Forum Post: My Message to the Occupiers
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 2:32 p.m. EST by realchange
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Dear Occupiers,
Here you stand, sit or sleep for a movement designed to bring change to America. My question is what took you so long to make a point. I am NOT referring to the first three weeks of occupation spent forming a message or the help from your stand-in handlers from the Democrat party, Labor Unions and Media to form that point, but I am talking about what took you so long to realize a point was needed to be made?
As far back as early 2009 people were protesting the conditions of the American condition. Where were you?
When we were protesting the Federal Reserve and its support for a failed banking system, where were you?
When we were protesting a tax policy that was unfair, contained loop-holes, supported corporate cronyism, where were you?
When we protested a government that was in bed with big business, where were you?
When we protested the evil of debt on our nation, where were you?
When we were protesting the government control and regulation stifling jobs and opportunity, where were you?
I stood on the National Mall in Washington D.C. for these causes, but I didn’t see you. Who are we? The Tea Party.
Why did you not lend your support to the Tea Party?
The only thing I see that is different is the solutions. The Tea Party wishes to work within the law of the land, the constitution and the political process to make America better and the Occupiers want immediate conversion to either socialism or communism and the prosecution of bankers without due process of law.
Who do you wish to stand with?
I stand with the Tea Party.
-BA
I have no intention of standing with the Koch Brothers, their oil and gas corporate interest, their "Americans for Prosperity" and "FreedomWorks" political shells.
What you did, we should have been out there doing. But the causes you did it for? No.
Amen.
I stand for a constitutional government. Perhaps OWS emerged spontaneously and so late because we saw what happened to the Tea Party when it was adopted by bought-out Republicans.
The Tea Party had promise when it first began. It has since been co-opted by the religious right and funded by the Koch brothers billionaires that have spent millions of their money convincing people to vote against their own interests. Not to mention that the Tea Party movement is just downright meanspirited and negative.
The Tea Party had promise when it first began. It has since been co-opted by the religious right and funded by the Koch brothers billionaires that have spent millions of their money convincing people to vote against their own interests. Not to mention that the Tea Party movement is just downright meanspirited and negative.
Although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
if you want to support a Presidential Candidate – myself – at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Also, please explain to me your definition of Socialism, and why the hell it's so wrong? Tea Partyers seem to love to use Socialism as a slander, but I wonder if half of them even realize what it truly is (by the BOOK) .
Why did I not send my love to the Tea Party?
Koch, Ignorance, and a loud-mouth woman named Palin.
You're clearly more concerned about some sense of political warfare than the actual interest of the country. If you really cared, you would be ecstatic that all these people are finally voicing their opinion, rather than getting butt-hurt that they didn't pick "your team".
We weren't there with you because much of your agenda is racist and bought and paid for by Big Business and Corporate Masters. Really, who are you trying to kid, anyway? Enjoy standing, and while you're at it, try to learn to communicate without resorting to throwing "isms" around or spewing somebody else's talking points. That kind of crap gets old real fast.
Because the Tea Party got taken over by the 1%ers (Koch Brothers) and the corporations.
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street have many of the same demands, but you know what? -- People don't listen to jerks. Many, not all, but many of the early Tea Party folks I knew made violent threats, passed around racist cartoons of Obama, and clinged to social conservative views. Who wants to listen to a bunch of old, white people who support discrimination and stink of moral superiority because they read The Bible? Having been down at Wall Street nearly ten days in a row now, I have met and listened to some of the most loving, smartest, diverse, socially progressive, passionate people I have ever met. The Tea Party claims it wants to "take our country back", but the Occupy Wall Street people just might actually do that through a message of community acceptance and not trying to be divisive, like you are trying to be now. xxo
"When you have nothing to fight for, you'll find something to fight against." - The Tea Party.
I've never heard a single good idea from the Tea Party. I'm not liberal or conservative either. The Tea Party just seems like a bunch of pissed off people with little knowledge of the economy and no direction. They are just trying to leach off of OWS like the Dems.
OWS is a bunch of hoo loos who have no direction. Whatever they wanna do is what their "ideals" are. Fighting a corporation is so dumb. This is a business. This is not a humans rights organization. Is this so hard to understand?? I am fearful of this movement because I have recently heard it is turning violent. They say they are using the Arab Spring as their momentum, UM hello do they look over there to see how many people have died. This is just a mob of jackasses who have nothing better to do that challenge the status quo. I have no heard one solution, only we do not like this. Well Sorry folks this is a capitalistic democratic economy. If you dont like then GET OUT!
I agree, I have not heard a good solution either. People are just pissed off and expressing the anger. But we need a good solution. Anger can only destroy. Didn't you all watch Star Wars? I do like OWS more than the Tea Party though...
The Tea Party wants to open the flood gates of corporate corruption up even further and primarily seems to oppose taxes in general along with a phantom socialist threat it perceives to be coming from any political entity that is not singularly espousing the inherent virtue and infallibility of "the market."
Its a corporatist front, which through beginning as an organic movement to protest what are actually some of the lowest individual tax rates in modern history, was quickly and willingly coopted by corporate interests to serve a partisan corporate agenda.