Well, I think we know who slept through History class...

[kayshapero]

Dear Powers that Be - you guys would appear to be afraid of the wrong things, or maybe just not afraid enough.  Pissing off nearly everybody is a bad idea.  And the time to fear isn't when people are peacefully demonstrating, it's when you've been stupid enough to drive them out.  Heaven help you if you succeed in that endeavor.  The solution is to try and solve the problem brought before you.  The messenger is not the problem.

Oh, and Google the term "Hooverville".  Then go read Kipling...

Comments

[filkermanque.livejournal.com]

While I don't agree with rhjunior's characterization of the OWS folk, I do think there is a enormous difference between their situation and the situations of the Bonus Army and of those in the Hoovervilles, that being that most of the occupados have somewhere else they can go.

[kayshapero]

Now.

NYPD Stupid Moves (Another Hooverville analogy)

[niall-shapero.livejournal.com]

The NYPD has gone on a rampage, and (among other stupid moves) beaten up and arrested an NY City Councilman and several reporters. The Councilman was held, apparently, for 17 hours and was not allowed to contact an attorney.

The video of the councilman (where he calls out the badge number of one of the arresting officers) was on the TV tonight.

Whatever position you may hold regarding the OWS movement, the actions by the police (and by whoever gave them their marching orders) were STUPID. Think about it: antagonizing the press by beating up reporters, and antagonizing a member of the opposition party by beating HIM up. Can you say, "Bloomberg was not running on all cylinders" on this one? (I am assuming, for the moment, that a uniformed officer is not going to beat up a politician - even a latino looking/sounding one - without an order, at least from his immediate superior, and that superior is not going to give the order unless he receives a like order from "on high").