Occupy Wall Street is Your Annoying Younger Sibling
First off, I’m a liberal. But I do believe in acting like a grown up.
The people involved in occupy wall street are like the little kid that would sit next to you in the car, with their finger one inch from your face.
“Don’t touch me,” you say
“I’m not touching you,” they say back.
This exchange continues ad nauseum.
Then the car hits a bump, and they DO touch you. You push them away.
They start BAWLING. ”Mom he PUSHED me! He is TORTURING me! He used a net to gather me up and MACE me and I wasn’t doing ANYTHING.”
Seriously. Get permits to protest. Stop pushing your middle finger just up to the line of the law and then complain where there is a reaction. What did you think was going to happen? The evil traders will just come out of their office buildings and burn their briefcases in alliance? You need to organize and strategize above the street level to enact change. Without an MLK or John Lennon on board, you are just going to get arrested.
All this being said, the NYPD does tend to have the attitude of grabbing your hands and pushing them at you, saying “stop hitting yourself.”
