Peaceful is a relative term, and doesn't exist absolutely. There will away be some disorder, even under the most peaceful of conditions.
Consider Greece where politician are now being escorted by armed bodyguards whenever they are out in public. LOL Regards, LelandJ On 11/09/2011 02:23 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > Peaceful? Have you missed the rapes and vandalism? > > > ________________________________ > From: lelandj<[email protected]> > To: ProFox Email List<[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:32 PM > Subject: Re: [OT] why? > > I think "Occupy Wall Street" is a valid, peaceful, demonstration about > the current inequalities present in our system of sharing the USA GNP, > which the middle class so dearly contributed, and about the reckless > greed of Wall Street that has cost so many, so much, including their > homes, their college funds for the kids, their businesses, their > retirement security, their jobs, and for some, it has cost them > everything. Blaming the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators for the bad > economy only obscures the issue, and isn't helpful. > > I hope the USA economy never degenerate into situations similar to what > is happening in Greece and Italy. People trapped in those economies are > madder than hornets that have had their nest set afire. These Europeans > are angry mostly at their government that rack up debt beyond and hope > of being able to repay it, and the austerity measure being imposed on > them, even though the have no blame in it. I understand, completely, > their anger. > > Below is an excerpt that recently appeared in the New York Times. Click > on the link below for the entire article which give the facts of the > matter. LOL > > #------------------------------------------------ > Excerpt: > > Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, > but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know > what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators! > > Anyone who has tracked this issue over time knows what I mean. Whenever > growing income disparities threaten to come into focus, a reliable set > of defenders tries to bring back the blur. Think tanks put out reports > claiming that inequality isn’t really rising, or that it doesn’t matter. > Pundits try to put a more benign face on the phenomenon, claiming that > it’s not really the wealthy few versus the rest, it’s the educated > versus the less educated. > > So what you need to know is that all of these claims are basically > attempts to obscure the stark reality: We have a society in which money > is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which > that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy > in name only. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/opinion/oligarchy-american-style.html?_r=1&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1109-L22 > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/crsh4mz > > #------------------------------------------------- > > Regards, > > LelandJ > > > On 11/09/2011 12:21 PM, john harvey wrote: >> Might have something to do with the question being wrong. It's easier to >> believe the people at Occupy ? need to be out trying to occupy a job, >> instead of selling dope, raping ,etc. >> >> John >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Stephen Russell >> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:08 PM >> To: ProFox Email List >> Subject: [OT] why? >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N-Fo-GTBfOI/Trnxcnx8nLI/AAAAAAAABCc/wQsS >> U7XyG-w/s576/why.jpg> >> >> > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
