Forum Post: The time to declare victory and go home is now!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 11, 2011, 12:33 a.m. EST by thomasmiller
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The occupation of land is a very powerful statement, right up there with hostage taking. There comes a point where it becomes counter-productive and it should be obvious that OWS is pretty much at that point now. Soldiers occupying a foreign land through the depths of winter will resent the generals that "demand" they remain at the outposts. They just want to go home. Hostage takers in time must grow weary too. These actions aren't supposed to last forever, they are designed to affect change.
OWS is a "shot across the bow", a warning shot. A ship that sits firing repeated warning shots loses credibility. The crew will mutiny. Remaining in the camp/occupy mode is destined to fail, which would be a failure of epic proportions considering how successful the action has been.
OWS needs to take the bull by the horns, and quickly. (today would have been ideal 11/11/11 for symbolism) NYC needs to Declare the Occupation over. It needs to explain to it's supporters why it's the right thing to do. It needs to explain that this is not the end, it's the beginning. Imagine the shock waves around the world, respect +1 and the collective sigh of relief for the 99% It's the 1% that isn't going to like the sounds of this...
Totally agree. The point has been made. The way things are deteriorating within the movement, I think these occupations are doing more harm than good. It's time to pack up, go home, and let the real work of reform begin. I think if this happened, the movement will gain a lot more support from the average person. I don't think Ma and Pa Middle America can relate to what's happening in the streets, and the more they hear of assaults (sexual and otherwise), thefts, vandalism, disease within the occupations... people see this and they don't agree that occupying any number of places is the solution. What the occupations have done is begun the conversation about how to bring about real and lasting change to this country and the wider world, and that's important. There isn't any reason why these ideas can't be communicated in any other way than sleeping in tents in the middle of Winter. It doesn't make sense to me, and to be honest, I've gone from supporting the movement in the beginning but now have my doubts as to how far the occupations can actually go and effect any real change.
As more and more negative things happen then it will relate right back on the Occupy movement. At first, Occupy was a bunch of young students. Now its Lord of the Flies.
Oh wise one! Please, keep leading us to the truth one post at a time.
you forgot: Victory is to the #occcupy movement, but this is not the time to go "home". Now it's time to get to work. It's time to pound the pavement announcing the coming National General Assembly July 4th, 2012 in Philadelphia and what the significance of that is. Finally, the occupiers need to help clean up and demand that the cities deploy resources to assist the homeless. In solidarity,Fare well, OWS
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I agree. You made your point, now you should go thomasmiller. By occupying the forum as a troll, you give an bad example to protesters. They copy you because the worship you.
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