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  • 0:22 Class act

  • Haha fucking cops! Go Casey! Haha

  • WAHHH COPS WON'T LET ME SMOKE POT AND SHIT IN PARKS

    Shut the fuck up, liberals.

    Every sane person can see the discord lawlessness leads to. California is a prime example of that.

  • @RIPAileen Discord and Lawlessness leads to Lead warnings on everything and less bullets in our magazines?

  • What camera are you using? Quality is great.

  • What's the big deal about flying the American Flag at the end? Is everyone ASSUMING the reason for his planting the flag there? The FACT is-all Americans, mostly, love our country and our flag even in the midst of dissent. And, it's legal and considered a virtue to fly it. So, that begs the question, why did they try to stop him?

  • @lisat13able The big deal is that he went over the police barrier to do it.

  • basically they are hurting and arresting people for no fucking reason. and the part with the flag, man thats just FUCKING NOT RIGHT. Heres the middle finger to you america

  • @ddrum121 They were told to stay behind police barriers until 6pm so they could clean up the park and remove fire hazards and waste, the gentlemen at the end of the film deliberately went over the barrier to plant the flag he's lucky he wasn't arrested for trespassing. Yes it was trespassing because though it is a public park at the time the video was shot it was closed down to not just occupiers but the public as a whole.

  • The fact that there are loads of privately owned guns in america and no-one has used them, shows that the people have far more restraint than the police

  • @legaliseall you can't go around shooting whoever you want

  • @eranaldi9 apparently he can

  • Thanks for spending the day and night there filming. You got some amazing footage that captures so many details.

    x Luci

  • 3:11 Oh my God!!! He's putting up the American Flag! Git 'em!

  • We must kill the banks! They are the cancer of our generation.

  • @KKCvids Our generation? Banks have always been the masters, the control. Politicians and heads of state are just puppets for these people of the greatest power of all. Money.

  • The cops are just doing their job granted they could've handled their emotions a little bit better. But we cannot really blame people for doing their job it's like blaming the janitors who have to come and clean up all the mess. They do what they have to do to keep peace and order in a troubled environment and if that means throwing mace or hitting someone over the head then so be it. i'm not siding i just want ppl to have a btr understanding of a person's position

  • @Jamchanizhere Do you understand what a "peaceful protest" is? It's not the protestors being violent, it's the police. They aren't "keeping peace" if they're spraying mace and swinging batons.

    Also, it's a person's decision to become a police officer. I can very well blame cops for being violent, because they chose a violent job.

  • Excellent cinematic style footage, what camera are you using? The last few frames where the guy planting a flag drives the police over the edge… captured the hatred in the faces of the police…

  • The Music is awesome =D

    Greetings from Luxembourg ;)

  • This music makes this look funny and silly, we people just need some more love. Frank Sinatra magic voice

  • FUCK the police, theyre all power hungry attention whores who got picked on in high school. Just cause the 'cool kid' called you FAT in front of the girl you liked doesn't mean you should spend your whole life chasing invisible bullies, NO that pothead shouldnt be pepper sprayed NO that college student shouldn't be tackled to the ground.... I feel like I am talking to a 4 year old... Nope... just the police of America...

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA....GO NYPD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ridgewoodian Haha go troll.

  • sweet

  • glory to wall street . glory to U.S.A. !

  • Greetings from Greece.

    I find your policemen to be rather barbaric and extremely cocky, i also find your citizens a tad too subservient. The last part with the flag was just fucking sad, i had more expectations from the home of the brave, you should too, you are a great nation, act like it.

    Regards,

  • @CrimsonDeath1649 We have a deeply ingrained respect for the law. Which might, admittedly, be part of the problem during the present crisis.

  • @inmotion86 Agreed. That whole "right to bear arms" thing wasn't put in place to protect us from invaders of our country but to have our government fear forceful uprising so their decisions would continue to be in the best interests of the citizens. I think we may have forgotten that.

  • @CrimsonDeath1649 "Great nation" can be taken so many ways. We're the modern Roman Empire, and we all know how the last one went.

  • @CrimsonDeath1649 - The flag was raised, Iwo Jima style, on 11//15/11, despite the ugliness & brutaliity the NYPD was captured executing by Casey.

    See my OWS A J Croce video, 1 of my 3 relating to OWS in the time period 11/2/11 to 11/15/11. See Redkruzer OWs for the 3.

  • In response to d00m0racl3 At its' core, life can seem meaningless; as human beings we all have the need/desire to be involved with a cause larger than ourselves. Rather it be religion, politics, a fatwa, etc. Some people just have a stronger need than others. Yes d00m0racl3 these people's lives were vindicated when they were arrested, not their cause. They were more than happy. For the very first time......

  • @scaburro are you a psychologist? do you have knowledge in the field? though it may be true that they were happy in some odd sense, i trully doubt you know enough to make a first hand judgement like "for the very first time..." i totally agree w/you that as humans we need something greater than ourselves to be linked to. Its an essential part of defining how we connect to others & our world. you say "their cause" as if you were a wholly separate entity. none of us are or can afford to be.

  • If they're such 'peaceful protesters' and supposedly noble why have they committed thefts, murders, rapes, drug o.d.'s, masturbation/flashing in public, threatened entire cities with diseases like typhus, kept working people from their jobs and earning a living for their families, attacked and injured police, horded weapons, and cost the "99%" of us $13+ million across the country in safety and clean-up fees? (That's a rhetorical question!)

  • @EMET6131 well that is an idiotic and stupid rhetorical question. So you're saying the people in this video go around murdering and raping people, while carrying around typhus with the intention of infecting entire cities?? Bloody hell.

  • @0HDC If the shoe fits wear it! This in indeed what has come of out of the ranks of these "occupiers", so you're the idiot here: willing the truth away, or trying to insult those who highlight it, only reflect poorly on you...This is all moot anyhow, because this misinformed, misguided, ridiculous, shambles has already lost momentum, and is of no real consequence, other than to have costs in many sad ways.

  • If they really gave a damn, or even knew what they were talking about, they'd actually do something constructive like write/visit their representatives in Congress; immediately oust that stinking Barney Frank (he's directly responsible for the housing fiasco, which is *the* reason we're in this current economic mess),

  • along with revolting limousine-liberals like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, etc.; demand that the tons of fat in our government be trimmed (i.e. Department of Ed./Freddie & Fannie/ true Medicare & SS reform); and put pressure on the USDOJ/SEC/Ethics Committee to investigate and bring to trial those specific CEOs and top-execs who've taken our bail-out money and given themselves fat bonuses with it, and sit on it instead of recirculating it

  • These "occupiers" are idiots, and costly in many ways: monetarily, missing the point and thus missing a real opportunity for change (what this false, narcissistic, and dangerous 'messiah' Obama has failed miserably to generate), and in dignity for the USA!

  • i don't for one second think it is, your religious text well admonishes the people for succumbing to a system of monetary value & exchange. i blame the monetary based economy we all live by, for understand one thing i as an aethist can live without your god, but you as dutiful a christian as you may be CANNOT LIVE W/O MONEY. money & the very system that is so professed against in the religious texts is what we have "chosen" to use. this is not an economic system, it's anti-economic & a failure.

  • How many Goldman Sachs shares do the Cops get for this?

    Ohh none?

    Great job Coppers.

  • Incredibly well done, with the irony here in all the lyrics of the song...

    The most ridiculous thing is to consider that the police force in New York City doesn't have anything more worthy of pursuit than this? I wonder how many actual crimes were taking place when they were all busy busting heads of unarmed working class people and students. The other apparently unrecognized paradox is that these people protesting are standing up for the rights of workers just like these cops...

  • @beccahday sorry, but I live in england so it's hard to find news local to new york here

  • @matthewwrigley85 that's why i said "anywhere". because this is happening in every state in the united states, NOT just new york, and the news on the occupy movement is WORLDWIDE, not just local to new york. but i'm assuming you're a very young person, like a high schooler perhaps, so no worries.

  • @beccahday yup :)

  • The police officer at 3:25 is not upholding any law, and if you pause it you can see he is just an angry rabid dog who is lost...God help this great city.

  • I'm wondering how this would have looked with WOODSTOCK by Joni Mitchell playing in the background... "We got to get ourselves back to the garden..."

  • all you people hating on the police, there doing there job for God sake...there wouldn't be any overbearing police force and presence if those hippy protesters weren't breaking the law. Obey or suffer the consequences and quite crying about it.

  • @HouseDaddyHouse, you're the type to cheer Bull Connor and George Wallace when they used fire hoses on people marching against segregation in the 1960s, or cheer Ahmadinejad and the Egyptian army when they attack people in Tehran and Cairo who want freedom. Not all the NYPD are violent thugs, but too many of them are. They violate every law and every court order they want and are rarely held accountable.

  • @HouseDaddyHouse there was a time not too long ago when the police patrolled the streets looking for criminals & would've never abused their motto of serve & protect. a time when they well remembered they were civilians before they were officers. as for the "law breaking hippy protesters", b4 the bush admn. installed their fascist "patriot act" one could legally excercise their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PUBLIC ASSEMBLY & PEACEFUL PROTEST.

  • @d00m0racl3 funny thing is they are NOT peacefully protesting. You know how muvh drug contraband they found when they cleaned out the park? A lot...by law in NYC you are not prohibited to sleepover in a public park...the cops have every right to do what there doing. No one is being illegally arrested, its all justified. its the liberal peace of crap hippies that are causing this mess and making it seem like the NYPD is corrupt. Please.

  • @HouseDaddyHouse Oh, shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you're talking about. And in the context you used it, it's "they're" and not "there," you moron. Obey or suffer the consequence? Enjoy that motto when you're being beaten down for no reason because you live in a police state.

  • Fuck the police

  • Hey look it's obama at 0:25

  • I'm glad that guy slipped out of his jacket while that prick was grabbing at him at 3:20. You can practically see the personal anger in that cops face while he's scrounging at that guy. But I respect the majority of them doing their jobs, we all gotta get paid. But certain cops, like that guy? Fuck them.

  • What was this shot on? Very good low-light capability, whatever was used. And yeah, if these Internet Censorship bills pass, satirical use of a song to make a political point in a viral video will become illegal.

  • @MsGeek703 Let us hope that doesn't happen. The minute they close the internet it's game over, in a totalitarian sense.

  • @MsGeek703 so sorry accidentally downed instead of up, in response to your comment when is this legislation due to come about? because if soon i got to get my butt in gear to use a very actively political song of the 60s in a vid im working on.

  • I've been watching all of this from home – in awe and solidarity, but just quite stoically observing. The last 25 seconds or so of this video piss me the fuck off! I know the police are just following orders, and I respect them etc. But fuck them for being so aggressive, and fuck the powers that be! Tearing down the flag so adamantly and aggressively? Really?

  • The police are not calling the shots. But if as an officer you are ordered to assault a citizen unprovoked, disobey it. That is neither serving more protecting if you over the order you deserve to go to jail for it.

  • If a cop tells you to obey him for the sale of obeying him without the law on his side, you don't have to (if you are engaging in a constitutionally protected act). If they exercise undue force simply because you didn't comply with their request, that is assault. They need to have a charge to arrest you with other than resisting, as you can't resist arrest if there was no arrest being done, and they can't arrest you for a crime you were "about to commit".

  • sad!

    

  • WHo LOVES FRANK :)

  • the music is so jolly

  • Great video, good job.

  • all u people are nuts talking shit about the nypd, what the hell do you want them to do with all the young hippies going crazy and antagonizing them. all you police haters are so hypocritical, if your house was getting broken into they would be the first person you would run to

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  • Great, great eye, Casey! Thanks and best to you!

  • 2/3 of the NYPD do not live in the city. they're from Jersey and Long Island and such, heading into the jungle for 8 hours a day before going back home.

  • this is my new favorite video of all time!

  • Oh NYPD.....your're fucked up the ass.

  • sweet! thanks. (Occupy Boise isn't 1% that exciting.)

  • You know, I had serious respect for all members of the NYPD after 9/11. Thanks to them choosing to be the mercenaries for the 1%, I have lost ALL respect for them. Anytime there is a 9/11 charity, I will make sure it goes to benefit the NYFD ONLY!

  • CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO WITH JAY Z "EMPIRE STATE OF MIND"?!!!!?!!!

  • Unions were formed because of the 1% their thugs were killing and hurting and starving the 99%. Now they have the police paid for by taxpayers to do the thugs work. I am a union man. It sickens me that the police union would let policemen hurt the poor and the working class. The union should not let their members hurt the poor and working class. It sadden me that a union member would hurt our young people. Police state is where the criminals run the government

  • @KYKIN44 & what may i ask is the diference between a criminal who willfully injures an innocent person to one who willfully & for sole benefit will order such a tyrannical command? were the nazi war criminals let off because they "were only following orders"? i see no difference between those actions then & the ones so well portrayed in this video.

  • the person planting the flag in the park was me (damien guarniere) and we had a court order that was valid until 11:30am the time I stepped over the barricade and onto the wall was 11;20am. By law we were supposed to be allowed back in the park and I felt it was appropriate to display old glory as we lose our basic civil rights in this country because of the apathy and just lack of knowledge most people have about the responsibilities that come with having a democracy as our form of governance

  • @shojileaf What I found ironic about that moment was how cops, like construction workers and firefighters, love to trumpet their love of God and Country and the Grand Old Flag...until the wrong person wants to remind them that the flag symbolizes a way of life for all of us and not just THEM!

  • @shojileaf Damien, you were/are a true American patriot! Thank you for your effort. The struggle is ongoing, please don't ever give up!

    The irony is that if these cops were to totally "succeed" in stifling free speech and the unAmerican 1% had their way with America, the cops' unions would be eviscerated. No more pensions or bargaining rights or civil service protections. In the realm of the 1% cops would evntually become lowly paid thugs at minimum wages protecting property over life. 

  • @shojileaf Thank you for your patriotism, Damien!

    Thanks for your vid, Casey!

    And thanks to all those working to reclaim our country from the corporations that currently run it!

  • Thank you for making and posting this video. I am one of the protesters evicted from the park; it means a lot to me that you made this.

  • we needed this revolution.

  • It makes me very sad.

  • did that cop just spit at them?

  • Congratulations for the video and the occupation. It's phenomenal when people from the centre of the World start to criticize the capitalism. From Brazil.

  • C***s @ work!

  • @PhantomLord It says so much about you that you think beating the shit out of someone is the appropriate response to nonviolent resistance. No real point in arguing with you, you obviously have some serious psychological issues to work out and I am not trained for that.

  • 2:15 i see it do you?

  • @drfizzle420 lady liberty in all her glory.

  • Join the resistance!

  • these happenings, from both sides, arrests, and riots, just show me how idiotic people are. its not even just america, just people in general.

  • The cops are evil...

  • March on Wallstreet protesters complain about greed, meanwhile they are accepting donations and not serving the homeless that come to their camps for food. Also, how much of the 99% tax payer's money are the protesters wasting by refusing to leave the park? If the homeless aren't allowed to make a makeshift shelter in a park, why would they?

  • @WhatIsPokemans Citation needed.

  • @WhatIsPokemans you idiotic people who still believe its "your money" should at least look into how the fiat monetary system works. THERE IS NO MONEY TO BE OWNED BY ANYONE, all it is, is meaninless aggregated value to incur DEBT. you have no money of ur own when u live in the country w/the highest national debt in the world.& as far as waste you speaking about this & not even mentioning all the greedy actions by your govmnt to rape other countries for their resources is a much bigger one.

  • @d00m0racl3 So because we have a national debt and we borrow from other countries means the protesters are allowed to waste it? I fail to see how just because its not "our" money means it's not a waste. The government isn't in debt because they have to pay my salary, I'm not a government worker it makes money off taxing my income. It's in debt for many other reasons, including spending on idiotic things like cleaning up after the protesters.

  • @WhatIsPokemans instead of going off on a tirade of how indoctrinated (albiet w/a piece of truth w/in) your response sounds allow me to direct you to a fine song of the 60's which is now more pertinent in its message than it ever was in the 60s, its Steppenwolf - Monster look it up here on YT & plz listen well to the lyrics. as it well states the current predicament of american society today is due to it being lulled into complacency. what you see are the results of society's lack of vigilance.

  • @d00m0racl3 why can't you type properly? You would think it is simple.

  • @0HDC thankyou for your comment & i have definately "cleaned it up" in regards to using "web stenography" in the above comment, hey it happens. sometimes in the rush to get the idea put down in commentary i do use it but try to go back & correct it proprely. you may note that the "u & ur" you may be referring to, are in the middle section of the paragraph. undue oversight on my part. i hope that is what you're referring to if not please allow me the grace of knowing just how it is miswritten.

  • @0HDC Ugh! that dang rush to respond & laziness to sit up properly. I miswrote thank you at the beginning, but I'm trying really I am. can i be forgiven? lol

  • @d00m0racl3 ahaha yes you can be. It's not so much it annoys me just i feel you were offering a valid and interesting point, one which i couldn't fully get the grasp of due to the mistyping.

  • @0HDC started using a sentence checker so hopefully my typos will only be minimal now & the ideas can be more clearly expressed (hopefully x·P). i live abroad so my command of english has slipped somewhat. got to use all the tools available if i'm to "get back on track" lol

    valid & interesting huh? really? if i sound surprised is because until commenting on this video i'd yet to accrue any thumbs up to my commentary & usually comments were just intelligeble rants against my stance.

  • Most of these officers look too young to remember the more shameful parts of our history--the Bonus Marchers and Kent State. I guess Zuccotti Park will be added to this list!

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  • government keeps warning us about terrorist.The only terrorist that the average American will ever see or encounter is the American law enforcement. Police are above the law. They R let loose on the public to plunder kill innocent people. The average policeman will kill children to keep their jobs. If I had choice to meet a terrorist or policeman in a dark alley I'd much rather meet terrorist because he would be less dangerous The American policemen are the most evil people on this Earth.

  • @KYKIN44 I would give you a formulated response, but an unintelligent comment deserves an unintelligent response. You're a fucking idiot.

  • Inheritance tax's are for 1.3 million and over at 50 %, anyone that thinks that is a fair tax rate is nothing but a thief.

  • In response to an email to me, the micheal moresl and warren buffets are not the ones I'm worried about. Its the Mom and Pops that svaed all of there lives, invested small sums which are now worht 3 to 15 million, they are not the 1%, yet the taxs imposed effect them the most. There are hundeds of thousnads of these Moms nad Pops that have earned every dime.

  • @dcacnc  what does that mean?

  • Great video dude.  Are you a profeesional photographer???!!!

  • I love how the NYPD are 99% fat and also 98% white

  • @SetsunaFSeie00 its because non-whites dont want to shoot their "brothas"

  • @SetsunaFSeie00 ; .........pull those stats from your ass?

  • I actually started laughing at the last part. Oh America, really?

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  • The 1% ers are not my care taker, I am, they are not resoinsible for the conditions of our schools, The USA has thrown hundreds of billions down the shit hole of public unions which give us shit head liberal thinking punks that failed to learn Capitalism.

    The few 30 or 40 thousands collecting in the OWCs don't represent the full 99%. When people have the like of Micheal More making speaches for them ya'll are nothinh but hypocrites, he is the 1%, dunass;s !Nancy Pelosi a 1%er, morons,

  • @jackrabbittslim1 No one is complaining that there is a top 1% but by how big the rift between them and the rest are and how they get way to much in ways of laws and tax rebates from the government. At least that's how I Have understood their view.

    So that fact that many 1%'ers like Michael More, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson is sympathetic with the 99% doesn't change anything. If anything it validates their claim when it's not only those benefiting economically from idea that argues for it.

  • the last scene was fun

  • @PhantomLord - someone helping u catch a thief (if they can be bothered) is hardly compensation for removing your conditional rights & betraying your true role to be a hired mercenary corporate thug

  • ouch

  • it's official, the US is a police state & they're not even bothering to hide it anymore

  • Patriotism is for arseholes.

  • Hate on the cops all you want. Scream "Police State" all you want. but who's the first people you're gonna call when someone jacks your "i-Product" or tries to rape you?

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  • @yebhx yeah except we are not living in a Fascist state. all these people are getting the shit beat out of them cause they are NOT COOPERATING with the cops simple as that. I was down at OWS. the cops told me and my friends to move or to stand in a certain area we listened and we didn't get our assholes torn out like these hipsters and hippies.

  • @PL yes you are & your own actions prove it, instead of holding solidarity w/the rest of the PEOPLE you allowed your personal prejudices to serve you well in condescending to the police orders. blindly following orders IS a sign you ALREADY live in a fascist state but your indoctrination wont allow u to see it. my whole point being that since YOU WERE AN OBIDIENT, MANIPULATED PERSONYOU DIDN'T GET ATTACKED. IF YOU WOULD'VE SHOWN ANY TYPE OF TRUE GRIT YOU WOULDN'T BE SOUNDING SO HIGH & MIGHTY.

  • @d00m0racl3 lol listen the cops had orders to clear the park. what choice does a cop have if a stubborn little trust fund hipster kid refuses to move? reason with him? you can't reason with hipsters. you can only smash their skulls. Most of the people out here were there cause they though it sounded cool on facebook. thus everyone deserved the treatment they received. 

  • @PhantomLord you "sir" (& i use the term as loosely as its possible) are simply a wolf in sheep's clothing or to better phrase it an ape pretending to be human. you're the type that tows the line, abides by all reglaments etc. basically an ape that has learned its place in the group & will not dissent even when the new alpha male is a homocidal tyrant & threatens to kill off the group. i make the comparisons because your simple comment reveals so much of your subordinate personality.

  • @d00m0racl3 Can you tell me what is a reglament? lmao your attempts to talk down to me and call me "ape" are moot after that faux pas. lol You are a failure, your "movement" (& I use the term as loosely as possible) is a failure and worst of all, you know I'm right. Move on.

  • @PhantomLord prattle on, it was never my intention to "talk down to you" the distiction is clear, you have no capacity to think for yourself & are willingly led. as for my faux pas, correct i errantly mistranslated that word when it should have been regulation, command, order. yes definately moving on, don't mistake my admiting an error as need for more response from you. i see that it is just as petting a cat, it may releave some stress but in the end it serves no true purpose.

  • @d00m0racl3 uh huh.. move along son. Go occupy your computer chair :) you are awesome.

  • We can occupy Iraq but not Zuccotti Park.

    

  • I dare you to find a cop in this video, who is not fat.

  • @nikker1985 ; I dare you find one protester who doesn't smell like feces.

  • @USFA45LC

    Touche.

    

  • Hate cops

    Love Frank Sinatra

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  • America must have the sloppiest, fattest police force going. I bet OWS is the most exercise they've got in months.

  • Yay for flushing out an area covered in human feces and dirty hippies... Shame on these people, perhaps at one time, the OWS movement ment something, maybe it still does at its very core. But is rotted into a huge party, thats plagued with things like rape, violence, robbery, public defecation, masturbation and sex, selling and using drugs, and looting......The police should have moved in sooner...

  • I dont get it, why are all these people being loaded it to busses?

  • LOL at comments oh no looks like something bad is happening, wait every country has bad times ohh yeah ok.. lol .. lol

  • And to think i came to america for this crap. Simply Pathetic. Guess its back to europe for me:/

  • @ZemoCorp

    Don't let the door smack you in the ass Frenchie!

  • @1200intell im not french dipshit. go study a map imbred

  • @ZemoCorp Gee you have a wee-wee mouth like a Frenchie or a Europeeing.

  • @ZemoCorp Gee you have a wee-wee mouth like a Frenchie or arw you a Europeeing?

  • Upload the entire film!!

  • Is this in America? Someone told me it was "the land of the free," hmm I perceive many lies.

  • Wow, there are so many cry babbies here and OWS, no body owes you or me a god darn thing in life. We pay taxs, we get roads,police, military, and the freedom to fail in life, others succeed.

    Wall street hasn't done shinola to me, please provide spicific example, of person, dept, loan, theft to any of you. Not a generic blame game. Who, What, Where, When. I'm sure there are some legit stories.

  • how i enjoy the irony of the song 

  • As Americans we have the right to seek and pursue happiness, (as long as it doesn't infringe on amyone else's rights).

    I'm not the jealouse type, I'm not a victim of the evil 1% or an unjust system.

    What Billionaires do with the money which they own is their business not mine or yours. No where in the Laws of the USA is it stated that the top 1% are susposed to create and maintain jobs for others.

    Stop crying and whinning like children and accept your life for what it is.

  • @jackrabbittslim1 Life, liberty, and the pursuit are implied only when not in confrontation with itself.

    One's liberty are not supposed to come at the cost someone else. That is a self-defeating purpose.

  • @jackrabbittslim1 Well you are blind if you think the majority of elected officials are serving the people. The majority of them are bought and paid for by the 1%. The USA is supposed to be a democracy and it is not. It is my and yours business when billionaires use their money to buy politicians.You think cheese pizza being a vegetable or a free trade agreement with Panama is in the interests of the average American in any way? Please explain how unhealthy kids and tax havens benefit us.

  • The whole point of a protest is to add inconvenience and shed light on the issues they are protesting. Hopefully, the powers that be will finally listen and then they will cease. Until then, more power to OWS!!

  • @caseyneistat: Seriously? More police presence than after 9/11? Don't be so ignorant. Virtually every police officer employed (approximately 35,000+ at that time) was working in the days after 9/11 as ALL TIME OFF was cancelled. If you are going to attempt to pretend to be honest, don't go so far as to be ridiculously exaggerating.

  • the 99% support the NYPD, only suggestion i would make is now that it is cold,start using water cannons,esp. at night,you will not have a problem with those useful isiots wanting to sleep out after getting  soaked

  • well america, you have some fat police. 

  • What you're seeing is the people in power feeling threatened. All the money in the world can't prevent a political-awakening movement for the masses, and they know this and it scares them. See this raid on zuccotti park as a positive sign that you're striking a nerve with the scumbags on Wall Street. I'd say abandon plans to sleep overnight, but return everyday to protest because as long as you're not camping there, they have no grounds to evict. They can't under law stop peaceful protest.