Jefferson Wagner, City of Malibu councilmember and former mayor stopped in for a look today. ”I’m proud to see my fellow Americans here today following through with their wishes to achieve change through peaceful protest and to see such diversity encamped here in front of City Hall. They’re working within the system, fairly and wisely.
“All levels of our society are represented here. And I came to represent the 1% who also accepts and embraces the efforts that I’ve witnessed here today. I’m not one of the one percent, but I was elected by a community that represents the one percent.”
An article from Huffington Post that is worth a look:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-forbes/occupy-wall-street-fear-v_b_1022943.html
Another poll just out, and an interesting excerpt:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/10/21/ap_gfk_poll_37_percent_of_public_back_protests/
“’They all have college educations, and some have advanced degrees, and they're unemployed?’ says Alice Dunlap, 63, a retired speech language pathologist from Alexandria, Va. She supports the protests because, she says, anger lingers at those who profited while the nation's economy tanked.
"’We all got ripped off by Wall Street, and we continue to be ripped off by Wall Street,’ she says. ‘You can look at my portfolio, if you like.’
“The poll found that most protest supporters do not blame Obama for the economic crisis. Sixty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush deserves ‘almost all’ or ‘a lot but not all’ of the blame. Just 15 percent say Obama deserves that much blame. Nearly six in 10 protest supporters blame Republicans in Congress for the nation's economic problems, and 21 percent blame congressional Democrats.”
And here’s an excerpt from O’Reilly who covered all the talking points from the right in an interview with Laura Ingraham:
INGRAHAM: “I really don't. I think -- I think there are elements, as you pointed out, in these protests. I was just out in L.A. and there are elements in the protests down there and ‘Occupy L.A.’ that clearly want to stoke something and something big.”
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2011/10/21/occupy-wall-street-really-about-anti-capitalism
Uh, yeah, we do. It’s called democracy.
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It is Direct Democracy
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
And it IS happening Here in LA.
Democracy
Submitted by skullnboner on
If you were walking down the street with your wife and were approached by 4 men wanting to rape her; then according to the Democratic concept, you have no legal rights attempting to protect her. Or put another way--two wolves deciding on dinner.
The Communist/Soviet Union was by definition a 'democracy' and even used the term, even tho it was a one-party collectivist state. America is suppose to be a Constitutional Republic, but has long been underminded so that no matter which party or candidate one votes in, it's a win-win for the real power-holders who control the major parties and policy over-all--The Fed. Reserve Corporate system.
Constitutional Republic--OWS-The Choice Ahead
Submitted by Seth Spinolla on
Beware and be warned it is coming-NY State Senators Say We've Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill to Fix That http://bit.ly/qpye5F
The answer to our problems is more individual freedom not less. They are killing this nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGup6FSTZO8&feature=youtu.be
Blog- http://www.newamerica-now.blogspot.com
Without free speech no search for the truth is possible, no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousandfold abuse of speech than denial. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Sorry--double posted
Submitted by Seth Spinolla on
Without free speech no search for the truth is possible, no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousandfold abuse of speech than denial. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
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