Forum Post: Occupy DSM sets up tents outside Obama's Des Moines campaign office
Posted 13 years ago on Dec. 17, 2011, 9:15 p.m. EST by stoothman
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from Des Moines, IA
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When Obama's campaign staff locked the doors and abandoned their Des Moines campaign office, Occupy DSM (Des Moines, IA) set up tents outside the front doors. They say they will stay until they are removed or Obama finally starts to address the concerns of the 99%. The action today was staged in solidarity with Des Moines Veterans for Peace and was targeting military spending.
This statement has been released by the people occupying:
President Obama has proven again and again he is not concerned about the 99%. Just this week there are three examples of that.
He has agreed that instead of a millionaires tax, he will support an extension of the payroll tax holiday by taking Pell Grants away from 100,000 students.
He has agreed not to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which is the single greatest attack on civil liberties since the internment with out trial or due process of Japanese-Americans during World War 2.
After thousands of people finally won the battle against the Keystone Pipeline, he has agreed that he will not veto the Omnibus spending bill which backdoors that project back to life.
Where is the Hope and Change you promised on the campaign trail, when you said you would oppose things like indefinite detentions. Right now you look like just another charlatan politician trying to sell the patent medicine of the 1%. Trying to convince the 99% that the patent medicine of supply side economics and trickle down economics will work. It is time for you to either step down as President or step up and start working for the people, the 99%.
I voted for Obama. I believed in the Change that he promised. But, every time I think he's going to keep his word, he buckles and gives the 1% exactly what they want. He's no different than the rest of them.
You just spoke very eloquently for TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans!
Maybe he got in office and read some reports and talked to some spys that changed his mind. This isn't checkers.
Most likely will come back after the holiday, when the legislature returns -
failure to sign this bill would have shut down the government, meaning lots of people without paychecks going into the holiday.
there are two pieces of this bill that you are pointing at
they were produced, as far as I know, by McCain and Levin - they should be fired
What this seems to do is to create a new category of prisoner, something other than criminal, or prisoner of war. I'm not afraid, and I've been saying things like this
I would point out that McCain is a repelican, and I've heard, not confirmed, that he is head of the International Repelican Institute, one of a few financiers behind Otpor SourceWatch - Otpor and Wiki on Otpor
You are proving the repelican policy of dividing the electorate actually works very well. How? By failing to understand how each of these pieces of legislation actually work, and what their intent is, and how repelicans engage in brinkmanship to pass bills specifically to divide us.
I oppose the Keystone Pipeline. I do not believe this is the end of the issue, repelicans are attempting to make it appear as if it is.
I do support this movement. I do. I also support:
ending bush era tax breaks on the one percent.
I oppose those two pieces of the NDAA which create a third class of detainee. So, apparently does the head of the FBI.
I oppose the Keystone pipeline.
Finally, I support the President - not a popular position, I realize. In some very real ways the Presidents hands have been tied with these legislative measures - you have to get at the representatives who crafted them.
They are clever bastards.
Cast your vote as you will - you know where I stand.
I recommend a review of this Forum Post:
and the links it contains.
You all whine about President Obama but how many of you stayed home and let the GOP win the House this past election. It's hard for him to get what he wants for the 99% with a GOP-controlled house. The Democrats will let the GOP run them over all the time unless you give them the numbers they need in Congress.
As one of the 99%, I wish I could be there with you. The NDAA will be seen in the future as the LAST STRAW which broke the back of tyranny in America. This is a weapon which clueless politicians have aimed at their own heads. It will bring them down when enough Americans finally realize what is being done to them. Does anyone understand BOHICA? When enough Americans figure this out, our Day of Freedom will be near.
WHO are the real ANARCHISTS in today's America, the Patriots of OWS or the Suit-and-Tie Mafia that has covertly taken over the country?
Isn't it "kinda ironic" that all over this troll-infested forum, OWS haters are accusing the Movement of being "just a bunch of ANARCHISTS"?
Actually, America and a great many other pseudo-democracies, are NOT the law-and-order countries that they claim to be, but are basically GLORIFIED ANARCHIES where "MIGHT TRUMPS RIGHT".
Isn't that why Wall Street got away with clearly immoral AND illegal practices that plunged the country - and the world - into a catastrophic crisis?
And isn't that why Congress has just decided to basically scrap our "Bill of Rights" and "Magna Carta" protections dating back to 1215?
WHO is currently governing this country, if not a mafia of SUIT-AND-TIE ANARCHISTS? "OBAMA IS SURROUNDED BY MAFIA!" recently exclaimed spiritual teacher and physician Deepak Chopra.
As Chris Hedges pointed out a few months ago, the Great Patriots of OWS are actually fighting to uphold the Constitution and "restore the rule of Law". They are, in a word, the POLAR OPPOSITE of the suit-and-tie anarchists who have staged a covert and gradual COUP D'ETAT against our democracy.
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Typical TROLL talk!!!!
To understand WHAT MAKES A TROLL TICK - AND have a chuckle while you're at it - go to:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/how-trolls-think-trollosophy-exposed/
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How very D R O L L
Hey TIOUAISE - it is me again. Just stopping by to congratulate you on perfecting the copy and past routine on your computer. Nice job all over the forums. You must be proud.
You AGAIN indeed! :o)
NOTE TO OUR READERS: To understand WHAT MAKES A TROLL TICK - AND have a chuckle while you're at it - go to:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/how-trolls-think-trollosophy-exposed/
Hey TIOUAISE - IMMMMMMMMMMMMM back. Sorry to ruin your day - I am sure that you would like me to disappear into the sunset but it is early morning here and so you will have to wait for awhile.
I just had to come back this morning to read more of the brainwashed posting herein. It is really fantastic what a few years of education can do to a person. Please excuse me if I am making an assumption here about education. Today you stand there naked as a jaybird and devoid of any absolutes in your life - that is great for you, but here are your greatest examples of what you really are:
TIOUAISE - It is not my purpose in life to put others down, but there are times when the two-faced demands of people have to be outed to the world for what they are. Welcome to my world.
Have a great day - happy TROLLING!
TIOUAISE, thanks for the wishes.
Where I come from, trolling, has a very different meaning that how you apply it. You see I cannot go trolling because I do not have a license. You may think that you gave me permission, but that just does not carry any weight around these parts. Besides, I much prefer to know what I am going to have for dinner and really don't want to take a chance on trolling for it.
Thanks, you too.
Final Update:
Sorry for the delay.
Yesterday, after camping out for two days in front of Obama's abandoned campaign office, a decision was made to escalate the direct action. The campers picked up everything and moved to the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters, where the Obama staff had retreated to. They got inside the building and occupied it for about three hours until they were removed by police. Eight people were arrested by the police. They were cited and released soon after their arrests. The objective of getting the message out about NDAA, Pell Grants, and the Keystone XL pipeline was mostly successful.
You know, the instant gratification some of you seek just isn't going to happen especially when the environment that Obama inherited is what it is, so unconducive to change. I am an independent but I voted for Obama. If nothing better is in place by November, I will again. Politics is not my area of expertise and I defer to the more knowledgable people on here to explain. But I have been enlightened on this forum about some people I knew little about, such as Elizabeth Warren, Russ Feingold, Bernie Sanders, some other serious sane-sounding people who I would vote for if the opportunity presented. But you can’t convince me to throw away a vote in 2012 unless a viable alternative is IN place, with a decent chance to win. I do think OWS is creating that environment where it could realistically happen. Meantime, I’ve read many comments all over the internet about OWS and countless posts in this forum that should make it glaringly obvious that some form of representation is direly needed here. Understand, a lot of people out there are clueless that there are some brilliant minds among you. The media certainly isn’t going to show them, they’re far more interested in showing butt cracks and such. Right now to a lot of people, you look like 99% chaos. So maybe that’s the nature of the beast. Maybe this is all OWS WANTS to be. IF you have raised national awareness, if you have at least helped create an environment where change can really begin, then you’ve done a LOT. Keep on keeping on. A leaderless movement is working if that’s all you want to accomplish in OWS. But an outgrowth of this, I would hope there will be a third, even fourth party to break the ridiculous stalemate of the 2-party system. And I like what has been said by some on here, to work within the upcoming primaries, start making other changes right now as a bridge to get you where you want to go. The end result of such actions is never going to suit everybody on here, never going to please the 99%, 100%. Ultimately, representation will require some compromise that all can live with. We are NOT going to end up with a country RUN by anarchy, yes I meant to say it that way, and probably not by Libertarians and I hope and pray every night not by Republicans. The brightest and the best among you are looking for something truly effective and workable down the road. They need to come forward and be heard, and other places besides this forum. Sorry for the long post.
Well put. We need a President that believes in something greater than himself...this country and its future.
You don't think Obama does that.
I did at first, but that faith has dwindled into obscurity in the midst of his poor decision-making and disrespect for the rights of the American citizen.
What are you talking about, he is our first black President. Buck up, are you a Dem or Rep because he needs to win to keep those Republicans out of office. This is real business, not a party.
It is real business, that's why need someone that understands the Constitution as President. I don't follow party lines and I don't think we'll be seeing any salvation from a 2012 candidate. I'm just hoping enough people are waking up in this country to put a stop to the theft of their money and trampling of their rights.
please ignore Jflynn64 lest you feed the trolls. i have been watching the user Jflynn64, no debate or valid conversation comes from this user.
Thanks. I think the comment below exemplifies that.
Get out of the way, Obama is putting us back to work. Grow up, theft happens.
You don't seem to understand what Obama cares about, here it is by the numbers
1- Pell vs payroll tax - working people tend to vote, students not so much
2- NDAA - Obama has to look tough on terror for the voters
3- Keystone - the unions have more voters then the environmentalists
... and next term he'll be more concerned with what lobbying firm he going to land a job at after he's finished.... by that I mean finished a fine career in doing whatever he's told and reading whatever appears on the teleprompter.
The presidential salary needs to be cut to zero, you know it costs nothing to use a simulated voice on a computer... and computer animation has come a long way since the 1990s. Human presidents are obsolete.
He's a politician, he's only concerned with getting reelected. You don't have the votes or political organization to help or hurt him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-3hZsXrxaI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkRFCtl2MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SQqjTxI3vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
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If you going to setup camp there then wear your shoes. That is the area that Obummer and Mooooooochelle toss da chicken bones
That was uncalled for.