Sorry, I was wrong about #OccupyWallStreet
I dismissed this in the same way I dismissed the riots in the United Kingdom. I thought, yeah ok, there will be some protests and at best maybe there may be some in depth papers covering this simple stat which is part of what is getting people to the streets
I thought that they would be ridiculed. They were. It strengthened them. I thought that they NYPD police abuse was the end of their movement. It only gained them strength and support. I thought that the 700 arrests would destroy them. It drove students in to their willing arms.
There are no riots. There is no criminality to allow the upper 1% to simply dismiss them as criminals.
They represent ordinary people who are crying – enough is enough. Why should they face the pain of “austerity” when the very criminals who caused the collapse of the economy are rewarded?
The media first ignored #OccupyWallStreet. Now they are at the frontline. Soon they will be claiming credit, while misrepresenting the people who are speaking out.
Already Republicants are calling it “class warfare” because the 99% are now saying enough is enough.
An old message now
The 1% went one step too far.
Now they are having to fight back through the media. Of course, it is worth remembering only a few months ago every Republican Presidential candidate parroted the GOP line that they were the ones fighting crony capitalism.
“New York’s finest”. This policeman needs to be prosecuted.
Already fleeing in tears, the Officer sprays again
Republicans boo soldier serving in Iraq and Frothy Mix calls for reinstatement of DADT
Rick Santorum, continues to show that he is nothing but a frothy mix of Theocrat and lunatic calls the abolition of DADT a “social experiment”. He states that gays and lesbians serving in the military are getting special treatment.
I have no idea why all of the Republican field were not given that question. Each and every one should have been given their opportunity to side with bigotry or with gay men and women serving their Country. I know where they would have stood.
We are Troy Davis
I watched Democracy Now in shock at what was happening in the State of Georgia in 2011.
I admired the dignity and grace of the Davis family who believed in American justice and who believed it would all become right.
I watched the dozens of police cars turn up when it started to become known SC Judge Thomas had the papers. I kind of knew what was going to happen. I just did not believe it.
For even the strongest defender of the death penalty will say, it should not apply when there is doubt. There was just too much doubt.
The United States of America has been responsible for thousands of deaths. One man should not make a difference. Except it does. The murder of Troy Davis by the State of Georgia is a wake up call to any who continue to support the death penalty. It is not just a question of mistakes being made. Whenever there is a murder, wherever you are in the World,there is an outrage and as a result a desire to “get who did it” and quick.
That desire to feed the press means innocent people get caught up.
Once they become the accused that accusation is difficult, if not impossible to disprove. Especially when you are faced with the whole apparatus of the State against you.
If the State murders in response to murder there is no way back for the “culprit” if later found innocent or for the original victim. Neither get a “do over”. There is no re-try button to press. There is no x box controller to pick up and try again.
I just hope that the screaming yahoos that cheered Perry now understand this. Perhaps we will see this tonight. People around the World did and watched many Americans sink in to a state of murderous depravity. We can follow them and cheer more death. Or we can learn from this. We can adopt the dignity of the Davis family and see that the death sentence is wrong.
It is nothing but judicial murder. Eye for an eye where everyone ends up blind.
We can all be Troy Davis.
Hey Megan Fox – take your “slave” article and shove it.
Wow, splodey heads, other Presidents had someone to carry their umbrella including the Sainted senile one.
President Ronald Reagan had an umbrella carrier. He also had another one for the person who carried his decrepit brain around, when she was not holding a séance in the White House.
Or perhaps the umbrellas were to hide his wife from him
After all there are more than enough stories about the real interests of Reagan and his financial backers.
The Reagan administration had a big problem with childcare issues.
You know the type.The ones that like to use puppies for gain.
Children and war got Nancy excited.
I will gladly take the record of this President and ANY other Democratic President and compare them to the senile, half dead hero that they make Reagan up to be. Small government my big fat arse. The very start of the cancer that turned the United States of America into a debtor Nation.
Strong on “security”? Really, the man who funded the Contras in Nicaragua paid for by selling crack cocaine into the streets of America. Essentially funding and establishing Al Queda. The man who forced ordinary Americans back into poverty to line the pockets of the very richest.
Screw him and his new cronies.
I’m glad he’s like this
So go on suck on this
Oh, sorry you can’t so go find this guys
PS Megan, I hope you are angry now.
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