Protesters Storm, Occupy Hart Senate Office Building

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Looks like #OccupyWallStreet is morphing into #OccupySenate first and #OccupyCongress soon. Next up: #OccupyWhiteHouse? From a reader: "Here is a live feed to Occupy DC which has stormed the Hart Senate Office Building in D.C. – there are several dozen protestors chanting, arrests being made, and a flag that was hung upside down (sign of distress)."

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Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:53 | 1761109 GeneMarchbanks
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Coked to the gills, must be daytraders.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:00 | 1761141 andybev01
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More likely adrenaline.

It's quite a rush thinking that you may get shot.

BTW: can't anyone make a freaking 'cam' that can live stream without making everything look like it's made out of Legos?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:03 | 1761168 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Occupy EVERYTHING

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:05 | 1761178 Smithovsky
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We are witnessing the birth of American Spring

#OccupyAmerica

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:08 | 1761196 cossack55
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Occupy Germany. Oh, wait, we've been doing that since 45'.  Fortunately it did not cost anything.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:21 | 1761234 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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We, or they? 

Let's occupy them, the power hungry New World Order's Military Industrial Complex that perpetrated their Fiat Ponzi upon our society, and then free ourselves of their weight, their bondage, their chains.

Occupy EVERYTHING

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:52 | 1761445 Zetetic
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Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:05 | 1761522 GetZeeGold
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At least they.....at least they.

Figured out......figured out.

The right place to protest.....the right place to protest.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:22 | 1761606 viv_savage
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Awesome!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:33 | 1761651 wanklord
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Google National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD 51), because Martial Law is coming pretty soon – and most Americans do not have a single clue what this means.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:40 | 1761690 reader2010
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They will draft them all, and send them to fight China.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/6232631865_79f03784ed_z.jpg

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:10 | 1762042 Ident 7777 economy
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+ 1 fixed bayonets and all that ...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:16 | 1762871 nmewn
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Clearly, something futile had to be done by someone.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 02:57 | 1764680 Mauibrad
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This is bogus, fake protest.  These OWS fuckers don't know how to protest.  Soros' training wasn't good enough.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:33 | 1762148 The Heart
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Yes brother,

Sadly, you have hit the nail on the head. Please see more in the reply below.

A quick question to interject is, what does a poor innocent bystander do?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:23 | 1761607 slewie the pi-rat
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upon googling "hart office building occupied" slewie learned that it was first occupied in 1982

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:10 | 1762049 Ident 7777 economy
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Shouldn't that be "Hartpence"?

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:39 | 1761914 Jena
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Following the Willie Sutton principle... they are taking it to where the real crooks are.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:54 | 1761446 Zetetic
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Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:14 | 1761817 Abitdodgie
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Nothing is going to change until America picks up it's guns and starts shooting cops (who should be tried for treason)then and only then will the Government give a shit about what you have to say.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:34 | 1762151 The Heart
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Yeah, just what they want you all to do.

There are a few documents that tell the story of the present and future to come that the elitist reptile-like scumbags have blatantly put out for all to see.

Agenda 21. How many of you know what that is? How many of you have read the un's own documents describing this evil agenda of the dark side? There has been great efforts to wipe this information off the net, but if you look hard you can find plenty of info still. The radiation poisoning and world contamination is part of the population kill-off because it is easier to take a dead man‘s land than a live one.:

http://www.green-agenda.com/agenda21.html

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If you have not read this document, you really need to so you can plainly SEE the agenda in this blueprint at work, and what is still to come. More murder for power and the kill-off agenda. Do not listen to the nay-sayers or detractors that will attack this document as being false. READ IT FOR YOURSELF from beginning to end and twice if you have to and then comment please.:

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.ht

Think about it, when was the last time a govt capitulated to the real LEGITIMATE demands of the people? When was the last time this empire-corporation called the USA-govt has capitulated to the demands of any group of people? May have been close during the Vietnam war, but have we seen anything like that since? Still waiting for those days to come and according to the Protocols, they will be perpetuated and propagated so the evil empire can take control of what once was a country of free people using the force they have ready to roll out. We may be seeing the beginnings of that now in this OWS thing. Have you ever studied what they call non-lethal weapons?

Just a few of the hundreds they have:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16710_6-non-lethal-weapons-thatll-make-yo...

From this link:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/non-lethal.htm

“Political, diplomatic and economic demands dictate that future operations, where possible, minimize U.S. casualties while limiting collateral civilian casualties and collateral damage to civilian objects. Crowd control in conducting peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance missions is as likely a task for the Army as is destroying enemy armor and infantry forces in war.”

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:37 | 1762170 RSloane
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Oh yah, sure. You go ahead, we'll watch and see how that turns out for you.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:23 | 1761255 MillionDollarBonus_
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This is the beginning of the PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION. The people rightdully DEMAND that our government do the following to restore peace and liberty to America:

1. Do away with nasty free market wages and let the government determine ALL wages so that people earn a FAIR wage for the work they do

2. Introduce price controls on all consumer goods so that Americans are not forced to pay unfair prices set by GREEDY corporations

3. Introduce a jobs bill that employs ALL unemployed Americans un useful and productive occupations, giving them the jobs they deserve

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:23 | 1761280 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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You should have picked the alias, "Punching Bag".

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:28 | 1761303 Smithovsky
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He gets off on pushing your buttons, probably jerks off to it, and all of you are playing into his hand (excuse the pun).

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:37 | 1761359 Dumpster Fire
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It's lunchtime dude how about a little common courtesy?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:47 | 1761408 Smithovsky
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Where are my manners - bon appetit

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:29 | 1761294 hambone
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MDB - you are far too moderate...we need go much further:

1- 25% import tariffs on all imports immediately and 25% more every year thereafter

2- tariffs waved for importers if min. 20% of corporations jobs / production are in aMerica (and increasing targets every year thereafter)

3- tax free...nah, tax credits, for all corporations moving production to aMerican soil

4- Rename aMerica ---> FORTRESS AMERICA, FUCK YEAH

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:54 | 1761746 Rick Masters
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So seeking to employ Americans is bad? I get your sarcasm and I raise you a noose. FU. Your free-market BS, and I am no leftist, has become a religion and you're blinded by it. US-based businesses should be just like the chinese--seek to employ, people in their own country. FU again. The fact that this is even debated this is even being being dbated sickenzs me.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:10 | 1761802 ReadySteadyGo
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You have fallen for the bullshit that what we've had is free-market, so your comparison is flawed.  The invisible hand slaps you.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:13 | 1761565 mfoste1
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you are a communist

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:32 | 1761647 pupton
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Do we really know who these "protesters" are or what they want yet, really?  Obama backed the rebels (protesters) in Egypt and Lybia and we still don't know if the outcome will be better than what existed before.  Check out some of their wierd behavior, as reported by Alex Jones/Infowars:

http://www.infowars.com/occupy-agitators-sabotage-first-amendment/

I'm all for "End the Fed", sound money, individual liberty, etc. and Ron Paul.  That is why these fuckers scare me.  These are collectivist NWO types it seems...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:18 | 1761843 Rick Masters
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They probably are leftists but there seems to be no evidence they are NWO types. Whatever the eff that means. I believe their main cause is pretty simple: bankers created and proftited from this crisis and no one has been held accountable and yet the common man is suffering immensely. But in regards to the Alex Jones crap, there's this from the article: The whole point of this experience is to eliminate the individual mind and train everyone to think, and say, and do exactly what they are told to do by a “leaderless leader” who is really a mind control manipulator.

WTF is a leaderless leader who seems not to exist yet is mindcontrolling the protesters. Huh? And IDK about Egypt but I think almost anything is better than Gaddafi. Unless it becomes an Islamic state. But that's really not our biz anyway our only biz should eb finding those shoulder-fired missiles. But it seems that the comments section on this site is on the decline i terms of good posts on the economy.

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:18 | 1761844 Rick Masters
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They probably are leftists but there seems to be no evidence they are NWO types. Whatever the eff that means. I believe their main cause is pretty simple: bankers created and proftited from this crisis and no one has been held accountable and yet the common man is suffering immensely. But in regards to the Alex Jones crap, there's this from the article: The whole point of this experience is to eliminate the individual mind and train everyone to think, and say, and do exactly what they are told to do by a “leaderless leader” who is really a mind control manipulator.

WTF is a leaderless leader who seems not to exist yet is mindcontrolling the protesters. Huh? And IDK about Egypt but I think almost anything is better than Gaddafi. Unless it becomes an Islamic state. But that's really not our biz anyway our only biz should eb finding those shoulder-fired missiles. But it seems that the comments section on this site is on the decline i terms of good posts on the economy.

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:47 | 1761711 ReadySteadyGo
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Gave you a solid green, and I'm shocked as hell that more people don't get your sarcasm.  Wow.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:59 | 1761765 DeadFinks
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Gotta love the MDB posts.  Just think the opposite of what you read!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:21 | 1761217 tickhound
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For those of you who miss Erin Burnett, she's "Seriously" defending Wall Street again.

If she's not careful, her new set on CNN is about to be OCCUPIED.

"Seriously" clip disses protests

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurmcCbOX7o

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:45 | 1761394 Idiocracy
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Erin, you pathetic teeny bopper.  Go back to the sorority house and / or junior league club house from whence you came.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:50 | 1761425 knukles
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Oh come on now, Erin's gotta be good for "something"

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:00 | 1761502 kaiserhoff
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I could find a use for her;)

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:06 | 1761529 richard in norway
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she looks like a blow up doll

 

just saying

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:16 | 1761834 ReadySteadyGo
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Hell, I'd take seconds.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:12 | 1761225 LFMayor
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yeah, cause it's gonna work even better than that egyptian one!!!1111!!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:07 | 1761192 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Occupy EVERYTHING

 

But what if I have to poop? I hope someone will shit or get off the pot.

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:09 | 1761203 SilverDosed
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Then occupy a bathroom somewhere.

#OccupyAmericasshitters

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:17 | 1761247 CrockettAlmanac.com
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What if someone else has to poop?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:28 | 1761304 fuu
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Charge rent?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:30 | 1761641 XitSam
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That's capitalist.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:00 | 1761769 fuu
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Damn.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:12 | 1761810 A Nanny Moose
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Shitter's full!!!

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 16:09 | 1762385 DoChenRollingBearing
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And if someone from a Tea Party rally would have done that?  Just saying...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:04 | 1761518 byteshredder
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Q: But what if I have to poop? I hope someone will shit or get off the pot.

 

A: #OccupyWithPolPot

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:13 | 1761815 A Nanny Moose
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Would that require a PolPot to piss in?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:36 | 1761350 dirtbagger
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"...something is happening here, but you don't know what it is do you, Mr Jones?"

Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:25 | 1761284 JayParamedic
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White stripes video anyone?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:08 | 1762024 Ident 7777 economy
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BTW: can't anyone make a freaking 'cam' that can live stream without making everything look like it's made out of Legos?

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iPhone 6.0 per Jobs (RIP Steve) and AAPL marketing five-year plan ...

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:55 | 1761115 Cassandra Syndrome
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Now we're talking, bitchez

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:29 | 1761216 Bob
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"We don't believe in the Democrats . . . Obama represents the 1%, the Corporatocracy."

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:55 | 1761116 jimijon
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Occupy the IRS. Then abolish it too.... if we can print 13 Trillion to Banks and non US entities, then what is the IRS for? Fear?

In fact.. no income tax on labor... rentier taxes, consumption takes, tariffs.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:16 | 1761176 vast-dom
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IRS and taxes are just another instrument to maintain more at subvert the status quo. Remeber the 2nd Amendment is theoretically an insurance against taxation w/out representation; which is what we are suffering through today.

 

The greatest fear of gov and wall st. is if the protestors exercised their 2nd Amendment Rights and showed up to The Wall and gov buildings armed! 

Privy to these illegal banking and gov $kaMs, our Founding Fathers would be personally protesting with their muskets TODAY and escorting Bernank et. al to the firing squad or noose.

 

Put to you in Country Simple terms.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:19 | 1761257 Oh regional Indian
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Not really Vast, it's been a huge lie for a long time. Those founding fathers? Hah! haaaaaah!

Eurocrats, working for their euromasters. Hardy patriots or founders, really.

Ben franklin, worth reading up. JQA too. 

it's been a long lie, tiring to keep digging and finding new shit. Deeper shit.

ORI

Truth about America

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:26 | 1761276 vast-dom
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How about framing it as such: the actual Constitution, as document/text, is, relative to the bs going down today, a most rightous insurance policy. 

 

You can certainly pervert any historical biography and/or event. But if you honor the spirit of the Constitution, then you can shove all the revisionist theories, legit or not, up your arse. Okay Poonjab?

 

=The Truth about NOT being a FUCKTARD=

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:40 | 1761370 karzai_luver
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if the spirit had been respected then the current fascist gvt would not have been.

 

thus if those who tell others to honor the spirit will not abide the rules they say they honor , but only in spirit then fuck you bitch.

 

Better to be a fuctard than a crying useless  two faced hypocrite.

 

You "spirit in the sky"  freaks are useless. Just die already and get your spirit rewards.

 

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:45 | 1761379 vast-dom
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Precisely why these protests are VAILD. Son. RIGHTEOUS.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:11 | 1761531 vast-dom
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My above is unassailable, unless of course your low IQ is threatened and/or your shit for brains have short-circuited. Cheers.

 

PS Poonjabi cleary your bacteria infected masala and drinking water has given your feeble mind the runs. Even more reason to protest and support any and every doc/text that ensures some semblance of survival in the face of oppression. Unless of course your dirt poor diseased lands provide the dellusion of safety in that which you are so used to; namely, shit.

 

Hope you drink Cocla-Cola too, after they've destroyed local drinking water supplies. That's voting with your hard-earned cashish -- the only true vote left.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:33 | 1761652 Vergeltung
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I'm with ya.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:08 | 1761948 Dr. Acula
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>the actual Constitution... a most rightous insurance policy. 

It's a document signed by people who died centuries ago.

You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it.
(Padelford Fay & Co. v The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Savannah 14 Georgia 438, 520)

It hardly applies to the States in practice; for example, they are ostensibly required to accept only gold and silver as legal tender (Article 1 Section 10).

Look at Article 1 Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ... To borrow money on the credit of the United States". It is inherently immoral to commit robbery - to collect "taxes" or "protection money" using threats of violence. It is immoral to borrow money and issue "bonds" (slave futures) while using unwilling third parties and the unborn as collateral. The Constitution contains the germ of immorality. Sooner or later it's bound to bloom into something repugnant.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:29 | 1761307 Abiotic Oil
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Even Ghandi said one of the most heinous crimes the British committed was the disarmament of the Indian people.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:56 | 1761469 Oh regional Indian
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It's Gandhi, and he was as bad the "founding fathers". Patsy. 

And vast dom above, less said the better.

ORI

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 13:59 | 1761766 buyingsterling
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What a load of crap. I don't care if Ben Franklin was King George's little brother. These men produced the Constitution, the most brilliant document in history. They didn't live to see how it was bent or twisted, or they'd have been more explicit in many regards, but a lack of foresight is not evidence of ill intent.

 

If you 're right, there's probably no hope for humankind, all governmental systems are evil. But the anarchist dream is nullified by the existence of nuclear weapons in many hands. Those that hold the the nukes are the government.

The founders showed that even in this chaotic age, sane government and sane money are still possible because they made it work before. If their system had failed utterly we'd have little of hope to point to. Pointing to any other system as a potential salvation is madness, nothing protects property and liberty as well.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:40 | 1761873 Dr. Acula
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>Pointing to any other system as a potential salvation is madness, nothing protects property and liberty as well.

You don't depend on a bureaucracy to provide you with cheeseburgers. You choose a well-known provider - McDonalds or Burger King, for example. Or you choose a local restaurant. Or you have your neighbor make a cheeseburger for you. Or you make your own cheeseburger. Or you choose not to eat a cheeseburger at all.

Security and arbitration services are like any other economic goods and services. So, why is it you think you need a bureaucracy to provide you with security and arbitration services, but you don't insist on this when it comes to cheeseburgers?

Is it possible that competing entrepeneurial providers of security and arbitration services could outperform monopolistic, bureaucratic providers?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:47 | 1762193 vast-dom
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Hey Doc I don't use my monies to support garbage like McD's Burger King Coca-Cola and the likes. Similarly, I don't rely on my gov't for jackshit; quite the opposite really. 

 

But if you are myopic enough to not understand the implications of the above and the means by which to bend it all back to an approximation of justice, then what else can be said in this here forum?

 

PS by the same token that justice is implicit in government policy, a moral tax for the preservation of the just state is a legitimate demand; as opposed to the perversions of justice more at criminal enterprises, as exercised more at executed by today's global political parties, Bernank, Wall St. et. al. How we define fairness and such is the reason we are in this mess. I hear chanting outisde my window here on the UES! The zombie holocaust may have just begun.............

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:43 | 1761390 wombats
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+1776

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:57 | 1761476 johnQpublic
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+1861-1865

 

consider for a moment, what was then a righteous uprising of the southern states against exactly what happens to be wrong right now

slavery aside of course, which was just a rallying talking point for the north

states rights, and smaller govt, evil central bank, taxing of the south to support cities in the north

take care that the OWS 'revolution' does not end in the same rotten course as last time

aany revolution type activity we go through will be far more akin to the civil war than the revolution

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:32 | 1761896 Rick Masters
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Slavery was a rallying point? The whole was about slavery. The compromise of 1820 and 1840. The mason-dixon-line. the civil war was faought and the south rebeled because lincoln said that slavery would not be allowed in the frontier lands of what is now the west and south west. no new states could have slaves. for slavery to perservere as an economic model it had to grow. if it didnt it and the southern way of life would die. thats why it was fought. there were many important events leading up to it and a lot of compromises, this is when reason i view compromise with a jaded view in politics, but it is being changed by our current hardly facist gov't (oh, and neither was the last one). if obmaba is a facist so is bush. and vice versa.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 15:25 | 1762098 Rick Masters
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if you gave my comment a negative, you need to head to the library and pick up any history book, even one written by jefferson davis, cause everything thing i said is a fact. its not an opinion. its not a view of history. its what happened.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 05:59 | 1764814 richard in norway
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why did the slave state delaware side with the union

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:06 | 1761186 whstlblwr
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Occupy Federal Reserve. This recent move to march billionaire home is distraction. Stupid. Occupy Wall Street need to split up, there are some there fans of Obama who want more bailout?? then stay at park, the other more savvy, who against bailout, against reward of failure, against taking taxpayer money to support failure, against Federal Reserve printing money that cause inflation, march to Federal Reserve.

Tea Party you lost our support when you decide to be against movement. It's not just the Unions at protest, you can come with Tea Party voice. But instead 35% of Tea Party now say they support Herman Cain. LOL!!!!

This is man you support. Man with direct oversight to push employees in failing stock. He's crook.

"Cain served on the board of directors throughout Aquila's ill-fated trading misadventure and the subsequent collapse of the company's retirement fund. In fact, he chaired the board's compensation committee, which, according to the lawsuit, had direct oversight of the push to get employees to invest more and more in Aquila stock. As chair of the compensation committee, Cain also saw fit to dole out $30 million in bonuses, not including stock options, to the top five execs at Aquila in 2002, with the company's stock plummeting. A month after the Kansas City Star reported on the hefty bonuses in July 2002, the company laid off 500 employees, and the losses to employees holding company stock had reached hundreds of millions of dollars.

The spectacular failure of Aquila's trading venture practically wiped out the hard-earned retirement savings of veteran employees. Richard Itteilag, a plaintiff in the Aquila class action, lost 87 percent of his savings. Robert Goodson, a 20-year Aquila employee, lost 75 percent. Michael Reinhardt lost a staggering 94 percent. All told, thousands of employees saw their retirement funds eviscerated thanks to Aquila's Enron-esque activities. (In 2007, Aquila settled with the employees for $10.5 million. Not long after, Aquila merged with other Midwestern energy companies and now no longer operates as Aquila.)

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:48 | 1761410 sschu
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Occupy Federal Reserve. 

I was in WA DC a couple weeks ago on a family vaca and we walked by the Federal reserve a couple times.  There were two armed guards in front with automatic weapons (could get close enough to see what they were).  The place had an odd, kind of eerie feel, very stark and empty.  

I wonder why they do not try and OFR, maybe they know what would happen if they tried.

sschu

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:53 | 1761961 Rick Masters
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Thanks for the info on Cain. Can't believe this isn't being rpeorted. wait. scratch that. i would be shocked if they did report it. i used to be a journalist. was laid off two months ago. i've been one since  i graduated in 2004. and the media and the ones who thrive in it have no morals. have no sense of right and wrong. its sickening evironment and i need a new career. it takes so much out of you if you have any sense of duty. it ruined my marriage.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:00 | 1761768 Raging Debate
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Ya. Cain's platform plank is 'your all jealous shedup' is kind of strange even for a Banana Republic.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:55 | 1761118 real
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the occupiers are heroes.   but im sure on this site most will criticize and go blah blah blah.  get out of your fucking houses and do something.  it seems so many 40, 50 and 60 year olds are just so damn scared to do anything but sit in there houses and hide.  
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:58 | 1761131 i love cholas
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Maybe you should take your own advice and get off of your computer and DO SOMETHING

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:02 | 1761160 New_Meat
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I'm sure that the local community college has e.g. remedial spelling and other advanced courses. - Ned

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:43 | 1761388 Abiotic Oil
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"This is the 'shift' key.  It can be used to capitalize a letter for grammatical correctness, such as at the beginning of a sentence.  This cues the reader that a new sentence has begun and aids in comprehension."

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:55 | 1761976 Rick Masters
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Periods are also great for letting people know sentences have ended. comments hardly need to grammatically correct. they just need to be readable.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:44 | 1761389 karzai_luver
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Yeah, maybe he can get a course in how to be a twit and blow bankers.

seems you got a gold star.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:56 | 1761980 Rick Masters
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+100 thanks for the laugh!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:27 | 1761884 Abitdodgie
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Here is something you can all do without leaving the confinds of your house STOP PAYING TAXES.that is unless you just yellow in which case go live in another country because revolution is comming

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