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Forum Post: Great article from the Guardian

Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 26, 2011, 9:51 a.m. EST by Vooter (441)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

6 Comments

[-] 1 points by Nevada1 (5843) 12 years ago

Hi Vooter, Thank you for good link. Freedom being destroyed ever day. Best Regards, Nevada

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[-] 1 points by bobby4 (26) 12 years ago

A must read for all ows members!

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[-] 1 points by vincentg (5) 12 years ago

Vooter--That was a great ARTICLE- excerpt: The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."

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[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 12 years ago

That's an editorial blog, not an article. And it has some obvious problems. His premise is that the agenda of the Occupy movement, with it's three clear points, is threatening to the establishment. But is there really a clear, three-point Occupy agenda? Does that part of the blog ring true?

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[-] 1 points by Vooter (441) 12 years ago

I understand what it is--I was simply using the term "article" generically because I'm not a pedantic idiot. And the author (a "she," by the way) never says that OWS has a "clear, three-point agenda"--she merely says that she did an informal survey and that these three points were mentioned most often. Don't worry--no one's going to take away your precious view that OWS is "just a bunch of complainers who want things for free." LOL...you and Bill O'Reilly can still cling to that if you want....

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[-] 1 points by MrMiller (128) from Sandy, UT 12 years ago

People may want to have things for free, I'm not going to say they don't, but I think that they are mostly frustrated that we have so much on Earth and yet we can't figure out how to use it because of a broken system. I still walk outside and see simplicity, yet on my computer and on tv, I hear all this nonsense about numbers and somehow, I just long for something more simplistic. If you get a lot of people on here just advocating for free stuff or something, I think what they're really trying to do is theorize for how the world should be much more simplistic, yet shooting too far. Think about it this way. We have a shit ton of houses in the US. Eventually, these houses will be vacated due to death and simply passed down as an inheritance. To the younger generations, things might effectively be free, provided the older generation is able to pay off those houses. We have the houses. They're already built and aren't going away. Soon, we'll just have to live in them without actually having to build them in the first place, effectively making the fruits of the older generation practically free, just like electricity from the investment of a damn. Do you see where I'm going with this? People just want things to be simpler and they're waking up and rejecting the abstract notion of economics based off numbers and such.

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