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  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

    35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

  • I have to disagree with you here, Cenk. How do you think America was formed? It definitely wasn't because of peaceful protests. I believe that these protests are gathering of sticks and the police/government brutality are the fuel. All we need is the ignition and watch the flame burn down our corrupt government and start anew. As much as I hate people getting hurt or possibly killed, sometimes a revolution of some sort is necessary to straighten up our country.

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  • I think you are absolutely right. People have a right to speak their minds. But as soon as they throw something they are on the wrong side. We have to embrace non-vilence at every turn. I appreciate their courage too.

  • people who believe violence can not be met with violence are suicidal.

    It has nothing to do with republican/democrat/left/right and other zombie-sheeple categories.

    Self-protective survival requires violence. All else is cutting your own neck open so you can be killed on command.

  • if you're protesting and someone decides to go on the offensive violently, immediately move away from that person or persons, make sure they are aware they are alone in their violent acts, and let the police bulldoze them over while isolated.

  • This woman is like hitler but without the confidence not too sure about the mustache

  • Impeach this bitch and put in a real mayor!!!

  • Is recall an option ?

  • that Jean lady sounds like a windbag

  • Oakland, CA. is predominately Black, (err....."African-American"), yet, a Black person can hardly be seen within the rag-tag Occupy minions.

    Wonder why? Using leftist logic, it wouldn't be that the "occupy" movement is racist, would it?

  • @bobbytiger Lazy ass niggers, STFU.

  • @bobbytiger you sir are a true detective, thanks for figuring that out. boy i wish i was as smart as you.

  • @Deliverance02x What the fuck you talking about? Liberals are FOR PERSONAL RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS THAT DON'T INFRINGE ON OTHERS. Your a fucking idiot, the cancer is the .01% that is making this country how shitty it is, maybe you should actually go to school rather than be a dumb ass inbred, seeing as your name is deliverance which is a movie with inbreed in it. Is this where your name comes from?

  • omg! thank you for coming to oakland! i want to shake your hand!

  • Oakland P.D. should be investigated ... along with the Police administrators who receive kickbacks.

  • First Year Oakland Police officers can make over $90,000 a year. Almost twice as much as a First year NYPD officer. Where is the news story on that???

  • We should pull a ghandi and all just sit down all over the city. In the parks, sidewalks infront of doors, and streets

  • The police who shot the canisters directly into the crowd should be in jail! This is ridiculous... I bet that nothing happens to them. And they wonder why no one trusts the government

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  • Poor guy, hope this veteran gets better and the guy who did it gets brought to justice

  • This make me want to watch V for vendetta again. Remember remember...

  • ahahah Cenk, one more thing. Come to Oakland and see for yourself what these "protesters" are about. This is not NY.

  • ".... attacked by the police." LOL, yes after being told they needed to leave and come back during daylight hours. These people were warned! I love how Cenk expresses outrage at this guy getting injured but has no words whatsoever for the police who were getting things thrown at them and being called PIGS. Wow, those protesters must have been REAAAAAL peaceful. There was even a sign that said KILL PIGS. So what exactly should cops do exactly? Cops who are part of this supposed 99%.

  • those "violent protesters" might be people who got paid by wall street to pretend and blend with the real protesters to mess up the protests.

  • Interesting how a few months changes things. As recently as mid summer, the general impression was that the younger generation is politically inactive and insulated from issues of our day.

    OWS isn't going away, and police brutality is making it go viral.

  • No bottles thrown can justify such a violent crackdown. If someone throws a bottle it should be on him, if the police fire gas canisters in the face of unarmed peaceful protesters because someone threw a bottle that's police brutality.

  • @FreeTheWorker It was crowds of people! How would they know who exactly did it?

  • @Nesserz85 So you're saying that the inability to identify the assailant justifies indiscriminately assaulting unarmed and innocent people? Is the level of violence and force from the police even a justified reaction against those who did it?

  • @FreeTheWorker Innocent people? How innocent were they when they were saying f the pigs and throwing shit at the police? Why would the police have to endure that type of abuse and allow for it to happen without doing anything to try and stop the this "mob?" Also, when the police tell you upfront to disperse and warn you ahead of time of what their intentions are you must be pretty stupid to think you won't get hurt. The protesters put themselves in this situation.

  • @Nesserz85 Hey tool, the police have no right to stop a peaceful protest. You know we have rights in this country right? Do you know anything about our country? Wake up or get out!

  • @gekapat What happened to the rights of city employees - don't they have the right to walk up to their workplace without stepping in piles of shit and getting contact high? They can protest all they want but when it becomes a freaking health hazard don't you think we ought to clean up a bit ;) Which is why they were asked to go in the first place!

  • @Nesserz85 The city employees are just fine and their rights were not violated like these peoples were. If they are concerned about piles of shit they cna place port-a-johns out there if that is their concern... It would cost a lot less that paying all of these thug cops overtime so they can shit on our constitution. Nice talking point about health hazards though, you got suds coming out your ears your so brainwashed

  • @Nesserz85 So by your logic if one man is guilty it's justified to punish all men, just because you can't identify the guilty party.

    Thank you, you've basically maid my point about the irrational and draconian position you're supporting for me.

  • made even

  • Cenk this is going to end in violence one way or another. I'm not encouraging it I'm just saying it's inevitable. If you believe these peaceful protests will accomplish anything you're delusional and you can keep walking into the rubber bullets until the police run out, but income inequality and the corporate stranglehold on power will remain.

  • @Monolith21000  couldn't agree more. the banks have been screwing over us for years, if they think a mob in the park will make them part with that money is dumb

  • @Monolith21000 Any act of violence will decimate the OWS movement. All moderate support will instantly evaporate. The political machine is influenced by numbers, not by violence.

  • @JDBlessin Oh no, they'll lose the support of moderates! Whatever will we do without the support of the clueless boobs who voted for Bush II then voted for the empty suit that is the current president? There is brutal class warfare in the US, started by the rich against the poor. The moderates will, as Jefferson said, "wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Moderates be damned. When they grow spines and learn to walk on hind legs they'll have opinions worth hearing.

  • @Monolith21000 So you want a small group of people to violently change the nation without support of the general populace? Sounds worse than the guys who just took our money.

  • @JDBlessin The abolition of slavery was accomplished at the point of a bayonet, while moderates in the north decried it. The civil rights movement only triumphed because moderates saw they could negotiate with Dr King or the black panthers and their guns. A moderate is someone who sits on a fence between a fair deal and unbridled greed and actually have to ponder the choice. Drag them kicking and screaming into the light. They'll like it when the occupiers win.

  • @Monolith21000 First off the north fought the civil war to maintain the union, not to abolish slavery. Moderates in the north certainly didn't decry the abolition either, they voted in the president who abolished it. Also I like how you bring up Martin Luther King a world renowned advocate of peaceful protest. I wasn't going to bring him up, but you did it for me.

  • @JDBlessin Isn't that kinda funny? Folks really think this was something new.

    After working my way up, and getting kicked off the corporate plantation, I can't be but so mad

    at those just figuring things out. I got caught and I KNEW better! I'm too busy laughing at myself

    to be mad at people who've been lied to for years.

  • her career is OVER

  • Back in the 60"s (as I brush my grey hair to the side :), we learned how to spot the crowd infiltrators. They were there to be inside the crowd and throw the first punch out so police force would be a "necessary response" to crowd violence. As in Seattle, the police instigated the violence and the looting. After all, they don't make that much.

  • Cenk most of the time the first ones throwing bottles at cops ARE with the cops payed by them.

  • Jean Quan is just spewing bullshit rhetoric. Everything she said was a fucking lie!

  • Cenk is absolutely right, and I hope to see him on Nov 2! We look forward to your visit, Cenk!

  • 4:08 so depending yourself is wrong?

  • this mayor is issuing the usual babbling doublespeak used by the 1% and their servants whenever they find themselves in the wrong

  • @rightwing52000 what are you talking about

    she gave the order to destroy them and went against he own were MANY times

    she is scum and should be denounced as the scum that she is

  • The mainstream media, far from being liberal leftists as the no minds on the right always say, are the propoganda arm of the 1%, hell most of them are part of the 1% with their big fat paycheques negotiated by their agents with fat plutocratic corporate media bosses.

  • The police are protecting their paymasters the rich.

  • the cops are doing many wrong things 

  • see what happens when politics are localized?

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  • any protest should be peaceful. u maintain the moral highground.

  • Don't forget Police can dress up as Protesters and throw glass bottles/paint.

    It's happen many many times before Cenk, but ofcourse there are some bad apples in Marches, which are maybe 1 or 2 of them out of 200.

  • Mayor Jean Quan's career is definately toast, though she might have thought about it for half a second before calling out the Gestapo.

    Next time she runs for reelection (undoubtedly on the "freedom" platform), please set the Oakland raid videos on instant replay.

  • People are right saying that they have the right to assemble and to protest. However, like every other right in the Constitution, it has some limits. For example, you do NOT have the right to protest or assemble on private property. Plus, their permit to protest on that spot had expired and they were evicted from that spot the night before and They decided to force their way back in later and 'occupy' the spot; they were throwing stuff at the police and were repelled. It's that simple.

  • The time for peaceful demonstrations is over. A massive real threat to the personal safety of the 1% is the only thing they will understand. I say kill them.

  • I think the strike should be on November 5th, not 2nd. Anyone else agree?

  • Roughly 1% of people disliked this video. COINCIDENCE MUCH?

  • 1% control the police...

  • when all else fails, violence prevails

  • Jean Quan is a handsome woman

  • This was a crime. The mayor, etc, shouldn't just be fired and allowed to get away. They should be arrested and prosecuted. Same for the entire government and FEDeral reserve bank - BTW, why isn't that happening?

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  • People who don't want the Occupy Movement will use provocateurs to instigate violence. Be careful!

  • SAME BAD THING LIKE 1996

  • i punch back when someone punches me first

  • California is such a mulicultural hellhole. It does the heart good to see it burn.

  • @ddddcinc trollolol

  • "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Take a punch? Yeah ok I am going to let somebody beat the hell out of me. CENK ARE YOU ON CRACK?

  • Why the sudden change of heart, Jean Quan?

    You were commending Howard Jordan for a job well done not too long ago, all of a sudden you’re deeply saddened? You want to offer us olive branches after authorizing the police to use strong-arm tactics? Please. We don’t care for your flip-flopping statements.

    You dun goofed.

  • Pain is a crude way of obtaining obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful

  • Oakland residents, its recall time. This woman is a fail mayor that should not be in office. The damn chief of police quit unannounced because of her. The bitch has gotta go.

  • the cops are doing more than punches if you do not defend yourself you may in fact die or be severely injured so are you not supposed to defend yourself from the police? they cops were ordered to go in regardless of bottles thrown the cops were ordered to use tear gas and rubber bullets. the 99% needs to learn that the cops even though they are technically part of the 99% are just lapdogs and very willing to commit acts of violence we should not have any sympathy for them they made there choice

  • That Commie Bitch MAyor Gotta Go FAST!Her and that NAZI chief of Police!

  • Fuck that! do you think that this fascist government is going let you vote or protest them out of office or to change capitalism? people will not stand by and let pigs shoot you, you have to fight back. Sure you have to wait for the correct time to fight back. Fuck this system there is no freedom in this country. That's why the cops are smashing protesters, it will get much worse.

  • meeting violence with violence may sound like a rupublican view but cenk sounds like a pussy.

  • Almost pretty words...followed by the same actions as before. I hope they vote out/recall Quan.

  • Cenk for president!!

  • Don't worry Jean, I'll forgive you.. yes, if you're willing to take rubber bullets to the face, I'll forgive you.

    Now give me my happy ending, or get out of my country Chink.

  • @drysift what does her ethnicity have to do with her ineptitude,ass-hole?you sound like the other side.

  • @drysift You are an asshole which want to distract peoples fight towards something else. Trust me if we ask Native American "Do you want all this cities, buildings and everything inside only for Native American?" they will say Yes, like your arrogant King George descent protesting in Tibet" Probably if you reconsider your position a little bit, Chinese will consider you as descendant of Abe Lincoln.

  • @drysift I agree with you. The same goes with that corporate sellout nigger in the White House should go back to Africa or Nigeria or whatever country his daddy was from.

  • @drysift Besides the nigger in the White House, also don't forget to mention that Jewboy Bloomberg in New York too. That fucker should go back to Israel.

  • @angelwithbighorns LOL, sure! Why not!? I don't consider myself racist, but as long as they act like animals, then they deserve their pet names.

  • Well done TYT. That last bit was exactly what people need to hear.

    Don't instigate violence yourself. You lose the moral high ground.

  • Leave it to a Ching Chong to crack down on peaceful protests. Sounds like Chairwoman Mao.

  • @harmon756 all you racist idiots need to shut the fuck up.

  • @dobbsiancant Racism applies to "people" not organic robots, otherwise known as Ching Chongs.

  • @harmon756 fuck you,cock smoker.

  • @dobbsiancant I'm guessing you're one of those organic robot things?

  • @harmon756 Yeah, right on dude. Leave it to that little nigger in the White House to give all of our money to Wall Street. Sounds like a fucking nigger.

  • @angelwithbighorns U do realize that the cracker president that came before him did the same thing, right?? Stupid bigot. and like that other dude said, if ur not native american, ur not...um...native to america. and gess what? I'm aryan, and I think ur a racist doche. If white ppl were superior, they wouldn't be so racist.

  • @gabbithula Fuck aryans LOL, aggro rednecks.

  • @drysift Are iranians aggro redneck? Lol, learn about the world.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside You're blinded by arrogance and have demonstrated you know nothing of the world LOL (obnoxious)

  • @harmon756 Nope, you're blinded, aryans are not white people, go to school and learn something. Everyone laughs at your shitty display. ;''''O

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside Do you know how obvious it is to anyone who reads your comment that you're incredibly stupid and have some serious inferiority complexes. The people who, instead of using logic to prove their points, say "learn something" or "everyone laughs at you" are clearly suffering from lack of mental capacity and trying to compensate. I never said Aryans are white people. Next time you read something, stop hitting yourself in the head with a hammer and ask an adult to help you.

  • @harmon756 Yes of course, this just shows your insecure ad hominems. Wthout any arguments.

    Again, read about the word aryan and come back. You're pathetic :)

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside Do you not see the blatant irony of your statement? You have no counter argument, let alone an explanation for your previous nonsensical post. Furthermore, you end with a smiley face that, even the least perceptive person on the planet can see as insecurity of your less than impressive intellect. If you're going to reply, you have to try and make sense and utilize logic to form a coherent point. Logic is objective. Learn it.

  • @harmon756 It's funny, just found baseless attacks, again, GO SEARCH "ARYAN" ON GOOGLE.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside It wasn't a baseless attack. It was an analysis of your baseless attack about my "baseless" attack. I tried using logic and reasoning to deal with you, but you clearly don't take kindly to... intellect. Also, why would I need to search Aryan on google? Anyone who went to history class, or school in general, know that Aryans are the Caucasian race. You STILL have yet to form a coherent argument as to how that's relevant. Why don't you look up "pickle" on google!? Do it! Haha

  • @harmon756 Um nope, aryans are not "caucasian people", I see what you're building on; Hitlers theories about white people being "aryan", that you base your belief on him is PATHETIC. Aryan relates more to a popular religious people from asia, were hitler ALSO got his SWASTIKA from.

    Hahaha OWNED!

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside Owned? Dude, I'm not even gonna insult you because I'm actually feeling sad for you. There are actually more than one definition for the word Aryan, so that "um nope" is wrong. I assumed it was the definition for Caucasian people because it's the most popularly used definition of the word. Also, you YET AGAIN slather your response in fallacies. I never said anything about believing in what Hitler preached. Now, no more dummy responses, okay? You're better than that. =)

  • @harmon756 This say more than one word: Popular beleif, so that is what you're going for?

    No, white people: Not caucasian people, Hitler used that for WESTERN EUROPEANS FFS, NOT SLAVIC, OR EVEN IRAIANS.

    OMG kill yourself, that was horrid, aryans do not equal white people.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside First, reread your own comment and slap yourself in the head. Second, I said Aryans are Caucasians, which is true based on the Merriam Webster dictionary. Lastly, I've made my last two points that have effectively embarrassed your last post. Therefore, I won't continue to enable your irrational, non-coherent babbling. If you want to think you're smart, nobody can stop you, but proving it, as you've learned here, is a lot harder to accomplish. Study hard, buddy. =)

  • @harmon756 ........You do realise that caucasians is a wide term for: Europeans, east asian(arabs, persians etc)?.....

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside .... Jesus Christ... It's like talking with a chimp while he's hitting himself in the head with a hammer. I'm done with you.

  • @harmon756 Again, o arguments, just attacks. OWNED, move on in life.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside Whatever you say, Chimpy. Good boy! =)

  • @harmon756 And AGAIN you show your inferior intellect:

    Caucasian: It was originally refered to INDO-EUROPEAN ancestry.

    You know that the nazis did their nose test on asians? It wasn't a coincidence, it was to test if asians were ancestors to aryans, becuase in hitlers theories, and old white supremacy theories, the white master race began in india after atlantis collapse, who spread t the middle east (babylon -iraq- persia) and later to europe, where the aryan race preserved best

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside Your post is incredibly ironic for two reasons. 1. You start by saying "and AGAIN you show your inferior intellect" and then you cite a definition of the word Aryan, that I never disputed, but you failed to realize because... Well, I'll just leave it at that. 2. You demonstrate you have a fifth grade grasp on the English language. Reread your comment and mark the areas that sound like a chimp wrote them. You've got five minutes! =)

  • @harmon756 yeah, because "lol aryan redneck" didn't meant white people in america, you just bashed on indians!

    Lol, fucking irony! Why did you used this term in the first place? becuase hitler used the word aryan to define "white people", although the term wasn't refered to white euopreans IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE.

    Hindu eastern term.

  • @harmon756 And it's funny how stupid americans bashed when supierior europeans can't spell perfect english, oh, like you are sophisticated enough to learn another lagnuage, fat american?

    AMERICANS OWNED YESS! OMG YOU GOT SO OWNED.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside As much as I'd like to use you as an insult to Europeans, I won't because I know it's not fair and you're no where near the intellect level of the average European. You're an embarrassment. You've proven you don't even have a child's grasp on logic and reasoning. Have a great life living in a delusional world where your semi audible chimp grunts count as sound arguments. =)

  • @harmon756 No of course, youäre dumb and humilated, you're not gonna continue this. OWNED!

  • @angelwithbighorns why do idiot like you have to use the N word? does it make you feel proud to be a faceless ignorance coward?

  • @harmon756 Also don't forget to mention that Mayor Jewboy Bloomberg in New York and that corporate sell out Irish Shithole Dick Daley from Chicago. They both should go back to Israel and Ireland respectively. Yeah, only the WASPs should run this fucking country. I hate that fucking nigger in the White House and all foreigners. GET out of my country.

  • @angelwithbighorns The hell are you talking about you racist? That's incredibly offensive and pretty messed up.

  • @angelwithbighorns SERIOUSLY! SHUT UP! IGNORANCE IS NOT RACE EXCLUSIVE! YOU SOUND LIKE A DISGUSTING HUMAN BEING REGARDLESS OF YOUR RACE!

  • @angelwithbighorns Your country? Tell that to the NATIVE Americans you fucking douche, if you're white you aren't from here originally so maybe you should take your own advice.

  • @6kylee9 It is out country. The native Americans never owned any land. They themselves viewed their selves as property of the land. Did we do horable things to them? Yes. Does that make it any less of our country? no.

  • @fireex0 actually they did own land lol

    that philosophy was only shared by tribal groups, not the massive native empires.

  • @angelwithbighorns Don't think I didn't pick up on your obvious trolling, but since you didn't respond and allow me to get to my point, I'll just have to be explicit about it. You, are a racist. Black people, Indian people, Hispanic people, etc. They're all human beings who feel and love and hurt. However, organic robots, more commonly referred to as Ching Chongs, are not people. Nobody has looked in those beady black eyes and has thought to themselves "I can tell it has a soul"

  • The picture you showed of the injured veteran at Occupy Oakland is not the right man.

  • No, Cenk. It is not brave to take a punch. It's stupid. If you don't want to fight back against police brutality, that's fine. Just run away then. But Cenk, don't give us a lecture about this Gandhi shit as just to stand there passively and take punches from the police. That is just pure indifference and idiotic.

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  • Ghandi knew what was up

  • Truth Be Told - Gasing Protesters For Peacefull Assembly Is A Crime!!! Americans Stand Up And Demand We Put These Thug Police Officers In Prison - Lets Post There Names And Address's So Our Marine Brothers Such As Scott Olsen May Know Whom Attacked Him!!! What will the oakand police do when Marines show up to there homes to arrest them for the crimes they have commited against there brother!!! Marines Believe In Your Oath!!! Foreign and domestic - REMEMBER!!!

  • @turboapkc Oraahhh

  • Use the Gandhi technique!

  • well, deep regret and concerns don't pay the medical bills from those uniform wearing bullies. what's going to happen about that mayor quan?

    i don't agree with a violent approach but there comes a time when it's necessary. when the cops throw a grenade at someone's face, it's about that time we bring out a gun. "mama didn't raise no bitch."

  • @dboy11368 There's a reason Mahtama Gandhi and MLK Jr. didn't advocate violence after violence was being committed on their movements.

    Civil disobedience THRIVES on sympathy from the public. Fighting back violently will just lose that.

  • @dboy11368 No, violence begets violence, the only way to end the cycle is to be strong and fight hate with love. Be peaceful, be just, and always know that the only way to fix a broken soul is with love, not hate.

    I hate to get all sensitive and stuff, but its true. And there are many forms this can take.

    Peace

    ChemC

  • @dboy11368

    I concur. If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, as Sun Tzu has said. And although it is true that in today's world, violence does more harm than good in so many ways, there comes a time when one must bite back. However, this may not be the case. Brute force is what the police are trained to fight against, and there is one thing that they are not trained for: Humor, trickery and cunning. We must be like the tricksters of myth, and use our minds over might.

  • @Kemonokami you're right! we need some lawyers with guns on our side.

  • @dboy11368

    Weapons only harm the body. What you need to reach for is the soul, and when you touch the soul, only then can change happen. What better way to change than through the arts and culture?

  • well said Cenk... bravo.

  • she should fall on a sword as a samurai would

  • @wreckless4485 lol this made me lol ahahah

  • Well I dont care what is said if you look at history in this country it is hard to see how getting mad and hitting cops with bottles helps a movment.I know that there is only 2 ways to really effect change either alot of people die non-violent...OR from the barrle of a gun and on the norm they go hand and hand one comes before the other.I hope we can skip guns and just get to change.

  • Mayor Quan is not part of the 99%. Actions not words.

    I agree with Cenk that this needs to be kept non-violent, or else the police, who are owned by the politicians who in turn are owned by the rich, will attack protesters everywhere and many will be killed and hurt on both sides and the entire movement will be stopped. This is what the neo-cons and republicans want. Although, in the end, when the rich are forced into their last corner, they will respond with violence, then we will respond.

  • Don't police officers use provocateurs to instigate violence? This happened in 2004 and 2008 (both left-wing protests). Maybe it's just a coincidence that police only beat down on left-wing protests.

  • @DeadFishFactory Correct. I was at the protests in Minneapolis during the 2008 republican convention and the group of about 60 I was with was rushed by a small group of riot police. They would run at us with batons raised and then stop at the last moment, back up, and a new group would rush. On about the third run at us a few pushed away the police and they laid a few hard shots on them and this got everyone crazy and they went overkill and beat and arrested everyone, including me.

  • @DeadFishFactory This is more a problem in Europe afaik, but good point

  • @DeadFishFactory teabaggers had guns, ows only had camera phone

  • @DeadFishFactory Corporations would do ANYTHING to prevent the Left from rising. They are deluded into thinking that the OWS protesters and similar Leftwing moderates would create a new Soviet Union.

  • @DeadFishFactory I think they're just desperate to end these movements before people wise up and realize the protestors are right.

  • The police are part of the 99%, they're on the same side as us against the 1% and now this is becoming a huge distraction. there are a lot of upper-middle class white kids who like to yell fuck the police and bullshit with no personal experience. it pisses me off. this isn't the point of the movement

  • you cant bend over all the time, cenk. this is reaching a critical point damn fast...

  • I have ot say I think there is definitely a part of the Occupy Movement that is just angry anrchistic fuckers who want tog et pissed off about something and play the victim. You throw shit at police and then you want to videotape it and act like, oh my god these horrible police officers we're victims look what they've done. I'm not talking about oakland that was obviously way too much by police. just my observations from being at some protests. Most people are cool and have the right idea

  • The Mayor's words are empty, her orders, and the O.P.D. actions speak volumes.

    Stay strong, and peaceful. The country(and world) is watching and we support you.

  • If these asshole OWS protesters really want to do something productive and make a difference in this world, they should:

    -Pull their money out of the big banks and cut up all of their credit cards

    -Get rid of their expensive iPods, iPhones, iPads, laptop computers etc etc

    -Get rid of their gas-guzzling cars and hoof it

    -Quit shopping at places like Wal-Mart, Target, McDonald's, Starbucks etc.

    -Vote the bums out of office on November 8th