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Title: Occupy Veterans Movement Growing Across U.S.
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ABC News
URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/occu ... ment-growing/story?id=14848003
Published: Oct 31, 2011
Author: KRISTINA WONG
Post Date: 2011-11-01 13:04:12 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 32838
Comments: 69
Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans. But two of the highest-profile protesters -- each from opposite ends of the country -- had served in wars. Last week, the world watched as bleeding, dazed 24-year-old Marine Scott Olsen was carried away by fellow protesters after he was struck in the head by an object apparently fired by an Oakland police officer. And before that, Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas was captured on video confronting a group of New York police officers he said had been too rough with protesters. snip "These riot squads deploy unlawful excessive force against Americans all service members swore to protect, and many veterans have sacrificed their lives in that honor. We at OMC will not stand idly by as these cowards continue to abuse the Constitution, hurting American citizens. We will use any nonviolent means to convince law enforcement agencies to understand that brutality will only strengthen our resolve," the spokesperson said, adding that the group acknowledged that not all Marines agreed with the group's position.
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#29. To: Badeye (#27)
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What took place during our service is irrelevant. Really? I can't imagine that someone who got shot at day in and day out comes out of the experience the same as one who sat behind a desk. Maybe it's YOU who needs to show a little empathy for those who had a vastly different military experience from your own.
When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard
You have an interesting notion of wheezing old rustbucket
__________________________________________________________________________________________ Aw, c'mon. You know that Pluto was never REALLY a planet - it was and is too small. Probably some liberal astronomer called it a planet just so it wouldn't have an inferiority complex.
__________________________________________________________________________________________ What made you believe I was referring to car?
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
1) Why did Disney create TWO retarded dogs, but only one talked? 2) So....Which one is Ming and which one is Mom? 1) I think that Pluto (the dog) was just a figment of Disney's imagination. After all, who ever heard of a Mouse having a dog for a pet? 2) I think they're the same poster playing "good cop, bad cop". (Or is it smart cop, dumb cop?)
__________________________________________________________________________________________ A cat would have made MUCH more sense...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Look in a mirror and repeat that over and over, Jethro.
When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard
I thought all mice wore clothes and spoke English.
When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard
Jerry?
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Look in a mirror and repeat that over and over, Jethro. Okaaaaaay. And if a genie appears, do you want me to make a wish that you'll post something that makes sense?
__________________________________________________________________________________________ So wrong on so many counts (unsurprisingly) its not worth discussing with you further.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
They are being "PAID" to be full of shit, that's why they won't go protest the people who really need to be protested.... Wall St couldn't do what it does if it weren't for their political enablers....
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... EXACTOMUNDO! These libTURD bitches are all about advancing libTURDISM; TRUTH and HONOR have F' all to do with ANYTHING that these libTURD bitches say or do. The time is past where we can just play and "discuss" their DISEASE with the blood enemies of America and ALL Americans, (these herds of libTURD filth), we need to politically DESTROY them and their insane, proven FAILED, tyrannical filth. libTURDISM is a mental DISEASE. ALL of OUR actions must be towards this simple goal. STOP the spread of this terrible DISEASE. CURE the DISEASE with TRUTH!!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
So do you know if the guy was actually "IN" combat or was he just in the country??? I have heard he was discharged under less than honorable circumstances and his highest award was only an Achievement Medal!!!!
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... C'mon Boofer...regale us of tales of that fateful day when you saw that poor PO sucked into the engine of a Ford Galaxy 500. Was it an LTD?
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
You guys can protest anyone you want to. So what's stopping you?
When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard
So you guys could also get killed, wounded or PTSD from just sitting behind a desk typing reports? There was a reason why most veteran's homes for many, many years did not accept vets who were not associated with a conflict.
When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard
You've got it exactly backwards.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
Good question.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
Looks like you guys protests are going really well!!!! Click on the link to see all of the other "good little protesters" incidents/habits!!!! www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47257 "Occupy" Crime Wave Continues: Woman Raped, Robbed in Baltimore 11/01/2011 The national media has been disgracefully silent the past several weeks over the ugly crime wave sweeping the so-called "Occupy" protests. Numerous incidents of sexual assault and rape have been occuring and there's total silence from all the Democrats who so enthusiastically support the movement. Not a peep from "women's rights" groups, either. How can they just sit there mute when we see incidents such as this? Listen to the despair of this woman and wonder how much reportage we'd have seen had anyone ever been assaulted at a Tea Party rally. Instead, watch the smug "Occupiers" tell the reporter how things are handled by their crack security team. Sure, handled just like the incident reported a couple of weeks ago. Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community have erupted into controversy with the distribution of a pamphlet that victim advocates and health workers fear discourages victims of sexual assaults from contacting police. The pamphlet says that members of the protest group who believe they are victims or who suspect sexual abuse "are encouraged to immediately report the incident to the Security Committee," which will investigate and "supply the abuser with counseling resources." That's really working out well, huh? Baltimore is hardly the only hotbed for rapists. It's out of control in New York, where even a deaf man was reportedly raped. To their credit, the New York Post has been one of the few "mainstream" outlets reporting on the ugliness in Zuccotti Park. Again, however, "organizers" are handling the rape epidemic internally. “Pervert! Pervert! Get the f--k out!” said vigilante Occupiers, who never bothered to call the cops. “They were shining flashlights in his face and yelling at him to leave,” said a woman who called herself Leslie, but refused to give her real name. She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped. “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.” Rapists have also struck at Occupy Cleveland. An “Occupy Cleveland” protester tells police she was raped in her tent over the weekend. Cleveland police are investigating an alleged sexual assault incident Saturday at the “Occupy Cleveland” rally involving a 19-year-old female student from Parma. Again, zero national coverage of the incident, outside of the blogosphere. Then there was this incident in Dallas. Dallas Police continue to investigate whether a teenage runaway was sexually assaulted by an adult male at the Occupy Dallas encampment behind City Hall. A source within the Dallas Police Department who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said the girl ran away from home in Garland last month and that she is now refusing to cooperate with investigators. She initially told officers that she had sex with a man in his early twenties and had engaged in sexual activity with several other people. The girl is 14 years old. Speaking of young kids, how much attention do you recall being paid to the man exposing himself to little kids at Occupy Seattle? Then there was the enterprising "Occupier" up in New Hampshire who tried to pimp out a 16-year-old. Again, mostly ignored. Also ignoring the rapes of the occupiers? Why, none other than Baltimore native Nancy Pelosi, who recently said: “God bless them for their spontaneity,” Pelosi told reporters. “It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused and it’s going to be effective.” Ah, nothing like a little youthful spontaneity to take the edge off of those long, arduous days of laying around doing nothing but whining and complaining about your miserable lot in life. While you're not busy trying to rape someone. Update: Baltimore police are now investigating the latest incident while the "occupiers" feign concern about the lawlessness they're breeding.
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... You've got it exactly backwards. So you're saying that the politicians aren't helping them do what you accuse them of?????? SO you're saying that the politicians "COULDN'T STOP" what is going on???? So you're saying that some politicians aren't already part of the Wall ST/1% crowd???? And you're saying that politicians "DON'T" seek election so they can become part of that crowd????? Interesting hypothesis......
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... Not my quote.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Its always interesting to note the lengths a liberal will go to sub divide any group they are afraid of. Being a Vet isn't good enough. Being black isn't good enough. Being female isn't good enough. Being sucessful isn't good enough.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Politicians are helping, not driving. SO you're saying that the politicians "COULDN'T STOP" what is going on???? Probably not as long as corporations are persons, money is free speech, and the Court rules the 99% don't have the right to know who is speaking (spending the money). So you're saying that some politicians aren't already part of the Wall ST/1% crowd???? I have no doubt that SOME in the upper 1% are decent people too, but that's not what we're talking about. And you're saying that politicians "DON'T" seek election so they can become part of that crowd????? To ascribe one motive to an entire class of people is just plain wrong.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
What is really interesting are the stupid, yet hilarious, "observations" that you make Boofer. I don't know what was funnier, Cain going out of his way to separate himself from the Civil Rights movement by claiming that he had no problem with having to drink from the "COLORED" water fountain or you trying to claim that it's the left side of the political spectrum that makes an issue of a person's military service.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Certainly your implication, REMF.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Being a Vet isn't good enough. Being black isn't good enough. Being female isn't good enough. Being sucessful isn't good enough. Oh god, we got that 'afeeered' thing going on again. Why can't someone just make a plain old observation in your world?
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasizes in public about other posters.
He really understands women, doesn't he.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
Every slap he took due to his clueless behavior would be the woman's fault and because of this, I have given him the prize.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
he's earned it.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
Do you see the hilarious irony in this, ming? Doubt it, but others will/do.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
That was my impression of Scott Olsen when I heard he was discharged under less than honorable circumstances and his highest award was only an Achievement Medal!!!! They hand out Achievement Medals like candy for just about anything...
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... I know but figured you might have known more about the guy than what I've heard...
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... To ascribe one motive to an entire class of people is just plain wrong. Maybe, maybe not...... most of them do not impress me with what they are doing... a bunch of crooks and morons if you ask me.... OK, I'll rephrase that how about 95% of them......
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... Obviously you're just making stuff up.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
There's no REMF's in the Marines. Navy guys are taxi drivers...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
So you don't think that I think that 95% of the current politicians we now have suck?????? LOL...... Would it amuse you to know that I have not voted for any politician that is currently serving or has served in Washington for the last 30 years?????
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... You are not alone.
I'm not surprised you think you know 95% of politicians currently holding office suck.
"You post articles- intellectual excrement, really- that support your inane, insipid mentality, on a regular basis. Capitalist Eric
Going on 20 for me... or has served in Washington Well...I voted for Susan Molinari in 1994 and Mike McMahon in 2008. But neither of them are still serving.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
I'm not the only one who feels that way.... Most of the people I know think we have a huge problem in DC, and it's not because of the supposed gridlock between the parties.... It's because they "KNOW" the country is about ready to be flushed down the toilet and they rightly blame the politicians for all the BS things they've done in the last 100 years that has brought on this crisis...... They know the politicians are selling them out for power and money... They know the politicians have done all the wrong things for political and personal gain, not for what is best for the country and it's citizens......
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... We all made the same bet, ming. We all took the same oath.
#30. To: war (#16)
And we know that Dodge's are wheezing old rustbuckets...
"Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured."
- Philip Short
#31. To: lucysmom (#17)
Before Pluto was a dog, Pluto was a planet - think about it.
"Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured."
- Philip Short
#32. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#30)
#33. To: Liberator, lucysmom, mininggold (#24)
Which leads to the next questions:
"Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured."
- Philip Short
#34. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#33)
After all, who ever heard of a Mouse having a dog for a pet?
#35. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#33)
2) I think they're the same poster playing "good cop, bad cop". (Or is it smart cop, dumb cop?)
#36. To: war (#34)
A cat would have made MUCH more sense...
#37. To: mininggold (#36)
#38. To: mininggold (#35)
2) I think they're the same poster playing "good cop, bad cop". (Or is it smart cop, dumb cop?)
"Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured."
- Philip Short
#39. To: mininggold (#29)
Really? I can't imagine that someone who got shot at day in and day out comes out of the experience the same as one who sat behind a desk. Maybe it's YOU who needs to show a little empathy for those who had a vastly different military experience from your own.
#40. To: Liberator (#2)
If they're NOT full of sh*t, they too will "occupy" Washington, DC...
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#41. To: Badeye, whinyOLD (#39)
So wrong on so many counts (unsurprisingly) its not worth discussing with you further.
#42. To: Badeye (#39)
Really? I can't imagine that someone who got shot at day in and day out comes out of the experience the same as one who sat behind a desk.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#43. To: Badeye (#39)
#44. To: CZ82 (#40)
They are being "PAID" to be full of shit, that's why they won't go protest the people who really need to be protested.... Wall St couldn't do what it does if it weren't for their political enablers....
#45. To: Badeye (#39)
(Edited)
So wrong on so many counts (unsurprisingly) its not worth discussing with you further.
#46. To: CZ82 (#40)
Wall St couldn't do what it does if it weren't for their political enablers....
#47. To: mininggold (#44)
You guys can protest anyone you want to. So what's stopping you?
#48. To: mininggold (#44)
You guys can protest anyone you want to. So what's stopping you?
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#49. To: lucysmom (#46)
Wall St couldn't do what it does if it weren't for their political enablers....
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#50. To: CZ82 (#42)
Really? I can't imagine that someone who got shot at day in and day out comes out of the experience the same as one who sat behind a desk.
#51. To: mininggold (#45)
So you guys could also get killed, wounded or PTSD from just sitting behind a desk typing reports?
#52. To: CZ82 (#49)
(Edited)
So you're saying that the politicians aren't helping them do what you accuse them of??????
#53. To: Badeye (#51)
(Edited)
#54. To: Badeye (#50)
Not my quote.
#55. To: Badeye (#51)
Its always interesting to note the lengths a liberal will go to sub divide any group they are afraid of.
#56. To: mininggold (#55)
Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasizes in public about other posters.
#57. To: lucysmom (#56)
He really understands women, doesn't he.
#58. To: mininggold (#57)
...I have given him the prize.
#59. To: mininggold (#55)
Oh god, we got that 'afeeered' thing going on again. Why can't someone just make a plain old observation in your world?
#60. To: war (#54)
REMF.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#61. To: Badeye (#50)
Not my quote.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#62. To: lucysmom (#52)
And you're saying that politicians "DON'T" seek election so they can become part of that crowd?????
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#63. To: CZ82 (#62)
OK, I'll rephrase that how about 95% of them......
#64. To: CZ82 (#60)
#65. To: lucysmom (#63)
Obviously you're just making stuff up.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#66. To: CZ82 (#65)
Would it amuse you to know that I have not voted for any politician that is currently serving or has served in Washington for the last 30 years?
#67. To: CZ82 (#65)
So you don't think that I think that 95% of the current politicians we now have suck?????? LOL......
#68. To: buckeroo (#66)
(Edited)
Would it amuse you to know that I have not voted for any politician that is currently serving...
#69. To: lucysmom (#67)
I'm not surprised you think you know 95% of politicians currently holding office suck.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
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