Forum Post: Thank You...Love, The 99%
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 1:33 a.m. EST by EdKearns
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Thank you, NYPD. Thank you for backing us into a corner. Thank you for forcing us to change our tactics. Thank you for militarizing our movement and disseminating the sentiment. Thank you for arresting journalists. Thank you for kicking us out of parks across the country so we can occupy your homes, markets and government.
Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg. Thank you for making us look good. Thank you for embodying the problem we’re protesting. Thank you for underestimating us. Thank you for validating what’s to come. Thank you for pulling us out of our sleeping bags and tents and onto the streets. Thank you for stepping up our game.
Thank you, America. Thank you for selling-out democracy. Thank you for lying to us. Thank you for taxation without representation. Thank you for wage slavery. Thank you for your failing Constitution. Thank you for waging war on our future, because that’s what this is. Thank you for the wake-up call. Now it’s time for yours.
One day you’ll thank us.
Love, The 99%
Its not that what we are standing for is a joke. I'm guessing its the way we go about conveying the message. we need to keep it peaceful and we need to co-operate with the law-enforcers especially when half of us are breaking the law by being violent and invading private properties and other factors. please don't take this as an offense but i see the way we are affecting those who still go about their day. roads blocked off and an unsafe environment. why not take those people to consideration as well? i love walking to lower Manhattan because its a place where i can think and listen to my iPod because i love the city atmosphere but now i go no where near there because of the violence caused by going against the law. please take us non-protesters into consideration as well. we do want to enjoy our holiday season as well. and in peace.
Hi guys i'm Andrea from Italy I totally agree with you and I hold her in a hug, hoping to take an active part when I'm in New York next summer thank you guys! First People not money!
LOVE this post
Everyone needs to read the declaration of independence again.
What we're debating are the tactics of the frontline. They're fighting in the interests of all of us. We no longer live in a democracy, the biggest stain on our flag since segregation (and the Montgomery Bus Boycott which launched the end of that injustice and also inconvenienced the masses in the interest of democratic dialogue). Now we need the 28th Amendment, Separation of Corporation and State. First, reclaim democracy. Then effect policy. The World is watching...
I'm seeing this as a building process too. Your thank you note is right on, i'd maybe add thanks to those standing on the balconies on Wall Street sipping champagne and giggling, but the next thank you letter will come after the petition for redress gets ignored.
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The NYPD are there to arrest people that break the law. You block the streets, that's breaking the law. You practice civil disobedience, that's breaking the law. When you break the law, you get arrested. You try to incite a riot or physically assault a police officer? You deserve to get your ass beat, and then you get arrested for breaking the law. Don't claim its peaceful protesting because I've seen the videos, and it's not. Notice how the people that marched on the bridge on the side did NOT get arrested? Because they weren't breaking the law.
You got kicked out of the park because it was becoming a health hazard. The area around you smelled like shit. People were getting raped, stabbed and hurt in your little domain. Your shit was all over the streets and your piss was too, deeming the area to be unsanitary. The small businesses around you suffered because people did not want to go into an unsanitary environment.
One day, you'll come back to reality.
Love, the logical 99%
Do you mind if I ask which videos and where they are?
They're pretty much all over YouTube if you go to the ones where they advertise someone getting beat up. Or lets go back to yesterday for an example.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/ows-protesters-chant-follow-those-kids-as-small-children-try-to-go-to-school-on-wall-street
Is that peaceful to you? Does yelling at school kids make the OWS protestors feel better?
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111118012307-occupy-nyc-04-horizontal-gallery.jpg
How about that, being "defiant" and lifting the barricades which ultimately lead to those protestors shoving back people that attempted to get to their jobsat the NYSE, which last time I checked in my book, shoving people isn't exactly peaceful.
you sound like a demented old bag lady ranting on a street corner
Well that demented old bag lady knows how to properly live in society then. Go cause more mass traffic if you think that helps your cause.
At Occupy Oakland, news camera's showed rivers of urine snaking down stream from the camps. Porta potty's had fecal matter piled feet above the toilet rims. I don't know how to pile human emissions that high. You'd have to stand on the toilet seat and squat, but even then, you couldn't hardly squat down, unless you wanted a butt hole full of someone elses debris.
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