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Originally Posted by Failed
I'm not sure why you're linking Obama and the OWS movement, they have nothing to do with one another.
I've seen you in post after post trying to define what the OWS movement is, who the people are, and why the whole thing is bad. I think what you fail to realize is that these are individuals protesting, from all walks of life, for many different reasons. This is not one unit with a single mind and single agenda as the media, and you, try to spin it.
Why are you afraid or against people protesting, being Americans?
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I have no problem at all with protest, and there has been a conversation going on about this one for weeks. I went down to the one here in Miami, and talked to people, I have gleened as many viewpoints as I can in order to find out what the prevailing message is, and I have a problem with the fact that the protest is going after the wrong people. The point of a protest, is to get people to pay attention to an issue and debate it's merits. Ok, so here I am debating. All the people I talked to down here at the occupy miami rally wanted the government, particularly this administration, to stay in power and take over more and more of how the voluntary interactions between people (i.e. business), is done, and they wanted THIS administration to do it for them.
The reason why this is a republic, and not a pure democracy, is to prevent people from voting away the rights of a minority, (no matter how that is defined). The fact that this movement wants the government to interfere and grow it's power on every level of human interaction is quite scary to me. Totalitarianism grows from such movements.
That's my personal viewpoint, and debates of our views is what protests are supposed to encourage.
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