Does Bradshaw not realize that your right to protest only extends as long as you don't trample the rights of others? He's ok w/ 24/7 occupations...

Bradshaw lied his ass off about the Oakland protests right out the gate.

Tip for Bradshaw: Don't pick a fight w/ Rush.

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If OWS is upset @ Wall Street for wrecking the economy 3 years ago, what took them so long to protest?

Since when is it illegal to make many times more money than your employees?

To Russ Feingold: How is Cain trying to intimidate free speech?

Though I'm probably the only person not to own an Apple product of some kind, I'm sorry to hear of Jobs' death.

Occupy Wall St's manifesto

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not
lose sight of what brought us together.

 Difference between these hippies and the Founding Fathers?  The latter group could actually delineate their grievances with the Crown.

We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

Isn't an ally someone who can help you do something besides whine about how unfair life is?  Incidentally, it is.  Get used to it!

As one people, formerly divided by the color of our skin, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, or lack thereof, political party and cultural background, we acknowledge
the reality: that there is only one race, the human race, and our survival requires the
cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption
of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their
brethren; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but
corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that
no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest
over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably
assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

 Okay, I wait with baited breath for the "facts"...

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the
original mortgage.

Well, to start out the gate, that's not a fact.  It's an allegation, one as yet I'm unaware of being proven in a court of law.  Any company that acts so recklessly will quickly go out of business, as banks take it in the shorts with every foreclosure they have.  The smart ones want to work with customers, but risk analysis is a big part of it.

They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give CEO’s
exorbitant bonuses.

I'll agree that the bailouts were a bad idea.  Too big to fail = Too stupid to survive in my book.  The companies should've declared bankruptcy and had their assets sold off to pay creditors.  The marketplace vacuum then gets filled by competitors who were smarter/luckier.

They have perpetuated gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace.

And have paid hefty fines when they do so.  Again, smart companies only discriminate against under-achievers.

They have poisoned the food supply, and undermined the farming system through
monopolization.

I'm sure if they did poison the food supply, it was on purpose.  Nothing makes a long-term forecast rosy like killing off potential and repeat business.  As for undermining the "farming system", nobody can hold a candle to a government that subsidizes farming of food that goes uneaten.

They have continuously sought to end the rights of workers to negotiate their pay and
make complaints about the safety of their workplace.

You know when I can negotiate my pay?  When I interview with a prospective employer.  The brouhaha in Wisconsin was about public employee unions.  And the card check debate has been about safeguarding the rights of individuals not to be coerced into joining a union if they don't think it's in their best interests.  I'm unaware of individuals not being allowed to address workplace safety.  A threat to call OSHA is usually all it takes.

They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education,
which is itself a human right.

I see, they put a gun to the students' heads and forced them to take out a loan?  Forced them to major in something with no current marketable value (except in teaching it to others), like Liberals Arts?  And please point to the section of the Constitution which delineates education as a human right.  And let's be clear here:  Taxpayers fund K-12 education for all U.S. citizens, as well as a large number of illegal immigrants.  This is whining about post-secondary education, namely college.  Well, remember what Judge Smalls said?  "The world needs ditch diggers too, son."

They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut
workers’ healthcare and pay.

In other words, the companies did what they had to do to stay competitive and stay in business and contributing to the economy in response to a game of chicken the unions played and lost.

They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the
culpability or responsibility.

Corporations are staffed and run by people.  Just like people, they benefit or suffer from the political winds of change.  Should they not have the same First Amendment rights as individual citizens?  What about AARP?  The NEA? Greenpeace?  The Sierra Club?  The AFL-CIO?  These are all organizations.  Corporations.  Face it, McCain-Feingold was SPEECH RATIONING!

They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of
contracts in regards to health insurance.

And that's wrong how?  Contracts are meant to protect parties doing business together.  And then the government comes along and shits all over contract law.  Just ask the senior bond holders of GM how they felt when the Obama administration essentially invalidated their contract with GM and handed majority control of GM over the United Auto Workers union.  You see, unlike the utopian fantasy land inhabited by big-government acolytes, businesses are either beholden to their owners to make a profit, be those owners a single individual, a family, a consortium, or hundreds/thousands of shareholders.  They tend to hire the best accountants and lawyers so they can continue making money.

And then Obamacare gets passed, forcing increased expenditures from big employers.  The accountants and lawyers at the evil corporations, whom were most likely A/B students, can see the big impact coming at their bottom line.  The government feel-good types, if they have a degree in law or accounting, are more likely C students.

They have sold our privacy as a commodity.

Nonsense.  Look to your government first.  When I registered my car in Iowa after moving from Minnesota, I started getting auto warranty offers about two months later.  Strangely, I remember one warranty offer talking about my recent purchase of my car two months prior (Two months, five years, what's the difference?).  Coincidence?  More likely the DMV sold my information.

And for those companies you did do business with, and did sell information only they had?  My advice is to next time study their privacy statement.  Every company has one these days.

They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.

Correction:  The government has used the military and police force to temper the notion of a boundless First Amendment with the need for the protection of information which could seriously or gravely harm the defense of the country should it fall into the hands of our enemies.  Yes, it may sound Orwellian, but people of conscience work in intelligence, too.  But instead of blabbing to the New York Times about something they feel is illegal yet classified, their first stop should be the House or Senate intelligence committees. The committee's members are cleared to know and discuss whether something is an abuse of power by the Executive branch of government, and the committees are bipartisan.

They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of
profit.

I'll explain it to you in terms you're likely to be uncomfortable with.  I don't care:

if Cost of recall > Cost of lawsuit settlements then
  Don't recall
else
  Recall

They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have
produced and continue to produce.

Agreed.  Oh wait, we're still talking about corporations and not government, right?  In any event, yes, laissez-faire capitalism should be permitted to flourish rather than the crony capitalism that exists right now.

They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.

Translation:  They made campaign contributions to politicians whose viewpoints aligned with their own.  

They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.

Actually, that's the market.  The alternate forms of energy have failed to prove cost-effective.  See Solyndra.

They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order
to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.

So corporations don't have the right to protect the billions of dollars they invest in research and development?  Incidentally, the sales of those medicines may have turned a profit in the U.S. (which I doubt), but what about Canadian price ceilings on prescription medicines, and the fact that U.S. citizens sometimes buy their drugs from Canada and again undercut the evil corporations?

They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty book keeping, and inactive
ingredients in pursuit of profit.

It was the Obama administration that blocked journalists' access to the Gulf of Mexico spill.  And name me one incident where a corporation didn't open up their checkbook when they fucked up.  The Enron brass went to jail.  

They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the
media.

I'll agree with this one to a limited extent.  GE's former ownership of MSNBC springs to mind, as does that network's Obama-can-do-no-wrong stance.  But guess what?  In these days of alternate media, control is an impossibility.

They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.

Huh?  How do you perpetuate colonialism in your home country.  And colonialism hasn't really existed since the end of WWII.  And how do corporations do this?

They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.

I sense a Blackwater reference.  If memory serves, when their operatives broke the laws of Iraq, the U.S. military handed them over to the local authorities.

They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government
contracts.

Let's nail down the definition of "weapons of mass destruction".  In my book, the only thing that can wreak mass destruction is a nuclear weapon.  If we're talking about nukes, there are a couple of points to consider:

• Nuclear isotopes in nuclear weapons have a half-life.  In short, given enough time, the isotopes decay to the point where the bomb may still go boom, but it won't go BOOM!
• The more lethal, precise, and demoralizing a weapon, the quicker an enemy surrenders and the more lives saved, on both sides of a conflict.

If we're talking about non-nuclear, then the second point is applicable here.  In fact, I'd add that a precise weapon saves innocent bystanders.

They have participated in a directly racist action by accepting the contract from the State
of Georgia to murder Troy Davis.

So it was racist because he was guilty, or because he'd exhausted all of his appeals for the murder of a police officer?  I don't agree with the death penalty because I think it's not punitive enough, but it is the law.

To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge
you to assert your power.

I do, every couple of years in a voting booth.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble;

OK.

occupy public space;

OK, so long as the occupation doesn't interfere with the rights of someone else.

create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

It's called electing your representative/senator/President.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy,

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

-- Thomas Jefferson

we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!

Unbelievable: some moron actually believes full-service gas stations would be better because they provide jobs.

Redistribution of wealth is not a civil right!

Who can last longer? A bunch of whining brats who are gonna "occupy" through the winter? Or people who are actually paid to brave the elements?

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