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Obama Heckled For Allowing Police Brutality Against Protesters
OCCUPY WALL STREET DISLIKES THE MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATIC
Republican Parties
The mainstream Democratic party is trying to co-opt Occupy Wall Street, and the Democratic party machinery is trying to turn OWS into a Democratic fundraising campaign. And see this.
But the Occupy supporters dislike Obama and the mainstream Democratic party, just as they dislike the mainstream Republican party. See this, this, this and this.
Indeed, OWS protesters in New Hampshire just heckled Obama for turning a blind eye while thousands of peaceful protesters have been arrested - and hundreds have been attacked with batons, pepper sprayed or otherwise brutally suppressed - for exercising their constitutional rights:
As I noted last month:
Everyone’s trying to cash in on the courage and conviction of the Wall Street protesters.
People are trying to associate Occupy Wall Street with their pet projects, in the same way that advertisers try to associate the goodwill of the Super Bowl, NBA playoffs, World Series or Olympics with their product.
But I hear from OWS organizers that the protesters come from totally diverse political affiliations. Many protesters support Ron Paul, many like Obama, others are for other parties or candidates or don’t vote at all.
The protesters themselves are having none of it, tweeting today:
We don’t want to be the democratic tea party or liberal tea party. We want to be our own movement separate of any political affiliation.
[A]nother tweet from the protesters:
We don’t represent liberal interests nor are we the liberal tea party. We represent the interest of the 99%
MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS - WHILE PRETENDING THEY SUPPORT IT – HATE EVERYTHING OWS STANDS FOR
And Obama and the mainstream Democrats - while pretending they support the Occupy protesters - are working against everything they stand for.
The Democratic politicos backing OWS are funded by Wall Street.
As I noted last month:
Obama is pretending that he supports the 99%.
But Obama has raised more from Wall Street than anyone else. He is bought and paid for.
Mr. Obama has appointed the very Wall Street insiders who helped cause the financial crisis to top posts. See this, this, this and this.
He thinks that high unemployment is a good thing.
Obama – just like the other pimps in D.C. – has institutionalized fraud as an official (if unspoken) party platform.
Americans want our liberties restored, our troops brought home, and the Fed reined in. But Obama has implemented plans for war throughout the Middle East crafted by the Neoconservatives a decade (or more) ago, and gotten us into 7 (oops …8) wars, attacked our liberties even more than Bush and allowed the Fed to dramatically expand its powers.
Americans didn’t want bailouts, but Obama helped to facilitate trillions in direct and hidden bailouts.
Obama doesn’t support the 99%. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
As Yves Smith notes:
A saying I learned in Caracas: “A politician is someone who gets in front of a mob and tries to call it a parade.”
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Forget what you’ve been taught … the mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans are virtually identical on all core matters. Don’t fall for the old divide-and-conquer trick.
Note: Democratic congressman Deutch just introduced a bill called the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, which would remove money from campaigns and specify - as the Founding Fathers intended - that corporations aren't people. While I haven't yet analyzed the bill, this seems like a great piece of legislation. As such, the mainstream Democrats - and their Wall Street backers - will fight it tooth and nail.
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Amazing! Truly! The mendacity is beyond! The reason he ran for office? Give the man some kind of acting award more at nobel bullshit prize of the year.
Obie should get out more often....
Dream on, Dems, you will not succeed in co-opting OWS. Many of the people who are part of it gained their proper cynical view of a corrupt, unrepresentative government when they voted for a "hope and change" candidate who asked them to have faith and believe who then turned out to be just as bought as every previous prez. OWS people realize that both major parties are bought. That's their primary, underlying issue with the entire political process/system.
im pretty certain OWS has already been co-opted... i can name only a few times in the last 2 months that i heard pro-capitalism speak. everything i hear is always some form of socialism that they want instituted. a living wage? maximum incomes? ive seriously heard this stuff being touted by some of their "OWS bloggers" that are supposed to "represent OWS". as soon as the dem's/obama administration makes OWS feel like they won.. OWS will fold. i could be wrong.
I think OWS learned (at least a bit) from the now totally defunct and co-opted Tea Party
Fortunately there are an Infinite amount of Monikers people can assembe under, ie. they can't Co-Opt the whole dictionary :)
Az:
"... from the now totally defunct and co-opted Tea Party."
A proposition with no evidence and no rationale.
't'aint about names.
- Ned
{and a reddie on ya.}
none of the political parties in the U.S. represent the interests of the people. they are both controlled by corporate special interests. Most of the candidates are light-weights, at best... put in place to make the common man feel like they live in some sort of representative democracy. pure illusion for the sheeple.
And above the corporations? The banks, the Fed and the Owners.
It's the OWSers against the Owners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l37RhdFGVsM
two wings on the same shit bird
none of the political parties in the U.S. represent the interests of the people
that is because there is no organization, person, thing, or object that CAN represent all of the people. I thought most people knew this simple truth or is there a world far far away where unicorns and rainbows.......
You are wrong. There are certain principles that represent everyone and the main value is Liberty. Without freedom and a free society there is nothing.
"Give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry
Or if you prefer a more Hollywood verion "Freedom!" - William Wallace Braveheart
"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." -Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C)
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." -John Adams (1735-1826)
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -Thomas Jefferson (1791)
"Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it." -John Calhoun (1782-1850)
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." -Lord Acton (1834-1902)
"History teaches us that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure."
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1989)
"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld - 2004
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant." The Court recognized the power of the government to detain enemy combatants, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial judge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it." -Learned hand, jurist
"So this is how Democracy dies -- to thunderous applause!" -- Senator Amidala, "Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith"
Allow me to restate the proposition for you, boom.
". . . none of the political parties in the U.S. represent the interests of ANY of the people . . ."
Clear enough?