Forum Post: Don't Stay! It's a Trap!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 8:06 p.m. EST by xtraa
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Let them clean up the park, then come back!! They expect you to stay. That is what they want. DONT STAY! Don't give them an argument! Think of Sun Tzu!
Why would you leave if you truly support the goals of OWS? Staying is a way to make your voice heard, show your resolve, and prove that what OWS stands for is more important than a bit of jail time. If civil rights leaders had decided to avoid action that would result in jail time, where would we be now?
Think of Sun Tzu?
You know, that kind of hyperbole is one of the increasing number of things making this movement seem, well, stupid.
In think a lot of people, myself certainly among them, was very excited at first by the prospect of what seemed to be a non-partisan (or 'trans-partisan' or 'post-partisan', what have you) movement representing a broad cross section of Americans outraged at many things, but primarily the grotesquely disproportionate concentration of wealth in the top 1% - not because it's bad to be rich - but because under the current system such wealth results in radically disproportionate political influence. They were bailed out, we were sold out.
But it increasingly seems that this is a movement composed primarily of kids and aging academic fanatics with delusions of revolution.
You're about to lose me and tons of people like me.
See http://occupywallst.org/forum/eviction-friday-morning-7-am/
They actually don't want us to stay. If we do stay, it might be harder to get us to leave.
Also see here for a poll on whether or not we should stay: http://www.themultitude.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&p=128#p128
Ah the game of chicken.
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