Occupy - postscript, requiem or next chapter?

[robertlouis]

Is it just me or is there a particularly sad irony in the Occupy camp at St Pauls Cathedral in London being dismantled and dispersed at the behest of the authorities of the high temple of amoral capitalism (yes, I know it's a tautology) aka the City of London, on the very same day that Barclays get caught trying to dodge out of a £500m tax bill? Bastards.

[Silcc69]

I thought the occupy movement was dead.

[onmyknees]

Is it just me or is there a particularly sad irony in the Occupy camp at St Pauls Cathedral in London being dismantled and dispersed at the behest of the authorities of the high temple of amoral capitalism (yes, I know it's a tautology) aka the City of London, on the very same day that Barclays get caught trying to dodge out of a £500m tax bill? Bastards.



Ahhhhhhh what a damn shame. I can't speak about the thugs masquerading as protestors in the UK, but here the crime wave has thankfully come to an end in most cities.....a few left wing enclaves continue to entertain the anarchists. It's over RL....Put down the revolution books and step away from those romantic ideas...lmao .Here is yesterday's "workplace" accident from one of those Occupy patriots. Another day.......another crime. And it all started our with such hope...lol


Colorado Springs "Occupier" Burns Down Historic Town Hall - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNf85Sy6lnE&feature=player_embedded)

[Stavros]

Ahhhhhhh what a damn shame. I can't speak about the thugs masquerading as protestors in the UK, but here the crime wave has thankfully come to an end in most cities.....a few left wing enclaves continue to entertain the anarchists. It's over RL....Put down the revolution books and step away from those romantic ideas...lmao .Here is yesterday's "workplace" accident from one of those Occupy patriots. Another day.......another crime. And it all started our with such hope...lol


A simple and characteristic disconnect between facts and opinion. If you actually follow your own video link, you will discover that it was because he disagreed with the Occupation that your fellow American abandoned it, and then set fire to that building; your opinion is priceless, your grasp of the facts worthless.



Perhaps you can name one of the ‘thugs’ from the Occupy St Paul’s camp-? Your opinion is priceless, your grasp of the facts worthless. (77 words).

[Faldur]

But our downtown streets won't smell of urine and feces anymore... going to miss that.

[Stavros]

I sympathise; I think it is an inevitable hazard when large groups mass like that in places which are not equipped for it. I haven't much practical knowledge of these camps because I have not been near them when I was in London, on Christmas Eve most recently. I am still trying to make up my mind, but I feel as a form of radical protest, in this country, it exposes a lack of coherence and direction, and is a consquence of the end of the Cold War and the simple fact that alternatives to capitalism have not been articulated. Indeed, capitalism itself seems unable to explain its failures, hence the tendency for this incoherence to produce a practical and political mess. At least they know what they are fighting for in North Africa and the Middle East, where such camps merely by daring to exist challenged the autocracy of the state. We have always lived in interesting times, but I cannot recall a time in which there seems to be such a paralysis of the imagination; and for that matter, of hope.

[Faldur]

I sympathise; I think it is an inevitable hazard when large groups mass like that in places which are not equipped for it. I haven't much practical knowledge of these camps because I have not been near them when I was in London, on Christmas Eve most recently. I am still trying to make up my mind, but I feel as a form of radical protest, in this country, it exposes a lack of coherence and direction, and is a consquence of the end of the Cold War and the simple fact that alternatives to capitalism have not been articulated. Indeed, capitalism itself seems unable to explain its failures, hence the tendency for this incoherence to produce a practical and political mess. At least they know what they are fighting for in North Africa and the Middle East, where such camps merely by daring to exist challenged the autocracy of the state. We have always lived in interesting times, but I cannot recall a time in which there seems to be such a paralysis of the imagination; and for that matter, of hope.

Well stated..

[hippifried]

I thought the occupy movement was dead.
That would seem to be the claim, every time another paramilitary unit is sent in to break up a camp. Been hearing it for months. Maybe the next one will do the trick.

[Gouki]

the majority of the OWS movement in the US was co-opted by George Soros funded outfits

[trish]

That would seem to be the claim, every time another paramilitary unit is sent in to break up a camp. Been hearing it for months. Maybe the next one will do the trick.I hear they got Occupy's second in command.

[hippifried]

I hear they got Occupy's second in command.
OH NOOOO!!! Whatever shall we do? Was it a real drone or an internet drone. You know. Well, like the ones in here.



the majority of the OWS movement in the US was co-opted by George Soros funded outfits
Well of course. Everybody else is just too stupid to get on the real gravy train?

[thx1138]

Their name is too mundane. Perhaps they could change it to something like the Free American Army. It would capture people's imagination and perhaps garner more public support.

[robertlouis]

Their name is too mundane. Perhaps they could change it to something like the Free American Army. It would capture people's imagination and perhaps garner more public support.

My OP was about the camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. You need to think bigger, mate.

And Free American Army sounds like one of those nutjob militias somewhere in the Montana woods.