From the beginning, Occupy has portrayed itself as something better. It was a better protest than had gone before. It was better at understanding the issues and it was going to change the world. While it preened, it filled the virtual world with tweets, videos and posted every trivial thing going on its life. It roared its self-importance to the world but in the end, it was the mouse that roared and it was a motley and expensive mouse at that.
In an attempt to clean up its tarnished image, Occupy now expresses deep concern for the impoverished in the world but for anyone with a brain, it isn't working. The simple reality is that Occupy has cost the 99% millions of dollars in vandalized property and damage to city parks around the world and they have established a legacy that will live on long after the camps and the hissy-fits are gone.
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| An Occupy protester vandalizing a small business they claim to support |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral vandalized by Occupy protesters |
While it continues to struggle on, trying to hold itself together and to convince us that it will lead us out of bondage to the New Jerusalem, the bloom has come off the rose. Memories are long and Occupy's actions speak much louder than its words.
Here are only a few samples of Occupy's legacy.
Here are only a few samples of Occupy's legacy.
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| The New Jerusalem or as some might call it "The Sty" |
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| Occupy Toronto resulted in $60,000 damage to St. James Park |
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| Beginning the clean up of Zuccoti Park - $13 million cost to NYC |
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| Member of LAPD cleaning up the mess and damage done by Occupy LA |
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| Health, safety and cleanliness were never a concern, just donations |
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| The aftermath |
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| Michael Moore exhorting Occupy protesters to keep at it |
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| Where Michael Moore retreats to after encouraging Occupy protesters to live in squalor and damage our cities |
Occupy brought no new ideas just squalor, vandalism and crime to our communities. It made a mockery of our laws, trivialized democracy and damaged our parks at a cost of millions across North America. It was an indiscriminate orgy of self-indulgence that accomplished nothing except empower a group of people without the values, the experience or the knowledge to use that empowerment responsibly.
The real tragedy is not the cost, it is the fact that so many within and who supported this temper tantrum don't have the values to feel either ashamed or embarrassed by what has been done to our cities and the broader 99%. They are too busy continuing the cause to think about what they've already wrought or to help clean up their mess.
It was never a revolution, it was an expensive tantrum of the clueless.
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The urge for freedom, fairness and democracy is never neat and clean. If you want tidy, your best bet is a totalitarian government.
ReplyDeleteNice try but filth and vandalism are not the tools of those who pursue freedom. They are the tools of the self-indulgent, the lazy and the irresponsible. Gandhi, Martin Luther King and others like them led people to freedom without this squalor. If you and your hissy-fit want to be taken seriously, I suggest you clean up your act.
ReplyDeleteMoney is wasted in many more places than this 'squalor.' What a joke, the government can take and waste billions but when the people cause a few million dollars damage trying to create awareness it's so much more wrong! How dare we the people do this to our cities?! HOW DARE WE?!
ReplyDeleteI am usually open to debate and differing opinions but that is an absolutely moronic statement. I suppose if someone burned down a house that would give you the right to rob a bank.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your anger but it's been my experience that some people don't like to face the truth about what they are and respond with anger. If the truth hurts, deal with it.
The 99%, the people, you claim to support, are fed up with your self-absorbed rhetoric, the vandalism, the begging and the hypocrisy.
The death toll in Syria is more than 3500 killed by the authorities.Those people died fighting to achieve what you take for granted and treat with such disrespect. 8 people have died in Occupy camps, none were killed by the police. They died from drug overdoses, shootings and a suicide. You don't belong to a legitimate protest, you belong to a rabble that uses socialist slogans it doesn't understand to justify it's squalid existence.
You had a chance to make a difference. You and the kids blew it with this squalid behaviour. You don't have to take my word for it, more and more former supporters of Occupy are leaving the great movement and speaking out against it...but then you knew that already...everybody does.
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