Occupy Wall Street

I'd like to see some of the OWSers start packing heat, just for the comedic value when Fox News and the other usual suspects start losing their shit.

 

Possibly. Depends on the circumstances.

 

Here you go.....whoops, wrong protest group, my bad

 

Well, to be fair, the few cops who were caught using pepper spray unnecessary have promptly been suspended pending an investigation.

Maybe some people would like to think that there is some sinister plot by supporters of some mythical one percent group conspiring to incite cops to mistreat the protesters. But the reality is that we've only had some isolated incidents here and there, and those incidents have been frowned upon by mostly everybody, even by those who are sick and tired of all the urinating and defecating and overt drug use that's taking place in our city parks.

It seems to me that with a few notable exceptions that have been highly publicized, the cops for the most part have been remarkably restrained, and they are trying their best to follow their orders and do their job without resorting to violence.

 

Like Scott Olsen the Iraq veteran who got shot in the head by a tear gas canister and was critical. If he would have died it would have made the movement legit?

 

They need to be ****ing FIRED, period but in the greatest irony of all ironies you know why they won't be? Because they have a UNION to stand behind them and save their asses. Maybe somebody should hip them to that while they're clubbing and pepper spraying citizens.

 

I suppose that is one of the problems with unions. In the process of defending all the good workers against potential unfair treatment by management, they usually also defend the few bad apples, even when they clearly don't deserve it.

It probably gets more publicity when it happens to cops, but it happens in just about every other place where workers are union. So you get unions defending bad cops, bad nurses, bad teachers, bad construction workers, and so on, all dangerous in their own ways.

But I bet most union workers, including cops, will take that tradeoff if it means that they will also get defended when it's actually warranted.

 

Not particularly because it seems like the Oakland version is a bit of a bastardization to begin with.

 

I guess right now the measure of good and evil is people's willingness to pay more taxes. Welcome to 21st century morality.

 

They are both giving away the entirety of their wealth. What more do you want?

 

Mostly only as symbols, however.

 

It was a stupid point. It would have been a better one if that was a picture of the constitutional convention.

 

Actually you were commenting on this:

So, I was merely following the same train of thought.

 

Do any of those kids look capable of violence?