Occupy Wall Street live - Day of Action

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Originally Posted by Danzig

gimme a break. anyone who does anything overt isn't actually an occupy protester, even if they are part of the movement? i'd call that cherry picking.

It's not cherry picking to refuse to let you, or a newspaper, paint all protesters with the same broad brush.

There are violent groups of people trying to associate with the movement, and the violence is completely rejected by the Occupy folks. Same thing happened in NY, when a few violent protesters marching with Occupy broke windows. They have a problem in Washington with homeless drug addicts in the camp.

Same thing happened with the everywhere picture of the guy from OWS in New York, with the very bloody head? He was destroying police barricades, in front of the police, and the cops closed down Zuccotti, came in, took him down, and his head is bloody from hitting the curb when they took him down (that's all on video). So when people call him a "victim" of police violence - they are not really correct. He was trying to incite violence.

The Occupy movement supports no violence or illegal actions other than misdemeanor civil disobedience.

Oakland has trouble, there is a violent faction there. You can read - as it's all public - on the blogs and websites where the Occupy camps hang out, they've talked about what they did with cutting the fence, and they do not like what this splinter group has done (occupying private property). They've had trouble since Quan attacked them, with a group that is following the violent and a group that is still refusing to.