Do You Support The "Occupy"Protests?

Do you support the global "Occupy" protests?

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Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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fdd2blk said:
are they giving away all their money? :)
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Everyone backing it is just doing it for publicity.

Hopefully this doesn't get ruined, like in the 60's.
After "Woodstock" everyone saw "Hippie" as a very lucrative trend to start producing.
So they kinda killed the whole revolution after that by making "Hippie" come in a can.
 
MuyLocoNC

MuyLocoNC

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Found this little blurb written about the Occupy Berkeley participants. I think it accurately describes most of the "privileged" college students taking part in the occupy protests across the country.

A clique of privileged U.C. Berkeley students, upset that they’re the top 1% of elite students in the state and thus disqualified from participating in the Occupy movement, could no longer contain their frustration on Wednesday and threw an Occutantrum, attempting to “occupy” a few square yards of the 1,200-acre campus. The police dutifully played their roles in the street theater performance, showing up in riot gear and looking scary so the privileged students could shout at them and feel properly revolutionary, as instructed by their professors. Following the script, the police repeatedly removed the handful of occupation tents so that the students could feel sufficiently wronged by authority figures and thereby earn their “Berkeley protest stripes,” which have been a requirement for graduation since 1964.

The group tantrum also gave the students a chance to test their fluency in Occupese, a new language which they have all been studying since the semester began on September 17.

The students, comprising the top 1% of high school graduates in the state (the top 12.5% are guaranteed admittance to the University of California’s 11 campuses statewide; of those, U.C. Berkeley is the most sought-after and thus the most selective) twice tried to set up tents in front of Sproul Hall on Wednesday, and twice the U.C. police moved in to dismantle them, as they had announced they would do.
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