9/27/2011 8:09:07 PM

Ummm, the peppered spray people were penned in with fences while a police chief steps up, sprays them and then slinks off into the crowd. Fucking pathetic......

9/27/2011 8:09:07 PM

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"Ummm, the peppered spray people were penned in with fences while a police chief steps up, sprays them and then slinks off into the crowd. Fucking pathetic......"

Watch the video more closely. The fence was just blocking the near side and was extending down the sidewalk, not penning people in (hell do you notice how the 20+ people who are there at the beginning of the video disappear after the pepper spray? They weren't penned in anywhere). And the girls were clearly not trying to move away from the fence as they were facing it.

9/27/2011 8:13:18 PM

It looked to me like they were stretching the fence beyond its originally intended range.

9/27/2011 8:16:17 PM

9/29/2011 12:18:46 PM

9/29/2011 12:37:23 PM

to the people critical of the protesters:

do you have a reason NOT to be angry with Wall Street?

9/29/2011 12:39:09 PM

no

but for some reason these tea party anti-government fucks support the police unconditionally

it's a strange paradox

9/29/2011 1:05:22 PM

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"Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City."

9/29/2011 6:06:43 PM

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"To me, it looks like the pepper sprayed people were being asked to move and they were refusing."

Are you a moron? Where were the women supposed to move to when they were being kettled? Did you watch the video?

10/9/2011 5:56:25 AM

10/9/2011 11:41:00 AM

10/9/2011 2:43:33 PM

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"Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who "play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac."

10/9/2011 2:48:27 PM

These tool bags were doing this annoying shit and singing their terrible songs chants in the financial district in Chicago. Want to be V for vendetta kids.

10/9/2011 4:29:07 PM

they were in Charlotte too

10/9/2011 4:35:01 PM

They have the right to express their opinions though legal protests. They also have the right to be complete idiots.

10/9/2011 4:42:12 PM

i really hate that they associate with that shitty movie and retarded mask.

10/9/2011 4:46:19 PM

Same here, that and they complain about having debt from their education. Sorry that communications degree didn't make you as marketable as you seem to think you are. Enjoy the chants and V masks.

10/9/2011 4:49:46 PM

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"Sorry that communications degree didn't make you as marketable as you seem to think you are"

10/9/2011 5:39:26 PM

I fully agree with the cops in those situations, as I do with most other Protest/Mob situations... if your goal is to go out there and cause trouble, don't expect there to be a lack of repercussions. You have the right to protest, but you have to do it right, so you aren't endangering others, or causing a problem for the rest of society as a whole

used to be that if you went to protest, you would do it expecting to have some heads busted, some pepper spray sprayed, and a good chance of getting arrested- you were willing to stand up for you cause despite these risks...

10/9/2011 5:48:18 PM

this shits so gay, get a job you fucking hippies

10/9/2011 5:52:37 PM

I think a big factor that people aren't considering here is that the pepper spray incident happened in DC. The police here are USED to dealing with protesters. There is a protest literally 2-5 times a week. Most of the time, they can handle the situation without any violence.

I don't see what changed here...

10/9/2011 5:52:59 PM

they should just pepper spray anyone who looks, acts, or smells like a hippie...its probaly not the right thing to do but nobody will really care because they are hippies

10/9/2011 5:54:56 PM

I long for the days before pepper spray when you would just get your skull cracked with a billy stick.

10/9/2011 6:17:54 PM

Why

10/9/2011 6:27:25 PM

10/9/2011 6:30:59 PM

the smell near that square is fucking disgusting

thank god i work on the west side

[Edited on October 9, 2011 at 6:57 PM. Reason : ,]

10/9/2011 6:48:17 PM

rather than look for a job, I'm gonna go sit in the street and bang a drum

10/9/2011 6:54:31 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI

Admittedly, saw this on Drudge, but it is creepy as shit

10/9/2011 7:31:38 PM

^ weird. I'm too lazy to actually read and find out what's happening though

10/9/2011 7:46:05 PM

what a terrible method to effect change.

oh im sorry...

what a terrible

WHAT A TERRIBLE

method to

METHOD TO

effect change

EFFECT CHANGE

10/9/2011 7:47:38 PM

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"Sorry that communications degree didn't make you as marketable as you seem to think you are"

10/9/2011 10:36:52 PM

Oh my God, usually I'm a whole lot more aligned with the ACLU than the po-lice, but this would be a great time for some police brutality. They need to break out the firehoses. Shit, they ought to figure a way to combine firehoses with pepper spray. That would be fucking awesome. Nah, drone strikes are the only solution that would be both sufficiently effective and poetic.

[Edited on October 9, 2011 at 10:42 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2011 10:41:45 PM

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"weird. I'm too lazy to actually read and find out what's happening though"

This is what they're doing:

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"#OCCUPYWALLSTREET uses a practice called "Human Megaphone" to help deliver a speech to the masses. Public address systems and megaphones have not been allowed by the NYPD through the entire occupation. Guess this is how people addressed large crowds before electricity."

Although that one guy has a megaphone, so I'm not sure why they're doing it. Maybe they weren't allowed to use a high enough volume for everyone to hear? At any rate, it's not just some chanting ritual.

10/9/2011 11:07:02 PM

^^Why

10/9/2011 11:09:25 PM

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all these people are ruining America

10/9/2011 11:20:33 PM

Suspend them all, they need to be looking for jobs instead of posting on the internet

10/9/2011 11:24:11 PM

honestly, if i was poor and disenfranchised, i wouldn't protest.


i would just loot.

10/9/2011 11:30:10 PM

really? because I was poor and disenfranchised for a bit...but Ijust kept looking for a job, and now I'm no longer as such. maybe I should have given up looking for a job and just gone to the nearest street corner to complain, that should help

10/9/2011 11:34:33 PM

no, you should have looted. faggot.

10/9/2011 11:38:42 PM

disenfranchised for a bit? what election(s) were you stopped from participating in?

10/9/2011 11:39:15 PM

obviously by complain I meant throw a brick through a window and burn shit

[Edited on October 9, 2011 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ^hey man, I'm just providing symmetry ]

10/9/2011 11:39:39 PM

I'm gonna go to wall street and sell bootstraps. Bet I'll make a killing.

10/9/2011 11:43:58 PM

nah, there's no demand there for them.

10/9/2011 11:50:11 PM

maybe if you're willing to trade bootstraps for veggie burritos

10/9/2011 11:50:48 PM

lol, "occupy raleigh" has raised about $700 according to the news

10/9/2011 11:53:17 PM

I mean I don't think the underlying issues they're protesting would be resolved if they all got jobs in the stockroom at Office Depot or whatever anyway so

10/9/2011 11:54:10 PM

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"really? because I was poor and disenfranchised for a bit...but Ijust kept looking for a job, and now I'm no longer as such. maybe I should have given up looking for a job and just gone to the nearest street corner to complain, that should help"

That's nice. Did you know the average length of unemployment right now is 40.5 weeks?

10/9/2011 11:57:59 PM

For comparison



I guess people are a lot lazier now than they were two years ago

OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa

10/10/2011 12:05:50 AM

nope, but I was unemployed for close to 90 and I sure as shit didn't quit looking just to go cry to people about how hard it is to find a job

10/10/2011 12:07:08 AM