Occupy Wall Street Thread Reposted

As for the tea partiers versus the wall street protesters, I think both sides have legitimate beefs, and that our media has generated much of the hatred by focusing on the negative aspects, and not on the real frustrations. Though I can't for the life of me understand why the tea partiers would accept and cheer someone like Glenn Beck, who I feel is a distraction from the real concerns.

I think that there is a strong possibility that the guy in the video above faked being run over.

I wonder if all the Fet's, war's, Tkings, et al. can tell us what they want to see happen in Wall Street or gov't to institute a better way?

What are you solutions?

Are you aware that it's likely that George Soros is funding this?

Are you angry with Fast/Furious and Eric Holder?

Does Google and Warren Buffet's tax deficiencies anger you (hiding money)?

Do the Green Energy Stimulus scams piss you off?

Try to answer all the questions. Even if just a yes/no.

But apparently liberals couldn't even convince themselves that tea partiers were an extremist group unworthy of emulation.

At least they're embarrassed about what the OWS protesters really are: wingless, bloodsucking and parasitic. This is the flea party, not the tea party.

Contrary to all the blather you always hear about how lawless street protests and civil disobedience are part of the American tradition -- "what our troops are fighting for!" -- they are not. We are an orderly people with democratic channels at our disposal to change our government.

The very reason we have a constitutional republic is because of a mob uprising. Soon after the American Revolution, Shays' Rebellion so terrified and angered Americans that they demanded a federal government capable of crushing such mobs.

For nearly 200 years, Americans understood that they lived in a country capable of producing bad politicians and bad policies, but that was subject to change through peaceful, democratic means. There was no need to riot or storm buildings because we didn't have a king. We had a representative government.

Even when injustice existed, there were constitutional mechanisms to right wrongs.

For nearly a century after the Civil War, congressional Republicans kept introducing bills that implemented the civil rights amendments -- only to be blocked by segregationist Democrats. But then, attorney Thurgood Marshall came along and began winning cases before the Supreme Court, redeeming black Americans' constitutional rights through the judiciary.

As long as a Republican sat in the White House, those victories were enforced. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Ark., to walk black children to school in defiance of the segregationist, Democratic governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus -- Bill Clinton's friend.

This is what our Constitution was designed for: to use the force of the federal government to uphold the law when the states couldn't (Shays' Rebellion) or wouldn't (segregationist Democrats).