100 Arrested at Occupy Boston Protest; 1 Arrest in Chicago

It is time for tanks to roll, rubber bullets to be fired, and tear gas. Clean out these nests of anti-American vipers before they pollute our cities more than they have with this nonsense.

NY City is going to cut their budget $2 bil. “Protesters” have already cost the city $1.2 mil just in police overtime. How much is it going to cost to clean the place? These folks may actually get a little more sympathy if they pitched their tents at the source of most of our problems..PA Ave. We have SolyndraGate, running guns to the Mexican drug cartels, EPA costing millions in stupid regs (next month we get to see if their proposal to regulate farm dust is approved…that’s correct..regulating farm dust), etc, and we are supposed to be worried about Wall St (who, by the way, contributed far more money in 2008 to OB and the Dems than they did to anyone else).

maryandbob…Pray that this never happens. If it did, I can assure you that whatever your comfort level may now be will be severely rocked. These are NOT anti-Americans, they are as American as you are, maybe even more so. These people are protesting the abuse, obscene greed, and destruction of millions of American lives. Every increase, every fee and charge by banks, insurance companies, and corporations that ship job overseas are some of the reasons why they protest. The average American salary has been stagnent for over 10 years, while CEOs, and the rich have seen their income increase 5 fold. That is obscene and cannot stand in a free society. Hope to high hell that tanks don’t roll or that protesters are not fired upon. That will not only end the existence of Wall Street and banks as we know it, but will end the existence of America as we know it too. That includes YOUR way of life. Tanks and Bullets have never solved a single problem against it’s people, but in fact caused the demise of those in charge of “tanks and bullets”. See history lessons and learn.

Seems to me the people proclaiming suddenly that protesting should not be allowed are the anti American ones. Evidently protesting is only allowed if it’s on a topic they agree with. How fascist. Republicans bore me with the repeating of the right wing talking points. They never fail to lap it up immediately.

MARYANDBOBFL, SALTY, AND GUNNER_1959 you guys have it down pat. It amazes me that every fox news watcher, with a career flipping burgers is dead set againt taxing the rich. Are they in line for a big golden parachute. I am a Korean war vet and every war since then has been promoted by a series of lies and deciet. America’s rulers wanted to rule the world as long as the burger flippers and the rest of the 99% paid for it. That is and will be changed.

Seems to me the people proclaiming suddenly that protesting should not be allowed are the anti American ones. Evidently protesting is only allowed if it’s on a topic they agree with. How fascist. Republicans bore me with the repeating of the right wing talking points. They never fail to lap it up immediately.

Posted by: Secondlook
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Man, are YOU misinformed!

NOBODY is against protesting and speaking their minds. These protesters were only arrested because they violated the law as they protested. The members of the Tea Party did not get arrested because they did not violate the law.

YOUR party went as far as to blame the Tea Party for the shooting of Gabriell Giffords because they spoke their minds at a protest. According to your party, whenever Republicans are allowed to speak there is a shooting. Whenever YOU are allowed to speak there is peace. Just who is the facist, Secondlook?

It’s called mass non-violent civil disobedience and it means sit your butt down and don’t resist arrest. Protest in a civilized manner and none of these windbaggers (oops I mean Tea Partiers) would have a beef.

Yo, Ivan!

They violated the law because our government finds ways around the first amendment. We have the right to assemble but only where, when and hbow we are told? I say not and so do most of US. The court system is out of reach, the political process is out of reach…… Well? When your back is against the wall and you have no other option other than a unified voice, thiis is what happens. It’s called real democracy and it’s something you right wingers are so afraid of that you black out the media to hide it.

They better not show up in my driveway to exercise their constitutional rights.

Posted by: newcountryman | October 11, 2011, 9:45 am +++++Amen to that brother..

Bob, are you kidding?!!? Ron Paul has attempted to abolish/audit the private and unconstitutional Federal Reserve for 30 years!! Why has congress (both democrats and republicans) repeatedly voted against these bills?? The answer lies in campaign contributions….they get to keep what they don’t spend and the banks love to contribute to both parties!! Both Obama and McCain received millions from Wall Street banks and both voted for the illegal banker bailout! Are you that clueless?? Both Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul have attacked The Federal Reserve. And since Bernie is not running, our only hope is for the man who has never wavered in over 30 years…the man who has always voted against the illegal wars and who has been steadfast in his effort to educate the brainwashed American public about the evil private Federal Reserve. I respect your support of Bernie Sanders as I think he along with Paul and Kucinich are the few that are not owned by the banks and transnational corporations. If you like Bernie Sanders, you should be supporting Paul. If you’re not, then you’re as brainwashed by the mainstream media as the idiots supporting Perry, Romney, Gingrich, Cain, Bachman, Santorum, or Huntsman. Do some research, Bob!!

ALLEN – Go back to that blog you got that off of. He got called out over posting a photo that was not of the OWS. I’d imagine the photo of the homeless looking drunk up against a police car is fake as well.

what a buch of hippy communist losers. Things aren’t right in this country but it is because of obama and his policies. vote republican to get a job.

BCC-yeah, that really worked during the years starting in 2008 when we were hemorrhaging jobs at a rate of 500,000 a month and your illustrious leader, as an afterthought, said in a news conference on his way out the door, “Oh, by the way, we’re in a recession” after denying it for almost a year. No biggie. No skin off his nose, he just left it for someone else to clean up since he was no fan of McCains either.

As a person who has never voted in my life and have no desire to vote….Why? This gives me the ability to look at both sides. Something none of you can claim to do. You need to look at the big picture. Today, everything is caught on camera…..Comments are caught forever on the web. Don’t let your actions on the street and on the web hurt your chance of getting your next job.

“Those posting anti-Republican or anti-Democrat comments need to see through the false left-right paradigm. “*** As a progressive Independent, I long ago abandoned party loyalty. But there is, imo, an even more insidious paradigm being promoted currently; the “all of them are crooks/no difference between the two” meme.

Yes, there is some degree of corruption on both sides; it has become systemic due to the influence of MONEY in our system. Both parties have long refused to enact meaningful campaign finance reform, and NOW, the Right-leaning Supreme Court has declared corporations PEOPLE and money SPEECH and removed all limits on their influence in our elections (this makes no sense; the REASON a company incorporates is to protect itself/the PEOPLE involved from personal, legal and finacial liability! A corporation is NOT a person, quite the opposite).

But the fact remains, there ARE very clear and very real differences between the Democratic party and their positions and the Republicans and Tea Party.

The Tea Partiers and most Republicans insist that the richest few percent and large corporations are the “job creators” and advocate for tax cuts, subsidies, and other perks on their behalf.

The Democratic view is that small businesses and CONSUMERS are the job creators, and more consistently advocate for policies which put more money into THEIR hands.

One only has to look at the facts to see which position is closer to the truth: last month’s job report, for instance, revealed that SMALL BUSINESSES created over 60% of the 137,000 new private sector jobs created in September, and MID-SIZED businesses created the rest.

Big business/large corporations ELIMINATED 5,000 jobs! AND, the private sector gains were offset by the elimination of 35,000 GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC SECTOR jobs (as has been the case every month for a while…esp. following the Republican/Tea Party wins in the mid-terms, such cuts have been going on nationwide, off-setting the private sector gains and driving the unemployment rate up.That is NOT a coincidence…it is part of an orchestrated agenda to sabotage the recovery, which is currently in its 19th straight month of private sector job GROWTH.)

And a recent large survey of business owners/leaders found NO mention of regulation or taxation as issues limiting hiring or expansion. Lack of CUSTOMERS was the number one, by far, complaint, followed by the cost of INSURANCE (which under the Democratic reforms, would begin to be shifted to the public sector and away from the private, for-profit sector and save businesses TRILLIONS, allowing them to add more jobs, generating more REVENUES for the treasury AND more consumer spending, which creates still MORE jobs and so on, and so on).

But spreading the myth that there is essentially no difference between the left and the right serves to generate APATHY and a state of hopeless frustration and unfocused anger in the public. It DISTRACTS and DIVERTS them from effective action (like VOTING…and low voter turn-out benefits who? Almost always, the REPUBLICANS, which is why they have and are doing everything in their power to throw up barriers to voting, esp. for the poor and minorities. Lest we forget that Obama won by a landslide with the largest voter turn-out since 1910!).

And which interests stand to benefit most from REPUBLICAN policies on taxation, military spending/government contracts, de-regulation, union-busting, and corporate subsidies?

Hint: it’s not the mom and pop operation down the street, the working poor, unions, anyone working in the public sector (cops, teachers, firefighters), or the middle-class. You know, the OTHER 95-99% of us.

Another outcome of this view is that people turn to third party candidates, diverting their votes from electable candidates. I have long been a strong supporter of opening up the process to more candidates/parties and have frequently voted for them, but when it comes down to the REALITY of having either a Democrat or a Republican in the White House and the vote is likely to be close, you’d better believe the Democrat gets my vote.

So THIS Indie will be voting for Obama again. The alternative is simply unacceptable. There IS a difference.

P.S. the forces behind all this couldn’t care less what our politics are. They are BUSINESSMEN/WOMEN and CORPORATIONS. They care about MONEY and getting as much of it as possible.

In other words, the Right-wing candidates most often represent their interests, but as far as all the social/religious issues that so engage many on the right, they could give a fig. They just want their taxes low/gone, labor costs dirt cheap, regulations weak or absent, as much in taxpayer subsidies/bail-outs/perks as they can get, a military to protect their global interests, and another decade of record-breaking profits.

“The more scuffles you have with police, the more unpopular your movement will become and more people will take sides with your opponents.”***

Which is why there are already people infiltrating this movement and encouraging such behavior.

BTW, I haven’t been following too closely, but exactly when and where did all these acts occur? This story makes no mention of such things, nor have any of the others I’ve seen thus far, anywhere. And the Occupy event here in Portland last week went off without a hitch, despite drawing over 10,000.

Are you seeing/hearing these reports on Fox and other Right-wing outlets/sources, perhaps?

I mean, in ANY crowd, there may be a few bad actors, but you seem to be characterizing an entire group by the alleged actions of a few.

You are the company you keep…..

Raven…really? You have not heard of nor seen any “proof” about the bad behavior of this OWS crowd? So because YOU haven’t heard of it, it didn’t happen, right? Reminds me of my granddaughters logic when she closes her eyes and says, “you can’t seeeee me!!”. How many links would you like? Want one of the links from the UK where the disgusting picture is there in full living color? If you did see it, would you agree that this is bad behavior? Or would you continue your enabling attitude by making excuses for the pigs that were leaving such a mess? I know…you will make some silly excuse as to “infiltrators” coming in from the right and doing these bad things just to make these children look like pigs. Yeah…it’s happened before in your world, right? When those nice SEIU folks infiltrated the Tea Party gatherings and cleaned up for them. But, if you really really need me to, I will be happy to provide you with several links (none of which will be a link to that evil old FoxNews) so you can personally see those defecating and littering infiltrators. Or…you could just google, “defecating on police car”……

They broke the law – they got arrested…Justice is blind, not selective.