Michael Moore's Plea to Police Officers to Join #OccupyWallStreet (10/14/11)

"The police need to join us in the same way the Egyptian army joined the people in Freedom Square there in Cairo. This is my appeal to the New York Police Department -- to police departments all over the country: You are working class people. You're not paid enough. You have the most dangerous job in the country and these rich bastards on Wall Street, they have ruined your 401Ks, your pension funds, your future, your children's future. Money that should be going to having better law enforcement has gone to needless wars in other lands. So, my appeal to the police is, you are as and we are you. Join us. It's fun. We'll even let you beat on a bongo drum." -- Michael Moore on Lawrence O'Donnell's The very Last Word, Friday, October 14th, 2011

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[tupacthug4life]

Wise words.. if they join.. I swear id feel some pride in my country for the first time in a long time :)

[johnbsk]

Bill O reilly wants to kill you. I am warning you right now.

[bruiser47]

Some intelligent words from Michael Moore. Sometimes he's an ass but he is correct. Working class people of all colors and occupations need to unite.

[TheFrankiewilliams]

Cops are not going to bite the hand that feed them.good luck with that...

[NoGuyComesClose]

A police officer is a different breed of human being...The next step up the food chain is an attorney....Today police officer call themselves "Law Enforcement" same as the guy in the gym called "Meat-heads" ... Why would anyone take a career in imprisoning another individual, everyday of your life? Stay clear of the police, they are nothing more than henchmen for attorneys Cop Mind:. "Look at me and my badge, my department" GROW UP!

[tupacthug4life]

@301gunnar Hey thanks dick shit, I'm actually planning to leave by the end of the year.. Have fun trolling on youtube.. If you think I should get out.. go ask the rest of the 50 ppl that agree with me to do the same.

[2007Aspacedoddissee]

He's a jack-ass. Any one who supports this idiot shows what a complete moron they are. This movement of marchers or whatever it hey are should have been ended by police long ago. I'm sure niggobama will jump in and call for it to end and those that suck his monkeydikk will bow and retreat.

[sleepwalk247]

I am a police officer and fully in support of peaceful protests done in connection of Occupy Wall Street and not just because I love and value our right to free speech and assembly. I agree that our government officials have created a system where we push around fake money in an unproductive economy. But won't abandon my dutes via rhetoric spin guilt trip. My noble, "dangerous" job has been belittled by this man constantly whenever it suits him by coloring us as racist, dull-witted jackboots.

[HostileSausage]

So he made a film about capitalism yet made millions off it.

[clintdanz]

This is so right on!!!

[duduvissotto]

@kcirdrab ok