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Wade Icey
Trad climber
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:03pm PT
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Has anyone here been stopped from getting to work or school due to OWS?
Have any college campuses been 'shut down' by OWS?
Has anyone on supertopo been directly affected or involved?
let's hear it..
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Wade Icey
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:05pm PT
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And because protesters are so quick to cry wolf and disrupt society, truly important protest messages are ignored.
can't have society disrupted...that's damned inconvenient.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:08pm PT
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^^^ NO ^^^
Butt Flush DimFlaw said (&^%(^%$I&(&^$#*^%##*@ and he should know!
So **(&^%(^%$I&(&^$#*^%##*@** to you too!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:23pm PT
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The guys in Davis were blocking a walkway.
That's a disruption, especially if you're unfortunate enough to need a wheelchair to get around.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:24pm PT
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Who cares if people on Supertopo have been kept from their jobs or kept from class? It doesn't change the fact that blocking streets and setting things on fire puts a strain on society as a whole.
I'm interested in firsthand knowledge of inconvenience, tearing sh#t up, shutting down college campuses etc. Do you (does anyone) have experience or are you just parroting what you've heard on the news?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:26pm PT
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The guys in Davis were blocking a walkway.
That's a disruption, especially if you're unfortunate enough to need a wheelchair to get around.
Cool Chaz, you were there. Now we can find out what really happened.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:30pm PT
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Passive aggressive behavior is not peaceful.
They're lucky the cops were able to restrain themselves as well as they did.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:32pm PT
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So blocking a walkway, i.e., a relatively minor trespass, requires a violent response from the cops?
ok...
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:33pm PT
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You would have to believe that your message is so damned important that everyone needs to stop what they're doing RIGHT NOW and listen to it.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Nov 22, 2011 - 11:46pm PT
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but what about the boobies?
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giegs
climber
Tardistan
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Nov 23, 2011 - 12:20am PT
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Chemical weapons: Fun for the whole family!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 23, 2011 - 12:25am PT
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They call it a human comedy for a reason.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 23, 2011 - 12:28am PT
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Be nice to Chaz. He has dobermans. And goats. I'd be more worried about the goats.
Police forces the world round have a long and dishonourable history of over-reacting to peaceful civil disobedience - particularly if they perceive it as "liberal". As John suggests, what else is new?
Or, as was put so nicely by a Canadian 41 years ago, "Four dead in Ohio".
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 23, 2011 - 12:34am PT
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They are going easy on me, Anders.
They keep pitching me softballs.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
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Nov 23, 2011 - 12:53am PT
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It's about time we got a decent laugh and some iconic art out of this rebellion.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:38am PT
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Here's a question for those who think it was ok to pepper spray the people blocking a walkway.
Would it be ok to pepper spray the Tea Party folks who disrupted town hall meetings if the cops showed up and told them to stop?
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:59am PT
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Some people define Christianity by the best in Christianity. Others define Christianity by the worst in that Religion.
Same goes for this movement.
too bad...
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 23, 2011 - 03:00am PT
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Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh Calls OWS Military Veterans ‘Anti-American’
November 21, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/21/deadbeat-dad-joe-walsh-calls-ows-military-veterans-anti-american/
On Saturday during a town hall, deadbeat dad and Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh said that veterans who have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the greed of big banks and income disparity are ‘anti-American,’ and don’t ‘represent America.’
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Degaine
climber
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Nov 23, 2011 - 06:38am PT
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skipt wrote:
degain,
I have no idea what you are about or what you are saying.
Of course you don't, and you never have. No worries. You've proved time and again that you don't understand or even try to understand what I or others write. It's a symptom of your "us vs. them" view of the world.
skipt wrote:
You flat out will not answer a single question I ask.
Actually, I've answered every question you've asked, whereas you have not extended my the same courtesy, either dodging my questions (do you remember your bullshit De Tocqueville dodge?) or using ad hominem attacks to dismiss my point of view.
Again, no biggie, it's a symptom of your "us vs. them" view of the world, so instead of responding to me as an individual you lump me in with what you perceive to be as "them" (the opposing team).
It's impolite, but hey, this is the Internet.
skipt wrote:
Good luck to you.
Skip
And to you. Godspeed in your quest to find whatever it that you're looking for.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 23, 2011 - 10:54am PT
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What if a group of Tea Baggers held non-stop continual prayer service at the university?
Would you support their free exercise of religion First Amendment rights?
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