Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Day of Disruption’: WN Live Updates

I find it disturbing that there is another event planned at 3pm to disrupt subway service.
3pm all nyc kids get out of school — the safety of these children is in jeaopardy at that time as well as that of my own children!
Has no one thought about the kids getting caught up in this turmoil at 3pm?
Apparently the protestors have no consideration for the children of nyc……

I would think that with Obama doing nothing to stop the 13 million dollar bonuses to Feddie and Fannie – they would be marching on the WH

I repeat…how many of these people actually have hireable skills?

POSTED BY: JAMESCBUILDER | NOVEMBER 17, 2011, 10:37 AM 10:37 AM, it just shows that most of those protesters follow the adgitators and have no clue why they there. If they had a clue they would be in Washington, but thats not what the democrats want nor Soros or the Unions.

This movement is actually harming some small business and is laughable to the real 1%. They don’t care that a bunch of hippies are rolling around in the street getting themselves arrested.

And “disrupt” is all these parasitic morons know what to do. Get out the water cannons, round them up and throw them in jail. Enough of their “BS” . . . come down hard on them.

I wish I was out there with the police, I would be swinging my baton against these worthless swine. Americans needs to rise up against these terrorists, they need to be rounded up!

It is ok for corporations to pollute our waters with thousands of gallons of oil, kill our wild life, dump toxic waste, pollute our air with deadly gases, and ruin our rivers and streams in the name of profit and still be called American. However, a few protestors get together and they are worried about a park. The protestors are called un-American. I beg to differ, they are being true to the principles that this nation was founded on.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ”Declaration of Independence.
Our government has failed the people because it allows corporations to corrupt and influence it. When a government no longer works for the good of the very people who give it power, it is our duty to ensure that we dismantle or alter it for the benefit of future generations. We cannot continue to live in a world where our government ensures the rights of the rich and powerful and tramples on the rights of the 99%.
It is clear from the actions that local governments have taken in the past few weeks that they are on the side of the 1%. They are not concerned with the cries of their fellow citizens. It is clear that their only concern is profit. Well, we will not sit idly by while you take our freedoms away from us. We will no longer allow the corruption of our government. We will no longer be ignored. We will do as our forefathers did and we will fight the tyrants that have corrupted our government and take back what is rightfully ours. The 99 are strong and we will not give up our cause. We will prevail; REVOLUTION is here.

Sure disrupt other people trying to make a living. No one is listening to you anymore because you have no soild one message. You protest the rich and let the rich as Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Kerry Buffet, gates go. Just think if some of you got holiday jobs what that would do to the tax collection for this country.

“I don’t know anyone against the protest, and I live in a conservative state.” Sorry, Martha, but you are very poorly and obviously BSing. It ain’t workin’. I live in a fairly middle-of-the-road state, and nearly everyone is by now at least extremely wary of these loser “protesters”, and I would say that easily over half to two-thirds actively oppose them now. Get real.. Get honest.

Michelle…..I don’t get it. You’re disrupting the 99%, not the 1%! The 1% are laughing at you while your chaotic movement harms small business. Your harming the people you’re trying to ‘help’.

Most NYPD members should be commended for the restraint they are showing. It’s a shame Mayor Bloomingburg’s budget for PD overtime is going to cost NYC residents in the long run.

DID WALL STREET TELL PEOPLE TO SUPPORT ANOTHER COUNTRY BY BUYING A FORIGN CAR?

DID THEY TELL PEOPLE TO TAKE OUT A SECOND MORTGAGE TO BUY MORE CRAP OR TO USE IT TO SPEND MONEY THEY DIDN’T HAVE?

DO THEY TELL US TO BY AND SHOP AT PLACES THAT DON’T PAY PEOPLE DESCENT WAGES OR PROVIDE INSURANCE FOR THOSE PEOPLE?
NO!

WALL STREET DOES HAVE ISSUES BUT SHOULDT WE START WITH THE MAN IN THE MIRROR?
LET’S GET BACK TO TRUE PATRIOTISM-IF YOU DON’T PUT AMERICA FIRST WHO WILL?

YOU ARE NOT IT THE CORRECT PLACE!! CAMPOUT AT THE CONGRESSIONAL BUILDINGS!!! ANNOY THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CHANGE THE STUPID LAWS!!! THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!!! WAY TO ANNOY THE REGULAR FOLKS AND LET THOSE WHO ARE TO BLAME SLEEP UNDISTURBED AT NIGHT!!! GROW SOME BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!

As the credit crunch accelerates, the days of free stuff is at an end. Its best to write off the bad debt and hold those accountable for fraud. If protesters think they are going to get “free” stuff from this they are mistaken. It’s likely things are going to dramatically tighten.

Our country is controlled and defined by greed and corruption. Enough is enough, the revolution is here!

a lot of opinions being thrown around int he comments section of a website. the point is, this country needs a change and we won’t ge that with elected officials so these people are taking that message to the streets. whether they are on wall street or in DC, its nice to see people speak their mind in an open forum.

the policy brutality going on is absurd and isn’t being spoken about enough.

You all are protesting in the wrong place… You are affecting the 99%.. NOT the 1%. Now.. if you all decide to go to DC and RUN ALL the POLITICIANS out, then I will be happy to join you. “IF” you are able to scew with Wall Street.. You are mess with MY and the other 99%s money. If you run the POLITICIANS out of DC and make the resign, you are not bothering with my Money. .those low-lifes are scewing up more than they are fixing anyway.

I am not choosing sides in this I listen to both…and see good points on both…But – what I don’t understand is this – Instead of only concentrating on ways to clear protesters out of places and instead of over populating our already over populated jails – why is nobody addressing any of the issues being mentioned by the protesters or non protesters? To come to any kind of conclusion from all of this – it is going to take communication and changes – NOT violence or jail time. I think the main point of Occupy has been blanketed by the negative actions of a handful of people who probably are not even there for the protest but there just to be destructive. I have watched and read so many articles and not once have I seen where someone actually cares to sit down and discuss what is actually being protested. PROTESTERS – using human microphones and chants – you are not going to get anything through to anyone by doing that. You need to be respectful of the others you include in the “99%” that are living and trying to survive around you. You need to be more organized. And for God’s sake go home at night – there is no reason to camp out you can go home take care of your business and come back during the day. And as for all the violence on the protester side…nobody is going to see the good you are trying to stand for if they have to look at it through thrown rocks and bottles. A peaceful protest will get more out of people than a violent one!!! As for THE OTHER SIDE – why don’t you try talking to the protesters instead of just ignoring what they are standing up for and making new laws and ordinances to get them to leave. The police should NOT be using force at all and nor should the protesters. If you want the message to be that you are standing up for the American citizens and our rights then start acting as so – BOTH SIDES!!!!

I can see that this protest is the ideal breeding ground for a key onccurence to set off a drastic set of events; the outcome being civil unrest and thus reform.

“violence threatened in New York”?? – SHAME on ABC! This was a PEACEFUL protest!!

And yet ifyou go to allof the Occupy sites and Chat you see the are virulent against the Tea Party, and Republicans who are actually trying to make changes. They are the spawn of Soros and his MoveOn, ACORN and affiliated networks, co-opted by Obama’s Unions and part of the Obama 2012 campaign. They show up at Republican events and defend the Democrat / Obama lack of transparency, lies and manipulation so “no crisis” is left unused. While supporting OWS Obama then sicks Napolitano and HOemland Security on them – as the polls show a need to play BOTH sides. Nothing buut small change and Occupy is just another political pawn of the left.

We are all part of the 99%, let’s stop being so negative against the protest and start supporting. You don’t have to be out there w/ them but be supportive. I’m glad their out there fighting for me and the rest of us.

Don’t worry folks, its just another day of ‘Peaceful Violence’ by these OWS protesters who are to lazy to get a real job and work for a living! They only came out for the free food and pot!

I just don’t get it. Why block traffic and subways as kids are trying to catch their school buses and people – the regular old working folks who have to be at work on time – are trying to commute to their jobs? I understand these kids would rather camp out than work, but for goodness sakes, stop interfering in the lives of those who have families to feed.

LOL. Solyndra = 500 million (half a billion, yes) straight down the drain for absolutely nothing. Go protest that, numbskulls and hypocrites.

We The People can use our power. The next level is in the collective public’s hands. Know this.

This movement – like so many others – is riddled with to many “if only” statements …. if only the rich would pay more; if only we could use corporate profits to feed the poor, etc. The problem with this line of thinking is that if those if onlys are ever enacted, there is little that can be done for an encore. If corporate profits were confiscated for the poor, or if taxes on the rich were raised more, what would come next, since you would eventually get to a point where the well runs dry? The nation’s focus shouldn’t be on attacking the rich – it should be on enabling the poor to better their situation with education, job training, etc., and decreasing their dependence on government aid programs. It’s a shame that no one seems to get that and the media continues to fawn all over this movement without ever discussing that if the OWS ideals were ever enacted, very little would ever really change for the poor. The only thing that would change is that we would all get a little bit poorer.

How dare you.

How dare you commenters attack these protestors for voicing their grievances. There is no question that our economy is in trouble. There is no question that the trouble was caused precisely because of the actions of some Wall Street investors. You foolish people. You tell them to shut up because they need to get a job. Some of them have jobs. In this case your argument is ignorant. But, the hard cold fact of the matter is, there aren’t enough jobs to go around in this nation. Do you realize it is statistically impossible for everyone to go get a job? So in this case, your argument is a non sequitor. Capitalism necessitates a marginalized economic class.

I pay my taxes.

I have a full-time job and am putting myself through school for two degrees.

How dare you criticize these protestors for pointing out the obvious fact that our current system is rigged in favor of corporate interests. These protestors *do* have a message and their message is *valid*. This “everything is fine” mentality is a fatal dogmatic slumber, and we are finally being shaken out of it. My generation is disenchanted with the status quo in this nation, because the change we believed in with Obama turned into just another episode of “bailed out, sold out”, among many other things.

How dare you criticize these people. I am with them in spirit.

p.s.
It is simply amazing how vehement a reaction is evoked as soon as somebody voices the slightest criticism of capitalism. Here’s a tip: Seeing some problems with Capitalism does make a person a “communist” and definitely not a “socialist.” (Nor does it make them a dirty jobless liberal. Lets cut the bogus insults and ad hominem attacks on people who are fellow Americans.) Try reading Karl Marx. His influence in academia, from economics to philosophy and the social sciences, is extremely far-reaching, and his ideas are very much alive and relevant today–and that does not mean that we should destroy capitalism or aim for a socialist society.

Voting is inconvenient too, for all you people who are complaining. And your desire not to be inconvenienced is the reason we got into this mess. Put down your stupid latte and do something about the inequality we are facing. If not for yourself, at least for your children and their futures.

Where is my comment?

Constitutional amendment making it a crime for big money to be taken by or given to elected officials. A federal law to make misleading political advertising (sorry Lee Atwater RIP) a misdemeanor, and then enforce it.

Meet VIrginia said: “We the people are tired of being ripped off by their own government! ENOUGH SAID!”…… Then why interfere with the 99%, when the 1% that CONTROL everything and make the RULEs are in DC.

Aww poor widdle thug tried to assault a cop and got his widdle nose bloodied.

Let THAT be a lesson to the lawless thugs that want anarchy. I’m actually surprised he’s still upright. I’d have knocked him cold.

WHERE ARE THE STORIES ABOUT SOLYNDRA? 80% OF THE MONEY WENT TO OBAMA’S TOP DONORS. WHERE ARE THE STORES, ABC?

You rebel you…
….you hop out your foreign made car, mad because the vacation or cruise you took overseas will be your last. Mad because the home you took a second mortgage out on, to purchase whatever it was you really could not afford, is now either gone or near gone. You need somebody to blame because every time you shop you choose a store that doesn’t pay real wages or benefits so the workers so the workers live like peasants so you can save a dime. YOU have the nerve to point your finger at someone else and say they are the problem. This country wasn’t built by republicans, democrats or businessmen looking out for their wallets. IT WAS BUILT BY PATRIOTS…PUT AMERICA FIRST BEFORE ITS TO LATE….. RETURN TO PATRIOTISM.

I am much older and much wiser and now realize that these protesters are very relevant to my life. They are couragousely and boldly fighting opppression, just as I once did, and even recently did. I protested in the 60′s, and it was great!!!! Loved every minute of it!!!! I even met my husband at a rally against THE MAN!!!! Anyway my husband, who worked in “Finance” recently left me for a far younger woman, and I felt the same humiliation and unfairnes that some of these folks are protesting against. I see that now. Like I perhaps mentioned before, I am not a twenty something air head, I am a 58 year old, educated woman who is fed up and proud of our youth doing the protests. Let’s do lunch sometime.

Julie

When are people going to stop blaming others for their lot in life! Take responsibility for yourselfs and stop worrying about averyone else! What we really need to do is reform MEDICAID AND SOCIAL SERVICES and all other give mes that the government so easily hands out.

I love that the Tea Party folks are trolling the boards saying how different they are, peaceful and kind (ha!). Subtext – “We’re still relevant. Remember us? Sure, we have never spawned international attention and support, but, hey, we went to Glenn Beck’s rally. Remember that, folks? We sure made a difference,…didn’t we? Thank God for Fox News or no one would remember we still exist.” *sigh* *whimper* “We like to talk how peaceful we are, but say somethin’ bad agin us and we’ll turn on you like the bigoted bullies we sure as molasses is. Yee haw!”

Funny how Bloomberg tried to downplay the numbers of people who showed up to protest today while only 2 showed up to protest against OWS . Any protest that draws more than 1000 people is significant and any that grows nation wide as OWS has you better know it’s serious, but when it goes international and lasts 2 months, it is without a doubt not going away easily but when you send in cops to harass, beat and arrest people and take away their warmth and shelter in freezing cold rainy weather, yet they stay to try to bring about the ’change every presidential, candidate made but no one ever honored , it brings hope to me and many that eventually the people of America will take back OUR county from lobbyists, big business and Wall Street who buy politicians on a daily basis and sent US jobs overseas to make their stock more valuable

These people are just getting stupid now. Disrupting every day people and their work schedules just trying to go about every day life. They all seem to have different messages. They have become ununified. Becoming more of an unorganized mob bent more on news coverage than getting any one message accross.

To call this a protest at all is an insult to anyone who has actually protested and affected a change. It’s a directionless failure of a movement, which has done more to inconvenience the people they’re allegedly trying to help than it has to achieve a goal. Of course, it would be easier if they actually HAD a goal. Everyone wants something different, so each one’s voice is drowned out by the voices of everyone else. It’s just noise.

The female cops look tougher than the punks who are defying the law and hope the female cops do not put up with the weazels blocking good hard working people trying to make a living while the weazels want it handed to them.

here from egypt you helped the fake arab revolutions in middle east for your agendas
well its god well now you suffer from it

“WHERE ARE THE STORIES ABOUT SOLYNDRA? WHERE ARE THE STORES, ABC?”
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Type “Solyndra” in the search box in the upper corner of this web page. There are exactly 32 stories about Solyndra on ABC.com as of 520PM PST today.

Please, what is your point? That the non existent “liberal media” somehow gives Obama (or Clinton) a pass and only attacks Republicans??

Puhlease.

I am very disappointed with tonight’s story about OWS on ABC news. They asked a few people what the movement is about and none of them knew! Why on earth didn’t they ask people who have been there awhile what the movement is about? I’ve been going to the protests in Seattle and people are upset that Wall Street upended our economy and have never been prosecuted for crimes that they committed! People are also upset that the Supreme Court gave corporations corporate personhood, effectively giving them more power in our government than average people because corporations have access to such huge amounts of money.

I know Rush told you that, but not everything he says is true.

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ….[As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to] ‘remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.’”
– Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations

Can someone please explain why banks and large corporations are more responsible for the financial crisis than are the millions of homeowners that took out million dollar mortgages to buy their $750,000 houses while making $75,000 a year.

Did they think that story would have a happy ending?

Wallstreethero, a big part of that can be blamed on a generation of Americans that grew up on a steady diet of “seek instant gratification.” poured down their throat by the pro-left media and the pro-left Hollywood crowd. I am in my fifties. I am surrounded at work by a younger crowd who have never developed a proper work ethic, never take any iniative to learn how to do thier jobs better. In some cases, all they care to do is just enough to stay employed and draw a paycheck.

The liberal media calls it “Peaceful Violence” somehow thats different that just plain violence!
And of course it always called non-violent when your the ones committing the violence!

You know, I’ve been watching this stuff for awhile and I must say that these morons have no clue in what they are doing. Obviously they still live with their parents because they don’t have to pay rent, have a car payment and no mortgage. Must be nice. GROW UP! and get a life and start being responsible for yourselves. Your parents must be real proud of you of what you are accomplishing in your wasted life. Oh, by the way, if you think you’re going to solve the world’s crises your not. When the cold, cold winter comes in and the snow is a foot on the ground, you’ll be back at your parents place playing with yourselves. If I offended anyone of you, GOOD!

POSTED BY: JULIEOO | NOVEMBER 17, 2011, 1:39 PM 1:39 PM, 58 educated and protested in the 60s, Priceless.

I actually love the posts from the Occupy drones and clones. They reveal exactly why nobody with a brain takes them seriously — except, of course, as a pain in the butt and public nuisance. clueless airheads, anti-semites, and etc., and etc. A pathetic bunch indeed.

Hey disgruntled Veteran, First I would like to thank you for all did for our Country. Second as far as the violence, all I seem to see and read is how the NYPD is only reacting to the violence of the protesters. Thank God for their restraint. Good thing I am not a police officer because I truly believe I would bash their heads in for the way they taunt the police.

Until now, I have always thought of protesters as low life. Not any more. What these brave young people are doing around the US is liitle short of heroic! They are putting a mirror up to our country and asking the hard questions that need answers. Rather than arrest these people we should be giving them wards – awards for bravery in the face of overwhelming and often abuse of power. Stay the course. The silent majority is here in support of you and your actions against greed and injustice.

I ask you: Peaceful demonstration or covert terrorism?