patrol wagon after 8:30 p.m. and refused to let it move.

Maybe UCD should send some campus cops to Boston to show Boston PD how to clear a path.

Nah, those UCD pussies can only pepperspray a sitting line of students. anything more complex they can't handle. Kinda like you handling facts and shiat....


About that........
Link (new window)

do your hands hurt?
 
2011-12-03 02:35:37 AM
I'll just leave these here even though it won't shut up the anti-Occupy people:

First Amendment, United States Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Article CVI, Massachusetts State Constitution

Article I of Part the First of the Constitution is hereby annulled and the following is adopted:-

All people are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed or national origin.


Part the First, Article VII, Massachusetts State Constitution:

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it.

Part the First, Article XIX, Massachusetts State Constitution:

The people have a right, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to assemble to consult upon the common good; give instructions to their representatives, and to request of the legislative body, by the way of addresses, petitions, or remonstrances, redress of the wrongs done them, and of the grievances they suffer. [See Amendments, Art. XLVIII, The Initiative, II, sec. 2.]

Amendments, Article XLVIII, The Initiiative, II, Section 2.

Excluded Matters. - No measure that relates to religion, religious practices or religious institutions; or to the appointment, qualification, tenure, removal, recall or compensation of judges; or to the reversal of a judicial decision; or to the powers, creation or abolition of courts; or the operation of which is restricted to a particular town, city or other political division or to particular districts or localities of the commonwealth; or that makes a specific appropriation of money from the treasury of the commonwealth, shall be proposed by an initiative petition; but if a law approved by the people is not repealed, the general court shall raise by taxation or otherwise and shall appropriate such money as may be necessary to carry such law into effect.

Neither the eighteenth amendment of the constitution, as approved and ratified to take effect on the first day of October in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor this provision for its protection, shall be the subject of an initiative amendment.

No proposition inconsistent with any one of the following rights of the individual, as at present declared in the declaration of rights, shall be the subject of an initiative or referendum petition: The right to receive compensation for private property appropriated to public use; the right of access to and protection in courts of justice; the right of trial by jury; protection from unreasonable search, unreasonable bail and the law martial; freedom of the press; freedom of speech; freedom of elections; and the right of peaceable assembly.

No part of the constitution specifically excluding any matter from the operation of the popular initiative and referendum shall be the subject of an initiative petition; nor shall this section be the subject of such a petition.

The limitations on the legislative power of the general court in the constitution shall extend to the legislative power of the people as exercised hereunder.
 
2011-12-03 02:36:02 AM
AntiNorm
My student loan is almost paid off, and I'll be god-motherf*cking-damned if I'm going to stand by and watch a bunch of freeloaders get theirs magically erased because they cried about not being able to find a job. News Flash: The economy isn't doing all that well right now. Jobs are hard to find. Live with it like the rest of us have to. I had to live with it myself for a couple of years after graduation, and not one single time did I whine about having to pay my student loan. I signed the paperwork for it, so it was my responsibility.

shiat sucks for you and you're too dumb to fight back, therefore shiat has to suck for everyone- because it's easier to go after the scapegoat du jour than to confront your real problems.

/ignore'd because there's no getting through to these kind of people anyway.
 
2011-12-03 02:36:40 AM
MoeSzyslak: I completely agree that the bailouts were a complete waste and the people responsible for tanking the economy should be brought up on charges and jailed. I just don't see what a bunch of near-do-wells and social outcasts acting like jackasses and biatching about their students loans and any other semi-coherent gripe they can conjure up has to do with it.

Portland parks itemized list of repairs:

General Park: Repaint restroom interiors, exterior trim at Chapman and Lownsdale $2,200.00
General Park: Steam clean surfaces - restroom interiors, benches, poles $3,000.00
Park Benches: Replace 2 benches, repair 7 benches $16,500.00
Bollards and chain: Replace 5 bollards, one chain section $4,000.00
Paths: Power wash paths $1,600.00
Restrooms: Soda blast exteriors to remove graffiti $1,100.00
Turf: Rake to remove leaves and debris $600.00
Turf: Install erosion control $1,000.00
Turf: Winter - fill low areas, hydro mulch, lime, fertilize, seed, enzymes $8,100.00
Turf: Spring - fine grade, slice seed, top-dress $ 3,800.00
Shrub beds: Prune to correct damage, replace damaged plants, fertilize, mulch $4,000.00
Trees: Inspect, monitor tbd
Trees: Place soil to cover exposed roots $750.00
Restrooms: Chapman - Clean sewer, inspect, repair as needed $600.00
Restrooms: Chapman - repair sewer as needed (Potentially up to a $7,000) tbd
Restrooms: Chapman - tile and grout repair $700.00
Restrooms: Chapman - Re-install door, jamb, and frame $2,500.00
Restrooms: Refurbish octagonal windows includes frames, re-glaze $2,300.00
Restroom: Lownsdale - Remove/ replace 3 destroyed toilets, one pedestal sink, repair plumbing in walls, wall mounted braces, floor attachments. $ 28,000.00
Restroom: Lownsdale - Repair door lock $100.00
Restroom: Lownsdale - Tile and grout repairs $1,800.00
Art: The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) to assess, recommend, implement repairs (cost paid by RACC) tbd
Memorials: RACC to assess, recommend, implement repairs (RACC cost) tbd
Fencing: Temporary fencing $3,200.00

SUBTOTAL: $85,850.00


Blaming all that on the protesters is absurd. The bathrooms were already destroyed before the protests started, and the parks were fairly well used by the end of summer.

Oh, and a non-profit that has paid employees is the one the donations are getting funneled through. I'm sure they're legit. In 2009 they only paid their executive director somewhere near 9% of their annual revenue. 990 (new window) What a fundraising drive.
 
2011-12-03 02:38:43 AM
MoeSzyslak: Hey I have an idea. Instead of finding standup people who agree with our gripes and getting them to run for office on all levels so we can throw all our energy and support behind them let's just sit in public parks and shiat in buckets while biatching about our student loans. That'll show 'em!

/¡Viva la Revolución!


That'd be great, have you looked at the US electoral system recently? Let me know when you find standup people and a way to keep massive amounts of corporate money from crushing them using high dollar attack ads.

/Nice straw man by the way.
//5/10 on the trolling, you missed out on mentioning hippies, socialism, and a few other buzz words. More exclaimation points would've been nice as well.
 
2011-12-03 02:39:14 AM
Bathia_Mapes: Park damage caused by Occupy Portland - $85,000

Police overtime - $1,290,000

Bank bailouts - $7,700,000,000,000
 
2011-12-03 02:41:12 AM
47 is the new 42: I'll just leave these here even though it won't shut up the anti-Occupy people:

First Amendment, United States Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Article CVI, Massachusetts State Constitution

Article I of Part the First of the Constitution is hereby annulled and the following is adopted:-

All people are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed or national origin.

Part the First, Article VII, Massachusetts State Constitution:

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it.

Part the First, Article XIX, Massachusetts State Constitution:

The people have a right, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to assemble to consult upon the common good; give instructions to their representatives, and to request of the legislative body, by the way of addresses, petitions, or remonstrances, redress of the wrongs done them, and of the grievances they suffer. [See Amendments, Art. XLVIII, The Initiative, II, sec. 2.]

Amendments, Article XLVIII, The Initiiative, II, Section 2.

Excluded Matters. - No measure that relates to religion, religious practices or religious institutions; or to the appointment, qualification, tenure, removal, recall or compensation of judges; or to the reversal of a judicial decision; or to the powers, creation or abolition of courts; or the operation of which is restricted to a particular town, city or other political division or to particular districts or localities of the commonwealth; or that makes a specific appropriation of money from the treasury of the commonwealth, shall be proposed by an initiative petition; but if a law approved by the people is not repealed, the general court shall raise by taxation or otherwise and shall appropriate such money as may be necessary to carry such law into effect.

Neither the eighteenth amendment of the constitution, as approved and ratified to take effect on the first day of October in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor this provision for its protection, shall be the subject of an initiative amendment.

No proposition inconsistent with any one of the following rights of the individual, as at present declared in the declaration of rights, shall be the subject of an initiative or referendum petition: The right to receive compensation for private property appropriated to public use; the right of access to and protection in courts of justice; the right of trial by jury; protection from unreasonable search, unreasonable bail and the law martial; freedom of the press; freedom of speech; freedom of elections; and the right of peaceable assembly.

No part of the constitution specifically excluding any matter from the operation of the popular initiative and referendum shall be the subject of an initiative petition; nor shall this section be the subject of such a petition.

The limitations on the legislative power of the general court in the constitution shall extend to the legislative power of the people as exercised hereunder.


Nice list. You forgot the court order specifically preventing the Boston PD from seizing Occupier property though.
/Mostly just bookmarking this.
 
2011-12-03 02:42:05 AM
erveek: TFA: Winterized tents are also not allowed in the camp, but there's one in there.

Protesters are expected to freeze to death in an orderly manner.


Hey, if they aren't willing to freeze for their unspecified demands then maybe they better buy some long underwear manufactured by some evil profit-making corporation.
 
2011-12-03 02:44:28 AM
YELLOL: erveek: TFA: Winterized tents are also not allowed in the camp, but there's one in there.

Protesters are expected to freeze to death in an orderly manner.

Hey, if they aren't willing to freeze for their unspecified demands then maybe they better buy some long underwear manufactured by some evil profit-making corporation.
 
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