new year countdown at zuccotti park -- occupy 2012!

[fdl93]

im ready for a civil war, us against the system.

[Evenwas616]

@fdl93 The system wins because it has more people behind it anyway, occupy would lose by pure default, it's not even questionable, occupy wall street is only 1% of the 99%, not the entire 99%, it's gets less and less every day, now they will rely on Starbucks and Au Bon Pain for food, they screwed up.

[eddstack]

I LOVE FOX NEWS. I HAVE IT ON TV,MY PC & MY IPHONE. I ALSO HAVE RT & FLUENT NEWS. SO WITH ALL OF THESE SOURCES IM IN THE LOOP AT ALL TIMES. NOW IF I WANTED MEDIA PROPAGANDA I WOULD HAVE CNN. FOX NEWS FOR THE MASSES!!! EXPOSÉ THE ANTI AMERICANS. BAHAHA

[jackiesheeler]

@eddstack anyone who still hasn't mastered the fine art of the CAPS LOCK key is a perfect fit for Fox News.

[cheechanchux]

Its my birthday today and i wish for revolution...

[jackiesheeler]

@cheechanchux happy birthday! may our wishes come true!

[skitman1958]

@jackiesheeler Revolutions by nature and their history require violence and killing. Are you prepared for that? Somehow I kind of doubt it. If revolution is your goal I would recommend you learn more than how to live in a tent. A tent provides no protection aganist gunfire or the torch. And in every revolution in the last 500 years both of thoes have been used.

[jackiesheeler]

@skitman1958 i haven't been living in a tent. i'm an occupier, not a camper. camping was a good publicity tactic, but i left that for the young ones.

i am a pacifist, but an angry pacifist. the violence is already here -- unless you don't consider the fact that 50% of the kids in this country don't get enough to eat violence. i do. and whatever is necessary to stop that is simply self-defense.

and i'm ready for it.

perhaps you are angry about the wrong things?

[blackmesa176]

Occupy!

[skitman1958]

The OCW movement is dead. Face the facts you failed. You are not the 99%. You are not even .009%. You accomplished nothing, except for destruction of public property, and costing cities millions to clean up after you. Now go back home and live in mommy and daddies basement. Let them clean up after you like they always have. You dont deserve a job. You are too stupid and lazy to begin with.

[jackiesheeler]

@skitman1958 you're so mistaken it's almost comical.

i've been working since 1976. as someone else said here, I work. I vote. I occupy.

and if you think this movement hasn't accomplished anything, then you haven't been paying attention: the national conversation has already been transformed. congress as well as several states have introduced constitutional amendments to reverse Citizens United -- do you even know what that decision was about? if not, please do your homework before commenting.

[leftgibson]

@jackiesheeler Sorry, lying around in a park and harassing working people has only made your movement a joke. You people have time to block traffic and shut down commerce, yet don't have time to look for work. It's time for you idiots to Occupy Reality!

[jackiesheeler]

@leftgibson Congress doesn't think it's a joke. Today:

"In a rare bipartisan move, the top Republican and Democrat of the House panel announced earlier this month they wanted to explore the issue ... driven in large part by the Occupy Wall Street movement, that Wall Street forces have not been called to reckon for their contribution to the economic downturn..."

thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money­/banking-financial-institution­s/201915-lawmakers-to-press-se­c-to-change-rules-on-settlemen­ts

[leftgibson]

@jackiesheeler Congress has a 9% approval rating so settle down Beavis!

[jackiesheeler]

@leftgibson yes, their approval is in the toilet because they have DONE NOTHING. and this movement has forced them to DO SOMETHING.

that's the whole point. you clearly haven't been paying attention.

[leftgibson]

@jackiesheeler Oh I pay attention! What we have is the bottom 1/2 of the next generation who are lazy and stupid and were not raised properly. You were misinformed by liberal teachers that life is fair and everyone will be successful. Guess What?? Life is a struggle and the intelligent rise to the top and the stupid occupy parks. Which one are you?

[jackiesheeler]

@leftgibson it's not about "fair" -- it's about criminal actions, institutionalized criminal actions (robosigning) robbing what people DID earn through hard work. corporations make billions, pay no taxes & offshore thousands of jobs. CA is building a bridge with CHINESE STEEL. why? because we don't make it here any more. why? see above.

i've been very successful in life by hard work & smarts. i don't see that as possible for people entering the job market now. where do you see opportunity?

[thiizzman510]

@leftgibson this is a revolution to bring down the illuminati.......people losing jobs is something they caused......get your job bullshit outta here

[leftgibson]

@thiizzman510 No Stupid. A revolution involves guns and murder and a real cause. You lazy fucks couldn't even hold a small park. Ha Ha Ha You and this Bowl Movement are lame!

[thiizzman510]

@leftgibson so what do u think we should do about the big cock in every1 ass??....deal with it?

[leftgibson]

@thiizzman510 well, maybe you should push back and enjoy it fag!

[skitman1958]

@jackiesheeler Citizens United won the right for coporations to donate as much money as they like for elections. Corporations are made up of people. If you don't like them don't buy their products. You occupy. Occupy what? Everyone occupies something. These public places are just as much mine as yours. Maybe I don't want you living there in filth. Maybe I don't want to pay for the clean up in the aftermath. Where are my rights on this? Must I guve them up to you?

[RevJohn]

@skitman1958 Pure fascist conservative rhetoric. You're just as bad as the goddamn liberals that you despise. Just flatly LABEL them as lazy, unwashed liberals and you don't have to face the REAL issues they are protesting. I'm sure you work for the government - you could never survive in the private sector. Many of the Occupy protesters are supporters of Ron Paul, who is for the abolition of the welfare state altogether. Stop listening to Fox News and wake the hell up, Skitman!

[skitman1958]

@RevJohn Define fascist. Never have worked for the government. I said they were stupid and lazy not unwashed, but that likely applies also. What issues are they protesting? They support Ron Paul yet many of them want more free things given to them such as education and health care. They want the government to create a demand for jobs where one does not exist. Anytime one of them speaks you get a clear idea of what just what playing too many video games can do to the brain.

[jackiesheeler]

@skitman1958 most of us DO work -- as i do. we're the opposite of lazy. we work AND we vote AND we pay taxes AND we care about the future of this country so we make our voices be heard. tents in the parks are street theater for those of us (99+% of the country) who can't hire a lobbyist.

some are content to recycle tired, prepackaged responses, feel no desire to think for themselves or study what's happened to our economy & environment.

some never take a stand or a risk.

do you?

[skitman1958]

@jackiesheeler Street theater? Destruction of public property, interfering with businessess, assaults, rapes, squating in an area which cannot support the population density, noise pollution, litter, defecating, uirinating in a public space, drug use, threatening business owners, destruction of private property, etc.

Street theater?

[qzetu]

@skitman1958 So are you a writer for FOX news, or do you just watch them a lot?

[skitman1958]

@qzetu What has fox news got to do with any of this. Shit I can see everything I need too on youtube. Its the people themselves putting these videos out, not fox news. The OWS people put many of them out dimwit. I can extrapolate from there don't you think.

Hell I went and saw one of these so called camps myself. After talking to a few people there I reached the conclusion that the entire collective could not muster an IQ of 90. Enough said.

[qzetu]

I bring up fox news because you are regurgitating that same shit they have been saying for months. Though your claims are ridiculous, it is even more pathetic that you try and defend yourself with such an obvious bias opinion. You and fox have a lot in common. I would take you a bit more serious if you were at least some what fair on these issues, but apparently you have no interest in “fairness.’ No, you are more interested in pointing out every negative thing, because you want to slander.

[qzetu]

When you smash diversity together, which is what this movement is, it is difficult to control. Yes, each occupation has had their issues, however, considering the diversity they have done very well. I don’t get your issue? Why are you against this movement? Clearly corruption has infiltrated all three branches of our government, clearly our jobs are all over seas, clearly there are some real issues in this country; why are you fighting against those that want to fix that? skitman

[1Makyo]

@skitman1958

They started to do this crap in San Diego. We are this nation's 8th largest city. They are extinct here now. Private citizens and the police are very militant in shutting these activities down at the very start. It is the same as keeping the normal vermin off the streets.

[blackmesa176]

@skitman1958 Your pretty funny hahah.... But your very very very wrong we are the 99 percent

[skitman1958]

@blackmesa176 Yea right, thats why you represent about .00001% of the population right. If you were the 99% where are the rest of the people? If you were the 99% you would have overthrown the government by now and created a new government right? If you were the 99% you would have taken over all businessess by now right? If you were the 99% then you would control everything right? So you are not the 99%, but little more than loose group of mongoloids begging for attention.

[jackiesheeler]

@skitman1958 give us a year, skitman. you know that BOA had to roll back its $5 ATM card fee because of Occupy. Verizon just did the same with a $2 fee for anyone who didn't elect an autopay plan. attorney generals in THREE states have begun criminal investigations into the mortgage fraud and the US AG refused to let the SEC's sweetheart slap-on-the-wrist deal pass. i could go on.

best of all -- here WE are discussing these issues -- you, me, and several hundred thousand other strangers. hah.

[skitman1958]

@jackiesheeler What BOA and Verizon did is fine. The market drove that, the way it should be. The government had no need to get involved. Mortgage fraud? Part of that problem lies with the consumer of these themselves. I am all for a complete free market system. If an individual or a company (like GM) goes down then so be it. Nothing is too big to fail, if it is going to fail then let it. That goes for everything.

[LetterToVoltaire]

@skitman1958 "Mortgage fraud? Part of that problem lies with the consumer of these themselves." ever heard of LIAR LOANS? ROBOSIGNING? - Wake up man, I'm all for the free market, but what we have is insider crony capitalism.

[draksson]

Obama regime seems lost nerves!

[draksson]

I do not understand why so much repression in the USA. Why are people not allowed to protest peacefully?

[IgnacioAgramonte]

ILLUMINATI WILL NEVER WIN.

[clerki]

@1Makyo how bout your home?

[1Makyo]

@clerki Sure, why not? You'll find it at the corner of Spa Creek and the Severn River going into the Chesapeake from Annapolis Md. Anchored next to, or near, the Blue Guitar usually. 72 foot Schooner."Imagine"

You should wear a wet, wet suit and be a good swimmer to occupy the Chesapeake there.

[radiantcold]

Stay strong occupiers!

PS. I work. I vote. I occupy.

[jackiesheeler]

@radiantcold i love your tagline! may i borrow it? because i also work, vote and occupy.

happy  new year!

[radiantcold]

@jackiesheeler

yes, you may borrow it :-)

happy new year to you

[radiantcold]

@1Makyo

Occupy 2012 has just begun. We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

[fireflyzband]

The Beginning of the Beginning! Who's year our year! Music for Occupy! Do not be afraid! LOVE! Come listen on our profile! Peace! Happy New Year!

[TheTrieye]

good vid

[TheAnonymouse01]

Power to the Real People..!!! the 99% Kill th FED and take Money out of Polatics..!!

[znmcmhn]

Thank You OWS participants. Happy New Year !