Forum Post: Free-Loaders
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 6, 2011, 2:46 p.m. EST by danicrashed
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I just arrived back from the Wallstreet protests today.
I went down there to make a difference, and instead was met with a few small groups who do want to make a difference, and a lot of men and women who told me they were there because they get more than 3 meals a day. When asked how they felt about the Occupy movement, they told me things such as 'stealth bombers' and 'ufos' would be nice ways to make a change.
I was so disappointed with this.
We need more of us out there who do want to actually make a change, and weed out the ones who are there with no opinion whatsoever, but are living off of those making a difference.
Having these free-loaders living off of the wallstreet protesters is making us who do go down to make change have a different mindset on if this is actually the right way TO make a difference or not, because there seemed to me more of them than actual protesting going on.
Any thoughts?
What do you expect, this is society at its best. (smirk)
If you are still confused as to what this movement is about, I stumbled upon this documentary. And i have to say it is the most "to the point" documentary i've seen so far that explains everything in a way that anybody can understand what's going on.
The title is "the end of poverty", it links the economic and social infrastructure that's been set in place since colonial times until now to the poverty and wars we see today. It shows what this 1% is doing to the world in a global scale. What I've been trying to get across is that people are not seeing/understanding the full picture. You have too see everything as the whole world, not just localizing it as a movement in the U.S. It's a global movement/reformation.
All the people on the streets marching right now, whether they know it or not, they are marching for the world as one. The reasons as to why there are so many ideas on change and not just one unified idea when you ask any one of the protesters, it's because of an accumulation of everything wrong in the world. They represent all. That is why many people are confused as to what these protesters are marching for, the "what" is the system we live in.
Please watch this video, it is free on Hulu. Just click on the link. It will clarify things about the world we live in.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/151119/the-end-of-poverty
What did you expect? The way I see it this whole OWS was an impulsive move which left the door open for those who want free meals. Any time you have something like this in a city environment this is what you can expect.
Nowadays it seems if you "protest" via the internet you tend to have more success anyway.