Er… you’re the one that compared the OWS to the original Boston Tea Party.
By that logic then the Obama administration is comparable to the British government of the time.
Now, if the OWS protestors weren’t allowed to vote for their governmental representatives and were complaining about “No taxation without representation” then you’d have a point, but they are and they’re not so you don’t.
Nice try.
The thread of this argument goes like this:
Dragging in who is comparable to what, or who got to vote is just obfuscation.
Not Obama, the bankers who really are in control. That is who we protest.
“The bankers?”
Uh-huh.
Anyway, please give the cite for your specific claim of 22 jobs being created.
yep occupy wall Street is good for business.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2016551532_owsecurityfirms23.html Yes Occupy WS is creating lots of jobs. far beyond the 21lost claimed by Trumps renter.
I’m sorry but you must not have read the article you’re citing.
You claimed:
Nowhere in the article is there any reference to the pizzeria hiring 22 people.
Please produce a cite for the claim that pizzerias around Zuccotti Park have hired 22 people or we’ll have to conclude that you either misremembered the article or that you simply made up the figure and hoped you wouldn’t be called to produce proof of it.
I’m sure the former is the reason, so please just admit that you made a mistake. We all do.
No, that’s not free speech, that’s disturbing the peace. Free speech is a 2 way street, you can’t force others to listen to you.
Don’t go there and listen. So far you have not. You are whining over and over yet your peace has not been disturbed. If it actually happens to someone, they will be qualified to discuss it. They will actually know what they are talking about. You are making up transgressions to bitch about because you hate those who fight for their rights and a fair system.
I don’t know, personally, I find people like this guy not be fighting so much as whining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrPGoPFRUdc
Personally, I support people like this guy. Admittedly, the fact that he’s an immigrant with a rather thick accent like my father makes me identify with him a lot more than spoiled, stupid college students like the above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxaUgI0Ascw&feature=related
Please tell me though why I should find the moron college student more sympathetic than the Vietnamese fruit vendor who’s been rendered unemployed due the protesters(indirectly or directly depending on your point of view).
Also, I’ve asked you repeatedly to provide a cite for this claim
Please do.
Or are you going to admit that you either made a mistake because at this point every reasonable person would have to conclude that you either misremembered an article or that you just made up that fact to try and win an internet fight.
Why do you think I made a mistake?
As usual MAGIVER will thread anything that she thinks even faintly back her horribly slanted hatreds and biases. There are jobs being created and perhaps some lost. The occupations are dealing with much bigger issues,the few exploiting the poor and robbing the treasury.
Er… because I have a functioning brain.
You claimed.
When I asked you for a cite for this claim, you provided this link.
http://www.examiner.com/pop-culture-in-hartford/ocupy-wall-street-profitable-for-nyc-pizza-shop-200-pizzas-a-day
Of course, there is not a single mention of anyone being hired.
Sorry, but there are only two possible explanations. Either you made a mistake or you lied.
Now, once more, please provide a cite showing that 22 people have been hired by the pizzerias surrounding Zuccotti park or come clean and admit that you made a fool of yourself.
So if someone doesn’t want to listen to me, I am not permitted to speak?
Really? Why would you state it like it was fact? Even the article “asks the question” and lays out some shaky information.
A couple of things, it could be true and sanctioned totally inappropriate.
It could be true and just a few rogue police officers doing it, which imo is more likely than being policy. He/She can see a homeless guy begging, the cop says move along, if you’re hungry go to the park. Still wrong but I see it as just as likely for smart asses from every walk of life telling the homeless this.
And on to the false, They are just covering themselves since so many seem to be sexual predators. * <<Auto start video on top of page, sorry 
Either way I don’t find it convincing or widespread. If it ends up being official policy I will eat crow and hope to see some firings.
*That link comment is off the wall and full of assumption, just like your link comment. 
“It really is a brilliant, if supremely scummy, move by NYPD if true. Much has been made of the protest’s embodied nature: They say the micro-community in Zuccotti Park is supposed to represent some ideal version of society where everyone has a say, and the pizza is free. How can they turn away the least-savory of the 99% without basically becoming The Man they’ve spent the last few weeks protesting? The homelessness issue could be Occupy Wall Street’s Animal Farm moment.”
If true, it is brilliant - but why “scummy”? Testing the “occupiers”'s principles is “scummy”?
You think that is what motivated the police to herd drunks and homeless guys to the park? Police don’t give a shit about principles. They want to overwhelm the protesters and make life as difficult as possible.
Er…you’re making assumptions that your cite doesn’t support.
The writer for the Daily News speculates that the police may be doing this and says a few of the drunks have told him that, but it’s hardly a sure thing.
You shouldn’t present certain things as fact when it’s not clear they are.
It doesn’t inspire confidence in your analysis or understanding of the situation.
But based on the available evidence, it is more likely than not.
Free speech has nothing to do with occupying public land or disturbing the peace. Nobody is trying to stop these people from speaking. They can turn blue from the exercise and not only does nobody care but we as a society encourage even the stupidest practice of our most valuable right.
Look at something as simple as an election season. People meet at houses and meeting halls, go door to door, send emails, make phone calls, chat on the internet, get permits for open air rallys… What they don’t do is take up residence in public places.