This is why the OWS will only grow from here...

Did they leave because of victory? Or?

If they truly represented the 99% of 350,000,000 Americans, you'd see more than the tiny handful that have shown up.

yeah the rest of us are working lol

greater than 1% of the worlds population is allergic to that stuff and they are going to end up killing someone. Those people have a right to protest and these actions seek to take that right away.

Someone is going to die from that stuff and this whole protest things is going to change.

From a few days ago:



Peace and Love,

ADG

10,000 protesters is what % of 350,000,000 again?
That's not even .01% of NYC.

It's supposed to impress you.

I was impressed by that number, The gate for the Las Vegas event totaled $3.9 million.

math wasn't your strong subject was it

As soon as I saw Joan Baez joining to OWS lazy freaks I realized that this movement is nothing, only another useless '68 parody. Let's wait when TV won't send its reporters there and they'll loose visibility.

It's not about protecting anyone. They are police officers. They were called to a dispute. The students, much to their surprise, discovered that is in fact not "their school" and they do not have the right to pitch tents any place they please. The school said no, they disobeyed, and because there was a small group of them the police were called. The children refused to listen to the school, refused to listen to police, and broke a number of laws.

You'll see things vastly differently when you have kids. You won't want to visit the local park because the high school kids hang out in packs smoking, or your pissed off because after an hour of trying to get your six year old to sleep the silence was shattered and woke you kid up again.

Our city union was striking at the town meeting, yelling obscenities - not thinking this was a city park, and that my kid and a few hundred other kids from our league was practicing football. Sounds like no big deal until you discover that your on the league and you get flooded with dozens phone calls from pissed off parents. They have the right to protest, they do not have the right to yell obscenities at a park in front of my kids.

We had another problem where one of our football games ran late - very late - and was in violation of the noise ordinance. One of the neighbors (who is most likely pissed at themselves for buying a house next to a high school) called the police, and we were shut down.

These things sound trivial and minor, but they are laws, and they exist for a reason.

When the school administration tells you not to camp out on the campus quad, guess what - Your not camping out. And if you don't obey the school, the police get called and you get removed.

No, not at all. The police went to this group of kids and told them they were going to be arrested. Instead of standing up and putting their hands behind their backs, they remained seated with their arms locked. The police at that point had two options - Either pepper spray them, or physically separate them with their night sticks. I'm guessing being physically separated by force by men with night sticks is a lot more painful.

Your trying to make this out to be police brutality. It's not. Police brutality is when they beat you over the head with night sticks - not when they try to peacefully arrested someone who is resisting arrest.


You don't get pepper sprayed when you get pulled over - Unless there is a huge incident and you resist arrest.

I got pulled over in 2004 for a full felony stop. Long story, but I pulled away from a marked cop at a high rate of speed. Other than speeding, I had done nothing wrong but the cops thought I was running. A full felony stop meant me laying on the pavement with a cop's knee in my back while they cuffed me wasn't exactly fun, but I sort got what I deserved. And clearly it would have been a lot worse if I resisted arrested.

This is what protesters do. They bait the cops into arresting them, resist arrest, and make the cops look bad. Our grandparents did it for civil rights, and our parents did it for Vietnam. The cops don't give a shit one way or another. The cops were called to a dispute, college kids who failed to obey the rules of the school.