Extending the Payroll Tax Cut

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

The "Occupy" movement is just the beginning, these folks are expressing their dissatisfaction with things but from dissatisfaction eventually comes the seeds of revolution, this country like most was founded on the blood of patriots, it is naive to think bloodshed is a thing of the past. As Grace Slick once famously sang on TV (getting by the network censors)..."up against the wall mother f-ers"

So far the violence has mainly been perpetrated by plutocrats via the police, against the protesters, trying to stop the movement.

“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world" - Michael Bloomberg, speaking of the NYC police department, at an MIT speech, November 29, 2011.

Who do the police serve and protect, Mr. Billionaire? You? Or the citizens of New York?

The court cases are starting to be heard, regarding the infringement on free speech rights, and violence on the part of the police, and Occupy is doing very well so far.

I wonder what the public would say, if, back when protesters were wearing guns in public and calling for the tree of liberty to be watered with the blood of patriots in health care town halls, they were pepper sprayed and prevented from demonstrating.

[dellinger63]

FYI Occupy Chicago is dead. Less than 50 people there last Saturday afternoon. More people were watching the Michael Jackson street performer dancing on a box.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

FYI Occupy Chicago is dead. Less than 50 people there last Saturday afternoon. More people were watching the Michael Jackson street performer dancing on a box.

Occupy, Tea Party...they will all disappear soon. Fringe acts..mostly narcissists looking for attention who bring their points to the public, engage a few politicians and disappear. Everyone wants to feel important and they just take their act a bit further...because they either can financially or they are unemployed. Come on..what regular working Joe with a family is just going to sit in a park for 3 months?

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GBBob

Occupy, Tea Party...they will all disappear soon. Fringe acts..mostly narcissists looking for attention who bring their points to the public, engage a few politicians and disappear. Everyone wants to feel important and they just take their act a bit further...because they either can financially or they are unemployed. Come on..what regular working Joe with a family is just going to sit in a park for 3 months?

There are only daytime occupiers and they are near Michigan and Congress, between the Indians on horseback statues on weekends. They actually looked like a bunch of lost students and a couple social science professors, on a field trip, from an all white college. A bit surreal among the huge crowds (tens of thousands) out shopping.

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

FYI Occupy Chicago is dead. Less than 50 people there last Saturday afternoon. More people were watching the Michael Jackson street performer dancing on a box.

LOL - FYI Occupy Chicago is huge and spreading, and very active. No, they do not physically occupy the parks any more. The attention of the world has been garnered - not necessary at this point. I'm sorry you mistakenly think that's all Occupy is.

Here's Occupy Chicago's page, so you can attend the General Assemblies and other actions, Dell Looks like they have plenty scheduled over the next few months http://occupychi.org/