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Old 10-26-2011, 09:17 PM   #161
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Why did everything break out like that? I assume the protesters got a little rowdy? I'm not siding with the police who hit the war vet in the head and threw the flash bang in the middle of people but it looks like some shit's going down.
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Old 10-27-2011, 11:21 AM   #162
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here is a blog being updated at Occupy Oakland, i do not vouch for any of the credibility but it seems legit.
http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_19188121?source=rss
it is in reverse chronological order so start at the bottom.
it does say that individual protesters threw paint and bottles at the officers. regardless, in the video, we see a group of people rushing to a man's aid bombed with tear gas. keep that in mind before you pick a side.
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Old 10-27-2011, 01:17 PM   #163
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I think picking a side is the wrong way to go about it. For the most part I assume the police are doing a great job like they usually do. There's always those few bad apples though and that goes for everything but it's far more serious when it's somebody in a position of authority like a cop. I hope those cops are either fired or suspended and retrained dependIng on the details of the situation. As for the havok, the bad apples in the group of protesters responsible for throwing bottles is to blame for that.
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I think picking a side is the wrong way to go about it.
good for you. in the meantime, it seems like nearly every other poster in this thread IS picking sides. they seem to have done so based on non-factual and hazy-at-best evidence which has been represented to them through corporate media.
and on that note, i just happened across this article.

"Occupy Wall Street is not a movement without a message. It’s a movement that has wisely shunned the one-note, pre-chewed, simple-minded messaging required for cable television as it now exists. It’s a movement that feels no need to explain anything to the powers that be, although it is deftly changing the way we explain ourselves to one another.
Think, for just a moment, about the irony. We are the most media-saturated 24-hour-cable-soaked culture in the world, and yet around the country, on Facebook and at protests, people are holding up cardboard signs, the way protesters in ancient Sumeria might have done when demonstrating against a rise in the price of figs. And why is that? Because they very wisely don’t trust television cameras and microphones to get it right anymore. Because a media constructed around the illusion of false equivalencies, screaming pundits, and manufactured crises fails to capture who we are and what we value."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...it_class_.html
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Old 10-27-2011, 02:54 PM   #165
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