really? not seeing unions over here. Possibly true where you are though I dunno. Over here the problem is black bloc and/or instigators. I am not defending occupy atlanta for the same reason -- occupy politics more than most is local
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:20 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > "The Occupy Atlanta group is a joke compared to the ones near Wall > Street." > > > > I'd say that they are all a joke now. The occupy movement started as a > > nice grass roots effort and has been compromised now, particularly by the > > unions. It seems to be the American way. > > > > That's really unfortunate, actually. No matter what you thought of the > original, grassroots message of the early occupy movement, they should have > been allowed to voice their message of protest in a...."pure" manner, for > lack of a better term. > > Any large scale movement in America is bound to be compromised...and it's > message inevitably lost. It sucks because grassroots activism is a > cornerstone of our American freedoms. These days, while we still have that > freedom, it's doomed to fail before it even starts...so what's the point? > > I'm sure there are a lot of decent, idealistic people within Occupy who are > just as disgusted with what's become of their movement as the rest of us. > Same can probably be said of some Tea Party folks. It sucks, but I don't > know what can be done about it. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351172 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
