PatsFanInVa

About 400 arrested in Wall Street protest - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com

Just thought I'd throw out a live grenade for our usual slugfest, while I am keeping my selfish hands off the smaht thread, so people can be smaht without me acting all I'm-in-charge.

patsfan13

Yeah the protest against capitalism haven't been as large as the orgainzers had hoped so they are trying to get a little attention.


The socialist party has a live webcam from the site of the 'revolution'.

Socialist Party USA


International ANSWER is whining about their 'occupation' being ignored:

ANSWER Coalition

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Ilikehappyppl

Its sad they are getting arrested, its even more sad the police are using mace and other tactics on them, they are Americans after all....

Its a true sign of our liberty, when we can protest, its a great thing. What they are protesting I agree with, Wall Street is a bunch of crooks and were given welfare at the expense of tax payers, they should all be ashamed of themselves! With that said, I hope more march and I hope more decide to stand up to the rich and powerful, they are the root cause of most America's problems.

When has a Bank/Wall Street ever bailed out a underwater home owner?
When has a Bank/Wall Street every bailed out a underwater farmer?
When has a Bank/Wall Street given anything?

Why should we have bailed them out? When they don't give a damn about anyone but themselves? Fack them they can go straight to hell!

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patsfan13

We shouldn't have bailed out Wall St, theses folks never got a permit for their protest as required. So they were arrested blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge all they were doing was making it hard regular folks to go about their business on a weekend, Wall St is closed on the weekend. BTW they wanted to provoke the police since their protest nonsense had pretty much been a failure.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Real World

Nothing wrong with protesting corporate greed. Those scum sucking wall street losers should have been left to eat each others young a few years ago, when the gubmit bailed them out with taxpayer coin. **** them.

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DarrylS

Wall Street Greed typifies all that is wrong with the American Economy, they continue to amass wealth and the rest of us just get along... they are supposed to be creating more job opportunities due to the tax breaks they received, and all they are creating is more wealth.

This will slow down when the weather gets colder.. but may be a harbinger of things to come.

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DarrylS

The so called libertarian, wants more government control over events such as this...

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patsfan13

NYC is run by the dem party, those are their rules. The rules are in place so the citizens of a crowded city can conduct their business. People get permits for all sorts of events without problems.

If you wanted to hold a parade do you think you would need a permit?

Would getting a permit prevent you from exercising your rights?

Of course not silly.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

sdaniels7114

I'm at a loss to understand how the NYPD can justify macing those girls in the face.

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PatsFanInVa

Unfortunately, where we say they should have been made to "eat their young"... "their young" is us, in this analogy.

I don't like that our economy evolved in that direction; indeed, I (and others) have our ideas of how we came to that point. However, I do in fact buy the argument that the bailout did much more good than harm, except in this:

It reaffirmed the principle that the government would, even in the absence of any legislation to this effect, guarantee the worst bad bets of the financial sector (or by extension, other markets.)

We have not since that time stepped back from this stance of unlimited guarantees; nor have we thoroughly enough legislated Wall Street's responsibility for mutual co-insurance.

When it was last argued (mutual co-insurance among financial actors,) the chief argument was that it would "make bailouts permanent." This is the most asinine and disingenuous simplification. Banks would be forced to insure each other, rather than making us insure them.

The good thing is that the act passed. The bad thing is that it amounts to a $50 billion mutual insurance fund, which is hardly enough to guarantee the various species of speculative bets and hedging instruments the pool is meant to neutralize.

But this is a side-track. Not only the continuing threat of speculation-based economic collapse, but also the daily and continuing miserliness of the big banks in general really do need addressing. Of course, if I'm a big bank, I make less money by never extending to borrowers the largess that we, the borrowing masses, had to extend to them -- at the point of a gun, in essence.

Well, the gubmit made us bail them out, "for our own good." I have no problems with the earlier poster's complaint that they should return the favor... and I have no problem with the gubmit making them do it.

Go nuts, 13!

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